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, 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 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...
18-09-2019
Sign near Helena warns people to brace for UFO disclosure
Sign near Helena warns people to brace for UFO disclosure
Phil Drake Great Falls Tribune
HELENA -- Have you seen it? It’s out there, and maybe a little bit out of this world, and it's waiting for you.
The Jesse A. Marcel Library (JAML) and Crop Circles Research Foundation near Montana City has placed this billboard along Highway 12 near Helena to call attention to the ongoing mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects.
“… something not from this world,” it quotes USS Nimitz pilot David Fravor.
This sign along Highway 12 near Helena calls attention to the UFO phenomenon.
DR. RICHARD O'CONNOR
“UFO disclosure is in progress. Get ready. Get informed” and it tells passersby to learn more online at www.jaml.org.
In a Dec. 18, 2017, story in The Washington Post, Fravor, a Navy commander and former pilot, said he saw a UFO in 2004 off the coast of California, and described it as a "Tic Tac" and it maneuvered in the air like nothing else he had ever seen.
“It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” he told The Post.
Dr. Richard O’Connor, founder and director of JAML, told members in an email Friday that the sign should get 46,000 viewings a month. He said it is on Highway 12 and can only be seen by those traveling west, past the car dealerships. He has asked them to share photos of the sign with others.
He said the cost of the sign is $2,500 for six months and people can make donations online. He told members the first comment to his Facebook posting was "fake sign!"
Are UFOs real? It's a topic that has gone under eternal debate. The magazine "Popular Mechanics" and online news website Politico reported in June that three senators received a classified Pentagon briefing about reported encounters by the Navy with unidentified aircraft.
President Donald Trump told ABC News that he has also been briefed on the reports.
"I did have one very brief meeting on it,” he said. “But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.”
JAML serves as a UFO library and meeting place for those who want to learn more about UFOs and other possibly-related phenomena happening in the world today.
Richard O’Connor sits in his Clancy home and discusses a photo, shown in the foreground, that one of his cameras has captured. He believes it is of a UFO.
Tribune photo/Phil Drake
O’Connor said the object of the sign was not to primarily recruit more members, but to ultimately place the billboards in major cities to remind passersby “the UFO / UAP phenomenon is real and it merits their attention.”
“If this effort becomes successful we may entrain the attention of many, many people who will help us move this effort forward and thereby help accelerate UFO disclosure,” he wrote.
JAML is named for the late-Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., perhaps best known for being a longtime physician in Helena. His father, a major, was sent by his base commander to investigate the crash of a UFO on a ranch outside of Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. He loaded some of the wreckage into his vehicle and drove it home to show Jesse Jr., who was then 10.
The U.S. Army Air Corps issued a press release saying a “flying saucer” was found, but public uproar forced them to retract the statement and say a weather balloon had been found instead.
Those who were at the crash site were then sworn to secrecy. But in the ‘70s Marcel Sr. and his son began speaking about what they had seen, believing the coverup was a grave injustice to the public.
Reporter Phil Drake is our eye on the state capitol. For tips, suggestions or comment, he can be reached at 406-231-9021 or pdrake@greatfallstribune.com. To support his work, subscribe today and get a special offer.
Groot reclamebord: zet je schrap voor UFO Disclosure. Ben jij er klaar voor?
Foto: YouTube/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science
Groot reclamebord:zet je schrap voor UFO Disclosure. Ben jij er klaar voor?
Mensen die in de Amerikaanse staat Montana over de snelweg rijden, worden middels een groot reclamebord gewezen op de UFO Disclosure die momenteel plaatsvindt.
Het bord, dat in de buurt van de stad Helena staat en maandelijks wordt gezien door vele tienduizenden automobilisten, toont een afbeelding van de UFO in de vorm van een Tic Tac waar onlangs veel over te doen was.
Bij de afbeelding staat een citaat van marinecommandant David Fravor. Hij omschreef het object als ‘iets wat niet van deze wereld was’.
Echt object
“Het was een echt object, het bestaat en ik heb het gezien,” zei hij tegen de Washington Post.
Verder staat op het enorme reclamebord dat ‘UFO Disclosure’ op dit moment aan de gang is en dat mensen ‘zich klaar moeten maken’ en ‘zich moeten informeren’.
Voorbijgangers worden naar de website geleid van de Jesse A. Marcel Library, een UFO-informatiecentrum in Montana City.
Nog veel meer
Oprichter van het centrum Richard O’Connor zei van plan te zijn om nog veel meer van dit soort reclameborden te gaan huren om het bewustzijn rond UFO’s te vergroten.
Volgens dr. O’Connor is het slechts een kwestie van tijd voordat we de waarheid te horen krijgen over dit fenomeen.
Crop circles – sophisticated patterns hewn into crop formations seemingly overnight – have fuelled mystery in Sussex for decades.
The circles, which were first discussed as far back as the 17th century, appeared under mysterious circumstances in Sussex last year, when ‘map-like markings’. appeared in fields around Ifield, Crawley.
While pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley dispelled some of the mystery behind their appearance in the 1970s and 80s – one man still questions the assumption crop circles are all man-made.
Andy Thomas, one of the UK’s best-known mysteries researchers and authors, will visit Burgess Hill next week to explain why.
He said: “The belief that all the crop circles were invented by two elderly gentlemen with rope and planks in the 1980s – a story which has recently reemerged in the media – is provably untrue.
“The crop circles were there long before them, and continued long after they ‘retired’.
“Yes, some designs are indeed man-made, but it is very hard to explain all of them that way, as eye-witness sightings, scientific evidence, geometrical observations and bizarre circumstances make very clear.
“By looking at this year’s events, I will discuss many aspects of this very persistent and intriguing phenomenon.”
Andy has been researching and writing about crop circles for nearly 30 years but has a variety of specialisms.
