Reuben Wu uses LED-equipped drones to illuminate mysterious shapes in one of the world’s strangest landscapes.

REUBEN WU HAS photographed some of the world’s most remote and extreme places: Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico, the Arctic tundra of Norway, Peru’s Pastoruri glacier. But few locations compare to the site of his latest project, Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni. Stretching across more than 4,000 square miles of South America’s Altiplano (high plain), Salar de Uyuni (literally, the salts of Uyuni, the nearest town) is the world’s largest salt flat, a nearly featureless white landscape left behind by the evaporation of prehistoric lakes.

Shooting the salt flats was the culmination of a week-long Bolivian road trip Wu and two companions took last July. Between the freezing nighttime temperatures, high altitudes (the Altiplano averages 12,000 feet above sea level), and long drives, the team got little sleep. “We were cold, we were light-headed, and doing anything physical was very hard,” Wu recalls. “There were times when I really struggled.”

But the hardships paid off when the crew finally reached the salt flats. Because it was the dry season, most of the Salar de Uyuni looked like a geometrically patterned moonscape. Still, Wu was lucky enough to find a standing puddle large enough to capture the rainy-season mirror effect, too. In addition to more traditional landscape photography, Wu created several of his signature aeroglyphs—glowing geometric shapes that float mysteriously in the sky. Wu draws the aeroglyphs by piloting LED-equipped drones in precise patterns while keeping his shutter open to create a long exposure.

Over the course of the road trip Wu documented a variety of Bolivian landscapes ranging from sandy deserts to rocky palisades, but the Salar de Uyuni emerged as the highlight. “If it were in the US, it would be swarming with tourists,” he says. “Instead, we had the whole thing to ourselves except for the occasional farmer and a cow.” The salt flats are rich in deposits of lithium, a key element in smartphone and electric car batteries, but lithium mining operations are still in their infancy thanks to the region’s inaccessibility and the reluctance of recently ousted president Evo Morales to greenlight foreign investment.

Throughout the trip, Wu used a Phase One XT, a compact medium-format digital camera that allowed him to take ultrahigh-resolution images on the go. Back in his studio, he used software to tinker with the images until arriving at the final product. Wu thinks of photography as “painting with light” and doesn’t fetishize authenticity. “For me, everything’s a tool,” he says. “The camera’s a tool, the computer’s a tool. Just so long as the technology and the tools don’t overwhelm the vision.”

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31-01-2021 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

The best UFO videos | January 2021

January was an amazing month for the UFO sightings! We really had a lot of them, so let’s check the best of them…

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31-01-2021 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

Fusion reactors are now contemplated as the heat source that could bring rocket propellant to extremely high temperature (and hence high-velocity exhaust) or expel ultra-hot plasma to provide thrust.

Credit: ITER

I’m not a rocket scientist and I didn’t go to Princeton, but I’m interested in going to Mars if the trip was a lot shorter. That’s why the news of a Princeton physicist developing an engine based on the same principle as solar flares (which travel at the speed of light) that would shorten a trip to Mars by at least an order of magnitude, I was interested – even if I wasn’t able to understand how it worked. Fortunately, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist Fatima Ebrahimi is also good at putting things in simple terms.

“I’ve been cooking this concept for a while. I had the idea in 2017 while sitting on a deck and thinking about the similarities between a car’s exhaust and the high-velocity exhaust particles created by PPPL’s National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). During its operation, this tokamak produces magnetic bubbles called plasmoids that move at around 20 kilometers per second, which seemed to me a lot like thrust.”

Conventional rocket engine

OK, I had to look up “tokamak” (a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle – a donut or bagel shape) but the rest was relatable … especially the part about sitting on the deck and thinking about car exhaust (mine faces a neighbor’s garage). And 20 km/sec is about 44738 mph, which is definitely a lot of thrust when compared to current rockets which top out at about 17,000 mph. Ebrahimi ran computer simulations on PPPL computers and at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and it showed this new plasma thruster concept can generate exhaust with velocities 10 times faster than those of other plasma thrusters.

“By using more electromagnets and more magnetic fields, you can in effect turn a knob to fine-tune the velocity.”

Artist’s rendition of a future spacecraft that uses an impulse magnetoplasma engine.

Turning a knob to speed up? I could handle that on the trip to Mars. The Princeton press release on Ebrahimi’s study, published in the Journal of Plasma Physics, explains other ways that Ebrahimi’s thruster concept is better. It produces movement by ejecting both plasma particles and magnetic bubbles known as plasmoids, which no other thruster uses for additional power. Also, replacing electric fields (used in current plasma thrusters) with magnetic fields allows rocket developers to use any kind of gas they want for different kinds of thrust.

“This work was inspired by past fusion work and this is the first time that plasmoids and reconnection have been proposed for space propulsion. The next step is building a prototype!”

That exclamation point indicates not only that it’s feasible, but prototype development can begin immediately since it’s based on fusion work that has already been done.

The line starts here to buy your tickets to Mars on the plasma thruster rocket. Just remember – I get to turn the knob.

