Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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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...
01-12-2020
The biblical warrior Goliath may not have been so giant after all
The biblical warrior Goliath may not have been so giant after all
The width of his home city’s walls were possibly used to metaphorically represent the champion’s height
The biblical warrior Goliath is best known for losing a fight with the underdog David.
Early versions of the Bible describe Goliath — an ancient Philistine warrior best known as the loser of a fight with the future King David — as a giant whose height in ancient terms reached four cubits and a span. But don’t take that measurement literally, new research suggests.
Archaeological findings at biblical-era sites including Goliath’s home city, a prominent Philistine settlement called Gath, indicate that those ancient measurements work out to 2.38 meters, or 7 feet, 10 inches. That’s equal to the width of walls forming a gateway into Gath that were unearthed in 2019, according to archaeologist Jeffrey Chadwick of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Rather than standing taller than any NBA player ever, Goliath was probably described metaphorically by an Old Testament writer as a warrior who matched the size and strength of Gath’s defensive barrier, Chadwick said November 19 at the virtual annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
People known as Canaanites first occupied Gath in the early Bronze Age, roughly 4,700 to 4,500 years ago. The city was rebuilt more than a millennium later by the Philistines, known from the Old Testament as enemies of the Israelites (SN: 11/22/16). Gath reached its peak during the Iron Age around 3,000 years ago, the time of biblical references to Goliath. Scholars continue to debate whether David and Goliath were real people who met in battle around that time.
The remains of Gath are found at a site called Tell es-Safi in Israel. A team led by archaeologist Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel — who Chadwick collaborated with to excavate the Gath gateway — has investigated Tell es-Safi since 1996. Other discoveries at Gath include a pottery fragment inscribed with two names possibly related to the name Goliath. Evidence of Gath’s destruction about 2,850 years ago by an invading army has also been recovered.
Each of four inner pillars of an Iron Age gateway at et-Tell (possibly the biblical city of Bethsaida), including this one, measures 2.38 meters, or four cubits and a span, wide. That’s the same width as walls at Goliath’s home city, Gath, and the same height that an Old Testament writer used to describe Goliath.ERIC WELCH
Archaeologists have long known that in ancient Egypt a cubit corresponded to 52.5 centimeters and assumed that the same measure was used at Gath and elsewhere in and around ancient Israel. But careful evaluations of many excavated structures over the last several years have revealed that standard measures differed slightly between the two regions, Chadwick said.
Buildings at Gath and several dozen other cities from ancient Israel and nearby kingdoms of Judah and Philistia, excavated by other teams, were constructed based on three primary measurements, Chadwick has found. Those include a 54-centimeter cubit (versus the 52.5-centimeter Egyptian cubit), a 38-centimeter short cubit and a 22-centimeter span that corresponds to the distance across an adult’s outstretched hand.
Dimensions of masonry at these sites display various combinations of the three measurements, Chadwick said. At a settlement called et-Tell in northern Israel, for instance, two pillars at the front of the city gate are each 2.7 meters wide, or five 54-centimeter cubits. Each of four inner pillars at the city gate measure 2.38 meters wide, or four 54-centimeter cubits and a 22-centimeter span. Excavators of et-Tell regard it as the site of a biblical city called Bethsaida.
Chadwick’s 2019 excavations found one of presumably several gateways that allowed access to Gath through the city’s defensive walls. Like the inner pillars of et-Tell’s city gate, Gath’s gate walls measured 2.38 meters wide, or four cubits and a span, the same as Goliath’s biblical stature.
“The ancient writer used a real architectural metric from that time to describe Goliath’s height, likely to indicate that he was as big and strong as his city’s walls,” Chadwick said.
Although the research raises the possibility that Goliath’s recorded size referred to the width of a city wall, Chadwick “will need to do more research to move this beyond an intriguing idea,” says archaeologist and Old Testament scholar Gary Arbino of Gateway Seminary in Mill Valley, Calif. For one thing, Arbino suggests, it needs to be established that the measure applied to Goliath, four cubits and a span, was commonly used at the time as a phrase that figuratively meant “big and strong.”
China’s robotic Chang’e 5 will be the 1st sample-return from the moon since the 1970s. It launched successfully last week atop a Chinese Long March 5 rocket. Now it’s reported to have entered orbit around the moon.
Artist’s concept of Chang’e 5 entering lunar orbit. It’s China’s 1st moon-sample-return mission and the 1st for the world at large since 1976.
After a journey lasting 112 hours, the Chang’e 5 spacecraft is now reported by space engineers in China to have entered orbit around the moon. The robotic mission is the first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s. It launched last week (November 23, 2020) from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in China’s Hainan province, rising into the sky atop a Long March 5 rocket.The China Lunar Exploration Program said earlier today:
At 20:58 on November 28, the Chang’e-5 probe flew to the moon for about 112 hours and successfully ignited a 3000 N engine at a distance of 400 kilometers [248 miles] from the lunar surface. About 17 minutes later, the engine shut down normally. According to the monitoring and judgment of real-time telemetry data, the Chang’e-5 probe braked normally in recent months and entered the orbit around the moon smoothly.
If all goes according to plan, the new and ambitious Chang’e 5 will haul pristine moon samples back to Earth in mid-December, something that hasn’t been done since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.
The mission, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to collect lunar material to help scientists understand more about the moon’s origins and formation.