His books – the most famous of which are The Truth Agenda and Conspiracies – also cover UFO landings, the origin of the pyramids and mystifying paranormal activity. He has also appeared on television, representing his views on The One Show, Richard and Judy and GMTV.
Andy, who discovered his passion for the crop circle controversy while on holiday in Wiltshire in 1991, is also a public speaker, having lectured everywhere from Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre to Rio de Janeiro.
In his talk, at Cypress Hall on Tuesday (September 17) from 8pm, he will explore crop circles in particular.
Entitled Crop Circles of 2019, he will look at all the crop circle formations of the last year, both in England and abroad, and share insights.
$Tickets are available at the door and cost £7 each.
Worden alle graancirkels door mensen gemaakt? Deze doorgewinterde onderzoeker zegt van niet (hoe ontstaan ze dan?)
Al decennialang verschijnen er graancirkels in het Engelse graafschap Sussex. De formaties zijn omgeven met mysterie aangezien ze vaak van de ene op de andere dag verschijnen.
In de 17e eeuw werd al over de cirkels gesproken.
Ook vorig jaar verschenen er onder mysterieuze omstandigheden graancirkels in Sussex. Aangenomen wordt dat de formaties door mensen worden gemaakt, maar daar is lang niet iedereen het mee eens.
Klopt niet
Eén van hen is Andy Thomas, één van bekendste Britse graancirkelonderzoekers.
“Het klopt niet dat graancirkels in de jaren tachtig zijn uitgevonden door twee oudere mannen met touwtjes en plankjes, zoals pas geleden werd beweerd in de media,” zei hij.
“Graancirkels waren er voor die tijd ook al en zullen blijven verschijnen nadat zij met ‘pensioen’ zijn gegaan,” vervolgde hij.
30 jaar onderzoek
Sommige formaties zijn inderdaad door mensen gemaakt, maar je kunt ze niet allemaal op die manier verklaren, zoals blijkt uit ooggetuigenverslagen, wetenschappelijk bewijs en bizarre omstandigheden, aldus Thomas.
Hij doet al bijna 30 jaar onderzoek naar graancirkels en heeft er uitgebreid over geschreven.
Thomas schrijft ook over UFO-landingen, de oorsprong van de piramides en paranormale activiteit. Hij is meerdere keren op de Britse tv te zien geweest.
A Taos close encounter of the hunters and aliens kind
A Taos close encounter of the hunters and aliens kind
From left, Josh Brinkley and Daniel Lucero were out bow hunting for elk near Cerro de la Olla Monday (Sept. 2) northwest of Taos when they had a strange encounter with a gigantic white structure that then disappeared. A day earlier, Brinkley saw what he thought were two hunters, but later described as oddly clothed "very tall figures with oversized heads." The two men are still trying to figure out what they saw.
Bow hunters Josh Brinkley and Daniel Lucero, dressed in camouflage gear, looked a little uncomfortable sitting in chairs at a local newspaper.
The Santa Fe County residents had just come into Taos after several days in rugged terrain near Cerro de la Olla, also called Pot Mountain, northwest of town near Ute Mountain.
They had a strange tale to tell and they weren’t sure of their reception.
“We’re a couple of guys that don’t believe in much, but we believe now,” Brinkley said.
They went hunting for elk.
They encountered aliens or something else so strange they don’t know what to call it.
Brinkley, 41, said he’s been going to the Pot Mountain area hunting for 15 years. He had never seen anything particularly odd.
He said he works construction and on movie sets. He’s a family guy who doesn’t want anyone to think he’s crazy.
He and Lucero have worked together for eight years.
They say they aren’t prone to seeing things and didn’t particularly believe in aliens.
Odd figures
Opening morning of bow hunting season was Sunday (Sept. 1). The two men had gone a couple of days early to scout the area for elk. Lucero, 26, had never been there.
They set up along the tree line on different sides of a field and waited. After three hours and no elk, Brinkley became restless. It was about 9:30 a.m.
“I take off walking, creeping around through the woods, looking for elk,” Brinkley said.
He reached the top of the mountain where there’s a caldera, a kind of wide bowl left behind by a collapsed volcano. He went to the edge on the southwest side. As he walked to the edge he noticed two figures on his side of the caldera. He thought at first they were hunters. But, they were “very tall shapes of these beings, standing side by side, staring right at me,” he said.
He walked toward them across the brushy field. He estimates they were about 35 yards away. As a bow hunter, where measuring distance is critical to hitting a target, he said he’s pretty adept at it. He went around the bush and looked again. The figures were gone.
He looked around and didn't see them. “Figured I would talk to them. They were gone, just gone,” Brinkley said.
He thought more about what he had seen: With their lower half concealed by bushes in the caldera, he had only seen them from the waist up. "The shape that would be like their heads, it looked like they had huge hoods on. It looked like two ribbons coming off either side to a point at the top and bottom (like a banana). The right side was black, left side was white and a little shiny. Torsos were kind of black, I couldn’t see many details. It definitely looked like clothes. In middle of the oval was just gray.”
He thought maybe it was the back of hunters' heads. “But it looked too strange, too crazy.”
Later, he drew what he could remember of them in a leather bound sketchbook he carries with him. And he drew what he saw next.
Weirded out
Brinkley hurried back to where Lucero was still waiting. Still no elk. “I was a little weirded out,” he told his friend.
He told Lucero he had seen a couple of hunters and that’s probably what had scared off the elk. He couldn’t bring himself at first to say what he might have just imagined.
They went back to camp. “I couldn’t take it any more,” Brinkley said. “I told him what I saw was weird. They were too tall, their heads were too big to be hunters.”
“Anyone who knows me knows I don’t tell these weird stories.”
Lucero said he had known something was up when Brinkley had walked quickly and noisily up to his position at the field. Normally his friend is quiet, a hunter’s slower, more measured speed through the bushes.
After Brinkley told him, Lucero felt a little weird, too. “I didn’t know what to believe,” Lucero said.
