Ancient Aliens: The Immortality Machine S15E08

Ancient Aliens – The Immortality Machine
History Channel, Season 15 Episode 8
14th March 2020

Recent researches shows that ʻOumuamua an alien asteroid came from Pleiades. Could this evidence proves that why so many ancient civilizations point to the beings that came from the Pleiades. Pleiadians may have visited Earth in distant past.

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29-06-2020 om 16:52 geschreven door peter  

“Utsurobune”: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan

A mysterious event in Japan at the beginning of the nineteenth century shows surprising similarities with stories of UFOs.

Tanaka Kazuo

In 1803, a round vessel drifted ashore on the Japanese coast and a beautiful woman emerged, wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. She was unable to communicate with the locals, and her craft was marked with mysterious writing. This story of an utsurobune, or “hollow ship,” in the province of Hitachi (now Ibaraki Prefecture) is found in many records of the Edo period (1603–1868), and Tanaka Kazuo, professor emeritus at Gifu University, has studied the topic for many years. What drew him away from his main research area, applied optics, to investigate this curious episode? And what really took place?

“Like a Flying Saucer”

Tanaka says he began to research the ship after the deadly subway sarin attacks in 1995 by the Aum Shinrikyō cult. “There was a lot of coverage of Aum founder Asahara Shōkō's prophecies and claims to be able to float in the air. Yet the cult’s senior members were part of the scientific elite. I started giving lectures considering paranormal phenomena from a scientific perspective, which meant that I was collecting all kinds of materials for teaching, such as about UFOs in the United States and Japanese folklore. While doing so, I came across the utsurobune legend.” He adds, “Long before the American UFO stories, the craft depicted in Edo-period Japanese documents for some reason looked like a flying saucer. This was fascinating to me.”

UFOs became a modern sensation after the media reported US businessman Kenneth Arnold as having witnessed “flying saucers” on June 24, 1947. A flood of similar stories followed from around the world. Most famously, a UFO was alleged to have crashed to the ground near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. “In the end, though, no wrecks or alien bodies were recovered,” Tanaka says. “There was only the ambiguous testament of witnesses. It was the same with all the other UFO stories from around the world—they were mysteries without any substantial evidence. The utsurobune legend, however, has a number of documents to examine as leads, so in this sense, for researchers it’s a mystery with substance.” 

A Ninja’s Report

A book published in English by Tanaka Kazuo on his research. The cover uses the illustration from Toen shōsetsu (Toen Stories; 1825).

There are similar oral traditions about “hollow ships” across Japan in the Edo period. Tanaka’s research is focused on the various documents that describe the 1803 incident in Hitachi and include illustrations of a beautiful woman and a strange vessel, although they cite different dates. One of the best-known sources is the Toen shōsetsu (Toen Stories), an 1825 collection recording fantastic rumors, which was written by the Toenkai literary circle and edited by Kyokutei Bakin, famous for his lengthy historical romance Nansō Satomi hakkenden (The Eight Dog Chronicles). Others are Nagahashi Matajirō's 1844 work Ume no chiri (Plum Dust), as well as collections like Ōshuku zakki (Ōshuku Notes), Hirokata zuihitsu (Essays by Hirokata), and Hyōryūki-shū (Records of Castaways), which gathers stories of foreign ships washed up in Japan and of Japanese sailors who came ashore overseas.

From Ōshuku zakki (Ōshuku Notes; around 1815) by Komai Norimura, a vassal of the powerful daimyō Matsudaira Sadanobu.

(Courtesy National Diet Library)

From Hirokata zuihitsu (Essays by Hirokata; 1825) by shogunate retainer and calligrapher Yashiro Hirokata, who was also a member of the Toenkai circle. (Courtesy National Archives of Japan)

From Mito bunsho (Mito Document).

(Courtesy the owner)

At first, Tanaka theorized that the incident was an embellished account concerning a shipwrecked Russian whaler, but he could not find any mention of such a disaster in official records. Instead, he discovered new materials, becoming absorbed in further background research. To date, he has found 11 documents relating to the Hitachi utsurobune legend, of which the most interesting are thought to date from 1803, the same year that the craft was said to have come to shore.

One is the Mito bunsho (Mito Document) owned by a collector in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. Tanaka noticed that the woman’s clothing in an illustration in the work was similar to that of a bodhisattva statue at the Shōfukuji temple in Kamisu, also in Ibaraki, which is dedicated to the raising of silkworms. A legend credits the start of sericulture in the area to a Princess Konjiki (or “golden princess”), who is a motif in images at the temple. In one version of the story, Princess Konjiki is washed up to shore after traveling from India on a dugout boat in the shape of a cocoon. She repays the kindness of a local couple who try to nurse her back to health by bestowing on them the secrets of sericulture when she herself becomes a silkworm after her death. Among the various materials, only the illustration in the Mito document appeared greatly similar to Princess Konjiki. Tanaka thinks that when the first rumors of a “hollow ship” coming ashore at a beach called Kashimanada were spreading, the people at Shōfukuji may have decided to incorporate it into promotion of the temple.

Another even more important source is the Banke bunsho (Banke Document) owned by Kawakami Jin’ichi, the heir to the Kōka ninjutsu (ninja arts) tradition and a ninjutsu researcher and martial artist. It is named after the Banke, or Ban family, of Kōka ninja. While some other materials say the vessel came ashore at locations like Harayadori or Haratonohama, there is no evidence that such places exist. This document, however, records the location as Hitachihara Sharihama, which appeared in a map produced by the famous cartographer Inō Tadataka, and is now known as Hasaki Sharihama in Kamisu. Tanaka comments that while the other materials show geographical inconsistencies, this document mentions a real place name. He says that Kawakami suggested a Banke member might have been assembling information while working for the head of the Owari domain (now Aichi Prefecture). “If so, he wouldn’t record any untruths, so we can say the document is very reliable.”

