Most scientists think the first interstellar visitor to our solar system has a natural explanation. Harvard professor Avi Loeb makes the case for an alien origin.

 By Becky Ferreira

In October 2017, scientists spotted an interstellar object in our solar system for the first time in history. Named ‘Oumuamua after the Hawaiian word for “scout,” the bizarre visitor was detected as it passed by Earth on a rapid trajectory that was consistent with an origin outside our own solar neighborhood.

The discovery of ‘Oumuamua was an immensely exciting milestone, though it was traveling so quickly that observatories were only able to keep their sights on it for a few brief weeks before the object exited the solar system. Those observations revealed that this interstellar interloper had many odd characteristics, such as extreme dimensions and unexpected brightness. 

Most scientists think ‘Oumuamua was a space rock from another star system, albeit a rather weird one, but Harvard professor Avi Loeb has proposed that the object could have an artificial origin. In his new book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Loeb makes his case that the object could be an alien artifact.

“We don’t really know because we don’t have enough evidence,” Loeb said in a VICE News interview, regarding the exact nature of ‘Oumuamua. However, he speculated that the object could be a piece of “space trash” or a spacecraft not unlike the probes that humans have sent, or are sending, into interstellar space, such as NASA’s Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons missions. 

Loeb is an outlier in this opinion; the vast majority of the scientific community thinks ‘Oumuamua has a natural origin. Some have proposed that the object could be a splinter of a distant planet, a hunk of frozen hydrogen, or a dusty cloud of debris. The uncertainty over its nature stems from the short observational period that was available to study it, which has left scientists of all persuasions with many more questions than answers.

Fortunately, ‘Oumuamua will not be the last interstellar object to grace our solar system. An interstellar comet named 21/Borisov was discovered in 2019, and next-generation observatories are expected to spot many more of these outsiders, which will help to provide context for all of the mysteries that ‘Oumuamua left in its wake.

“The key to doing science is to get as much evidence as possible because it can guide you,” Loeb said. “Sometimes nature’s imagination is greater than ours.”

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13-03-2021 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

The range of types of UFO encounters is wide, and for the most part they tend to inspire awe and wonder as to what could be behind it all. Yet, in some cases this awe turns to dread and even terror, as it seems that not all UFO phenomena are friendly in nature. Within the annals of UFO incidents there are some that inspire dread and a definite sense of foreboding, and one of these is certainly the time aliens apparently invaded a small island in Brazil.

Beginning in the spring of 1977 a very strange and ominous phenomenon began at a little known place called Colares Island, in the remote Brazilian region of Pará. Frightened locals began to report an intense amount of UFO activity in the skies, describing all manner of luminous spheres, glowing orbs, balls of fire, saucers, cigar shaped metallic objects, and more, but what really stood out was how aggressive these objects seemed to be. There were numerous reports that these unidentified objects were actively chasing and attacking people, shooting vivid thin rays of light that would leave injuries such as burns or holes in the skin, as well as other instances when they were reported as approaching to actually suck blood from victims. In many cases the beams projected were described as being “always sharply defined, directed with perfect precision towards any target – houses, people, boats, trees, even the Brazilian Air Force’s helicopters deployed over the island during the investigations.”

Some of the accounts were quite spectacular, as with a boat full of fishermen near Ilha dos Caranguejos who would claim that an intense ball of light had positioned itself over their boat and fired off beams at them, burning several of them and even supposedly killing a man. Another such such frightening report would come from a local man named Carlos Cardoso de Paula, who says one evening an orb of light entered his room and tried to get blood from him. He says of his surreal experience:

Everybody else was asleep. I was just still having my last smoke when suddenly a ball of fire entered our house up near the ridgepole of the gable. It started shooting round and round the room, and then finally came right close to my hammock. It ran up my right leg as far as the knee (without touching my skin). I watched with much curiosity as it then moved across to the other leg. Then I started to feel feeble and sleepy. My cigarette fell from my hand and I came to and let out a yell. The fireball quickly vanished and everybody woke up. I think it had been searching for a vein in my body but didn’t manage to do so. As its brightness grew, I felt a sort of heat coming from it.

Many of the people targeted by these mysterious lights described a wide range of negative physical injuries and effects, such as fainting, nausea, tremors, migraines, giddiness, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, burns, anemia, bruising, blistering, perforations in the skin, paralysis, searing pain, and blood loss. In fact, terrified residents were so convinced that the lights were trying to suck their blood that the phenomena were being called the Chupa-Chupa, or “sucker suckers.” In the meantime, hospitals were soon experiencing a deluge of people claiming to have been attacked by the UFOs. Also odd was that many of the patients were found to indeed be missing blood, and their blood tests also showed certain anomalies common to all of them such as anemia and dehydration, and it was all quite baffling for medical personnel. One local doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho would explain of these patients:

All of them had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic area. The lesions began with intense reddening of the skin in the affected area. The injuries varied in extension. First it started with an intense reddishness in the hit area, known as hiperemia. Later, the skin of the affected region started to fall (alopecia) and days later the skin peeled off. Later the hair would fall out and the skin would turn black. There was no pain, only a slight warmth. One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin. The victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern. With the increase of hurt people, I started to give more attention each time in the existing injuries. I saw things that do not exist in my medical books.