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31-01-2021 om 17:29 geschreven door peter  

Elizabeth April: Clones, Reptilians, Walk-Ins, Angels, Implants

Elizabeth April: Clones, Reptilians, Walk-Ins, Angels, Implants 

Searching for Truth, Love, Happiness, connection to Alien Disclosure, Quantum Physics, Angels and Spirit Guides? Well… you’ve come to the right place!! Elizabeth April loves to channel information about The Mandela Effect, Vibrational Frequency, The After Life, Spirit Guides, Aliens, The Galactic Federation of Light, Dimensions, Crystals… and so much more! Open your Third Eye & Expand with Elizabeth April!

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31-01-2021 om 15:02 geschreven door peter  

Two bright UFOs filmed over Franco da Rocha, Brazil 25-Jan-2021

This new UFO video was filmed in Franco da Rocha, a municipality in the state of São Paulo on 25th January 2021. Two huge bright unidentified flying objects were flying above the city and then they slowly disappeared.

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31-01-2021 om 14:18 geschreven door peter  

Giant Face of Ucanha: Huge Sculpted Mayan Mask Found in Mexico

In the southeastern Mexican state of  Yucatán on the Yucatán Peninsula, an archaeological team digging at a lightly explored site near the tiny, picturesque village of Ucanha uncovered something highly unusual. It was a giant human-looking face, as tall as a person and sculpted in stucco. Its features clearly identified it as  a Mayan mask of the ancient Maya civilization , which enjoyed total hegemony in this part of the world more than one thousand years ago.

Mayan Mask Discovered in the Yucatán Peninsula

The Maya stucco relief was first discovered in 2017. Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico spent three years carefully restoring the sculpture, between periods when it was temporarily reburied to prevent its rapid deterioration from exposure to the elements. They were able to positively date the Mayan mask to the Late Pre-Classical era of the ancient Maya civilization, meaning it was created sometime between 300 BC and 250 AD.

View of the giant stucco face, or Mayan mask, in situ. The face was discovered in the Yucatán Peninsula near the village of Ucanha.

( INAH)

In their statement announcing the finding , INAH stated that sculptures like these “represent the faces of individuals with particular features that can be associated with deities or with characters of prominent social status.” It was a common practice in Maya civilization to decorate buildings with large-scale, embedded decorative sculptures, which often featured the faces of rulers or gods. 

• The Olmecs: Mesoamerican Mother Culture of Colossal Heads and Giant Mysteries
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Relics like this are a rare find, however, since so many of the sculptures that once existed have been irrevocably damaged, or destroyed, or remain deeply buried in undiscovered locations. Nevertheless, similar sculpted stucco reliefs have been found in the villages of Acanceh and Izamal. But those are the only other giant faces discovered on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Recognizing the delicate nature of their discovery, the archaeologists have now reburied the fully-restored sculpture, thereby guaranteeing its preservation. However, tourists interested in getting a closer look at ancient Maya stucco reliefs can do so by  traveling to Acanceh . There, several sculptures honoring Maya deities have been put on display to the public, in the town’s “Palace of the Stuccos.”

Detail of the stucco Mayan mask discovered near the village of Ucanha in Mexico.

( INAH)

Olmec Influence on the Maya

The giant stucco Mayan mask represents outstanding examples of  ancient Maya art . Maya gods and rulers were routinely honored in sculpted form, and in addition to stucco, Maya artists also sculpted in stone, wood, bone, shells, and fired clay. The Maya interest in creating human-like sculpted faces dates back to the first millennium BC. Their artistic endeavors in this area were clearly influenced by their contacts with the Olmecs, the so-called “ Mother Culture of Mesoamerica ” that occupied the expansive land regions to the west of the Yucatán Peninsula until around 400 BC, when their societies vanished for reasons undetermined. 

Little is known about the nature of the contacts between the Olmecs and the Maya. But  Olmec influence on Maya culture was profound. The  Olmecs affected the Maya people’s spiritual beliefs, practices and even their recreational activities, as well as their preferences in artistic style and architecture.

The Olmecs are best known today for their  colossal carved stone head statues , which weigh several tons each and are believed to represent the visages of revered Olmec rulers. The carved faces in these gigantic chunks of rock are reminiscent of the Mayan masks and  giant faces  created by Maya sculptors, who would have been commissioned to make these works of art by rulers in the various small kingdoms that comprised the greater Maya civilization. 

In the late Pre-Classical era, when the  giant face  at Ucanha was sculpted, the Maya were living in still small but increasingly populated agricultural villages. These rapidly expanding settlements formed the seeds of the great Maya cities that arose to dominate the region in the Classical era, which ran from 250 AD to 900 AD. 

Larger-than-life artistic creations like the giant face of Ucanha are reflections of a society that was becoming increasingly confident and ambitious. At the height of their power, the Maya exercised political, cultural, and social control over a wide swath of southern  Mexico and Central America. They were able to maintain that control for several centuries, before internal decay followed by Spanish conquest brought about the demise of their kingdoms.