Awaiting New Revelations

The folklorist Yanagita Kunio once said that all of the utsurobune legends were groundless fictions. “But in the case of the Hitachi utsurobune, there’s a clear difference from other stories around the country,” Tanaka says. “For one, it’s specified as having taken place in 1803. And then, it’s strange that there are specific pictures of the craft showing it as resembling a flying saucer. I feel it was probably based on something that really happened. But Japan was largely closed off then, so if there was a wreck of a foreign ship or foreign people had arrived in the country, it would have been a huge event and a government official would have investigated and left a public document. When British sailors entered Ōtsuhama [now Kitaibaraki] in 1824, it became one of the causes of an edict to repel foreign vessels the following year. So it might be that there was witness testimony of something taking place for just a short time at Kashimanada. It’s possible that this became tied in with earlier utsurobune legends.”

Just as descriptions of the woman’s clothing vary depending on the document, so do those of the shape and size of her vessel. For example, Records of Castaways says that it was around 3.3 meters high and 5.4 meters wide (when converted into current measurements) and that it was made of rosewood and iron with glass and crystal windows. “I’m not sure whether Records of Castaways was an official document. There are two volumes altogether, and apart from the utsurobune, they’re all incidents that actually took place. This suggests that the writer at least believed the utsurobune was really washed up to shore,” Tanaka says. 

There are countless mysteries connected with the “hollow ship,” such as the meaning of the script written inside it. Tanaka says that one theory has it that it resembles the pseudo-Roman letters sometimes seen in the border of ukiyo-e prints. “So it might be simply decorative. Although it’s not impossible that we’ll discover evidence that it’s alien script!” Having said this, he laughs. “There are likely to be further discoveries of currently unknown materials related to the utsurobune, and new revelations. This legend is so appealing because it’s possible to come up with so many different theories. Having a story like this in Japan—from 140 years before the American UFO sightings—that stimulates the imagination to this extent reminds me of how deep and fascinating Japanese culture can be.”

From Hyōryūki-shū (Records of Castaways) by an unknown author. The text describes the woman as being around 18 to 20 years of age, well-dressed, and beautiful. Her face is pale, and her eyebrows and hair are red. It is impossible to communicate with her, so it is unclear where she is from. She holds a plain wooden box as though it is very important to her and keeps her distance. There is mysterious script written in the boat.

(Courtesy Iwase Bunko Library in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture)

(Originally published in Japanese on June 17, 2020, based on an interview by Itakura Kimie of Nippon.com. Banner photo: Detail from Hyōryūki-shū (Records of Castaways). Courtesy Iwase Bunko Library in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture.µ

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29-06-2020 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

A new study shown by NASA scientists at the Goldschmidt conference this week provides further evidence that Europa’s ocean is habitable and similar to Earth’s oceans.

Europa has many cracks in its otherwise smooth surface. Many believe the cracks are the result of the rising and falling of tides in a global ocean beneath Europa’s icy surface. A new study adds to the evidence that this subsurface ocean may be habitable.

Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SETI Institute.

Is there life on Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa? This moon has fascinated space enthusiasts for decades, since scientists determined there’s a global ocean of water beneath the moon’s icy outer crust. Last week (June 24, 2020), NASA scientists announced new research that supports the idea that Europa’s ocean is habitable. They said this underground ocean is likely similar in many ways to the open-air oceans on Earth.

The fascinating results were presented at the Goldschmidt conference (virtual this year due to Covid-19). The associated abstract is available on the conference website. These are preliminary results, and not yet peer-reviewed.

First, the findings support what scientists had predicted about the composition of the ocean, as planetary scientist and lead researcher Mohit Melwani Daswani explained in a statement:

We were able to model the composition and physical properties of the core, silicate layer, and ocean. We find that different minerals lose water and volatiles at different depths and temperatures. We added up these volatiles that are estimated to have been lost from the interior, and found that they are consistent with the current ocean’s predicted mass, meaning that they are probably present in the ocean.

A cutaway illustrative view of Europa’s subsurface ocean.

Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Sci-News.

To reach this conclusion, the researchers modeled geochemical reservoirs within the interior of Europa using data from the old Galileo mission. The results are significant since they show that oceans like the one on Europa can be formed by metamorphism, that is, by a change of minerals or a distinct arrangement of minerals (a change in what geologists call texture) in preexisting rocks (protoliths) without the protolith melting into liquid magma.

On Europa, heating and increased pressure caused by early radioactive decay or later subsurface tidal movement, would have caused a breakdown of water-containing minerals. Trapped water would be released, and Europa’s underground ocean would be born.

So what about habitability?

The study also found that Europa’s ocean would have been mildly acidic at first, with high concentrations of carbon dioxide, calcium and sulfate. But over time, it became chloride-rich, resembling oceans on Earth (seawater on Earth contains 1.94% chloride). According to Daswani:

Indeed it was thought that this ocean could still be rather sulfuric, but our simulations, coupled with data from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing chloride on Europa’s surface, suggests that the water most likely became chloride rich. In other words, its composition became more like oceans on Earth. We believe that this ocean could be quite habitable for life.

Europa is one of our best chances of finding life in our own solar system. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will launch in the next few years, and so our work aims to prepare for the mission, which will investigate Europa’s habitability. Our models lead us to think that the oceans in other moons, such as Europa’s neighbor Ganymede, and Saturn’s moon Titan, may also have formed by similar processes.

We still need to understand several points though, such as how fluids migrate through Europa’s rocky interior.

Although not proven yet, there is growing evidence for water vapor plumes on Europa, similar to those on Saturn’s moon Enceladus (artist’s concept).

Image via ASA/ ESA/ K. Retherford/ SwRI/ Science.

Another interesting possibility is that volcanic vents on the seafloor of Europa’s ocean might have contributed to the process of the water’s becoming chloride-rich. That would be exciting, since such vents on Earth provide heat and nutrients to a wide variety of life in our world’s deep oceans.

The Cassini spacecraft has already found evidence for such vents on the seafloor of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which also has a global ocean beneath its icy crust.

These or other energy sources would be necessary for life to evolve and thrive in an underground ocean: a dark and sunless environment. As Steve Mojzsis, Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado Boulder, noted:

A long-standing question over whether a ‘cloaked ocean’ world like Europa could be habitable boils down to whether it can sustain a flow of electrons which might provide the energy to power life. What remains unclear is whether such icy moons could ever generate enough heat to melt rock; certainly interesting chemistry takes place within these bodies, but what reliable flow of electrons could be used by alien life to power itself in the cold, dark depths?