In most of these inexplicable cases, the strange symptoms would linger for days or even weeks, requiring hospitalization, and others would not recover at all, with some deaths even reported. In the meantime, reports kept flooding in nightly, increasing in intensity as the months went on, until by August of that year it is estimated that thousands of people all over the island had either seen or been chased or assaulted by the mystery UFOs, which seemed to always come from the north and in some cases were described as detaching from a “mother ship” or even coming from below the waters of Marajo Bay. People were in a hysteria, afraid to go out at night and huddling into large groups where they sought safety in numbers. Some people would light bonfires or launch armed patrols in an effort to scare the Chupa-Chupas away, and it was eerily quiet on the streets, as noise was thought to lure the hungry UFOs in. One local mayor would say of the tense situation:

Yes, indeed I can tell you, there wasn’t a moment of peace. The people were terrified by that “Chupa-Chupa” affair. I even managed to see one of the injured victims myself – Dona Mirota, a lady who was receiving medical treatment at the Health Clinic. The people were terrified because this beam of night light had already assaulted several people. The whole community was packed in only three houses, praying, sometimes singing some religious songs!

There were even reports of people apparently seeing the actual occupants of these craft, who were apparently quite hostile. One local resident named Claudomira Paixao claimed to have had just such an encounter after waking one evening to find everything bathed in a greenish glow, which would steadily become red. It was at that point that she realized it was a beam being directed right at her, and she then saw something very weird indeed, of which she says:

In one of these days, after midnight, I woke up because of a strong flash, a sort of focused bright green light ray that came down from the top roof to my left chest. I tried to shout, but my voice did not function. I felt an exquisite heat… Later, that beam of light diminished and I saw that I was burnt. I could see a creature, like a man, wearing a jumpsuit just like a dive suit. He pointed it at me, and the object shone three times, striking my chest during the three occasions, almost in the same place, it was hot, it wounded me, it seemed that I had needles pierced at all three points. I was terrified, I could not move my legs! It was hot, and it hurt. It was like a needle stick. My health never came back to be the same since that night.

Of course, considering that these reports and the panic they caused were becoming national news it was only a matter of time before the military would be drawn to this remote locale. In late October of 1977, the Brazilian Air Force would launch an investigation under Captain Uyrange Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima, which would take it even further into the realm of the bizarre. They would investigate the injuries of the victims, gain eyewitness accounts, and even collect a good amount of purported photographic evidence of the phenomena. Even weirder is that during the military presence on the island it would be alleged that that even the Air Force would come under attack by the lights, one such incident of which one resident Sra. Alba Câmara Vilhena would say:

On one occasion some people saw one of the craft. It was round, and all luminous. Just at that moment, a helicopter of the F.A.B. (Brazilian Air Force) was flying quite near to our house. Then we saw the UFO direct a very powerful beam on to the helicopter, obliging it to land on the São Pedro Airfield. That happened at about 8.00 pm one evening. The helicopters that appeared from time to time, bringing materials and personnel, attempted to chase the UFOs but without much success. Indeed, on the contrary, it was the UFOs that chased them!

The military would do its study and then pack up and leave in January of 1978 without offering the populace any sort of explanation, and labelling the whole investigation as classified. At the time there seemed to be some efforts to explain it all away as weather balloons or atmospheric phenomena, but this was obviously not really bought by the people who claimed to have been attacked by the craft and left with injuries. There seemed to have been some cover-up going on, and making this all the more sinister was that Captain Hollanda would turn up dead three months later, allegedly by suicide, although no further details were given, making some wonder if this was really a suicide or not. After 1978 the incidents would die down, but not stop with sporadic accounts coming in throughout the decades since. What was going on here? It is all so spectacular and dramatic that one is left to wonder just what all of this entails. Were these actual UFOs, and if so what did they want and why did they attack people? Was there a government cover-up? Or was this all just mass hysteria and seeing things? Without a doubt, the “Cloares Invasion” remains a very harrowing, and yet remarkably obscure case of the darker side of UFO encounters.

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13-03-2021 om 17:20 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Alien Woman Arrival On Brazilian Island & Beginning Of UFO Sightings In 1970s

The second country with the most UFO sightings and alien encounters after the US is Brazil. Very few of us know about the “Operation Saucer” also known as Operação Prato carried out by the Brazilian Air Force under the command of Colonel Uyrangê Hollanda to investigate the series of UFO sightings that happened in the mid-1970s that included attacks by light rays. Before the beginning of all these, a mysterious woman arrived at Ilha do Meio, situated in the Brazilian State of Pará.

Researcher Vitorio Peret recalled that in 1975, a woman named Elizabeth Quimine Berger arrived in Urumajó, now Augusto Corrêa. Her intention was to purchase lands on the Island of Meio, located 200 km from the city. She was a white blonde with blue eyes. The woman claimed to be a divorcee and a fashion designer by profession. Interestingly, according to locals, she was very short, only 132 cm. She was born in Switzerland, had an English passport, and was a resident of Paris.