Recognizing the sensitive nature of their discovery, the archaeologists have now reburied the fully-restored sculpture, thereby guaranteeing its preservation.  (INAH)

Exploring History Through Artifacts Left Behind: The Mayan Mask

While the  Maya people  are still around in significant numbers, the great cultures built by their distant ancestors exist only in the form of the artifacts, relics, and architectural masterpieces they left behind. Amazing discoveries like the giant face at Ucanha don’t reveal many details about the culture or artists that created them. But they do act as markers of the ongoing cultural evolution that was changing  Maya society , taking them away from their modest agrarian roots and transforming them into a diversified, ambitious, and highly successful urban culture, one which was ultimately doomed to  extinction, as all great civilizations and empires seem to be.

Of course, what the  Maya experienced during the transition from the Pre-Classical to the Classical era is the same type of evolutionary transformation that has been experienced in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere across the planet over the past two centuries. When archaeologists from the far future are digging through the rubble left behind following our final  collapse, they will likely be just as curious about the long-lost civilization that created the giant carved heads at  Mount Rushmore  as we are about the long-lost civilization that created the giant sculpted faces on the Yucatán Peninsula.

• Top image: Mayan mask made of stucco which was discovered in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
• Source:  INAH

By Nathan Falde

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30-01-2021 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

Back in the 4^th century, a Maya community created a large stucco mask at the now-archaeological site of Ucanha which is located in the municipality of Cansahcab in the state of Yucatán, Mexico.

The mask, which is about as tall as a human, depicts a face of an unknown individual – possibly a deity or a very important person. In a statement, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reiterated this by saying that this type of mask would “represent the faces of individuals with particular features that can be associated with deities or with characters of prominent social status.” It was made with stucco (a fine plaster often used to coat walls and ceilings) and dates back to the Late Preclassic Period (approximately 300 BC to 250 AD).

An example of stucco.

While this is the first of its kind to be discovered in Ucanha, these types of stucco masks have been found at other archaeological sites in Acanceh and Izamal.

It was discovered by a graduate student from Yale University named Jacob Welch who was part of a team of Mexican and American researchers, student and laborers. Archaeologists from the INAH stated that while it was discovered in 2017, it remained unreported until recently so that it could be protected against possible looters. They added that the excavation work only began in 2019.

Another way that the team protected the mask was that they reburied it after it was found until experts could analyze and preserve it. It was dug up again in 2018 for restoration work as samples from the mask showed that it had deteriorated a bit. They also restored weak parts and relocated sections that had moved over time back to their original spots in addition to cleaning the mask’s surface so that its colors and patterns were more visible. After finishing their work in 2019, the mask was again reburied in order to preserve it.

The team was actually very lucky to have found the mask as many of them had not survived throughout the years because of roots, soil, erosion, and/or looters. Hopefully the restoration work and reburying it will help keep it in the best possible condition for many years to come. Pictures of the excavation site can be seen here.

The archaeological discovery was made in 2017 by Yale graduate student Jacob Welch.

Photo: INAH

Archaeologists and workers protect the now excavated mask from the elements using tarps and a tent.

Photo: INAH

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30-01-2021 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

When it comes to UFOs, most people accept the eyewitness accounts of astronauts, military and professional pilots over sightings by the general public. That may explain why a sighting by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot and crew on a domestic flight over Pakistani airspace is getting intense scrutiny worldwide. It helps that someone in the cockpit captured the UFO on video and the sighting was in bright daylight against a clear blue sky. With that many witnesses, including reports from the ground, Pakistan International Airlines felt obligated to issue a statement. What did all of these people see? What did the airline think?

“The video was shot over Multan-Sialkot region by Captain Faisal Qureshi and his First Officer Captain Talha while piloting the Karachi-Lahore flight at an altitude of 35,000 feet.”

The Express Tribune reports that the UFO was spotted by the crew of domestic flight PIA flight PK304 from Karachi to Lahore. At about 4 pm on January 23 near Rahim Yar Khan, the pilot saw the UFO about 1,000 feet above the Airbus A-320. According to the records, Captain Qureshi immediately reported the sighting back to the control room. After landing in Karachi, the pilot shared the video with officials of Pakistan International Airlines. They were sufficiently concerned that a spokesperson made a statement to the public:

“It is too early to say what that object was. In fact, we might not be able to tell what the object was at all. However, something was spotted and it was reported in accordance with the required protocol.”

Better call the tower on this one.

Somehow, as usual, the 41-second video appeared on social media. (Watch it here.)

Speaking in English, the pilot can be heard saying “It’s not a balloon, it’s not an aircraft.” Some of the video was censored due to language, but reports say the pilot was also heard commenting “The UFO was extremely bright despite the presence of sunlight” and speculating that it was not a planet but could be a “space station” or an “artificial planet.” One report also stated the pilot saw what looked like a metal ring surrounding the UFO and a brilliant light coming from its center.

Despite the pilot’s expert opinion that the object was not a balloon, that was the prevailing comment on media posts. The Express Tribune contacted Pakistan Meteorological Department spokesman Khalid Malik, who explained they have some balloons that fly at an altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, and Radiosondes balloons which can reach 70,000 feet. However, private weather station operator Jawad Memon pointed out that Radiosondes, which he claims the Meteorological Department no longer uses, are non-reflective rubber while the UFO was obviously very shiny. Some commenters and media sites referred to the UFO as an alien Foo fighter, but that term – first used during WWII – has been explained to be either electrical discharge from the wings of a plane or reflective ice crystals – both of which follow the plane and are close to it, unlike the Pakistan UFO. And, since it was recorded on video, it’s not a hallucination due to fatigue or stress.