A key aspect that makes a world ‘habitable’ is an intrinsic ability to maintain these chemical disequilibria. Arguably, icy moons lack this ability, so this needs to be tested on any future mission to Europa.

Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. This image is a combination of images from 1995 and 1998.

Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SETI Institute.

The results of the new study are tantalizing, but more work needs to be done. How much chloride is really in Europa’s ocean? As mentioned in a June 25, 2020, article on Centauri Dreams, a paper from 2019 stated the following about sodium chloride (NaCl) on Europa:

The presence of NaCl on Europa has important implications for our understanding of the internal chemistry and its geochemical evolution through time. Whereas aqueous differentiation of chondritic material and long-term leaching from a chondritic seafloor can result in a system rich in sulfates, more extensive hydrothermal circulation, as on Earth, may lead to an NaCl-rich ocean. The plume chemistry of Enceladus, which is perhaps the best analog to Europa, suggests an NaCl-dominated ocean and a hydrothermally active seafloor. However, the compositional relationship between Europa’s ocean and its endogenous material is unknown, and the surface may simply represent the end result of a compositional stratification within the ice shell… Regardless of whether the observed NaCl directly relates to the ocean composition, its presence warrants a reevaluation of our understanding of the geochemistry of Europa.

Scientists can learn more about Europa’s ocean by modeling, but obtaining solid evidence will require actually sending a mission back there. Fortunately, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is set to do just that, scheduled to launch in 2023.

Europa is one of the largest moons in the solar system with a diameter of 1,926 miles (3,100 km), just a little less than Earth’s moon. While the subsurface ocean is relatively warm (exact temperature not known yet), on the almost airless surface of Europa the temperatures are always a bitter minus 256 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 160 degrees Celsius) or lower.

Mohit Melwani Daswani, planetary scientist at NASA and lead author of the new study.

Image via Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

There is also growing evidence for water vapor plumes on Europa, similar to those on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. If they are there, Europa Clipper could fly through them, just as Cassini did at Enceladus, and sample the vapor for analysis. If connected to the ocean, as Enceladus’ are thought to be, that would provide valuable clues as to conditions in the Europan ocean and, maybe, even evidence of life itself.

The latest analysis of Europa’s ocean is tantalizing, but we will know a lot more after Europa Clipper – and ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission – take a closer look in the years ahead.

• Bottom line: New study by NASA scientists shows that Europa’s ocean is habitable.
• Source: Evolution of volatiles from Europa’s interior into its ocean
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28-06-2020 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

One would be hard-pressed to find a natural phenomena with more myths and symbolism associated with it than the rainbow. A welcome sight after a storm, a simple rainbow is a sign of better – or at least drier – things to come. It’s when the rainbow deviates from the norm that causes people to worry – both mythologically and meteorologically. That’s why an extremely rare red rainbow and a red dome seen recently over Birmingham, England, has people there wondering if 2020 is going to get worse or better … or if Stephen King is working on another movie.

“This is amazing, oh my God, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

That’s the comment of Abigail Daisy Parkes, who recorded the red rainbow on June 13. The video (watch it here) was sent to the YouTube channel Disclose Screen ‘The Grimreefar‘ where comments speculated on it being an effect of Nibiru or radiation caused by a hole in the ozone. While an appearance by Nibiru or Planet X would certainly be a sign of something (besides proving so many people wrong), could this appearance of one of the rarest of rare rainbows be a sign of something else?

Double rainbow

The standard rainbow is an optical illusion nearly as common as the raindrops, fog, sea spray and other conditions that create it. Sunlight from behind the viewer hits the tiny droplets and is reflected and refracted into the standard color spectrum of light. The refracting also gives the light its ‘bow’. Variations include double (also triple and quadruple), fogbow, cloudbow, moonbow (all pretty self-explanatory) and the red or monochromatic. Meteorologists say red rainbows occur at sunrise or sunset and low in the sky. Because the light has to travel so far, only the long red waves make it through. The dome effect is merely a continuation of the reflection and refraction through the entire mist.

While most people see rainbows as a good thing (pot of gold, good luck, God’s promise to never cause another flood like Noah’s, seeing a deceased pet someday, etc.), there are plenty who see them as bad omens. A great one comes from Bulgaria, where some believe if you walk under a rainbow, you will change genders! Nicaraguans and Hondoruans see them as a sign of the devil and stay indoors long after a storm. Some in Japan see its resemblance to a snake as bad luck. The Old Farmer’s Almanac Book of Lore warns pointing at a rainbow brings bad luck (uh-oh). Finally, some cultures see the different colors as separate stairs to heaven — does this make the red dome over Birmingham a red slide that will keep them from getting to heaven?

No gold or wrong end?

“Wow.”

Maybe that slide was what Abigail Daisy Parkes was thinking about when she said this a few times while watching the red dome form over Birmingham. Fortunately, it eventually disappeared. On the other hand, the pot of gold was never there in the first place – the myth is based on a fable about a trick played by a leprechaun on a farmer and his wife in return for his freedom.

The slide at least sounds like more fun. Just don’t point at it.

A stunning red rainbow has been caught on camera over the Birmingham skyline. Abigail Daisy Parkes, a local resident, recorded the formation of the rainbow on June 13

The footage shows the rainbow starting on the right before expanding across the skyline

What is a red rainbow and are they really that rare?  

A red rainbow - otherwise known as a monochrome rainbow - is a meteorological and optical phenomenon and a variation of the multi-coloured rainbow.

The formation process is very similar to the classic rainbow, insofar as it involves light reflecting and refracting off of rain droplets, but a red rainbow occurs when the sun is very low, typically at sunrise or sunset.

The low angle of the sun results in a longer distance for its light to travel through the atmosphere, causing shorter wavelengths of light, such as green, blue and yellow, to be scattered and leaving primarily red. 

Despite red rainbows being less common than its multi-coloured variant, there is contention whether they are all that rare.