Although Chinese officials have been characteristically vague about Chang’e 5’s details, we know the short mission will be action-packed. The 18,100 pound (8,200 kg) spacecraft is expected to send two of its four modules – a lander and an ascent vehicle – to the lunar surface within the next day or two. The mission will land in the Mons Rumker area of the huge volcanic plain Oceanus Procellarum (translated from Latin to English as Ocean of Storms). Portions of this region on the moon have been explored by a number of other surface missions, including NASA’s Apollo 12 in 1969.
The stationary lander will study its environment with cameras, ground-penetrating radar, and a spectrometer, but its main job is to snag about 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of lunar material, some of which will be dug from up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) underground. This work will be done over the course of two weeks, or one lunar day. That is a firm deadline, given that the Chang’e 5 lander is solar-powered and won’t be able to operate once night falls at its location.
Mons Rumker harbors rocks that formed just 1.2 billion years ago. In contrast, the moon rocks brought home by the Apollo astronauts between 1969 and 1972 are considerably older. The Planetary Society, a nonprofit space advocacy program, explained:
The samples should be the youngest ever returned to Earth: just 1.2 billion years old, when multicellular life may have already evolved on our planet. Chang’e-5 will help scientists understand what was happening late in the moon’s history, as well as how Earth and the solar system evolved.
This image of Mons Rumker on the moon was captured by Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971. It is about 43 miles (70 km) wide and rises nearly a mile (1.6 km) above the surrounding area.
China is often said to have been late to the space race. It didn’t send its first satellite into orbit until 1970, by which time the U.S. had already landed astronauts on the moon. But China has caught up fast. Supported by billions of dollars in government investment, China has rapidly accelerated its space program over the past decade, firing space labs and satellites into orbit.
China launched the Chang’e 1 and Chang’e 2 orbiters in 2007 and 2010 respectively, and the Chang’e 3lander-rover duo that touched down on the moon’s near side in December 2013. Sadly, the Chang’e 3 rover died after 31 months of work on the lunar surface when the rover became unresponsive to calls from the ground, although not before surpassing its intended lifetime and setting a new record for the longest operating rover on the lunar surface. The Chang’e 3 rover, like all other rovers, was designed to move and explore the surface whereas its lander, which is still going strong, was built specifically to stay in place without roaming around. And in January 2019, Chang’e 4 became the first mission ever to ace a soft landing on the moon’s mysterious far side. Chang’e 4 is still currently in operation.
Chang’e 5 is part of a recent surge in sample-return missions. On December 6, 2020, for example, pieces of the asteroid Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission are scheduled to touch down in Australia. More recently, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe snagged a hefty sample of the asteroid Bennu; that material will come down to Earth in September 2023, if all goes according to plan.
Speaking to astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft through a video call in 2013, Chinese president Xi Jinping said:
The space dream is part of the dream to make China stronger. The Chinese people will take bigger strides to explore further into space.
Last year, China also became the first country to send an unmanned rover to the far side of the moon. And in July this year, China launched its first unmanned mission to Mars: the Tianwen-1 probe, which will orbit the planet before landing a rover on the surface; it’s expected to reach the red planet next February. If Tianwen-1 is successful, Beijing has plans to eventually send a manned mission to Mars. Plans are also underway to launch a permanent space station by 2022, and send astronauts to the moon by the 2030s.
If successful, China would become only the second country, after the U.S., to put a citizen on the moon.
Bottom line: China’s robotic Chang’e 5 mission launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center of China’s Hainan province, rising into the sky atop a Long March 5 rocket at about 3:30 p.m. EST (20:30 UTC) on November 23, 2020. If all goes according to plan, the new and ambitious Chang’e 5 will haul pristine moon samples back to Earth in mid-December, a feat not accomplished since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.
Plusieurs témoins enregistrent un gigantesque OVNI au-dessus de Stonehenge
Plusieurs témoins enregistrent un gigantesque OVNI au-dessus de Stonehenge
Beaucoup se demandent comment le Stonehenge préhistorique, au Royaume-Uni, a été construit sans connaissances techniques avancées ni outils sophistiqués. Cette question même a intrigué les historiens et les archéologues pendant des siècles. Stonehenge a pris près de 1500 ans à construire et aurait été érigé entre 3000 et 2000 avant JC. C. La construction de Stonehenge se compose de dalles de grès sarsen extraites des carrières locales de Salisbury, tandis que d’autres roches de pierre bleue plus petites se trouvent à plus de 300 kilomètres du site.Comment ces peuples néolithiques ont-ils pu transporter des roches de 4 tonnes? rock à une si grande distance?
Puisqu’il n’y a pas de réponse définitive à la façon dont Stonehenge a été conçu par ces peuples néolithiques, des experts tels que l’auteur suisse Erich von Däniken affirment que Stonehenge Il a été construit par des êtres extraterrestres possédant une connaissance supérieure de la science et de l’ingénierie qui sont venus sur Terre il y a des milliers d’années, partageant leur expérience avec les premières civilisations néolithiques. Däniken a suggéré que la création de Stonehenge à la période néolithique était un modèle de notre système solaire, servant de calendrier solaire et lunaire. Et on dit également que l’emplacement énigmatique sert d’identifiant que la planète est habitée avec une vie avancée pour les civilisations extraterrestres. Nous ne savons pas si c’est vraiment l’explication de la construction de Stonehenge, mais la vérité est que pendant des décennies, il y a eu d’innombrables observations d’OVNI sur le site, comme celle qui s’est produite récemment.