Brinkley kind of wrote off what he saw.
A strange structure
On Labor Day (Sept. 2), they headed out again to hunt early in the morning and hiked all around the area. No elk. They got back to their Jeep at about 2:30 p.m.
“We couldn’t figure out why there was no elk,” Brinkley said.
They decided to drive to the other side of the mountain and see if there were other hunters or four-wheelers scaring off the elk. As they drove, the men saw no signs of any wildlife at all, they said.
They drove about 10 minutes, when they saw it. They both work with movie sets. At first they thought it was a movie base camp. “It’s this big tent structure, like a circus tent, 50-60 feet tall. Coming off the left of it was this long building, almost like what you would build for an archery lane for target practice. It was a third the height, but really long, maybe a couple hundred feet.”
They were about a quarter mile away and couldn’t see the bottom of the structure.
They watched it for about a minute as they drove.
“What is it,” he asked Lucero, “a base camp for a movie? Or are they building an alien ship set?”
They drove down a little hill, lost sight of the structure for at most five seconds, Brinkley said.
“When we topped the hill, it was gone. Just gone.”
Lucero said he was watching it the whole time while Brinkley drove except for those few seconds. “There was no dust, there was nothing,” Lucero said.
They drove around the area searching for what they had seen until dark.
Nothing.
“I just know it was real," Brinkley said. "It was huge and white and then gone.”
‘Profoundly unsettling’
When the two men reached a place with cell signal, they told a few friends what they had seen. They thought about calling the Air Force. A friend put them in touch with Peter Davenport, longtime executive director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Washington state.
Davenport confirmed they had called him. “It was a dramatic story,” he said. “If it is true, it is profoundly unsettling.”
He said out of the thousands of calls he gets every year about supposed alien sightings, they rarely describe seeing aliens on the ground.
They aren’t the first hunters to see something they can’t explain. Four hunters in Challis, Idaho, in 2000 described having a large triangular craft hover a couple of hundred feet above them before moving off over the mountains.
After listening to some 350,000 phone calls over 25 years, Davenport thinks he can tell those that are credible.
This was one of them, he said.
Brinkley and Lucero said they weren’t drinking and weren’t on drugs.
The hardest thing is telling their story. “People probably think we are insane,” Brinkley said
He said he didn’t believe in UFOs. “I sure do now,” he said.
Lucero said he doesn’t know about aliens. “I just know I’ve never seen anything that big just disappear.”
“The two aliens, you can say I imagined that. But you cannot explain something that big just — gone,” Brinkley said.
After telling their strange tale, the hunters did what they came to do - go try one more time to find elk.
Zoiets kan niet zomaar verdwijnen’. Zijn de aliens weer geland in New Mexico? Deze jagers beweren van wel in Buitenaards 16 september 2019 19:00 2 Reacties 2,765 Bekeken
‘Zoiets kan niet zomaar verdwijnen’. Zijn de aliens weer geland in New Mexico? Deze jagers beweren van wel
New Mexico is bekend geworden vanwege Roswell, waar in 1947 een UFO zou zijn gecrasht. Zijn er nu opnieuw aliens geland?
Twee jagers uit New Mexico hebben rond de plaats Taos iets vreemds gezien toen ze aan het jagen waren.
Josh Brinkley en Daniel Lucero werden op een plek die Pot Mountain heet naar eigen zeggen geconfronteerd met buitenaardse wezens.
Ruimtereizigers
“Ze leken meer op ruimtereizigers dan die ET-achtige aliens,” zei Brinkley.
Op de eerste dag van de trip dacht hij twee andere jagers te zien. “Ze hadden grote hoofden en zwarte lichamen,” zei hij.
De volgende dag kwamen de jagers aan bij iets wat op een filmset leek. “Ik dacht dat het een kamp was of zo,” zei Brinkley.
Bouwwerk
Toen ze het 30 meter lange bouwwerk naderden, liep het pad iets omlaag, waarna het opeens in zijn geheel verdween.
“Het is onmogelijk dat het snel is weggehaald door een truck of met een trailer,” zei Lucero.
“Zoiets kan niet zomaar verdwijnen,” voegde hij toe.
Geloofwaardige melding
De mannen zeiden dat de ervaring hun ogen heeft geopend en dat ze nu geloven in het bestaan van aliens.
“Het overkwam een stel gasten die verder eigenlijk nergens in geloven,” zei Brinkley.
De jagers hebben hun waarneming gemeld bij het National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). De directeur heeft gezegd dat het gaat om een geloofwaardige melding.
Wetenschappers staan voor raadsel na mysterieuze golven in Amerikaanse staat. Wat is de oorzaak?
Wetenschappers staan voor raadsel na mysterieuze golven in Amerikaanse staat. Wat is de oorzaak?
Op 24 juni werden in de Amerikaanse staat Oklahoma mysterieuze seismische golven gemeten. Het leek op een soort geologische hartslag.
“Ik vond het vreemd,” zei geofysicus Jake Walter van de Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS). Hij dacht in eerste instantie dat zijn apparatuur op hol was geslagen.
Later kwam hij tot de ontdekking dat de golven ook waren opgevangen door 52 andere stations.
Nog lang niet gesloten
De vreemde signalen blijken afkomstig te zijn uit de omgeving van een militaire installatie, de McAlester Army Ammunition Plant.
Daar wordt geregeld oude munitie opgeblazen.
De zaak is echter nog lang niet gesloten.
Wetenschappers proberen nog altijd te achterhalen hoe het kan dat de golven zulke grote afstanden hebben overbrugd en waarom ze na verloop van tijd veranderden.
Onbeantwoorde vragen
“Er zijn nog veel onbeantwoorde vragen,” zei Joshua Carmichael van Los Alamos National Laboratory, die de gegevens analyseerde.
Sommige mensen hoorden vreemde geluiden, die ze omschreven als mini-explosies of dreunen.