Deborah Byrd, a skywatching enthusiast, told earthsky.org that she has only ever seen one red rainbow in her decades of skywatching. 

However, they are usually rare to see because of the conditions they typically appear in, according to the Sky Lights blog, The dusky colour of the sky sometimes means that the red is ever so faint and gets washed out, meaning that people sometimes miss the phenomenal sight.  

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28-06-2020 om 21:56 geschreven door peter  

Close Encounter By Multiple Police Officers In Illinois

JANUARY 5, 2000 ……HIGHLAND ILLINOIS

On Wednesday, January 05, 2000, the National UFO Reporting Center received two telephone messages (at 0316 and 0351 hrs. Pacific Standard Time) from Officer Thomas “Ed” Barton, employed by the Lebanon, IL, Police Department.  The messages apprised our Center that a UFO sighting had occurred in St. Clair County, Illinois, and in surrounding areas, at approximately 0410 hrs. (Central)  earlier that morning. 

Later the same morning, we were able to talk to Officer Barton, who reported to us the following:

At approximately 0410 hrs. (Central) on that morning, he overheard an announcement by the St. Clair (IL) Emergency Dispatch operator that a citizen had entered the Highland, IL, police station, and requested that an officer go outside and view a very peculiar object that was hovering nearby in the sky.  The citizen had witnessed the bizarre looking object on his way to work, and he apparently refused to leave the station until a police officer had viewed the object with him.

Having heard the announcement about the incident over his radio, Officer Barton looked to the southeast from his location in Lebanon, and noticed two extremely bright white lights suspended in the sky, close to the horizon. The two lights were radiating so much light that the spectacle reminded Officer Barton of the Japanese “Rising Sun” symbol, used on the Japanese battle flag.  A very short period of time later, the two large lights appeared to merge into one, and the illumination the object was radiating appeared to increase dramatically.

Officer Barton began driving south and east in attempt to approach the object.  He turned his overhead flashers on, and at times was driving at 75-80 m.p.h. toward the object, which was still generally to the southeast of his position.  After a short period of time, Officer Barton realized that the object appeared to be traveling toward him. 

He stopped his vehicle, extinguished his overhead flashers, and rolled down the window on the passenger side of his vehicle.  The object approached his location, and passed overhead at an estimated altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, and within an estimated 100 feet lateral distance of his position on the ground.  It was headed generally to the west, or northwest, at this time.  The object was distinctly triangular in shape, with three white lights on the apices of the triangle, and it exhibited a “galaxy” of peculiar lights on its aft end, including white, hues of red or pink, and perhaps other colors, as well.

After passing overhead Officer Barton, the object suddenly turned to its left, without either banking or yawing apparently, it suddenly accelerated quite dramatically, and seemed to “streak” to the west, covering approximately 8 miles, the officer estimated, in approximately 3 seconds.

(Note:  Officer Barton, in multiple telephone conversations with our organization, and during at least one radio broadcast, has emphasized how almost unbelievably quickly the object accelerated and moved a considerable distance to the southwest in just a few seconds.  Its velocity was almost unimaginable, he reports.  This is one aspect of the case that strongly suggest to us that the object almost certainly was not of human manufacture.)

He radioed St. Clair County Emergency Dispatch, apprising them that he had the object in sight, and advising them as to the direction it had moved, generally to the southwest.  He recommended that dispatch contact units to the south and west of his position, e.g. Shiloh, Millstadt and Dupo, to have the officers there attempt to spot the object from their vantage points

Apparently at least one officer from Shiloh, IL, witnessed the object next, and two other officers, who have not come forward and who apparently do not wish to be identified, witnessed the object while they were standing in the cemetery of their town, as well.

An officer from the Millstadt Police Department, Officer Craig Stevens, with whom NUFORC also spoke, overheard the broadcast, and moved his cruiser to a dark part of that town to see if he could spot the object in the night sky.  He quickly spotted the object to the west of his location, at approximately 45 degrees above the horizontal plane, and gauged its size as “huge.”  He estimated that it was “one or two stories” tall, and perhaps three stories long.”  It had several very bright lights on it.

St. Clair Dispatch requested that someone, if possible, attempt to get a photograph of the object.  In response to that request, Officer Stevens removed polaroid-type camera stored in the trunk of his cruiser and quickly photographed the object.  Because the outside temperature was low, approximately 18-20 degrees (F), neither the camera, nor the film functioned well, so the resolution of the photograph is not good.

After Officer Stevens had taken the photograph, the object appeared to move further to the west, moving toward Dupo, IL, Cahokia, IL, and St. Louis, MO.  A Dupo police officer may have witnessed the object at that time.

In the final analysis, the police departments and communities involved in the incident include the following:  Highland, Summerfield, Lebanon, Shiloh, Mascoutah, Millstadt, Dupo, and Cahokia, Illinois.  The object was observed by officers from at least the following communities (in chronological sequence):  Lebanon, Shiloh, (Other?), Millstadt, Dupo, and Cahokia (?).

Notes and Addenda:

1. Scott Air Force Base:  At one point during the sighting, we estimate, the object was within 2-3 statute miles of Scott Air Force Base.  However, an official spokesman for that base reportedly made an official statement to the effect that A) their tower was closed for approximately one hour during the time of the sighting; B) their base radar had been turned off for unspecified reasons during the same hour; and 3) none of their personnel was aware of the sighting, and none had seen the object.
2. NUFORC has received several unconfirmed reports that shortly after the incident, several of the police departments involved in the sighting, and several of the actual eyewitnesses to the incident, received visits from two, or more, individuals, who are active employees from the federal government.  They requested that the parties involved in the incident curtail all their statements to the press.  We are unable to confirm these reports at the time this Summary Statement is being prepared.
3. Alleged intercept by military aircraft:  NUFORC has an unconfirmed report from a highly reliable source that jet fighters from a nearby Air National Guard unit may have been “scrambled” to take a look at the object.  The nearest ANG unit we are aware of is the Missouri Air National Guard, which flies F-15’s out of Lambert Field/St. Louis Airport.  We have a second hand report that personnel at the airport witnessed a take-off of F-15’s at approximately 0420 hrs. that morning.  We have a second report from an individual who remembers having been awakened at approximately the time of the sighting by the sound of military jets taking off from Lambert Field.
4. Other witnesses:  NUFORC has received a report from a woman who was driving to work that morning and allegedly witnessed the object.  We are awaiting her written report.  Other witnessed have asserted that they may have seen the object earlier to the north, near Lake Michigan.  We have received no written reports of such sightings.  We also have an unconfirmed report that the object was video taped during the early part of the sighting.  This fact, too, is yet to be confirmed.
5. Media coverage:  The incident has gained wide coverage in the print and electronic media, including the Art Bell radio talk show (“Coast to Coast”); the Jeff Rense talk show (“Sightings”); German public radio; many other radio programs across the country; The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper; Knight-Ridder publications; the Los Angeles Times; the Chicago Sun-Times; other publications that subscribe to, or carry releases from, the above media outlets.
6. Investigations:  The incident continues to be investigated by members of the Mutual UFO Network (Illinois and Missouri chapter), by the National Institute for Discovery Science (Please see link to their website), Mrs. Barbara Becker of Columbia, MO, and perhaps by other independent individuals and organizations. NOTE: The above image is CGI.