Objet mystérieux près de Stonehenge
Alors que le monde entier se demande ce qu’est le mystérieux monolithe de métal trouvé dans l’Utah, maintenant une mystérieuse vidéo montrant un OVNI volant vers Stonehenge est devenue virale sur Internet . La vidéo aurait été enregistrée par un homme nommé Tash Minto et son partenaire Tony Waterhouse alors qu’ils conduisaient sur la route A303 à l’extérieur de Mere, dans le Wiltshire, le 31 octobre 2020.
L’OVNI était un disque circulaire plat avec une lumière blanche très intense, et Tash n’a pas réfléchi à deux fois, il a sorti son téléphone et a enregistré l’observation surprenante. Les deux témoins oculaires ont également révélé que le mystérieux objet volant non identifié se dirigeait vers Stonehenge. Tash a expliqué que l’OVNI a simplement disparu de la vue sans laisser aucune trace de sa présence.
« Il est sorti de nulle part et a disparu tout aussi rapidement« , a déclaré Waterhouse au quotidien britannique Daily Star .
Minto, un spécialiste du marketing, et Waterhouse ont désespérément cherché une explication logique et rationnelle à l’observation énigmatique, avec des théories allant des drones, à une blague et même à la lune. Mais ils n’ont pas exclu qu’il soit d’origine extraterrestre.
« Tony n’arrêtait pas de mentionner que c’était comme les X-Files et je lui ai dit d’arrêter parce que cela ne semblait pas naturel, » expliqua Minto. «Je suis un grand admirateur de la nature et cela ne semblait pas venir de quoi que ce soit comme le soleil ou la lune, c’était comme si c’était quelque chose d’artificiel. Tony a dit qu’ils étaient définitivement de petits hommes verts. Personnellement, je pense que s’ils sont là-bas, ils ne seront pas très petits. Je pense que ce seront des géants. «
Alors que la vidéo de l’objet mystérieux de Stonehenge est devenue virale sur les réseaux sociaux, de nombreux internautes ont affirmé que cette observation était une preuve supplémentaire de l’existence extraterrestre sur notre planète et de la façon dont ceux-ci utilisent des monuments anciens pour se déplacer dans les mondes. Même d’autres utilisateurs ont déclaré que leur présence sur Terre était pour une raison très différente. Le 12 novembre, le gouvernement britannique a autorisé la construction d’un tunnel routier controversé sous Stonehenge.
Le secrétaire aux transports a rejeté la recommandation des inspecteurs de la planification et a approuvé une ordonnance d’autorisation de développement qui permettra à l’autoroute A303 de devenir un tunnel à deux voies sous le monument historique.
Les druides, les militants écologistes et les archéologues ont accueilli la décision avec consternation. Il y avait des avertissements que des races extraterrestres voyageraient de partout dans l’univers pour protester contre le projet . Et il semble que cela ait été le cas, puisque cette nouvelle observation pourrait démontrer à quel point les extraterrestres sont contre le fait de toucher leur précieux portail.
Que pensez-vous de l’observation de Stonehenge? Est-ce d’origine extraterrestre? Ou avez-vous une autre explication?
Article traduit par Damien pour preuves du paranormal
The number of Egyptian coffins unearthed in Saqqara keeps rising. The first article I wrote on the discovery was back in September when I reported that at least 13 coffins dating back about 2,500 years ago had been discovered. What was so fascinating about these coffins was that they remained completely sealed and untouched since their burials. (The article can be readhere.)
Then in October, I provided an update that more than 80 coffins had been unearthed in addition to 28 statuettes, several ushabti figurines and numerous amulets. Other breaking news was that on October 3rd, archaeologists opened one of the coffins that revealed a mummy that was wrapped up in ornate burial linen with colorful designs and inscriptions. (That article can be read here.)
And now there is more news as the number of coffins found has jumped up to 160. And that’s not all as some of the tombs have curses written on the walls. In an email to Business Insider, Salima Ikram, who is an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, explained that the curses were to scare off possible trespassers and grave robbers. “They generally state that if the tomb is entered by an impure person (probably in body and/or intention), then may the council of the gods punish the trespasser, and wring his or her neck like that of a goose,” she stated.
(Not the mummies mentioned in this article.)
One example was in the tomb of the vizier Ankhmahor who was a pharaoh’s official from more than 4,000 years ago during Egypt’s 6th dynasty. In a rough translation, the curse was written so that if a trespasser “might do against this, my tomb, the same shall be done to your property”. Additionally, there is a warning that the vizier knew magic and secret spells that could cause “impure” trespassers to be filled with a “fear of seeing ghosts”.
In a new Netflix documentary “Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb”, Ikram said that the tombs were like afterlife houses for the deceased and if anyone were to disrupt those places they would be punished in a horrible way – perhaps even death if anyone was to disrupt a royal tomb.
While the punishments for disrupting a noble’s tomb normally included beatings and perhaps their nose being removed, the curse written on Ankhmahor’s tomb was much less violent. In fact, the writings indicated that he would protect the trespasser in the court of Osiris who was believed to have judged the deceased individuals prior to passing over into the afterlife.
(Not the mummies mentioned in this article.)
Ikram went on to say that similar curses were found in other tombs across Egypt “with the majority being recorded from the Old Kingdom (between 2575 and 2150 BC)”. And for those who are scared of the curses, she stated that “If people wear gloves and masks, it should be fine”. After everything the world has gone through in 2020, I think I would definitely take a curse very seriously.
Pictures of some of the coffins and from inside the burial chambers can be seen here.
A Egyptian man points at hieroglyphs in the mastaba tomb of Seshem Nefer Theti at the Giza Pyramid complex.