Spannend
Het OGS-team hoopt spoedig meer duidelijkheid te krijgen. De onderzoekers zijn momenteel bezig een enorme hoeveelheid data te analyseren.
“Ik houd ervan om vreemde, mysterieuze signalen te bestuderen,” zei Carmichael. “Het is spannend.”
Monster at the Center of the Milky Way's Growing Rapacious Glow Never Seen Before
Monster at the Center of the Milky Way's Growing Rapacious Glow Never Seen Before
The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust, and researchers don’t yet understand why.
“We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole,” said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. “It’s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don’t know what is driving this big feast.”
Rendering of a star called S0-2 orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. It did not fall in, but its close approach could be one reason for the black hole’s growing appetite.
Credit: Nicolle Fuller/National Science Foundation
The researchers analyzed more than 13,000 observations of the black hole from 133 nights since 2003. The images were gathered by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The team found that on May 13, the area just outside the black hole’s “point of no return” (so called because once matter enters, it can never escape) was twice as bright as the next-brightest observation.
They also observed large changes on two other nights this year; all three of those changes were “unprecedented,” Ghez said.
The brightness the scientists observed is caused by radiation from gas and dust falling into the black hole; the findings prompted them to ask whether this was an extraordinary singular event or a precursor to significantly increased activity.
“The big question is whether the black hole is entering a new phase — for example if the spigot has been turned up and the rate of gas falling down the black hole ‘drain’ has increased for an extended period — or whether we have just seen the fireworks from a few unusual blobs of gas falling in,” said Mark Morris, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and the paper’s co-senior author.
The team has continued to observe the area and will try to settle that question based on what they see from new images.
“We want to know how black holes grow and affect the evolution of galaxies and the universe,” said Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics. “We want to know why the supermassive hole gets brighter and how it gets brighter.”
The new findings are based on observations of the black hole — which is called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* — during four nights in April and May at the Keck Observatory. The brightness surrounding the black hole always varies somewhat, but the scientists were stunned by the extreme variations in brightness during that timeframe, including their observations on May 13.
“The first image I saw that night, the black hole was so bright I initially mistook it for the star S0-2, because I had never seen Sagittarius A* that bright,” said UCLA research scientist Tuan Do, the study’s lead author. “But it quickly became clear the source had to be the black hole, which was really exciting.”
One hypothesis about the increased activity is that when a star called S0-2 made its closest approach to the black hole during the summer 2018, it launched a large quantity of gas that reached the black hole this year.
Another possibility involves a bizarre object known as G2, which is most likely a pair of binary stars, which made its closest approach to the black hole in 2014. It’s possible the black hole could have stripped off the outer layer of G2, Ghez said, which could help explain the increased brightness just outside the black hole.
Morris said another possibility is that the brightening corresponds to the demise of large asteroids that have been drawn in to the black hole.
No danger to Earth
The black hole is some 26,000 light-years away and poses no danger to our planet. Do said the radiation would have to be 10 billion times as bright as what the astronomers detected to affect life on Earth.
Astrophysical Journal Letters also published a second article by the researchers, describing speckle holography, the technique that enabled them to extract and use very faint information from 24 years of data they recorded from near the black hole.
Ghez’s research team reported July 25 in the journal Science the most comprehensive test of Einstein’s iconic general theory of relativity near the black hole. Their conclusion that Einstein’s theory passed the test and is correct, at least for now, was based on their study of S0-2 as it made a complete orbit around the black hole.
Ghez’s team studies more than 3,000 stars that orbit the supermassive black hole. Since 2004, the scientists have used a powerful technology that Ghez helped pioneer, called adaptive optics, which corrects the distorting effects of the Earth’s atmosphere in real time. But speckle holography enabled the researchers to improve the data from the decade before adaptive optics came into play. Reanalyzing data from those years helped the team conclude that they had not seen that level of brightness near the black hole in 24 years.
“It was like doing LASIK surgery on our early images,” Ghez said. “We collected the data to answer one question and serendipitously unveiled other exciting scientific discoveries that we didn’t anticipate.”
Co-authors include Gunther Witzel, a former UCLA research scientist currently at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy; Mark Morris, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy; Eric Becklin, UCLA professor emeritus of physics and astronomy; Rainer Schoedel, a researcher at Spain’s Instituto de Astrofısica de Andalucıa; and UCLA graduate students Zhuo Chen and Abhimat Gautam.
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, Lauren Leichtman and Arthur Levine, and Howard and Astrid Preston
DAYS OF NOAH: US Navy Spokesman Makes Official Statement Confirming Existence Of UFOs, Says Videos Should Never Have Been Shown To Public
DAYS OF NOAH: US Navy Spokesman Makes Official Statement Confirming Existence Of UFOs, Says Videos Should Never Have Been Shown To Public
The United States Navy has confirmed three UFO bombshell videos of mysterious crafts taken by pilots do indeed show ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’.
The US Navy has now officially confirmed that the shocking videos showing Navy pilots chasing UFOs are indeed real and that they are unable after years of intense investigation to give an explanation for exactly what type of crafts they are. But the government refuses to use the term ‘UFOs’ and instead are now calling them ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’, or UAPs.
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4 (KJV)
For decades now, our government in general and our military in particular has not only refused to acknowledge UFOs, they went so far as to mock and belittle people who insisted that UFOs exist and interact with humans. But recent advances in military technology has let the proverbial cat out of the bag by allowing pilots to accurately record encounters with them in not one but in dozens of videos that were leaked to the public. We have included two of those pilot-captured videos at the bottom of this article. With apologies to Seinfeld, they’re real and they’re spectacular.