There was one boatman named João Olaya, who could carry travelers across the island. She got acquainted with him and asked him to take her to the island where she offered the locals to sell their lands to her in exchange for good cash. At first, the locals had no intention to sell their properties to some strange foreign woman. But later, she offered them a huge amount of money and bought plots on the island. Soon, she purchased all other properties near to her previous purchases. Although she became the owner of many lands, the mysterious woman used to spend very little time there as she was mostly out of the island.

In some time, the local fishermen and other people started spotting strange lights over the island, and this sparked a rumor that the woman was an extraterrestrial. Some fishermen reported seeing her taking a group of white people with blond hair (around 40-50) to the island. She also used to buy large quantities of fish (around 400 kg of fish) every month from the local fishermen.

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According to the reports, the locals saw a white ball of lights that looked like “small moons” that landed on the island. What’s more, at the time when the UFO sightings began in the area, Berger was reportedly seen going out in the middle of the night. Some boatman who had access to traveling to the island once followed her and saw her walking on the water without any clothes. The woman became popular among the locals after such details. Some of them even complained to the police about it.

She was questioned by the police three times but was always released as they had never found any strong evidence against her related to the strange light phenomenon. Colonel Uyrangê Hollanda became aware of the strange resident and suspected that she had been feeding guerrillas, as they said that she regularly was seen with dozens of men.

Only when she was on the island, strange cylindrical lights and objects, looking like probes, appeared and evolved at night. The colonel searched her place and was surprised. The house had no windows, no doors, no dishes, no furniture. Just a bed and two chairs, Peret said.

Peret recalled that an American arrived on the island in 1975 when there were already reports of the phenomena that affected the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Some people were hit by beams of light, including that caused burns. This American claimed to be a commercial pilot who joined NASA and appeared on Mosqueiro Island amid evidence of extraterrestrial activities in the area.

“His neighbors on the island reported that he had very modern equipment for the time and in relation to what was in the region, such as a structure for radio communication that did not even exist in Belém, and even a notebook, something unthinkable for the time. his was the fastest in the region and he never bought anything on the island. Not even a loaf. Twice a week, he went out on a speedboat and came back with groceries,” said Peret.

Peret was suspicious of the NASA interference in Operation Saucer because when the room of that man was searched, his walls were full of formulas, and images of space and rockets were found on the site where his house was. He died on the island in 1982.

Meanwhile, when Berger was arrested the third time, she was escorted by four policemen but vanished soon after she asked to go to the bathroom. It is shocking that she could disappear from the bathroom which had only one door and a small window.

According to Ufologist Moacyr de Mendonça de Uchôa, she was seen dressed as a nurse in Los Angeles 1985/1986 Earthquakes, helping the wounded. Interpol tried to track her but failed. Later, she was seen in South Korea. Later, the police found out that her passport fake, and Elisabeth Queminet Berger was a Swiss woman who died in 1937.

It is one of the unsolved mysteries that still astonishes people. There is a theory that she was either an extraterrestrial or a time traveler who traveled to Earth for some business but had to go due to too much interference by the Brazilian officials.

References:

• https://ufo.com.br/entrevistas/o-chupa-chupa-nao-foi-causado-por-um-unico-grupo-de-extraterrestres.html
• https://uk.news.yahoo.com/operation-saucer-official-search-ufos-155317373.html
• https://www.otempo.com.br/cidades/escalada-dos-indicadores-da-covid-motivou-novas-restricoes-em-bh-diz-secretario-1.2458737
• https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/MUFON/Pratt/prato.pdf

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13-03-2021 om 17:01 geschreven door peter  

False dawn’s truth? Scientists say they’ve finally cracked centuries-old mystery, thanks to the Juno probe

Danish scientists say they have solved the mystery of 'false dawns'.

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The team from the Technical University of Denmark had designed and placed four cameras to be used to navigate the Juno orbiter for its launch in August 2011. The craft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

While traveling to the gas giant, the orbiter passed through a dust storm - but only now have the researchers had a chance to analyze the findings. The dust particles hit Juno with force but were too small to be initially picked up on the cameras. 

Professor John Leif Jorgensen, who co-authored a study in the scientific journal of Geophysical Research published online on Tuesday, told TV2 that there were so many small objects, it looked as if someone had shaken a tablecloth full of bread crumbs out the window. His team found at least 23,000 pieces when they analyzed the recordings.

The team calculated that because of where the material hit Juno along its journey to Jupiter, it had to be dust escaping from the gravitational field of the red planet.