Oliver Weiken/picture alliance via Getty
Inside one Saqqara tomb, where archaeologists discovered sarcophagi belonging to priests buried 2,500 years ago.
Inside a Saqqara burial chamber, October 3, 2020.
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Newly discovered colored coffins from Saqqara on display on October 3, 2020.
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An Egyptian archaeologist studies a coffin from Saqqara.
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Mysterious monolith found in remote Utah desert vanishes as mysteriously as it appeared, to be replaced by shiny triangle (so did the aliens beam it up?)
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Mysterious monolith that was found in the remote Utah desert has been removed
The shiny pillar protruded approximately 12 feet from the red rocks in the desert
The three-sided structure was removed by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening
A mysterious monolith that was found in the remote Utah desert has been removed by an 'unknown party' after its sudden arrival sparked theories it was left by aliens.
The shiny triangular pillar, which protruded approximately 12 feet from the red rocks in southern Utah, was spotted last Wednesday by baffled local officials counting bighorn sheep from the air.
However the three-sided structure was removed by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening, the Bureau of Land Management Utah said in a statement.
A mysterious monolith that was found in the remote Utah desert has been removed by an 'unknown party', according to officials
Tourists have headed to the site following the news of its removal and revealed how the triangular top has been left at the site alongside rocks piled in a stack.
However the BLM said it had not removed the structure 'which is considered private property' and would not be investigating because 'crimes involving private property' are managed by the local sheriff's office.
The BLM said in a Facebook post on Saturday: 'We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith' has been removed from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands by an unknown party.
'The BLM did not remove the structure which is considered private property. We do not investigate crimes involving private property which are handled by the local sheriff's office.
However the three-sided structure was removed (pictured) by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening, the Bureau of Land Management Utah said in a statement
The shiny, triangular pillar, which protruded approximately 12 feet from the red rocks of southern Utah, was spotted last Wednesday by baffled local officials counting bighorn sheep from the air
Utah Department of Public Safety said on Monday that crew members found 'a metal monolith installed in the ground' but 'no obvious indication of who might have put the monolith there.'
'It is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from,' warned the agency in a tongue-in-cheek press release Monday.
A tourist stands with the triangular top of the monolith and posted their finding to Instagram
A man holds the triangular top that has been left of the monolith which remains in the desert
News of the discovery quickly went viral online, with many noting the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths that trigger huge leaps in human progress in Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
Meanwhile arguments broke out among residents in the U.S. South-West State after tourists were accused of trashing the location, which authorities had tried to keep secret to avoid people getting lost.
But many tracked down the co-ordinates and published them - leading people to drive many hours through the night to reach the 12ft aluminium structure.
One explorer crouches beside the triangular top which has been left next to a stack of rocks
And it was revealed that a similar version appeared nearly 20 years ago on New Years Day in Seattle.
However access to the site involved a 45-minute off-road drive on a dirt track many miles from any major town at 10mph - and then a 15-minute hike up a dry stream bed.
Across the globe UFO spotters and conspiracy theorists became obsessed with the shiny, triangular pillar.
A stack of rocks has been left next to the triangular top of the monolith which has been removed by an 'unknown party'
The BLM said in a Facebook post on Saturday: 'We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith' has been removed from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands by an unknown party'
Utah: The smooth, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah on November 18
A Reddit user said they had managed to geo-locate the obelisk using surrounding rock formations.
Sharing the Google Earth location - where a small structure can be seen, roughly six miles from the nearest road - the user said the structure was first photographed by Google in 2016.
Some satellite images of the monolith date back to a year earlier in 2015.
Several adventurous hikers successfully located the monolith on Tuesday and gleefully climbed the mystifying object and snapped photos with it, even though officials didn't disclose its exact location for fear people would get lost searching for it.
Though the structure was only discovered by authorities this month, Google Earth images show it had been standing since at least 2015 or 2016.
Lieutenant Nick Street, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said it's possible the structure had been there for '40, 50 years, maybe more.'
Officials suggest it could be have been constructed by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey - the structure resembles the machines found in Arthur C. Clarke's story (pictured)
'It's the type of material that doesn't degrade with the elements. It may only be a few years old, who knows. There's no real way based on the material it's made out of how long it's actually been there,' he said on Tuesday.
Some pointed out the object's resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken, an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico, and died in 2011.
McCracken was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs.
Some observers also pointed out the object's resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken (left) an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico, and died in 2011. He was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs (right)
The monolith most closely resembles McCracken's plank-like sculptures featured at his exhibit at the David Zwirner art gallery in New York.
On Tuesday a spokeswoman for David Zwirner said it was not one of McCracken's works, but possibly by a fellow artist paying homage.
However later in the day Zwirner gave another statement which suggested the piece was indeed by McCracken, meaning it had lain undiscovered in the desert for nearly a decade.
The monolith was located inside a red rock cove but workers have withheld details about its exact location to prevent others from endangering themselves trying to get a closer look
'The gallery is divided on this,' Zwirner said. 'I believe this is definitely by John.'
They added: 'Who would have known that 2020 had yet another surprise for us. Just when we thought we had seen it all. Let's go see it.'
Explorer David Surber visited the monolith last week and posted the co-ordinates to Instagram and revealed that it was located near Lockhart Basin Road, near Moab.
He has since posted about its disappearance to his Instagram Story on Saturday night: 'Apparently the monolith is gone.
'Nature returned back to her natural state I suppose. Something positive for people to rally behind in 2020.'