Foo fighter?

“A similar incident was also reported in January 2019 by PIA pilots in Karachi. A UFO was spotted by the flight crew flying 105 feet above the aircraft, while the plane was flying at an altitude of 2,500feet. The flight captain suspected it could be a drone. The incident was immediately reported to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) in Karachi.”

Was this one a drone too? The altitude rules out commercially available drones, but it could be a military drone, although the pilots didn’t make that connection. That puts this object solidly in the “unidentified” category with a slight lean towards “balloon” but a contrary pull towards UFO because of the inability of the pilots to identify it.

Which way do YOU lean?

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30-01-2021 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

Art Bell: The Reptilian Overlords... 20 Years of Alien Encounters via Jim Sparks

Art Bell: The Reptilian Overlords… 20 Years of Alien Encounters via Jim Sparks

COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Abductee and author Jim Sparks returned to share more details of his encounters with aliens, which have persisted for almost two decades. His main experiences are with the ETs known as the Grays, though he’s also had contact with Reptilians, whom he believes are directing the Grays. Sparks told of the time the aliens gave him a “gift,” which came in a square black box.

After receiving telepathic instructions on how to open it, he found a black, tarry substance 2-3 inches thick that contained a horrible smell. The aliens informed him that it had been extracted from his lungs.

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30-01-2021 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

Magnetic Pole Shift Update, Life, Nova, Quake Watch | S0 News Jan.30.2021

Magnetic Pole Shift Update, Life, Nova, Quake Watch | S0 News Jan.30.2021

Pole Shift (magnetic): A shift in “magnetic” poles is one of the more common and accepted theories across the world, however, this is not to be confused with those that speak of a “geographic” pole shift. Even though these events can occur at the same time, they actually have quite different affects on Earth.

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30-01-2021 om 22:08 geschreven door peter  

Linda Moulton Howe: Self Activating Extraterrestrial Machines... Probes From Another Dimension

Researcher, Journalist and Author Linda Moulton Howe presents a fascinating lecture about her recent research which has led her to a concept which is at the same time logical and mind blowing: alien self-activating machines. What are these strange unearthly devices, seemingly covered in strange unknown texts?

This is an archived show. All content on this channel is licensed, and or produced by Zohar Entertainment Group/Awakening Expo/Phenomena Magazine

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30-01-2021 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

30 Meter UFO Enters Volcano Popocatépetl In Mexico, 1-22-2021 UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: January 21, 2021

Location of sighting: Near Mexico City, Mexico

Source: Popocatepetl live cam

 

While watching the live cam for volcano Popocatepetl, I noticed this strange disk like object entering the mouth of the volcano. The object actually overlaps (half way covers) the volcano cloud...which is all the proof needed to confirm this object did enter the mouth of the volcano. You see if it went behind the clouds, it would mean its a plane. However I quickly rolled this out because this object is huge, and a plane would stay at least 5 km away from an active volcano...so if this was a plane, it would be close to 150 meters across! Thats impossible, and the fact that the volcano is erupting right at this moment prevents planes from flying over or near it.

 

Its absolutely mind boggling to see this UFO 30% in front of the clouds from the mouth of the volcano. This is 100% proof that an alien base is 5-7km below this volcano and has been there for thousands of years. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan- USAF vet. 

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30-01-2021 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

Bright UFO Over St. Peters, Missouri On Jan 28, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 28, 2021

Location of sighting: St Peters, Missouri, USA

Source: MUFON #113445

 

Here is an interesting UFO report just in today. A UFO was spotted near a road in St. Peters, Missouri when a passenger in a car saw the bright floating object near a power line and took a quick photo. Soon after the UFO disappeared and wan not seen again. UFOs are often seen near power lines and its been my belief that aliens could tap into our power and communication networks in order to download information about humanity faster and sort through it latter. Much like the American NSA does. This is absolute proof aliens are trying to learn about us, but the world governments are trying to prevent this from happening to keep the public from panicking. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states:  

While being a passenger in a car, I noticed a very bright stationary light in the sky Northwest direction about 45° and somewhere from about a mile or further distance from me guesstimated. The object illuminated brightly, I took a picture of it, and it disappeared within 30 seconds. No other objects we're witnessed in that direction during that time.

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30-01-2021 om 20:24 geschreven door peter  

The Sharjah Lunar Impacts Observatory Telescope (SLIO). in United Arab Emirates has detected a series of impacts on the moon, but what is distinguishing is that this series of impacts, occurred within one minute and they were of greater brightness than usual. 

Image credit: Sharjah Lunar Impacts Observatory Telescope (SLIO).

Also, their flash periods were relatively long, as periods of up to a quarter of a second were recorded in each impact and this is considered a long time for such events. 