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13-03-2021 om 16:00 geschreven door peter  

If you’ve ever rolled out of bed before dawn – or rolled home at that time – and were surprised to see the sky lit up in a strange way without any hint of the sun creeping up over the horizon, you were most likely witnessing an appropriately named phenomena known as a “false dawn.” If the light looks triangular, you’re not hallucinating (OK, you might be, but that’s your problem) – that’s the shape it takes. And if you’re afraid to tell anyone else because they might think you’re crazy, they probably already do – but you’re in good company … the ‘false dawn’ has been reported pre-Columbian Mesoamericans, astronomers as early as the 1600s and even the prophet Muhammed. They all asked the same question you probably did: “What IS that?” Good news – unlike them, you’re about to find out … and it’s not of this Earth.

“The Zodiacal light is sunlight reflected by dust in the inner solar system. Variations in the Zodiacal light with ecliptic latitude reveal discrete bands of dust orbiting near the ecliptic plane. The Juno spacecraft, in transit from earth to Jupiter, recorded a sufficient number of impacts with this dust to characterize their distribution in space for the first time.”

Juno

In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Danish astronomers led by Professor John Leif Jørgensen from the Technical University of Denmark dug deeper into photographs taken in 2016 by advanced Danish cameras onboard the Juno spacecraft as it approached Jupiter. That’s when Juno unexpectedly encountered a dust storm which was invisible to the cameras but hit Juno with such force that they knocked particles off of the surface of the craft. And not just a few – a count by Jørgensen’s team found at least 23,000 small pieces.

The dust itself was not a surprise – there is an elliptical plane of dust throughout the solar system, as the study notes. And it has been speculated that the ‘false dawn’ phenomena – called Zodiacal light by astronomers – was caused by this dust reflecting sunlight. However, Juno gave the astronomers the first chance to identify where the dust came from – and the answer shocked them

“The radial distribution of the dust suggests a primary source of dust with the orbital elements (inclination and eccentricity) of Mars, scattered into a secondary population at higher inclination to the ecliptic.”

Up until now, astronomers speculated that this dust came from asteroids and comets traveling through the solar system. In fact, the cameras were on Juno to look at asteroids, not dust. Once they knew what it was, they realized the distribution matched the dust around Mars – another planetary mystery, as dust can’t escape the gravitational field of Earth because the atmosphere traps it. Mars has a thin, dry atmosphere and its gravitational field is very weak, but the team can’t explain how so much of its dust escapes – especially to Earth where it helps create false dawns in the spring in the Northern Hemisphere and in the late fall in the Southern Hemisphere.

“The IDP environment recorded by Juno on its journey to Jupiter has potentially significant implications for the design and qualification of space flight hardware as well as mission design.”

While the ‘false dawn’ discovery was interesting, the team was concerned about the impact of the interplanetary dust particles (IDP) from Mars on Juno – the reason why they could see it. Juno was solar-powered, but its solar array was strong enough to survive the impacts. Next generation solar-powered deep space crafts will have ultra‐thin, flexible solar arrays. Will they survive?

There’s something to ponder during your next false dawn.

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13-03-2021 om 15:56 geschreven door peter  

David Wilcock: Ancient Lost Knowledge... The Earth's Cycle and Hidden Meanings

David Wilcock: Ancient Lost Knowledge… The Earth’s Cycle and Hidden Meanings

David Wilcock maps out the three 3rd density cycles which have shaped the history of intelligent life on Earth. The first cycle, with Lemuria, degraded as many different off-world cultures did not integrate well. Thus, this first cycle was a failure. The second cycle came and went quietly with few ascensions. As we approach the end of the third cycle, are we doomed to repeat the mistakes that have locked humanity in 3rd density? David examines these cycles in association with Atlantis and ancient texts from around the world.

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13-03-2021 om 15:31 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sighting in Japan!! And the UFO Dropped Something!! Slow Moving UFO Seen in Costa Rica!!NEVADA , US .AMAZING UFO SIGHTING

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• https://sputniknews.com/viral/202003061078494363-ufo-bigger-than-earth..  

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13-03-2021 om 15:18 geschreven door peter  

UFO On UK TV Broadcast Feb 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 1, 2021
Location of sighting: London, England

 

This UFO was seen and recorded by Youtuber UFO London. He caught an unknown flying object shooting past the UK news reporter.

The video is slowed down and shows close ups to help us better see the object. What looks like one UFO is actually two! The UFOs are flying side by side. This is similar to USAF military jet formation where a US fighter jet always takes off with a wingman. A wingman is a second fighter jet that follows along side you to watch out for you. 100% proof of UFOs Over London!

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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13-03-2021 om 14:37 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over San Pedro valle ,Colombia On Feb 11, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 11, 2021

Location of sighting: San Pedro Valle, Colombia

 

Colombia is well known for its UFO sightings and here in this video is more evidence to such. The UFO is seen flying over the forest area along some mountains and was noticed by Youtuber Anderson Osorio who recorded its movement for us. The video was taken late at night and shows an unknown glowing object. Its amazing to watch this object moving across the sky like that. Its at cloud level and moves very fast. Defiantly a UFO. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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13-03-2021 om 14:34 geschreven door peter  

Orb Seen Over Oahu, Hawaii On Feb 7, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 7, 2021
Location of sighting: Makaha Oahu, Hawaii, USA

 

UFOs are often come from underwater base and wander to the shores to explore. Here we have just such a UFO. The craft is coming very close the top of the building where it can scan and study the humans inside. I really like this video, because she has a steady hand with the camera and we get to see the movement of the UFO really well. At the end of the video, one person laughs and says its a plane, but honestly he is just guessing. There is no sound, no aircraft lights and no wings for him to jump to such a conclusion. This is a UFO. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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13-03-2021 om 14:23 geschreven door peter  

UFO Fleet Over Israel Fired Upon By Iron Dome Defense, Dec 11, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: Dec 11, 2020
Location of sighting: Isreal
Source: Email report

 

Here is an interesting report that I have never seen before. It was sent to me by email from one of my subscribers. 