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28-06-2020 om 21:37 geschreven door peter  

Are We Being Watched?

All over the world, UFO sightings are taking place regularly. These are very significant events in the history of the planet. For some reason, we humans have some sort of interest in them. We find ourselves curious about the existence of these unidentified flying objects.

It is said that many sightings of flying creatures and other humanoids who do not have wings and cannot fly have been reported all over the world. Whether the sightings are reported by eyewitnesses or by those who have captured images of the objects is not always clear to us. But, it has been clearly stated that some of these sightings can be very valid.

We all have experienced the impact of flying objects and space debris. Some of these have caused serious injury and death to people. We should keep in mind that the earth is covered with dangerous space debris and they can be very dangerous.

There are actually a lot of space junk, which have been left over from space travel. These are remnants of spacecraft, which had broken apart during flight. This, however, is a relatively small amount of space junk. Many times, when a large object like a rocket breaks up, this debris is not larger than a pea; they can be as small as a grain of sand.

Over the years, there have been a lot of reports of UFOs, but it is said that they may be classified according to their different sizes and speeds. The first sightings were reportedly made by professional scientists who were working in government facilities. They have also claimed that there are military scientists who are doing an in-depth study of UFO sightings.

It is interesting to note that there have been a lot of claims made by professional scientists that these are real. These people have been sent to investigate the events that took place in the vicinity of outer space. Of course, there have been people who have tried to argue against the existence of these phenomena and they claim that they are all just hoaxes.

There are some strange and unusual formations that have been recorded. Many of these have been recorded in photographs. Some of these photographs were taken by amateur scientists who have claimed that they have documented the events that took place. Many people say that this is simply part of some very advanced research project that they are conducting.

The best way to combat the appearance of UFO sightings is to get a handle on how many of these objects have been spotted by the American public. It is also to see if we can get to the bottom of the mystery of what these mysterious flying objects really are. In the end, it is a good idea to remember that there is a lot of unexplained phenomena around us, but there is nothing extraordinary about UFOs.

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28-06-2020 om 21:24 geschreven door peter  

Hey, Want To See My Old UFO Site? UFO Sightings Daily, Check It Out. SCW

Maybe you want to check out my old site, I still keep it active but I do have over ten years of posts. Lost of work and discoveries, was in TIME in 2015, CNN more times than I remember, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC News and over 60,000 news sites in over 40 languages! 

UFO Sightings Daily by Scott C. Waring 
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28-06-2020 om 17:40 geschreven door peter  

Disk Cloud Is Alien Craft Cloaked, Over Hereford, England, June 26, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 26, 2020

Location of sighting: College Estate, Hereford, England

News source: 

• https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/18546630.cloud-looks-like-flying-saucer/

This is a great example of a UFO that has made a disk cloud around it so that it could fly low and close to the public. Look how low this one is. It wouldn't surprise me if they had windows or transparent walls that allow the aliens to look down at the people and activities below. Absolutely amazing catch of a perfect disk over England yesterday. Aliens have been around us for thousands of years, but we are wising up, our technology and our intelligence is increasing and they wont be able to hide from us for long. The public will expose them. We don't need any help from any government. We have the man power, we have the skill, we have the passion to accomplish it. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

 

Below is the negative view causing the inner disk to really stand out! 

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28-06-2020 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

Alien Bases Found On South Pole Of Moon, Apollo Map, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: June 27, 2020

Location of sighting: Earths moon, south pole. 

Source map: 

• http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/

Now I have some structures I found in the southern pole of earths moon. The map is from an Apollo mission. There are some really complex structures down there. The structure above is over 6.5km long. There are obviously structures, but to the untrained eye, they may be nothing at all. I fear that until AI is created and comes across my discoveries, no real change on earth will ever occur from the work I have done over the last two decades. But the real question is...if AI is created and confirm everything I say and found...will the public turn on AI? Calling it racist, biased, politicalized, or domineering? When humans are faced with the ultimate intelligence...are we intelligent enough to listen? Time will tell. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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28-06-2020 om 17:25 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Ruins Found On Mars, 100% Proof Of Intelligent Aliens, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: June 27, 2020
Location of discovery: Mars, Sol 929
Source photo: 

• http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/13476/gigapans/196694
  
  

I was looking over some Mars photos when I came across one that had perfectly even thickness of walls. The walls were all connected and each made its own room. The walls appear to be the ruins of a tiny intelligent species that once lived within them. 

Back about 10 years ago, I discovered the woman figure on Mars and it was merely 6 inches tall or 15 cm. I believe the same human like tiny species built these structures to live within. Notice the even thickness of all the walls. That is impossible in nature, but clearly deliberately created. This is 100% proof that an intelligent species, albeit tiny, once lived and thrived on Mars. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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28-06-2020 om 17:18 geschreven door peter  

On March 8th, 1994, civilians in western Michigan on the edge of Lake Michigan called 911 en masse about strange lights in the sky, described as mostly cylindrical, moving up and down in altitude, and having a vertical row of lights on them. They appeared to be coordinated, as one caller described them as moving in a circle.