It is noticeable that these impacts spread in the middle of the dark eastern side of the Moon at the time of observation and spread over a distance of 1,000km on its surface. 

Image left: Sharjah observatory.

According to Prof. Hamid M.K. Al Naimiy, Chancellor of the University of Sharjah, General Director of SAASST, and President of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences, the team has analyzed the time of impacts and their relative positions and based on this, they have concluded that the series of impacts are caused by meteorite impacts, reports khaleejtimes. 

What do you think hit the moon, meteorites, or something else crashed onto the lunar surface?

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30-01-2021 om 18:45 geschreven door peter  

Oval-shaped UFO over Piriapolis, Uruguay 9-Jan-2021

This possible footage of a flying saucer was filmed in the sky above Piriapolis in Uruguay on 9th January 2021.

Witness report: 

Oval shape or arrangement of the lights. I received a message by Messenger on January 12, 2021, from Mr. Martín Chacón, a resident of the La Falda neighborhood, Piriápolis, Maldonado, Uruguay. I contacted him on WhatsApp and he sent me a video of strange lights perched on Cerro del Toro, near his home, recorded with his cell phone on January 9 at approximately 23 hours and 30 minutes. I did analysis using Vegas software and then contacted him by phone to ask about the details of his observation.

In addition, he gave me another video recorded by a friend who was with him that night. The friend’s name is Gustavo Ledesma. They first observed an oval shape or arrangement of the lights, and before disappearing it changed to a V shape. The lights were intense and flashing. The estimated size was more than 20 meters long. Both witnesses noted that he was not fully supported on the ground, but remained leaning with a part in the air. It did not emit any kind of sound.

Moments before starting the observation, the witnesses noticed that all the dogs in the area began to howl. The entire sighting lasted about 5 minutes. I accompany the report with both videos and photos of the site.

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30-01-2021 om 18:26 geschreven door peter  

China and the United States are both reportedly working on UFO designs that could lead to the creation of a Spacetime Modification Weapon that would make the deadly Hydrogen bomb seem like a "firecracker"

By Emma Parker

A series of tests on a UFO design theorised a space weapon so large that it could make the Hydrogen bomb seem like a "firecracker."

The United States Navy’s aerospace research enterprise confirmed the Air Warfare Division conduced experiments on UFO blueprints.

Research focused on exploring the work of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais - an aerospace engineer who works for the U.S. Navy.

Dr Pais focus is on a theoretical concept dubbed the ‘Pais Effect,” which enables controlled "motion of electrically charged matter (from solid to plasma) via accelerated spin."

The electrically charged matter then produces "powerful electromagnetic energy fields" that could re-engineer "the fabric of reality."

It is understood the energy produced by the Pais Effect could lead to the creation of an ultra-powerful " Space time Modification Weapon."

According to documents seen by the Warzone, a military website, the weapon could make "the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison."

"'Extremely high energy levels can be achieved with this invention, under pulsed ultrahigh current (I) / ultrahigh magnetic flux density (B) conditions (Z-pinch with a Fusion twist)," the documents reportedly read.

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30-01-2021 om 18:05 geschreven door peter  

RUSSIAN SECRET BOOK: Secret Documentation On UFO.

SMERSH counterintelligence service was built by the Red Army at the end of 1942 or perhaps even earlier, but officially founded on April 14, 1943. This SMERSH invented Josef Stalin. January 13, 1947 was given a small book containing a description of extraterrestrials top SMERSH agents. This book described eight kinds of aliens and contained drawings and illustrations beings and UFOs.

Over the years, the book has been replenished, were added to the UFO photographs, as well as photographs and witnesses abducted (especially children), but also statistics. And much more! In the 80s he was found a copy of this book in the field in Buryatia (East Siberia). This copy of the book ended up in the hands of the KGB agent who had friends in the media. After the collapse of the USSR, only one (!) Of information and drawings of it leaked.

This book still exists, it is used and is supplemented by so-called Russian. “Special services”. The book is Secret documentation on UFO.

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30-01-2021 om 16:33 geschreven door peter  

« Nous avons la preuve qu’il existe des civilisations extraterrestres » assure l'astrophysicien Avi Loeb

 Nathalie Mayer - Journaliste

 [EN VIDÉO] Que sait-on vraiment d’Oumuamua ? - EC - YouTube  Le 19 octobre 2017, un observatoire à Hawaï (États-Unis) rapporte l’observation, au cœur de notre Système solaire, d’un objet mystérieux : ‘Oumuamua. Depuis les astronomes cherchent à percer les secrets de cet objet interstellaire qui ne ressemble à aucun autre. Certains en viennent même à envisager l’inimaginable : ‘Oumuamua pourrait avoir été construit par une intelligence extraterrestre.

© Futura 

Sommes-nous seuls ? C'est probablement la question la plus profonde qui se pose aujourd'hui encore à l'humanité. Et si la réponse à cette question était non ? Serions-nous prêts à l'accepter ? Pour Avi Loeb, astrophysicien à l'université de Harvard (États-Unis), une technologie extraterrestre a récemment traversé notre Système solaire. Il nous explique comment il est arrivé à cette conclusion.