On social media, others remarked on its discovery during a turbulent year that has seen the world gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic, and optimistically speculated it could have a different function entirely.
Utah: Officials have refused to disclose the metal obelisk's location out of fear that curious sightseers would flock to the remote wilderness, but internet sleuths managed to pinpoint its position nonetheless. Google Earth images show it has been there since 2016 or 2015
'This is the 'reset' button for 2020. Can someone please press it quickly?' joked one Instagram user.
'Up close it reads: "Covid vaccine inside"' wrote another.
Bret Hutchings, the pilot who happened to fly over the obelisk, speculated that it had been planted by 'some new wave artist.'
Either way, Hutchings admitted it was 'about the strangest thing I've come across out there, in all my years of flying.'
'We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it,' he told local news channel KSLTV.
A view of the mystery monolith in Magnuson Park in Seattle pictured on January 2, 2001
Utah has a history of 'land art,' unusual installations that cropped up far from population centers in the 1960s and '70s.
The most famous, Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot-long coil by artist Robert Smithson in 1970 that's composed entirely of mud, salt crystals and basalt.
Located on the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point, the jetty appears and disappears depending on water levels.
So far, no one has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the monolith, though.
Colter Hoyt, from Boulder Town, Utah, drove nine hours to visit the monolith in the desert
Colter posed in a collection of fancy dress outfits in the desert including a silver skin-tight suit
The three-sided structure was removed by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening and left a stack of rocks in the place where it once stood
The appearance of the monolith (pictured) has not disturbed the bighorn sheep that live in the southern half of Utah
And it hasn't disturbed the bighorn sheep that live in the southern half of Utah. Their population was once down to under a thousand in the 1970s, but conservation efforts have seen them make a big comeback in recent decades.
Colter Hoyt, from Boulder Town, Utah, drove nine hours to visit it before posing in a collection of fancy dress outfits for a series of selfies and pictures which he posted to Facebook on Saturday.
He captioned the pictures: 'The Obelisk! I know it will be photographed heavily in the near future until its demise, but I don’t think too many people will do it quite as much justice as me.
'(I took a lot more pictures in a variety of outfits and places nearby, these are just a few. Was so fun!)'
Colter captioned the pictures: 'The Obelisk! I know it will be photographed heavily in the near future until its demise but I don’t think too many people will do it quite as much justice as me'
Colter posed on stilts next to the monolith before it was removed (left) and also re-enacted scenes next to the monolith (right)
Colter appeared in a silver skin-tight suit with an aluminium mask before appearing on stilts in the pictures.
However some users were concerned about people descending on the site.
Martin Hudson commented on the Facebook pos: 'I hope this doesn't start a fad...people going out in the desert and trashing it out.'
Colter dressed in a silver suit alongside the monolith and appeared on stilts for the pictures he later posted to Facebook
Social media users were quick to note the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey'
But Colter hit back in defence: 'Accessing it won't damage the desert any worse than is already happening.
'But I hear you. Let's pray for the best. This isn't as bad as carving your name on one of the arches. And it certainly is a fantastic piece of graffiti.'
However many people praised Colter for making them laugh.
Olga Sacasa wrote: 'Priceless! Did you do some in an ape suit with a club in your hand throwing it up in the air; an homage to 2001 Space Odyssey. What are those stilts you are wearing in one of the pictures? Love the costumes!'
Colter hit back to comments on Facebook in defence of visiting the monolith adding: 'Accessing it won't damage the desert any worse than is already happening'
Colter appeared in a silver skin-tight suit with an aluminium mask before appearing on stilts in the pictures
Aliens or avant-garde art installation? Theories surrounding the mystery of the Utah desert monolith
ALIEN INVASION
Social media users were quick to note the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
In the film, the monolith was a tool created by an alien race that trigger huge leaps in human progress.
LATE ARTIST'S SECRET INSTALLATION
The structure has also drawn comparisons to the work of minimalist artist John McCracken.
McCracken, who died in 2011, was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs.
The monolith closely resembles McCracken's pieces, leading some to speculate this could be one of his own works of art.
Adding to the theory is that McCracken had lived and worked in nearby New Mexico and California.
A spokeswoman for his representative David Zwirner said it was not one of McCracken's works.
Zwirner later gave another statement in which he suggested the piece was indeed by McCracken.
'The gallery is divided on this,' Zwirner said. 'I believe this is definitely by John.'
NEW WAVE ARTIST OR SCI-FI FAN
Many have speculated the structure could just be the work of a new wave artist or sci-fi fan.
Pilot Bret Hutchings, who discovered the monolith, suggested it was placed by 'a big 2001: A Space Odyssey' fan.'
A David Zwirner rep said it was possibly by a fellow artist paying homage to McCracken.
The legendary Utah monolith has vanished, disappeared, left, gone home. Visitors to the site said it was there on Friday, but on Saturday it was gone. All signs of it were gone. In its place were a few rocks in a tiny pile. No metal fragments were visible and no metalic pieces or hole were visible in the photos. What happened to the monolith only time will tell. Perhaps an art collector offered a bounty on the item and had to brought to him. Or perhaps it was an alien probe and it just went home.
Missing 411 - Two physical therapists disappear in Alaska just days apart!
Missing 411 - Two physical therapists disappear in Alaska just days apart!
David Paulides goes into the Missing 411 files and presents the case of two missing physical therapists from Juneau, Alaska. He then presents the case of a missing PT from Pennsylvania, all within a very short time frame.