This was backed up by a National Weather Service radar operator in Muskegon, MI, who was contacted by the 911 dispatcher and asked to look into it. In the tapes in this episode, which are in the public domain, you can hear the NWS official remark at the anomalous and possibly coordinated behavior of the objects, which he reported moved together in a triangle.

He states they were not storms or aircraft, and as time passes, he becomes gradually more distressed, as highlighted by the subtitle overlay.

Interestingly, Project Blue Book had several interesting cases in this area of Michigan, including several that civilians described as "metallic," but USAF officials deemed them astronomical in nature or insufficient data for analysis. 

0:00 "My God, What is This?" 

2:20 Intro 3:26 911 calls National Weather Service 

4:24 National Weather Service calls 911 

6:01 NWS attempts to downplay 

8:04 Circular UFO seen in Holland by family 

8:24 Project Grudge and Blue Book in Michigan

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28-06-2020 om 16:59 geschreven door peter  

Aweird unidentified aerial phenomenon has been seen in the sky over Taverny, France, and the photographer has no idea what it could have been.

A photographer and his friends were chatting outside on June 20, 2020 around 9 p.m. The sky was still very clear when they spotted strange bright elongated shaped anomalies in the sky, as if the sunlight was reflected on the objects.

They counted four objects and they were all moving in the same direction, at approximately equal distance and they made no sound on which the photographer took several photos using the super zoom of his Pentax camera, before the objects were too far away. The sighting ended when they were no longer within sight. Mufon case 109736.

When zoomed in on to the anomalies you can clearly see that these are not mylar balloons, drones or known registered aircraft.

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28-06-2020 om 16:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO fleet filmed over Rome, New York 25-Jun-2020

This fleet of UFOs was filmed in the night sky above Rome in New York. This happened on 25th June 2020.

Witness report: 

Some of the orbs were moving close to eachother as if they were connected

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28-06-2020 om 16:20 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens: They Came from The Pleiades S15E07

Ancient Aliens – They Came from The Pleiades
History Channel, Season 15 Episode 7
7th March 2020

Recent researches shows that ʻOumuamua an alien asteroid came from Pleiades. Could this evidence proves that why so many ancient civilizations point to the beings that came from the Pleiades. Pleiadians may have visited Earth in distant past.

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28-06-2020 om 16:13 geschreven door peter  

Why is the far side of the moon so weird? Scientists may have solved a lunar mystery

In a new study, scientists explore a new theory that aims to explain why the moon's near and far sides are so different.

(Image: © NASA/NOAA)

In the new study, researchers from the Earth‐Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Towson University, NASA Johnson Space Center and the University of New Mexico investigated the moon's geologic history and found a new explanation for the asymmetry between its far and near sides. 

Through a number of experiments, computer modeling and the use of existing observations of the lunar surface, these researchers found that concentrations of radioactive elements on the moon could help to explain the asymmetry between the near and far sides of the moon. 

This study showed that radioactively unstable elements including Potassium (K), thorium (Th) and uranium (U) create heat through the process of radioactive decay. This heat can melt the rocks where these elements are located. 

This work was published March 30 in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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28-06-2020 om 01:44 geschreven door peter  

Heat gave Jupiter's icy moon Europa layers. That may be good news for the search for life.

By Doris Elin Urrutia  

It may check a box on the habitability list.

Jupiter's moon, Europa.

(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)

Jupiter's icy moon Europa experienced enough heat to produce a layered interior and subsurface ocean, scientists say. The finding could help researchers learn about the potential for life on other worlds. 

Mohit Melwani Daswani, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, led a team that analyzed data gathered by the Galileo mission. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Galileo studied Jupiter and its moons for about eight years and discovered that a global ocean of liquid water likely exists under the icy surface of Europa. 

Daswani's team found that a layer-creating phenomenon called differentiation may be the reason Europa has its ocean. Daswani announced his findings Wednesday (June 24) during a presentation at the virtual Goldschmidt conference, an annual conference on geochemistry and related fields. The work has yet to be peer reviewed. 

Europa has some key features suspected to be necessary for a habitable world, Daswani told Space.com in an interview. Daswani's findings could have implications for the study of habitability on other worlds, even those beyond the realm of our sun. The team hopes that upcoming missions like NASA's Europa Clipper, due to launch later this decade, will help determine if the icy moon is indeed habitable.

• Related: Chaos reigns in detailed new views of Jupiter's icy moon Europa

Daswani's team found evidence of a promising sign: Europa's ocean could have originated from the breakdown of water-bearing minerals that were in the interior of Europa. That process may have occurred during differentiation, during which Europa was "separated into distinct layers, sort of like an onion," he said. 

"The interior of Europa is much denser than the outer layers," Daswani said. "That already tells us a really important property of Europa's history and geology: It must have experienced high heat in order for that process of differentiation to occur." That past high heat also increases the odds that Europa currently has enough heat to hide a liquid ocean.

The source of that heat could be radioactive decay in the moon's interior, or a phenomenon called tidal dissipation caused by interactions with Jupiter and large nearby moons, or some of both, Daswani said. With liquid oceans, Europa has one important characteristic to supporting life. 

This process of differentiation happened on the key habitable world, Earth, as well as on Mars. "Europa was large enough to experience that as well," Daswani said. 

• Related: Weird mystery of watery plumes on Europa may hint at 'stealth particles'

There isn't a direct connection between differentiation and habitability, but Daswani said that this process of breaking down minerals via heat to produce oceans is perhaps not unique to Europa. "Large ocean worlds that experience this heat in the interior may have a mechanism to build oceans," Daswani said. By looking at the processes that led minerals to release water on Europa, scientists could figure out if an exoplanet might host a liquid ocean, because this may be a common way for oceans to form on worlds in our solar system and beyond.

There is a solar system world with an ocean that doesn't seem as promising for life, Daswani said. "The exception to this would be [Saturn's moon] Enceladus … [it] is a much smaller body than Europa and couldn't have experienced such high heat, and we know this because Enceladus' density is much lower than Europa's density. The ocean must have been created by a different process."