“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:37 (KJV)
The book of Daniel was given a book of prophecy related to the end times, the time we now find ourselves in, and he was told to ‘seal it up’ until the ‘time of the end’. Jesus tells us in Matthew 24, the the time of Jacob’s trouble will be like the ‘days of Noah‘, where the fallen angels had sex with human women and created the race of evil giants known as the Nephilim. Now you know why pilots are all of a sudden chasing real UFOs around the skies, because those days are almost upon us. The event that will officially and formally usher in the end times is called the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church, the first item on the Day of the Lord checklist. Are you ready for what comes next?
US Navy labels mystery craft in famous videos as ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’
FROM THE DAILY STAR UK: The three groundbreaking clips were released back in 2017 as part of The New York Times’ report into the government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Each video, shown above, saw US Navy pilots debating what the unidentified crafts were as they undertook aerial manoeuvres not possible with current aviation technology right in front of them.
In one clip, for example, the object “appeared suddenly at 80,000ft and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000ft and hovering”. The release of videos sparked a fresh wave of interest in UFOs and the US Navy said they would be revising rules to encourage pilots to report sightings.
Earlier this year, the official spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, John Gradisher, said the US Navy took the reports “very seriously” and were investigating “each and every one”.
‘WOW,WHAT IS THAT, MAN?’ US NAVY PILOT RYAN GRAVES REPORTS SEEING UFO FLYING AT SPEEDS UNSUSTAINABLE FOR HUMAN BEINGS MAKING SUDDEN STOPS AND INSTANTANEOUS TURNS
But it now appears these investigations have come to an end, with Mr Gradisher labelling the crafts in the three videos as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”.
“The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” he told The Black Vault, an online site that documents previously-classified material.
“The ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges.”
By using this description, the Navy is refraining from saying the objects are extraterrestrial in nature but can simply not be explained at this moment in time.
The Black Vault also revealed that, while the videos were unclassified, they were never cleared for public release.
“The videos were never officially released to the general public by the DoD and should still be withheld,” Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough told the news site earlier this year. Mr Gradisher then confirmed the Pentagon’s position in the new report last week by adding: “The Navy has not released the videos to the general public.” READ MORE
UFO Spotted By US Fighter Jet Pilots
UFO Spotted: The video was filmed in 2004 and investigated as part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It’s not clear if the object was ever identified. The New York Times reports that the US Department of Defense programme was shut down in 2012.
Watch Navy jet lock scope on UFO
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet encountered this apparent UFO off the East Coast of the United States in 2015.
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Boulder falls on Virginia highway after meteor lights up the night sky, confusing many
Boulder falls on Virginia highway after meteor lights up the night sky, confusing many
A boulder came out of nowhere and landed on a Virginia highway overnight, leading to confusion when the timing followed widespread reports of a fireball streaking along the East Coast late Thursday, Sept 17, 2019
Iranian Military shooting at fast moving UFO near Pakistani Border
Iranian Military shooting at fast moving UFO near Pakistani Border
The video was recorded on the night of 7 September 2019 by a soldier of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the position of the anti-aircraft.
The footage shows how the anti-aircraft artillery opens fire on an unidentified aircraft in the city of Saravan which is located on the border with Pakistan, in the border area of Sistan and Iranian Baluchistan.
The military believe that it was a UAV spy drone but since this bright glowing UFO moves so fast, stops mid-air, turns instantly, and immediately accelerates to hypersonic speed it is more likely that it must have been something equipped with classified technology.
Original video clip of the Iranian military shooting on a UFO near the Pakistan border.
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پهپاد شناسایی آمریکا در مرز سراوان سیستان و بلوچستان، شب گذشته. امکانات بیل و کلنگی سپاه برای سرنگون کردن پهپاد.
Proof That UFOs Create Clouds And Can Destroy Them In Seconds, UFO Sighting News.
Proof That UFOs Create Clouds And Can Destroy Them In Seconds, UFO Sighting News.
The location and date of this sighting are unknown, but it further reinforces the fact that UFOs can destroy and create clouds. As I have said before, the 80 page MUFON report of the O'hare airport incident back in 2006 indicated that eyewitnesses saw the UFO disk suddenly shoot up in a diagonal direction, bursting through the low cloud ceiling and leaving a round visible hole for over 15 minutes. Much documentation exists of similar events as the video of this orb. This is not new news, but clearly reinforces the facts about it.
Retangle Shaped UFO Over Athens, Greece On Aug 29, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Retangle Shaped UFO Over Athens, Greece On Aug 29, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 8-29-2019
Location of sighting: Athens, Greece
Source: MUFON #103355
The eyewitness states that they saw an odd object over the city that seemed orb like, but with other parts that were odd.
I made a close up of the UFO he photographed and found that the object appeared to be two rectangles one layered upon the other. Its a shape that I have only seen in some Mars Rover photos a few times. The UFO can easily be mistaken for a bird since its so high up, but the close up show its unlike any bird known. This is UFO 100% real, its black color, energy aura around it...all scream alien tech. It looks to be about the size of a motorcycle or small car. Absolutely amazing shape.
Two UFO Seen Over New York City Tribute Lights On 911 Anniversary, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFO Seen Over New York City Tribute Lights On 911 Anniversary, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 9-11, 2019
Location of sighting: Tribute lights, New York City, USA
These UFOs were recorded moving about in the 911 tribute lights on the anniversary just 6 days ago. They were recorded by Youtuber Orlando Bosca, a UFO researcher that keeps an eye on the live cams, checking them daily for possible catches.
There is lots of evidence that UFOs are interested in historical events, but 911 also has evidence of UFOs in the videos of the actual crash of a plane into a building. Just as one plane is about to hit the building, a round object shoots past the plane hitting into the windows...what was it? An unknown...unidentified flying object. Often we see UFOs are historical locations...probably watch how the humans emotions and passion to keep such events in memories changes the cultures.
UFO Found Landed On Moon May Be Over 20km Long! UFO Sighting News.