 

I tried to figure out what the lights could be other than UFOs. At first I thought it might be the Israeli Army firing at a distant enemy. Then I thought it could be the famous Iron Dome defense system shooting at in coming missiles. But artillery fire is incredibly fast, unlike the lights we see here. I have watched videos of the Iron Dome defense system...This is the only likely possibility. 

 

But what if the Iron Dome defense system, which was made to defend Israel from Palestinian missiles...what if the Iron Dome accidentally attacked a UFO fleet passing over Israel? That is what it looks like to me, I see a combination of both glowing UFOs and explosive smoke in the sky. I will put the comparison screenshot above to compare and contrast yourself. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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13-03-2021 om 14:16 geschreven door peter  

On February 2007, NASA's probe Stereo B Cor1B recorded a huge unknown spherical object passing the Sun. 

To this day there are still many questions about this mysterious object. Maybe an unknown celestial body or something extraterrestrial?

  

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13-03-2021 om 13:16 geschreven door peter  

Multiple fastwalker UFOs in the sky above Syracuse, NY 9-Mar-2021

A lot of strange UFO activity was filmed in the night sky above Syracuse in New York on 9th March 2021. Here a author’s statements…

Witness report: 

Multiple orbs hovering and moving at impossible speeds at varying heights. Orbs appear directly overhead after being circled with a laser pointer. BACKGROUND: Since I first saw a large red orb in August of 2020 (MUFON report 110659) I have documented on video hundreds of orbs of varying sizes, colors and distances appearing over Central New York. These orbs are an every night event, if the sky is clear these strange orbs are visible. I have purchased two nightvision cameras in order to document and attempt to explain what I am seeing but the events I capture are getting stranger over time.On Tuesday March 9th, 2021 I went outside during my usual nightly filming session at 645 and set up one camera in a fixed location on a tripod and another on a monopod that I could use to control. I was on an elevated pool deck where I saw the typical orbs I see on a nightly basis and recorded those.

Throughout the night I observed multiple orbs moving through the airspace at speeds that I’ve never seen some were captured some were not. Around 750PM I saw a rather bright orb through my second camera and was tracking the object as it flew over my neighborhood. I used a green laser pointer to circle the object and upon doing this it seemed as though I provoked a response. The object began to move much more rapidly and also dimmed as it was very bright before. I eventually lost the object over the southern sky. I looked up and there were 2 very bright orbs directly over me. One orb seemed to circle and another orb slowly moved passed me until moving over the nearby treeline where I lost sight. I noticed a lot of movement in the sky above me but was unable to see anything else with my eyes. Unfortunately the video recording from the camera I was using is somehow corrupted despite all other files being intact. My other camera managed to record audio and video from the incident but was pointing slightly off from where I was. Upon playback of the videos recorded from my secondary camera, I realized how many objects had been above me that night.I have 100s of videos of these strange orbs flying over a densely populated city. I use star charts, air traffic radar, satellite tracking etc to debunk and I still cannot figure out what I am witnessing. I have uploaded a few videos to youtube in hopes of finding answers but I am not sure where to go now.

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13-03-2021 om 12:57 geschreven door peter  

Meteorite from brilliant UK fireball is England's first in 30 years

By Mike Wall 

It's the first meteorite found in the UK since 1991.

A chunk of the meteorite that was recovered from Winchcombe in England on March 1, 2021 — the first meteorite found in the United Kingdom since 1991. 

(Image credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London)

A piece of the space rock that lit up skies over England on Feb. 28 has been found.

The singed hunk of asteroid was discovered in the driveway of a house in Winchcombe, a small town in the county of Gloucestershire in southwestern England. The rock, which weighs nearly 10.6 ounces (300 grams), is the first meteorite found in the UK since 1991, experts said, and the first known carbonaceous chondrite ever discovered in the country.

Carbonaceous chondrites are especially pristine and primitive meteorites that generally contain lots of organic material, including complex molecules such as amino acids. Studying carbonaceous chondrites can shed light on the early solar system and how the building blocks of life found their way to Earth, researchers say.

• Fireballs, spaceships, iguanas: 7 strange things that fell from the sky in 2020

Such study is already under way at the Natural History Museum in London, where the meteorite now resides.

"This is really exciting. There are about 65,000 known meteorites in the entire world, and of those only 51 of them are carbonaceous chondrites that have been seen to fall like this one," Sara Russell, a meteorite scientist at the museum, said in a statement. 