Octobre 2017. Un observatoire à Hawaï (États-Unis) rapporte l'observation d'un objet mystérieux qui traverse notre Système solaire à une vitesse environ quatre fois supérieure à celle de la plupart des astéroïdes. L'objet suit une trajectoire hyperbolique qui indique aux astronomes qu'il vient d'ailleurs. Il est baptisé 1I/2017 U1. Et rapidement surnommé 'Oumuamua, comprenez « l'invité », « le messager ». Il éveille toutes les curiosités. « 'Oumuamua éblouit les scientifiques », titre alors la Nasa. Parce qu'il est le tout premier objet interstellaire observé aussi près de la Terre. Mais aussi parce qu'il présente un certain nombre de caractéristiques pour le moins surprenantes.

Comète, astéroïde, fragment de corps céleste. Au fil des mois, toutes les hypothèses concernant sa nature ont été mises sur la table. Y compris la plus folle de toutes : celle du vaisseau extraterrestre ! Une hypothèse soutenue -- envers et contre presque tous -- par Abraham Loeb, président du département d'astronomie à l'université de Harvard (États-Unis). « La méthode scientifique encourage à la prudence. Nous formulons une hypothèse, recueillons des preuves et testons cette hypothèse. Puis nous affinons l'hypothèse ou rassemblons plus de preuves. Mais les modes peuvent décourager la prise en compte de certaines hypothèses et le carriérisme peut diriger l'attention et les ressources vers certains sujets et les éloigner d'autres », explique-t-il.

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« Personnellement, je suis convaincu que 'Oumuamua est la preuve qu'il existe ou qu'il a existé des civilisations sensibles autres que la nôtre, ailleurs dans l'Univers. Et j'aimerais que la communauté accepte d'accorder autant de crédit à ma théorie qu'elle en accorde à l'hypothèse de la supersymétrie ou du multivers. Mais je crois aussi que l'humanité n'est pas prête à accepter que nous ne soyons pas uniques. »

‘Oumuamua, un objet interstellaire à la forme étrange

Mais sur quoi Avi Loeb appuie-t-il son hypothèse ? Sur quelques singularités relevées par les chercheurs qui ont étudié l'objet interstellaire. Sa forme d'abord. « Nous n'avons aucune image bien nette de l'objet. Seulement les données de onze jours d'observations -- avant que l'objet s'éloigne trop de la Terre -- par plusieurs télescopes, précise Avi Loeb. Elles montrent que la luminosité de ‘Oumuamua varie d'un facteur dix toutes les huit heures. » De quoi conclure que l'objet est bien plus long que large. Certains ont d'abord parlé de forme de cigare. Puis les données ont orienté, de manière statistiquement bien plus probable, vers une forme de disque.

 Quoi qu'il en soit, nous n'avons jamais observé dans la nature, d'objet aussi plat et/ou allongé, nous assure Avi Loeb. Et c'est sans parler du fait que 'Oumuamua était aussi au moins dix fois plus brillant que n'importe quel astéroïde ou comète de taille similaire. » Un certain nombre d'explications ont été avancées.

Une trajectoire qui défie les lois de la physique

« S'il n'y avait eu que cela, je serais passé à autre chose », nous confie Avi Loeb. Mais il y avait aussi l'anomalie de trajectoire qui apparait dans les données recueillies par les astronomes. Selon le chercheur de l'université de Harvard, celle-ci est « époustouflante ». « Les lois de la physique nous permettent de prédire la trajectoire d'un objet soumis à l'influence gravitationnelle du Soleil. Mais 'Oumuamua ne s'est pas comporté comme prévu. » À distance de notre étoile, il s'est vu comme poussé par une force mystérieuse. « Cela arrive aux comètes aussi. Une sorte d'effet de « moteur-fusée » qu'elles doivent à leur longue queue de glace qui s'évapore. »

Pour que cet effet fusée explique la déviation de trajectoire de 'Oumuamua, il aurait fallu que l'objet perde un dixième de sa masse. Pourtant, en scrutant l'espace environnant, les astronomes n'ont trouvé aucune trace d'eau, de gaz ou de poussière.

D'autres hypothèses ont été avancées. Celle d'une collision avec un autre objet, d'abord. Mais les données ne correspondaient pas. Puis celle que la glace portée par l'objet interstellaire ait été exclusivement composée d'hydrogène. Mais l'idée n'a pas tenu bien longtemps. Celle de l'action de la pression de rayonnement du Soleil a également été investiguée. Mais elle impliquerait une densité massique incroyablement faible. 1 % seulement de celle de l'air à la surface de la Terre. De quoi faire de 'Oumuamua l'objet le plus poreux jamais observé dans notre Système solaire.

Selon Avi Loeb, astrophysicien à l’université de Harvard (États-Unis), les caractéristiques d’’Oumuamua peuvent s’expliquer par l’hypothèse qu'il s'agit d’un engin extraterrestre.

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‘Oumuamua, un vaisseau extraterrestre ?