UFO Found Landed On Moon May Be Over 20km Long! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: 2013 Location of discovery: Earths moon,
This photo is in the NASA collection at the University of Arizona...gota love them. ASU got them directly from Lydon B. Johnson Space Center. Sure I found this back in 2013, but I wanted to go over it again and this time make the video HD. The object may be sitting on the surface of the moon. Which means its an abandoned mothership, probably sitting on the surface of the moon gathering dust for thousands or millions of years. Someone should lay claim to this. Even if it cant fly, it still will have tons of alien technology that would make any country on earth a world power.
“We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole. It’s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don’t know what is driving this big feast.”
Artist’s concept of an object called S0-2 orbiting our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers tracked this object for years, hoping to catch it falling over the hole’s event horizon. It did not fall in, but its close approach in 2018 might be one reason for the black hole’s growing appetite now.
UCLA astronomers announced on September 11, 2019, that, last May, they caught the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust. They caught the feast on May 13 (although of course it happened some 25,000 years ago earlier, since the center of the galaxy is about 25,000 light-years away). What they saw was this. The black hole – called Sagittarius A*, pronounced Sagittarius A-star – became extremely bright in May 2019, growing 75 times as bright for a few hours. Yet, as of now, the researchers don’t yet understand why. Why did the area just outside the black hole’s event horizon – its point of no return – suddenly become brighter? What did it ingest, and why at that time?
Astronomer Tuan Do is lead author of new research describing this event, published September 11 in Astrophysical Journal Letters. He also produced the timelapse in the tweet below, which depicts the brightness changes at Sgr A*. Andrea Ghez, of the UCLA Galactic Center Group, is co-senior author on the new paper. She said:
We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole. It’s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don’t know what is driving this big feast.
… analyzed more than 13,000 observations of the black hole from 133 nights since 2003. The images were gathered by the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The team found that on May 13, the area just outside the black hole’s ‘point of no return’ (so called because once matter enters, it can never escape) was twice as bright as the next-brightest observation.
They observed large changes on two other nights this year; all three of those changes were ‘unprecedented,’ Ghez said.
They said the brightness surrounding the black hole always varies somewhat, but the extreme variations in brightness observed this year left them “stunned.”
So what is going on?
In an absolute sense, the increased brightness on a few nights in 2019 can be explained by radiation from gas and dust falling into the black hole. One hypothesis about the increased activity is that when a star called S0-2 made its closest approach to the black hole during the summer 2018, it launched a large quantity of gas that reached the black hole this year.Tuan Do, the study’s lead author, said:
The first image I saw that night, the black hole was so bright I initially mistook it for the star S0-2, because I had never seen Sagittarius A* that bright. But it quickly became clear the source had to be the black hole, which was really exciting.
Another possibility involves a bizarre object known as G2, which is most likely a pair of binary stars, which made its closest approach to the black hole in 2014. It’s possible the black hole could have stripped off the outer layer of G2, Ghez said, which could help explain the increased brightness just outside the black hole.
Morris said another possibility is that the brightening corresponds to the demise of large asteroids that have been drawn in to the black hole.
Tuan Do@quantumpenguin
Here's a timelapse of images over 2.5 hr from May from @keckobservatory of the supermassive black hole Sgr A*. The black hole is always variable, but this was the brightest we've seen in the infrared so far. It was probably even brighter before we started observing that night!
The question for astronomers is, what does this activity mean? Is it simply an extraordinary singular event, or is it a precursor to significantly increased activity for Sgr A*? Mark Morris, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, is another author on the paper. He said:
The big question is whether the black hole is entering a new phase – for example if the spigot has been turned up and the rate of gas falling down the black hole ‘drain’ has increased for an extended period – or whether we have just seen the fireworks from a few unusual blobs of gas falling in.
The team has continued to observe the area. They say they’ll try to settle the question based on what they see from new images. Ghez said:
We want to know how black holes grow and affect the evolution of galaxies and the universe. We want to know why the supermassive hole gets brighter and how it gets brighter.
The black hole is some 26,000 light-years away and poses no danger to our planet. Do said the radiation would have to be 10 billion times as bright as what the astronomers detected to affect life on Earth.
Astrophysical Journal Letters also published a second article by the researchers, describing speckle holography, the technique that enabled them to extract and use very faint information from 24 years of data they recorded from near the black hole.
Ghez’s research team reported July 25 in the journal Science the most comprehensive test of Einstein’s iconic general theory of relativity near the black hole. Their conclusion that Einstein’s theory passed the test and is correct, at least for now, was based on their study of S0-2 as it made a complete orbit around the black hole.
… studies more than 3,000 stars that orbit the supermassive black hole. Since 2004, the scientists have used a powerful technology that Ghez helped pioneer, called adaptive optics, which corrects the distorting effects of the Earth’s atmosphere in real time. But speckle holography enabled the researchers to improve the data from the decade before adaptive optics came into play. Reanalyzing data from those years helped the team conclude that they had not seen that level of brightness near the black hole in 24 years.
It was like doing LASIK surgery on our early images. We collected the data to answer one question and serendipitously unveiled other exciting scientific discoveries that we didn’t anticipate.
Bottom line:UCLA astronomers announced on September 11, 2019, that – in May – they caught the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust. Why did the area just outside the black hole’s event horizon – its point of no return – suddenly become dramatically brighter? What did it ingest, and why at that time?
In 1950, a learned lunchtime conversation set the stage for decades of astronomical exploration. Physicist Enrico Fermi submitted to his colleagues around the table a couple contentions, summarized as 1) The galaxy is very old and very large, with hundreds of billions of stars and likely even more habitable planets. 2) That means there should be more than enough time for advanced civilizations to develop and flourish across the galaxy.
So where the heck are they?
This simple, yet powerful argument became known as the Fermi Paradox, and it still boggles many sage minds today. Aliens should be common, yet there is no convincing evidence that they exist.
(This assumes, of course, that humans count as intelligent.) Life may exist, but it could simply take the form of miniscule microbes or other cosmically "quiet" animals.