For those who don't know who David Paulides is, well he is a former police detective who is now an investigator and writer known primarily for his self-published books, one dedicated to proving the reality of Bigfoot, and his Missing 411 series of books, in which he documents the mysterious disappearance of people in national parks and elsewhere.
2 shooting UFO lights while tracking planes after a CE5 session, Comstock Park, MI
2 shooting UFO lights while tracking planes after a CE5 session, Comstock Park, MI
This strange activity was filmed over Comstock Park, Michigan on 7th August 2020.
Witness report:
Caught 2 shooting lights in each video while tracking planes after a CE5 session. We didn’t see these lights at the time of the recording. It was our second week trying out CE5 so we were learning how to track planes and such. I’ve looked back on several videos, many times, and these were new discoveries as of last week. First video, you’ll see 2 lights head upward to the left of the airplanes that we are talking about on camera. Second video, you’ll see 2 lights on either side of the tower both shooting in opposite directions as the plane goes by. 🙂
A total of 43 ancient mythological mask carvings have been found by archaeologists in Turkey’s ancient city of Stratonikeia that’s located in the Yatağan district of the southwestern province of Muğla. These 2,200-year-old carvings have been unearthed over the past two years with 33 of them already repaired and cleaned in preparation for the public to eventually view them.
In fact, many items from several different time periods have been unearthed at the 3,000-year-old ancient city that is now a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. The excavation team, which is led by professor Bilal Söğüt of Pamukkale University, have already uncovered artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Anatolian beyliks, Ottoman, and Republican periods.
(Not any of the mask carvings mentioned in this article.)
The excavation team has been working on several different structures in the city that includes a 2,200-year-old ancient theater where the mask carvings have been discovered. “We have been working at the ancient theater for two years. We found 33 face molds during our excavations here. Today, we unearthed 10 more. Hopefully, we will be able to find all the masks at the theater in their own places and arrange them in their original order. That will be very pleasant for us,” Söğüt stated.
He went on to describe how in ancient times, the masks would have been all around the theater’s stage. “When people came here in ancient times, they were impressed by the splendor and magnificence of the theater even before entering it. We have been slowly uncovering its richness and splendor. This [is] also the value ancient people gave to culture, art and architecture,” he explained.
He added that in addition to the characters depicted in the plays, the masks also represented ancient gods/goddesses and even animals. Pictures of the mask carvings can be seen here.
An archaeologist works on a face mask in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, Muğla, southwestern Turkey, Nov. 24, 2020.
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Two masks in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, Muğla, southwestern Turkey, Nov. 24, 2020.
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An aerial view from the 2,200-year-old theater in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, Muğla, southwestern Turkey, Nov. 24, 2020.
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(Not any of the mask carvings mentioned in this article.)
While these masks were carved in stones, it wasn’t the only interesting mask discovery in western Turkey this year. A couple of months ago I wrote an article on a 2,400-year-old Terracotta mask depicting the Greek god Dionysus that was unearthed in the ancient city of Daskyleion that’s located in the Bandirma district of the Balikesir province. According to the archaeologist who led the excavation team, it was “possibly a votive mask” which means that it could have been used to express a wish or vow. (The article can be read in full here.)
There have certainly been some interesting discoveries unearthed in Turkey this year with possibly more to come.
Scariest UFO Documentary Ever! Astounding Compilation Of The Leading Experts On UFO's, The Illuminati, Freemasons, And The New World Order! Awesome Video!
Scariest UFO Documentary Ever! Astounding Compilation Of The Leading Experts On UFO's, The Illuminati, Freemasons, And The New World Order! Awesome Video!
Scariest UFO Documentary Ever! – Conspiritus Remake by Xendrius – Proper / Full Version
Featuring Ted Gunderson, Fritz Springmeier, Cathy O’Brien, Chuck Missler, Bill Cooper, John Todd, Aaron Russo, John Wheeler, Jacque Vallee, and more.
All aliens are demons or fallen angles or elohim or bene ha’elohim. All these evil entities can take human form and are walking among us today. Most of the rulers of the world today are elohim or bene ha’elohim or fallen watchers (fallen angels). There is a firmament over us so no entities can leave or come to earth. Cern is trying to break the veil in order to bring the giants in from the middle of the earth which is in another dimension. The Fallen Watchers along with the elohim and bene ha’elohim have been trying to break the firmament in order to escape earth as they do not want to be punished by Messiah Jesus when He returns to extinguish all evil.
Fellow Spiritual Warriors: This is an absolute MUST WATCH! I’ve been kicking around the planet long enough to know that much of what this amazing compilation contains is sickeningly ACCURATE. . . Xendrius has an amazingly strong Spirit and stomach to have been able to create this astounding historical overview that seamlessly blends together such seemingly disparate elements. CONSPIRITUS remade should be dessimated throughout the Multiverse as far as I’m concerned.
Missing 411 in Alaska! Two Physical Therapists Disappear From the Same Alaska City Just Days Apart
Missing 411 in Alaska! Two Physical Therapists Disappear From the Same Alaska City Just Days Apart
Missing 411 in Alaska! Two Physical Therapists Disappear From the Same Alaska City Just Days Apart
David Paulides goes into the Missing 411 files and presents the case of two missing physical therapists from Juneau, Alaska. He then presents the case of a missing PT from Pennsylvania, all within a very short time frame.