But Europa's neighbor Ganymede could also have a differentiated interior and might be similar to Europa in that regard. 

Of course, life needs more than just water to exist. "Life is chemical. Life powers itself with chemistry, which is all about the flow of electrons," Steve Mojzsis, a geologist at the University of Colorado who wasn't involved in the new research, told Space.com in an interview. The exchange of electrons yields energy, and it's this kind of energy that gets used for metabolism.

In the future, Daswani wants to research whether or not there is sufficient energy for life to exist in Europa's ocean.

•  Scientists peer back in time to find new evidence for watery plumes on Europa 
•  If we find life on Europa or Enceladus, it will probably be a '2nd genesis' 
•  Europa's buried ocean could rise to the surface (video) 

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28-06-2020 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

The new study also suggests that the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park was much more explosive in its early history and could be slowing down.

Explosions from volcanic super-eruptions have been some of the most extreme events in Earth’s history, ejecting enormous volumes of material – at least 1,000 times more than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens – with the potential to alter the planet’s climate.

Now, in a study published June 1, 2020, in the peer-reviewed journal Geology, researchers have announced the discovery of two newly identified super-eruptions that occurred 9.0 and 8.7 million years ago, associated with the Yellowstone hotspot track – a volcanic hotspot responsible for large scale volcanism in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming. The researchers believe the younger of the two – known as the Grey’s Landing super-eruption – was the volcanic province’s largest and most cataclysmic event. Volcanologist Thomas Knott of University of Leicester is the paper’s lead author. Knott said in a statement:

Based on the most recent collations of super-eruption sizes, it is one of the top five eruptions of all time.

Yellowstone hotspot track.

Image via Kelvin Case/ Wikimedia Commons.

The results indicate the hotspot, which today fuels the famous geysers, mudpots, and fumaroles in Yellowstone National Park, may be waning in intensity. Knott told Scientific American that although the current rate of eruptions suggests that another explosion will not occur for roughly 900,000 years, this estimate is simply a historical average, and it doesn’t forecast how and when nature will act. He said:

We don’t want to encourage complacency – nor do we want to fearmonger.

Fountain Paint Pot.

Image via National Park Service/ GSA.

The team used a combination of techniques to correlate volcanic deposits scattered across tens of thousands of square kilometers. Knott said:

We discovered that deposits previously believed to belong to multiple, smaller eruptions were in fact colossal sheets of volcanic material from two previously unknown super-eruptions at about 9.0 and 8.7 million years ago.

The younger of the two, the Grey’s Landing super-eruption, is now the largest recorded event of the entire Snake-River–Yellowstone volcanic province.

The team estimates the Grey’s Landing super-eruption was 30% larger than the previous record-holder (the well-known Huckleberry Ridge Tuff) and had devastating local and global effects. Knotts said:

The Grey’s Landing eruption enameled an area the size of New Jersey in searing-hot volcanic glass that instantly sterilized the land surface. Anything located within this region would have been buried and most likely vaporized during the eruption.

Particulates would have choked the stratosphere, raining fine ash over the entire United States and gradually encompassing the globe.

Both of the newly discovered super-eruptions occurred during the Miocene, the interval of geologic time spanning 23–5.3 million years ago. Knott said:

These two new eruptions bring the total number of recorded Miocene super-eruptions at the Yellowstone–Snake River volcanic province to six. This means that the recurrence rate of Yellowstone hotspot super-eruptions during the Miocene was, on average, once every 500,000 years.

By comparison, Knott says, two super-eruptions have – so far – taken place in what is now Yellowstone National Park during the past three million years. He said:

It therefore seems that the Yellowstone hotspot has experienced a three-fold decrease in its capacity to produce super-eruption events. This is a very significant decline.

But the new findings, says Knott, have little bearing on assessing the risk of another super-eruption occurring today in Yellowstone.

We have demonstrated that the recurrence rate of Yellowstone super-eruptions appears to be once every 1.5 million years. The last super-eruption there was 630,000 years ago, suggesting we may have up to 900,000 years before another eruption of this scale occurs.

• Bottom line: A new study has identified the biggest eruption in the history of the Yellowstone supervolcano and also suggests that its activity might be slowing.
• Source: Discovery of two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot track (USA): Is the Yellowstone hotspot waning?
• Via Geological Society of America
• Via Scientific American

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28-06-2020 om 00:56 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers witness light produced by the merger of two black holes for first time

The flare was equivalent to the light from a trillion suns.

 by Tibi Puiu

 

It doesn’t get any blacker than a black hole, the densest object in the universe. Their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape its clutches, including light.

However, it’s an ironic twist of fate that when two black holes merge in a cataclysmic event, they can also produce a flare of light as powerful as a trillion suns. Astronomers have now confirmed this phenomenon for the first time in a new study.

On May 21, 2019, scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European Virgo detected the gravitational waves generated by the merger of two black holes, in an event dubbed S190521g.

Gravitational waves are essentially ripples in the fabric of spacetime which are generated by interactions between very massive accelerating cosmic objects, such as neutron stars or black holes. Physicists liken gravity waves to the waves generated by a stone thrown into a pond.

Although gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, their existence was confirmed very recently in 2016 by LIGO, whose founders were awarded the much deserved Nobel Prize in Physics one year later.

Since then, scientists have found many sequences of gravitational waves, with much more to follow once more sensible detectors come online.

This story isn’t about gravitaional waves, though. While studying S190521g, physicists at Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) also spotted a flare of light emanting from the pair of merging black holes.

“This supermassive black hole was burbling along for years before this more abrupt flare,” Matthew Graham, a research professor of astronomy at Caltech and the project scientist for ZTF, said in a statement. “The flare occurred on the right timescale, and in the right location, to be coincident with the gravitational-wave event.”

Light-emitting black holes mergers aren’t exactly a new idea. They’ve been theorized before by physicists whose models suggested that merging black holes can plow into the hot gas, dust, and all the other jumbled mess of matter hovering around the black hole, waiting to be gobbled up.

The huge momentum and sudden release of kinetic energy of the merged black hole can cause gas to react, generating a bright flare.