3. Intelligent species lack advanced technology.
Currently, astronomers utilize radio telescopes to listen intently to the night sky. So if alien species aren't broadcasting any signals, we'd never know they existed.
4.Intelligent life self-destructs.
Whether via weapons of mass destruction, planetary pollution, or manufactured virulent disease, it may be the nature of intelligent species to commit suicide, existing for only a short time before winking out of existence.
5. The universe is a deadly place.
On cosmic timescales – think billions of years – life may be fleeting. All it takes is a single asteroid, supernova, gamma ray burst, or solar flare to render a life-harboring planet lifeless.
6. Space is big.
The Milky Way alone is 100,000 light years across, so it's conceivable that the focused signals of intelligent aliens, which are limited to the speed of light, simply haven't reached us yet.
7. We haven't been looking long enough.
Eighty years. That's the amount of time that radio telescopes, which allow us to detect alien signals, have been around. And we've been actively searching for aliens for maybe sixty years. That's not very long at all.
8. We're not looking in the correct place.
As previously mentioned, space is big, so there are tons of regions to listen for alien signals. If we're not listening precisely in the direction from which a signal is originating, we'd never hear it. As Andrew Fain explained at Universe Today, it's like trying to speak with your friend on a 250,000,000,000-channel CB radio, without any knowledge of the frequency on which they are transmitting. You'll probably be channel flipping for a long time.
9. Alien technology may be too advanced.
Radio technology may be commonplace here on Earth, but on far-flung worlds, alien societies may have graduated to more advanced communication technologies, like neutrino signals. We can't decipher those just yet.
10. Nobody is transmitting.
Instead, everybody may be listening. That's basically how it is here on Earth. Apart from a few paltry efforts to broadcast strong signals over a narrow frequency band towards the stars above, we've barely made our presence known in the universe. In fact, if aliens have radio telescopes similar to what we have on Earth, our television and radio broadcasts would only be detectable up to 0.3 light-years away. That distance doesn't even transcend the farthest reaches of our solar system.
11. Earth is deliberately not being contacted.
On Earth, we have policies about contacting indigenous peoples; it's possible that the same thing could be happening with us. Just like in Star Trek, advanced alien societies may enforce rules that limit contact only to species that attain a lofty degree of technological or cultural evolution.
12. Aliens are already here and we just don't realize it.
Conspiracy theorists love this unlikely explanation. While the chances are remote, it's not impossible that government agencies are concealing the presence of aliens. Although it's more likely that aliens are already amongst us, observing humanity in the clever and ironic guise of lab mice.
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Michio Kaku: We’ve Reached A Turning Point On UFOs
Michio Kaku: We’ve Reached A Turning Point On UFOs
JAZZ SHAW
As we’ve been covering the various stories relating to the recent release of videos by our military, showing strange aircraft (spacecraft?) in our military airspace, there’s been one repeating theme. Most of the people speculating on the origin of these craft seemed to generally be from the military or the “ufo community.” Where have the more mainstream scientists been in this debate? At least one of them stepped up to the plate recently to weigh in with a surprising take.
Professor Michio Kaku of CUNY, the theoretical physicist who shows up on virtually every show about outer space on the Science Channel, Discovery and others, spoke at the Ufology World Congress in Spain recently. He addressed the question of the recent videos and what implications they might have for us. After previously treating the UFO topic as something more fanciful, Kaku seems to have really had a change of heart and declared that we’ve reached “a turning point.” (Yahoo News)
Even if not smoking-gun proof, the declassified videos — bolstered by confirmation of multiple sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles during 2014 and 2015, including at least one near-collision — are giving ufology new weight. “We’ve reached a turning point,” Kaku said. “It used to be that believers had to prove that these objects were from an intelligent race in outer space. Now the burden of proof is on the government to prove they’re not from intelligent beings in outer space.”
The possibility that they are vehicles from other planetary civilizations, Kaku told Yahoo, “now has to be put on the table.”
That’s a pretty hot take right there. “The burden of proof is on the government” to prove that these vehicles didn’t come from outer space.
By the way, that linked article at Yahoo is quite lengthy and has a ton of background information on the various players in this topic right now. If you’re interested, but not really up to speed on the government material, the To The Stars Academy and all the rest, it’s definitely worth a read.
But is Professor Kaku right? Have we really reached “a turning point” in the discussion of possible extraterrestrial intelligence and anomalous craft visiting our planet? I’m not quite there yet, but the discussion has certainly been expanding into the mainstream media a lot more, rather than just the dark halls of ufology websites and dens of conspiracy theories. (Confession time. Those are places I hang out anyway.)
I have a couple of issues with the stance that Kaku is taking, though I’m still very excited about the information that’s been coming out. First of all, stating that the burden of proof is now on the government to prove something relies on the rather dubious assumption that the government actually knows the answer. After all, one of the reasons they came clean with the Navy videos was that the pilots and their commanders were concerned and wanted a more thorough investigation done. Congress even demanded (and received) a briefing on the subject, so it doesn’t sound like they knew about it either. It’s entirely possible that the government doesn’t have a clue who built those things. Of course, if that’s the case, then who did?
I suppose it’s still conceivable (barely) that some super-secret group in the Defense Department cooked this up and just didn’t tell anyone else… even our own military. Or perhaps the Russians or the Chinese. But if you go back and watch my interview with Quantum Physicist Deep Prasad you’ll see there’s a problem with that theory. The amount of energy required to essentially defy gravity as at least one type of these UAPs have been observed doing, would probably require smashing two black holes together. If anyone was producing that kind of energy anywhere on the planet, somebody should have noticed.
Still, I’m heartened to see more people, including mainstream scientists, looking into these questions and expanding the discussion. It just feels as if we might finally be on the verge of learning something new and truly remarkable. And it’s something that could change the entire course of history and the future of humanity. Well… unless it turns out that the aliens are here to eat us and steal our planet. That would kind of suck.