"It is almost mind-blowingly amazing, because we are working on the asteroid sample-return space missions Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx, and this material looks exactly like the material they are collecting," Russell said. "I am just speechless with excitement."

Japan's Hayabusa2 mission returned about 0.16 ounces (4.5 g) of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe collected a large sample of the space rock Bennu in October of that year. The Bennu bits will land here on Earth in September 2023, if all goes according to plan.

The newfound meteorite was spotted shortly after it came down. Residents of the Winchcombe house saw black smudges on their driveway on the morning of March 1, the day after the fireball blazed bright in England's skies. They soon collected pieces of the space rock that had made the marks and contacted the UK Meteor Observation Network, which then got in touch with Natural History Museum personnel.  

"For somebody who didn't really have an idea what it actually was, the finder did a fantastic job in collecting it," Ashley King, another meteorite researcher at the museum, said in the same statement.

"He bagged most of it up really quickly on Monday morning, perhaps less than 12 hours after the actual event. He then kept finding bits in his garden over the next few days," King added. "It looks a bit like coal. It is really black, but it is much softer and is really quite fragile. It is exciting for us, because this type of meteorite is incredibly rare but holds important clues about our origins."

The parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites can hit Earth's atmosphere going more than 150,000 mph (240,000 kph), King said. But the Feb. 28 fireball came in much more slowly, at "only" around 31,000 mph (50,000 kph), which explains why some pieces of the rock survived the fiery ordeal.

"The fact that it was going quite slowly, and then that it was collected so quickly after landing, avoiding any rainfall that could change its pristine composition, means that we've just really lucked out with everything," he said. 

A number of fireball cameras captured the Feb. 28 event, allowing researchers to calculate a probable landing zone for meteorites and determine a rough trajectory for the parent body. These analyses indicate that the object came from the outer region of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists said.

There may well be more meteorite fragments from the Feb. 28 fireball waiting to be found. If you spot something in the Gloucestershire area that you suspect is a space rock, photograph it and record its location, Natural History Museum personnel said. Then collect a sample using a gloved hand, store the stuff in aluminum foil and contact the museum.  

Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. 

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12-03-2021 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

Unlike Earth, Mars might not have had a global ocean of magma

12-03-2021 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

Ecoutez le vent et les premiers tirs de laser sur Mars

Le CNES vient de dévoiler les enregistrements réalisés depuis plusieurs semaines grâce au microphone qui équipe l’instrument Supercam embarqué sur le rover Perseverance.

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12-03-2021 om 22:01 geschreven door peter  

330-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Monolith or Tower Found Near Area 51 using Satellite Images – In The Middle of Nowhere (video)

A group of ufologists made a marvelous discovery when analyzing some of the photographs in Area 51, situated in Nevada. Area 51, according to conspirators, is the location where US armed forces execute extraterrestrial technology tests.

It’s a triangular monolith or tower with a rather modern theme. The tower lies on a circular foundation and is measured to be around 330 feet tall. The coordinates are: 37º14’44” N 115º49’22” W

Civilians are not permitted to reach this base, of course. Most conspirators assume that this is a kind of contact station for extraterrestrial cultures. Others assume that this structure is used for teleportation.

Another hypothesis supports the notion that the structure is built to monitor the classified aircraft manufactured by the Americans. Finally, a tiny number of ufologists claim that the system is nothing but a hologram.

The members of Area 51, however, fail to make any statements on the intent of this structure. They always demand that all interested people don’t place their noses where they’re not being questioned. As long as we don’t realize the true facts, we can just guess.

Have a peek at the video below and share your impressions with us.

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12-03-2021 om 21:48 geschreven door peter  

A Secret Property is a thinly-veiled, fictional version of what happened at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980. It’s author: the late Ralph Noyes who rose to a significant position in the U.K. Ministry of Defense. Consider the following: in Noyes’ story we have a Colonel Hoyt, a military base called Bentbridge, and mysterious action deep in the woods. And, Noyes had the absolute gall to deny that his story was a roman-à-clef. The Grammarist says: “A roman-à-clef is a novel which depicts real-world people and events, with fictional names. Usually, details concerning the people and events are changed in minor ways in order to sustain the pretense of fiction. The amount of fictionalization in a roman-à-clef can vary widely.”

In Noyes’ case, the amount was huge. Most important of all, it is not the matter of how much data and material Noyes chose to fictionalize in A Secret Property. Rather, it’s the theme of Noyes’ story that is so important and relevant to us – more than thirty-five years after his book was published. In her 1991 book From Out of the Blue, Jenny Randles said of Noyes’ story that it involved a technology that “produces etheric visions of aliens and spaceships” and that can “effect the real world in various hazardous ways.” We’re talking about the Rendlesham event being a secret experiment undertaken by military personnel, intelligence agencies and more.