Mysterious Object Near Space Station On Live Cam, Nov 28, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Object Near Space Station On Live Cam, Nov 28, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 28, 2020
Location of sighting: Space Station
Source: Live NASA Cam
I was watching the live cam when I noticed this strange object being passed by the space station. The object is traveling the same direction as the space station, but its speed is half that of the station. The object is oval in shape and appears to have a white painted surface much like that of the space station itself. This is what makes me wonder about its true origins. The color which closely resembles that of the station, makes me thing its some stop secret USAF/NASA project that is in earth orbit and spying on foreign counties worldwide. Today, information is power and the more information, the more power a country has. How can we trust our neighboring countries when America itself is busy spying on everyone?
Over the past week, several satellites have captured massive objects such as a glowing triangle, a rectangular anomaly, as well as a winged UFO that seemingly passed the sun.
The objects are just camera errors or... maybe they are in fact huge alien craft passing the sun?
Utah Officials Counting Bighorn Sheep from the Air Find Mysterious Structure in the Southern Part of the State + Update: Romania
Utah Officials Counting Bighorn Sheep from the Air Find Mysterious Structure in the Southern Part of the State + Update: Romania
The discovery of a mysterious metal obelisk in the remote western United States desert has fired up the imaginations of conspiracy theorists, UFO enthusiasts, and fans of film director Stanley Kubrick worldwide.
The triangular pillar, which shines and protrudes around 3.6 metres (12 feet) from the red rocks south of Utah, was spotted by baffled local officials from the air while counting bighorn sheep.
Utah Department of Public Safety crew members landed to investigate and spotted a metal monolith installed in the ground. However, no clear indication of who might have installed the monolith there.
In a press release, the agency warned that it’s not legal to install structures or even art without authorisation on federally handled public lands, no matter where you come from.
News of the discovery quickly made the rounds online and even picked up by mainstream media in different parts of the world. Several online comments noting the object’s similarity with mysterious alien monoliths that spark giant leaps in human progress in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic science fiction film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. The film depicts an alien monolith as a recurring symbol that appears to play a significant role in man’s evolution from the apes.
The Utah object’s origin is still unknown, and officials are refusing to disclose the strange object’s specific location out of fear that hordes of curious people would flock to the remote wilderness. However, many are trying to geo-locate the obelisk using surrounding rock formations.
Pilot Bret Hutchings, who happened to fly over the obelisk, admitted it was the strangest thing he has come across out there in all his years of flying.
Update, posted by peter2011
Utah monolith: The mysterious silver monolith in the desert has disappeared
By Alanne Orjoux and Melissa Alonso, CNN
A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah -- which prompted theories of alien placement and drew determined hikers to its secret location -- has now disappeared, the state's Bureau of Land Management said Saturday
The monolith was removed by an "unknown party" sometime Friday night, the agency said in a Facebook post.
"We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith,' has been removed" from BLM public lands, the post said.
"The BLM did not remove the structure, which is considered private property."
'We've got to go look at it!'
The monolith was first discovered November 18 by officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety's Aero Bureau.
They were flying by helicopter, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"One of the biologists ... spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. "He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'What.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there -- we've got to go look at it!'"
And there it was -- in the middle of the red rock was a shiny, silver metal monolith sticking out of the ground. Hutchings guessed it was "between 10 and 12 feet high." It didn't look like it was randomly dropped to the ground, he told KSL, but rather it looked like it had been planted.
"I'm assuming it's some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big ("2001: A Space Odyssey") fan," he said, referencing a scene in the 1968 film where a black monolith appears.
Still, it is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on public lands "no matter what planet you're from," said Utah DPS in a statement released Monday.
Where is it?
The location of the monolith was not disclosed because authorities said they didn't want curiosity seekers to become stranded in the remote landscape and need to be rescued.
The trek involved driving in the darkness over rocky terrain and verifying GPS coordinates, according to three people who went to see it. At least one explorer got lost at first. But the trip was worth it, they said, even if the monolith wasn't the work of aliens.
David Surber may have been among the very first to view the monolith in person. The coordinates to the monolith were circulating on Reddit, but none of the users could confirm they were correct. Surber volunteered to find out.
The coordinates were indeed correct, and Surber eagerly shared the results of his visit with 200 Reddit users who'd flooded his inbox. Among his findings: The monolith wasn't magnetic or solid (he said it sounded "like a cardboard box" when he knocked on it). He also shared step-by-step instructions for the drive out to the monolith.
"At the end of the day, extraterrestrial or made through artistic expression; the monolith provided an opportunity for thousands of people to rally behind something positive again," he told CNN in an email. "It was a good escape from all the negativity we've experienced in 2020."
A mysterious object discovered in September has now become a new mini-moon for Earth. It appears to be a lost-and-found 60s-era rocket from the Surveyor 2 moon mission, launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
View larger. | This animation shows the orbit of 2020 SO that was captured by Earth’s gravity on November 8, 2020. It will escape in March 2021. Its motion has been speeded up a million times faster than real time.
On September 17, 2020, astronomers spotted an object on approach to Earth. They assigned it an asteroid label: 2020 SO. Orbit models quickly showed, however, that both the low speed and trajectory of the approaching object were unusual. The models also showed that Earth would capture this object – temporarily – as a new mini-moon. And, on November 8, Earth did capture this object. Now, following a 3-month analysis of its motion, NASA has confirmed the object is likely no natural object at all. Instead, it appears to be a relic of the early Space Age, a Centaur upper-stage rocket booster, once called America’s workhorse in space. This particular rocket might be the one that launched the ill-fated Surveyor 2 spacecraft toward the moon in 1966.
The lost rocket, if that’s what it is, is expected to remain a captive of Earth from October 2020 until March 2021.