« Pour moi, 'Oumuamua ne ressemble tellement à rien d'autre de ce que nous connaissons dans l'Univers qu'il doit avoir été conçu, construit et lancé par une intelligence extraterrestre. Peut-être un voile flottant dans l'espace. Une bouée de communication. Ou un débris abandonné par une civilisation autre que la nôtre, avance Avi Loeb. J'ai conscience que c'est une hypothèse exotique. Mais les autres hypothèses avancées pour expliquer ces caractéristiques particulières ne le sont pas moins. Aucune ne parvient à réellement expliquer la trajectoire de 'Oumuamua. Et pourtant, l'objet a dévié », n'hésite pas à lancer le chercheur en clin d'œil à Galilée.

« Soyons clairs. Je ne suis pas de ceux qui cherchent la lumière des projecteurs. Je ne suis pas "l'enfant terrible de l'astrophysique". Je me pose seulement des questions. En essayant de ne pas me laisser déborder par des préjugés. »

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De sensoren op en rond de Mid-Atlantische Rug waarmee de gegevens voor de nieuwe studie verzameld werden.

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De conventionele visie is dat het uit elkaar wijken van de platen wordt aangedreven door gravitationele krachten - zwaartekracht - vanop een verre afstand, doordat de zwaardere delen van de platen ver weg opnieuw wegzinken in de aarde. De zwaardere delen die wegzinken aan de randen van de platen, trekken als het ware de platen uit elkaar waar ze elkaar raken in het midden van de oceaan. 

Het probleem is dat de Atlantische Oceaan niet omringd wordt door dergelijke zware, wegzinkende delen van platen en dus is het een raadsel wat de platen uit elkaar drijft in het midden van de oceaan. 

Nu heeft een team van seismologen onder leiding van de University of Southampton bewijzen gevonden voor een opwelling in de aardmantel - het materiaal tussen de aardkorst en de kern van de aarde - vanop diepten van meer dan 600 kilometer onder de Mid-Atlantische Rug. Die opwelling kan de platen van onderuit wegduwen en zo maken dat de continenten verder uit elkaar gaan. 

Normaal gezien denkt men dat de opwellingen onder ruggen afkomstig zijn van veel kleinere diepten, van zo'n 60 kilometer.  

De belangrijkste tektonische platen op aarde. De Mid-Atlantische Rug is aangeduid in het geel.

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39 seismometers

Het team achter de studie stelde 39 seismometers op in het midden van de bodem van de Atlantische Oceaan in het kader van het PI-LAB (Passive Imaging of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary) experiment en van EURO-LAB (Experiment to Unearth the Rheological Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary). De seismometers stonden verspreid over zo'n 1.000 kilometer en ze bleven een jaar lang werken om aardbevingen van over de hele wereld te registreren. 

De seismometers legden vast hoe de seismische golven van de aardbevingen zich door de verschillende zones van de aardmantel bewogen. 

De gegevens van de seismometers stelden de onderzoekers in staat om voor het eerst op grote schaal een beeld in hoge resolutie op te stellen van de aardmantel onder de Mid-Atlantische Rug. 

Het experiment is een van de weinige die ooit op deze schaal zijn uitgevoerd in de oceanen en het liet het team toe variaties in de structuur van de aardmantel in beeld te brengen op diepten tussen 410 en 660 kilometer. Tussen die diepten ligt de zogenoemde manteltransitiezone, een overgangszone tussen de bovenmantel en de ondermantel van de aarde, die gekenmerkt wordt door abrupte faseovergangen in de mineralen van de mantel. Die mineralen nemen dichtere kristalstructuren aan naarmate de diepte en de druk groter worden. 

Het signaal dat de seismologen zagen, wees op een onverwachte, trage, diepe opwelling van materiaal vanuit de diepere aardmantel. 

De onderzoekers brachten in totaal tien weken op twee onderzoeksschepen in de Atlantische Oceaan door om de seismometers op te stellen en na een jaar opnieuw binnen te halen.University of Southampton

"Ongelooflijke resultaten"

"Dit was een gedenkwaardige missie die ons in totaal 10 weken naar het midden van de Atlantische Oceaan bracht", zei hoofdauteur Matthew Agius. "De ongelooflijke resultaten werpen nieuw licht op onze kennis van hoe het binnenste van de aarde verbonden is met platentektoniek, en we hebben waarnemingen opgetekend die nooit eerder gezien zijn." 

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Agius was een postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de University of Southampton die nu aan de Università degli studie Rome Tre werkt. Platentektoniek is de wetenschappelijke theorie over hoe de bovenste laag van de aarde verdeeld is in platen die zich onafhankelijk van elkaar bewegen. 

"Dit was volkomen onverwacht", zei doctor Kate Reichert, een van de leiders van het onderzoek. "Het heeft belangrijke gevolgen voor onze kennis over de evolutie van de aarde en haar bewoonbaarheid. Het toont ook aan hoe belangrijk het is nieuwe data te verzamelen uit de oceanen. Er is nog zo veel te onderzoeken."

"Dit werk is opwindend en het ontkracht aannames die al lang geloofd worden over het feit dat de mid-oceanische ruggen enkel een passieve rol spelen in de platentektoniek", zei professor Mike Kendall van de University of Oxford, een andere leider van het onderzoek. "Het suggereert dat in plaatsen zoals het midden van de Atlantische Oceaan krachten rond de rug een belangrijke rol spelen bij het uit elkaar drijven van nieuw gevormde platen." 