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In her third book on the subject of Rendlesham – UFO Crash Landing? – Randles got right to the heart of the matter, pointing out something that has been largely overlooked by so many in Ufology. Jenny said that Noyes’ scenario in A Secret Property brought together “sophisticated computer-controlled technology with the power within human consciousness and the natural forces of the Earth itself. Blending both mind and electronics together, it endeavored to forge a powerful ‘psychic’ weapon.” Just about everything Noyes wrote about in his 1985 novel – and that Randles discussed in relation to Noyes – smacks of classified operations, visionary experiences, and strange technology; all of which are at the heart of the overall “secret experiment” scenario for what happened at Rendlesham Forest more than forty years ago. Randles may not have realized how close she came to penetrating the truth of the matter. I would say she was right on the cusp of one of the most important parts of this overall story. Unfortunately, yet predictably, in the 1990s mainstream Ufology was still way too excited – years after Rendlesham occurred – by tales of aliens and extraterrestrial spaceships. Much of that was prompted by the influence that the hugely popular show The X-Files had on the U.K.’s ufology.

Noyes knew something of what happened in the woods – or, at the very least, he had his suspicions about the genuine scenario. Perhaps, those suspicions came via government sources – possibly, even, from retired colleagues from the MoD, who may have provided a few snippets of information and strategically-placed clues. In all probability, though, Noyes never knew the full story, but learned enough of it to allow him to blend the shocking truth into a readable page-turner. Noyes did us all a service by trying to get the truth of Rendlesham into the open, and without causing himself problems with his old employers at the Ministry of Defense. He was, after all, on a government pension, something that would certainly have led him to tread very carefully.

Ralph Noyes was interviewed by Andy Roberts and Dr. David Clarke, who have both taken an interest in the Rendlesham case. Noyes told the pair: “In the several capacities which brought me into touch with UFO reports during my 28 years in the MoD, I encountered several reports, particularly those from military establishments, which indicated ‘high strangeness.’ I, and military colleagues, had little doubt something had taken place for which we had no explanation.” On the matter of what happened in those woods – or what didn’t happen, depending where you’re coming from – Noyes offered the following to Clarke and Roberts: “There is no doubt at all that the MoD played a thoroughly dishonest game over the Rendlesham affair…The case itself is complex. I have given my own views about it–essentially that Halt and several others came face to face with a striking manifestation of the ‘UFO phenomenon’ whatever that may be, in the December of 1980.”

Noyes also made this highly valid statement: “Unless Lt. Col. Halt was out of his mind, there is clear evidence in his report that British airspace and territory were intruded upon by an unidentified vehicle on two occasions in late December 1980 and that no authority was able to prevent this. If, on the other hand, Halt’s report cannot be believed, there is equally clear evidence of a serious misjudgment of events by USAF personnel at an important base in British territory. Either way, the case can hardly be without defense significance.”

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12-03-2021 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

La Chine et la Russie signent un accord pour la construction d'un village lunaire

Rémy Decourt - Journaliste

 [EN VIDÉO] Bientôt une base permanente sur la Lune ?  La Lune est l’astre le plus proche de la Terre. Pourtant, depuis la fin du programme Apollo, notre satellite naturel n’a plus connu de visite. Cela pourrait bientôt changer car l'Agence spatiale européenne (Esa) prépare la construction d’une base permanente à sa surface. La chaîne Euronews nous parle de ce projet ambitieux dans ce nouvel épisode de Space. 

Pour ne pas laisser les États-Unis, seuls sur la Lune, s'accaparer des ressources naturelles et s'approprier de grands territoires comme le permet le Space Act of 2015, la Chine et la Russie ont décidé de coopérer dans la réalisation d'une station internationale de recherche lunaire. Cette station pourrait soit être une base en dur installée au pôle sud, soit une station spatiale orbitale. Un mémorandum d'accord vient d'être signé entre les agences spatiales chinoise et russe qui invitent également tous les pays à y participer. 

Objectif Lune pour la Chine et la Russie. Les deux puissances spatiales veulent également leur « part de la Lune » mais aussi ne pas trop se faire distancer par les États-Unis dont les ambitions lunaires inquiètent les deux pays, traditionnellement opposés à Washington.

Ce 9 mars, dans un communiqué conjoint, Zhang Kejian, directeur de l'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA, China National Space Administration), et Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, directeur général de Roscosmos (Russian National Aerospace Corporation), ont annoncé avoir signé un « Mémorandum d'accord entre le gouvernement de la République populaire de Chine et le gouvernement de la Fédération de Russie pour la construction en coopération d'une station internationale de recherche lunaire. »

S'inspirant du concept de « village lunaire » ou « Moon Village » proposé par le directeur général de l'ESA, l'Allemand Jan Woerner, ce projet sera ouvert à tous les pays intéressés. Des partenariats internationaux qui « visent à renforcer la collaboration en matière de recherche et à promouvoir l'exploration et l'utilisation de l'espace à des fins pacifiques dans l'intérêt de toute l'humanité », souligne le communiqué. Cela dit, la Chine et la Russie cherchent surtout à fédérer autour d'elles les puissances spatiales des pays émergents d'Asie, d'Afrique et d'Amérique du Sud qui ne participent pas au programme Artemis des États-Unis. Quant à l'Agence spatiale européenne, il ne fait guère de doute qu'elle participera d'une manière ou d'une autre à cette initiative russo-chinoise. Difficile d'imaginer l'ESA faire l'impasse sur un projet aussi ambitieux, avec d'importantes retombées technologiques, scientifiques et économiques, elle qui coopère déjà avec ses deux puissances spatiales sur plusieurs programmes d'exploration et d'observation de la Terre et qui participe à de nombreuses activées liées aux vols habités.