The dinosaur-killing asteroid that hit the Earth around 66 million years ago probably generated a huge tsunami, according to new research.
A team of scientists dug into Chicxulub crater, which is the scar left over from the impact that is located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. There, they retrieved rocks from between 1,640 feet and 4,260 feet (500 meters and 1,300 meters) beneath the surface.
"This research helps answer the tantalizing question of exactly what happened in the immediate aftermath of one of the most significant events in Earth's history," co-author Kliti Grice, a geochemist at Curtin University in Australia, said in a statement. This impact was not only deadly to the dinosaurs, Grice noted, but it also killed off about three-quarters of all animal and plant species around the world.
The researchers analyzed samples of the peak ring of the crater core, searching for molecules such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which are organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen. ("Aromatic" does not refer to the molecules' smell, but rather their ring-like shape.) In the samples, the scientists looked for a PAH called perylene, which comes from pigment made by wood-degrading fungi.
The compound's presence suggests that a tsunami several hundred feet (or meters) high "flooded the crater within days of the asteroid impact," Grice said. "The abundance of perylene within the crater is the result of it being transported there by the soil and land plant debris carried by the tsunami."
The aftermath of the impact was catastrophic: first, a quick inferno, then a long period of cooling. Most of the species alive at the time couldn't tolerate the dramatic temperature shifts and perished. "We fried them and then we froze them," lead author Sean Gulick, a geoscientist at the University of Texas as Austin, said in a statement. "Not all the dinosaurs died that day, but many dinosaurs did."
The research is described in a paper published on Monday (Sept. 9) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, a potentially habitable alien world about twice the size of Earth. The finding, announced today (Sept. 11), follows a separate study released yesterday announcing the discovery of water vapor, and likely clouds and rain, on the planet.
The far-off planet (it's about 110 light-years away) was discovered in 2015 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The alien world is about two times the size of Earth and eight times as massive. K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star in the "habitable zone" — the range of distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.
Scientists with the study published today in the journal Nature Astronomy used data from Hubble Space Telescope observations made from 2016 and 2017 collected by the research team behind yesterday's study to determine that the exoplanet has water vapor in its atmosphere. K2-18 b is so far the smallest exoplanet that atmospheric water vapor has been discovered on.
Much remains unknown about the exoplanet K2-18 b, the researchers stressed. The exoplanet could be rocky with a large atmosphere, or a "water world" covered mostly or entirely by water, they asserted.
Still, K2-18 b is one of thebest candidates to host alien life that we know about, lead researcher Angelos Tsiaras of the University College London (UCL) Department of Physics and Astronomy, told Space.com. The fact that it is a relatively small planet that lies within a habitable zone and has evidence of water "makes this target the best target for habitability that we know right now," he said.
The researchers studied Hubble data to analyze K2-18 b's transit, or its movement across its host star's face, using a technique known as transit spectroscopy. As the planet transits, "part of the stellar light is filtered through the atmosphere of the planet," Tsiaras said. "The atmosphere of the planet leaves a characteristic fingerprint on the light … this is what we try to observe."
The team analyzed the data from the planet's transits and from this analysis determined that K2-18 b's atmosphere likely contains between 0.01% and 50% water, and there could additionally be a significant amount of hydrogen.
This massive range stems from the fact that, with Hubble observations, researchers can only identify a water signature, the "fingerprint" observed using transit spectroscopy; they can't tell how much water is there, Giovanna Tinetti, a researcher on this study and a professor of astrophysics at UCL, said during a Sept. 10 news conference.
"The water signature is so strong that [with] even a tiny bit of water, you would immediately see the signature," Tinetti said. So, while the team knows there's water in the atmosphere, its abundance remains unknown.
Water vapor in air
As of now, the researchers have concluded that there is some quantity of water and likely hydrogen in the planet's atmosphere. They also know the size and mass of the cold planet, and that K2-18 b has much higher gravity than we do here on Earth (because of the much higher mass). K2-18 b has an orbital period of 33 Earth days — so one year on K2-18 b is equivalent to about one Earth month.
Additionally, K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star alongside a second, smaller exoplanet (K2-18 c). So, if you were standing on the surface of the planet under clear skies, you would see a red star overhead instead of our yellowish-orange sun (though, because of the high gravity and higher UV radiation on the surface of this exoplanet, it might not be possible or safe to walk around).
This finding has sparked a host of new questions regarding what exactly this exoplanet and its atmosphere are like. According to this study, there are three equally likely atmospheric models for the exoplanet.
K2-18 b exoplanet possibilities
The first possibility described by these researchers is a cloud-free atmosphere that contains only water and hydrogen-helium. The second possibility is a cloud-free atmosphere that has water, hydrogen-helium and molecular nitrogen. Third, the researchers think that this planet's atmosphere could be cloudy with water and hydrogen-helium.
"These are, statistically, equally likely, given the data," Ingo Waldmann, one of the authors of this new study, said in the news conference. The "answer is probably somewhere in between those," he added.
Currently, it would be very difficult for researchers to study this planet and its atmosphere further using ground-based observations, the team said. "It's very difficult to observe an atmosphere with water through an atmosphere with water," Waldmann, who's also based at UCL, said about trying to observe K2-18 b through Earth's atmosphere.
However, the researchers think that they might be able to answer some of the many questions that have arisen about the planet, its atmosphere and its potential habitability with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to launch in 2021.
"It's a step in the right direction," Sara Seager, a professor of planetary science, physics and aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not involved with this study, told Space.com. "We're trying to understand what the most common type of planet is. What's it made of? Is it a rocky planet with this giant envelope?"
"We have no planet like this in our solar system, yet they're incredibly common," Seager said about super-Earths. "We hope to get better data on this planet … with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, it could look at a much broader range of the spectrum and do much more detailed observations," she added.
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