De onderzoekers zeggen dat de bevindingen van de studie een beter inzicht bieden in de platentektoniek, die veel natuurrampen veroorzaakt, onder meer aardbevingen, tsunami's en vulkaanuitbarstingen. Ze kunnen wetenschappers helpen betere modellen en waarschuwingssystemen te ontwikkelen voor natuurrampen. De platentektoniek heeft ook een impact op het zeeniveau en heeft zodoende ook een invloed op de schattingen in verband met de klimaatverandering op een geologische - erg lange - tijdschaal. 

De studie van de onderzoekers van de universiteiten van Southampton en Oxford is gepubliceerd in Nature. Dit artikel is gebaseerd op een persbericht van de University of Southampton. 

Een video (Engels) van de universiteit van Southampton met uitleg over het experiment en de studie.

De seismometers van PI-LAB tekenden gedurende een jaar de effecten van aardbevingen overal ter wereld op en aan de hand van hoe de seismische golven zich door de aardlagen bewogen, konden de onderzoekers zich een beeld vormen van wat er zich in de aardlagen afspeelde, vooral in de manteltransitiezone, tussen 410 en 660 kilometers, die de overgang vormt tussen de bovenmantel en de ondermantel van de aarde.University of Southampton

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Unraveling The UFO Mystery: France Is Working On It

Thousands of UFO sightings are reported every year but not many countries are willing to spend money investigating them – there is just one dedicated state-run team left in Europe. Is France onto something?, asks BBC.

You don’t need a time machine when you visit the French Space Centre headquarters in Toulouse – it’s already a throwback to the 1970s. Green lawns sweep on to wide boulevards with stout long rectangular office blocks on either side.

It’s almost Soviet-style in the heart of southern France. There are few signs of life even though 1,500 people, most of them civil servants, work in boxy offices along narrow unappealing corridors.

France has the biggest space agency in Europe – the result of the 1960s space race and President Charles de Gaulle’s grand determination to keep France independent of the US by building its own satellites, rocket launchers and providing elite space research.

An offshoot of all that – France is the only country in Europe to maintain a full-time state-run UFO (unidentified flying objects) department. There used to be one in the UK and another in Denmark but they closed down years ago due to budget cuts.

France’s UFO unit consists of four staff, and about a dozen volunteers who get their expenses paid to go on site and look into reports of strange sightings in the skies.

The team is called Geipan. That’s a French acronym for Study Group and Information on Non-Identified Aerospace Phenomenon.

Its boss is Xavier Passot. Surrounded by dozens of books on UFOs, and stacks of documents, he tells me his mission is to be as transparent as possible about strange sightings and to follow up on each one that his team receives.

They publish their results on their website which gets 30,000 hits a month. The team receives, on average, two UFO sightings a day. The department insists an 11-page form is filled out for each one. The idea is to provide details including photographs where possible but also weed out jokers and time-wasters.

If someone claims to have seen strange lights in the skies, the UFO team might go online to see whether the observation took place on a flight path – it can trace commercial air traffic going back more than a week.

The team also has access to military flight paths and is in touch with the air force and air traffic controllers.

Sometimes if its staff are really intrigued by photos they have seen or if there have been several witnesses to the same sighting, they will call the local police to ask whether they can be considered credible.

They might even check with neighbours to see whether they were out drinking that night or perhaps smoking something other than cigarettes.

Passot says many of the people who get in touch are smokers, puffing away outside bars or their own homes at night, gazing at the stars.

One of the boxy offices houses yellowing archives going back to the 1950s. The papers I look at contain eerie accounts of strange things encountered in the skies by fighter pilots on routine reconnaissance missions.

For what it’s worth and for those who suspect there’s conspiracy afoot, Passot tells me he has never covered up a UFO sighting.

I take a look at some amazing photos of strange lights and circular forms caught on camera. One, taken by a motorist, of a white ring shape above Marseille is particularly grabbing.

But the team figured that one out – it wasn’t invaders from Mars, just the reflection of a small interior overhead light in the car.

In fact, the department can explain away nearly all these phenomena and, believe it or not, the most common culprits are Chinese lanterns sent up at night during parties. The investigators often telephone the local town hall to ask if, perhaps, there had been a wedding going on at the time.

Balloons and kites floating in the skies also get mistaken for alien craft, and space debris and falling meteorites giving off strange lights are more common than one might think.

But there are around 400 UFO sightings going back to the 1970s that the French team cannot explain. One, an alleged flying saucer landing near Aix-en-Provence in 1981, they take very seriously – there were landing marks and multiple witnesses.

So are there really little green men? Well, the jury’s out on the colour but there are many working here, as well as others around the world, who are convinced there is some life out there.

And does the use of French taxpayers’ money on UFO research make sense, particularly in these times of budgetary constraint? That probably depends on whether you just saw an alien and, in the words of those Ghostbusters, who you gonna call?

By Chris Bockman

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