Now, the theory has been shown to also work in practice. The light from S190521g was visible for days, before it slowly faded into oblivion about a month later.

However, the researchers say they will keep an eye on this newly birthed supermassive black hole. They hope to catch another flare within a couple of years as it is expected to ram into the surrounding disk of gas once more.

“Supermassive black holes like this one have flares all the time. They are not quiet objects, but the timing, size, and location of this flare was spectacular,” Mansi Kasliwal, an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, and co-author of the study, said in a statement.

“The reason looking for flares like this is so important is that it helps enormously with astrophysics and cosmology questions. If we can do this again and detect light from the mergers of other black holes, then we can nail down the homes of these black holes and learn more about their origins.”

• The findings appeared in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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28-06-2020 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

Whatever you know about Brian Eno – member of Roxy Music, record producer, visual artist, inventor of ambient music and the Oblique Strategies – it’s not everything to know about this complicated creative genius. This week, he announced the release of the Starsounds Project, a musical composition of the sounds of stars. If you thought stars, including our own sun, sounded like huge blast furnaces, you’re in for a shock.

“These infrasounds were computed by astrophysicist Garik Israelian in 2005. This unique acoustic library inspired Israelian and Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist and legendary guitarist of Queen, to create a festival to bring together stars and music, and so Starmus was born.”

Dr. Brian May is the well-known mathematician and astrophysicist who worked with NASA on the New Horizons mission, promotes awareness of hazardous asteroids and occasionally dabbles in music. Dr. Garik Israelian is another astrophysicist known for his research on extrasolar planets, black holes and neutron stars and is known for his acoustic library of infrasounds produced by stars which cannot be heard by the human ear. However, he is better known for joining with Dr. May to create the Starmus International Festival in 2011 to celebrate astronomy, space exploration, music, art and science. The festivals have attracted musicians like Rick Wakeman and Tangerine Dream and have featured Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Stephen Hawking, Alexei Leonov, Jim Lovell and more.

“Starsounds”, a hypnotic piece with complex harmonies and mesmerising visuals, is being made available on the internet for the first time – finally, we can listen to the stars and both see and hear the music that they make!”

“Starsounds” is based on Dr. Israelian’s 2014 Starmus festival lecture “Our Acoustic Universe.” Eno took the infrasound recordings and sped them up so they could be heard. Then Paul Franklin and Oliver James of DNEG, an Oscar-winning visual effects studio, created images based on the star waveforms and images of our Sun. “Starsounds” was made available on the internet (You can listen to it here) because there is no 2020 version of the biennial festival.

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular, it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

“Starsounds” is considered to be ambient music – a term coined by Brian Eno to describe a form of background music that pulls the listener into the environment. Eno’s best known ambient music is “Ambient 1: Music for Airports,,” but he has used the concept on many projects, including David Bowie’s ‘Berlin Trilogy’ consisting of the albums “Low,” “Heroes” and “Lodger” – a group recognized as some of Bowie’s most innovative music.

Another of Brian Eno’s contributions to creativity is “Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas,” a card-based method for promoting creativity created with artist Peter Schmidt. Each of the printed cards contained a challenging constraint to help musicians and artists overcome creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking. When blocked, the instructions are to pick a card at random and follow the advice. Eno himself used them during the recording of Bowie’s Berlin trilogy – a pretty strong endorsement. Some examples:

• Use an old idea.
• State the problem in words as clearly as possible.
• What would your closest friend do?
• What to increase? What to reduce?
• Try faking it!
• Ask your body.
• Work at a different speed.

The original decks are now extremely rare but a fifth edition of Eno’s Oblique Strategies is available on his website.

Brian Eno, Brian May and others show the benefits of bridging the arts/science right brain/left brain divide. In a world where both arts AND science are being de-emphasized in schools, perhaps a project like Starsounds can inspire today’s youths to return to them. Give it another listen here.

And for a little Dr. May and David Bowie together, try some “Under Pressure.”

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27-06-2020 om 22:48 geschreven door peter  

The lost continent of Zealandia, which sank into the ocean 23 million years ago after breaking away from the supercontinent Gondwanaland, isn’t technically a ‘lost continent’ anymore – it was discovered in the 1990s and upgraded from microcontinent in 2017. However, most of its submerged 2 million-square-miles (5 million square kilometers) remain a mystery.

That changed this week when GNS Science — New Zealand’s leading provider of Earth, geoscience and isotope research and consultancy services – unveiled two new maps of Zealandia and an open-to-the-public interactive website with more data on Te Riu-a-Māui / Zealandia – the new name for the lost continent. Te Riu-a-Māui translates to the hills, valleys and plains of Māui – the great East Polynesian ancestor explorer of the Pacific Ocean. Māui is the mythical ancestor of all Polynesians who explored the Pacific.

“We’ve made these maps to provide an accurate, complete and up-to-date picture of the geology of the New Zealand and southwest Pacific area – better than we have had before.

“Their value is that they provide a fresh context in which to explain and understand the setting of New Zealand’s volcanoes, plate boundary and sedimentary basins.”

Geologist Dr. Nick Mortimer, lead author of the maps, reveals in the press release that the maps are so much more than just the boundaries of Zealandia – they will help bring the geological history of New Zealand’s volcanoes from the mythical to the historical.

“Users can zoom and pan around different thematic geoscience webmaps of the region. They can readily view and interrogate the maps and turn layers on or off. They can also query features in the layers and generate custom maps of their own.”

Program Leader Dr. Vaughan Stagpoole describes how easy it is to use the webmaps. Traditionalists can also purchase printed copies at the GNS Science store. The three maps available so far are a Geoscience data webmap showing general information about the size and shape of Zealandia; a Tectonic webmap showing major faults, plate boundaries and locations of ancient and modern volcanoes; and a Bathymetric webmap color-contrasting the solid land and seabed to show coastlines, territorial limits and names of major undersea features. All are provided here courtesy of GNS Science, which holds their license.

While the maps are impressive, GNS Science will continue its research and update the maps and interactive website as more information becomes available.

Māui would be proud.

Videos, selected by peter2011

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27-06-2020 om 22:20 geschreven door peter