It appears to have been pushed from its original trajectory by a small but continuous pressure from sunlight.
It won’t be the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon. But it’s an awesome story of a lost-and-found rocket, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
By the way, 2020 SO will come extremely close to Earth – about 30,000 miles (50,000 km or 0.13 of the average lunar distance) on December 1. Virtual Telescope will be showing this intriguing object live a few hours before its flyby: the live feed is scheduled for November 30, starting at 5 p.m. EST (22:00 UTC). Translate UTC to your time and see the poster below for more information.
Astronomers first sighted the object in September using the 71-inch (1.8-meter) Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Haleakala, Hawaii. They gave it its designation – 2020 SO – and added it as an Apollo-type asteroid in the JPL Small-Body Database.
However, 2020 SO was quickly seen to have some features that set it apart from ordinary asteroids. According to NASA/JPL calculations, the object sped past Earth’s moon at a speed of 1,880 miles per hour (3,025 km/h) or 0.84 km per second (.5 mi/sec). That is an extremely slow speed for an asteroid.
These calculations also show the apparent “slow asteroid” orbiting the sun every 1.06 years (387 days). The low relative velocity, along with the Earth-like orbit, both suggest it as an artificial object launched from our planet.
On December 1, 2020, the object labeled 2020 SO will come extremely close – about 30,000 miles (50,000 km or 0.13 of the average lunar distance). Virtual Telescope will be showing this intriguing object live a few hours before its flyby: the live feed is scheduled for November 30, 2020, starting at 5 p.m. EST (22:00 UTC; translate UTC to your time).
Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, first suggested the object might be the rocket booster of Surveyor 2, a robotic spacecraft that was launched to the moon on September 20, 1966. Surveyor 2 was meant to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the moon. The spacecraft blasted into space atop an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
A mid-course correction failure caused space controllers to lose contact with the craft three days later, after a thruster failed to ignite. The failure caused the spacecraft to tumble and ultimately to crash near the moon’s Copernicus crater.
View larger. | A model of the ill-fated Surveyor lander, which crashed on the moon in 1966.
Speed ahead to our time and the strange object designed 2020 SO. The object has an estimated size between 20 and 45 feet (6 to 14 meters), a not-unreasonable match for the dimensions of an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D (approximately 41 feet or 12 meters).
How could we have lost an entire 41-foot-long rocket? Space archaeologist Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Australia told ScienceAlert that – before our modern era of reuseable rockets – the rockets that launched craft into space were surprisingly easy to lose. She said:
There are so many factors in the space environment, like gravitational factors and other things that affect movement, that it can sometimes be quite unpredictable.
You have to keep tracking these things, or you can just sort of lose sight of them really easily. And if they do something a little bit unpredictable, and you look the wrong way, then you don’t know where it’s gone. It is quite astonishing, the number of things that have gone missing.
NASA explained that pressure from the sun’s radiation caused the object to change its trajectory:
The pressure exerted by sunlight is small but continuous, and it has a greater effect on a hollow object than a solid one. A spent rocket is essentially an empty tube and therefore is a low-density object with a large surface area. So it will be pushed around by solar radiation pressure more than a solid, high-density clump of rock, much like an empty soda can will be pushed by the wind more than a small stone.
View larger. | This 1964 photograph shows a Centaur upper-stage rocket before being mated to an Atlas booster. A similar Centaur was used during the launch of Surveyor 2 two years later and could now be the object known as 2020 SO … a new temporary mini-moon for Earth.
This isn’t the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon.
As you might have realized by now, space is chock full of small asteroids. Once in a while, one of these space rocks is captured, temporarily, by our planet’s gravity before being cast out back into the solar system at large. Two confirmed mini-moons are 2006 RH120 (in Earth orbit between 2006 and 2007), and 2020 CD3 (in our orbit between 2018 and 2020).
It’s also not the first time we’ve mistaken space junk for an asteroid.
Another small object that was initially thought to be an asteroid was WT1190F, detected in October 2015 on approach to Earth. Its trajectory suggested it was about to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere near Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, an event that happens with ordinary asteroids several times every year.
As WT1190F was disintegrating in our atmosphere on November 13, 2015, scientists analyzed its light via spectroscopy.
This analysis suggested the object might be a spacecraft component or part of a spent rocket, another wandering piece of space junk, returning home.
2020 SO isn’t the first thought to be an asteroid, and later realized to be human-made space junk. Here’s an object tagged as WT1190F entering Earth’s atmosphere south of Sri Lanka on November 13, 2015.
So is 2020 SO an ordinary asteroid? Or is it an old earthly rocket returning home? We don’t know yet, but we expect to find out. NASA explained:
Before it leaves, 2020 SO will make two large loops around our planet, with its closest approach on December 1.
During this period, astronomers will get a closer look and study its composition using spectroscopy to confirm if 2020 SO is indeed an artifact from the early Space Age.
Strange space object 2020 SO was discovered on September 17, 2020, on approach to Earth. On November 8, it slowly drifted into Earth’s sphere of gravitational dominance, a region called the Hill sphere that extends roughly 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from our planet. That’s where 2020 SO will remain for about 4 months before it escapes back into a new orbit around the sun in March 2021. During that time, it will make 2 large loops around our planet. In this image, Earth is the blue dot in the center. The moon’s orbit is the white circle.
Bottom line: A newly discovered “asteroid” might become a new mini-moon for Earth. This object is designated 2020 SO and was entered in JPL’s Small-Body Database. But it might be no ordinary asteroid. It might be a lost rocket from the Surveyor 2 mission, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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