Concept d'une base lunaire au pôle sud de l'Agence spatiale chinoise.

© CNSA 

Incertitude sur la nature de cette future station de recherche : base au sol ou station en orbite

Cette annonce, qui ne surprend pas les spécialistes, est tout de même assez vague. Bien que cela fasse plusieurs années que Russes et Chinois tendent à se rapprocher autour d'ambitieux programmes spatiaux, on peut s'étonner que ce mémorandum ne précise pas s'il s'agit d'une base habitée sur la surface ou d'une station en orbite à proximité de la Lune. Le communiqué conjoint se borne à préciser qu'il est question d'une « Station internationale de recherche lunaire (ILRS, International Lunar Research Station) [qui] consiste en un ensemble d'outils de recherche expérimentaux créés à la surface ou en orbite de la Lune et conçus pour mener des travaux pluridisciplinaires. »

À cela s'ajoute qu'aucun calendrier n'a été annoncé et encore moins le budget que les deux puissances prévoient d'allouer à ce projet. Cependant, une feuille de route devrait être rendue publique « sous peu » fixant des objectifs calendaires avec, en point de mire, une date de mise en service, vraisemblablement dans le courant de la décennie 2030.

Cela dit, on imagine mal les Chinois, voire les Russes, se cantonner à l'orbite lunaire et ne pas débarquer des taïkonautes et des cosmonautes sur la Lune alors qu'Américains y séjourneront et travailleront d'ici moins d'une décennie. Il faut savoir que les plans de l'Agence spatiale chinoise prévoient la construction d'une base lunaire près du pôle sud qui devrait être mise en service vers 2035, suivie d'une présence humaine prolongée et permanente pour la période 2036-2045. À suivre donc.

Pour explorer la Lune, la Chine renforce ses partenariats avec la Russie

Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 19/08/2017

La Chine et la Russie ont décidé de renforcer leurs liens dans le domaine spatial. Cette coopération sera officialisée cet automne. Elle engagera les deux pays sur des programmes emblématiques et d'envergure, notamment l'exploration de la Lune.

Les sanctions occidentales mises en place contre la Russie suite à l'annexion de la Crimée en mars 2014 pénalisent l'économie russe à court terme. Toutefois, ces mesures éloignent la Russie du monde occidental et la poussent vers d'autres pays, comme la Chine et l'Inde. Dans le domaine spatial, malgré des relations de travail excellentes avec la Nasa et l'ESA (le programme de la Station spatiale internationale est un exemple de relations pragmatiques et intelligentes entre tous les partenaires), la Russie se tourne vers les Brics (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine et Afrique du Sud) et d'autres pays comme l'Indonésie, les Émirats arabes unis, le Vietnam et l'Iran.

Dans ce contexte, la Russie et la Chine ont décidé de renforcer leurs partenariats dans le secteur spatial. Cet automne, ces deux pays signeront des accords de coopération pour la période 2018-2022 dans de nombreux domaines. Ils prévoient notamment une exploration commune de la Lune, d'importants transferts de technologies et des partenariats dans le domaine de l'accès à l'espace et le partage de données liées à l'observation de la Terre. Cependant, la Russie ne va évidemment pas réduire son avantage technologique en matière de nouvelles technologies spatiales.

Résoudre certains problèmes technologiques

Ces deux pays ont également décidé de rendre compatibles entre eux les systèmes de navigation et positionnement par satellites Glonass (Russie) et Beidou (Chine). Des stations sol de ces GPS russes et chinois seront notamment installées sur le territoire de chacun.

Pour la Chine, ces futurs partenariats arrivent à point nommé : ils pourraient l'aider à résoudre un certain nombre de problèmes technologiques clés pour les étapes futures de son programme spatial. En s'associant à la Russie, la Chine choisit ainsi une manière de contourner les effets des embargos et autres restrictions Itar auxquelles elle est encore soumise.

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12-03-2021 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers willen Ark van Noach bouwen op de maan

Wetenschappers van de universiteit van Arizona hebben een opmerkelijk voorstel uitgewerkt dat het leven op Aarde zou kunnen redden mocht het ooit tot een Apocalyps komen. Ze willen een Ark van Noach bouwen in de lavatunnels op de maan, waarin erfelijk materiaal bewaard zou worden van 6,7 miljoen schimmel-, plant- en diersoorten. Inclusief menselijke zaad- en eicellen. 

Het idee werd gepresenteerd op de IEEE Aerospace Conference, die momenteel (virtueel) plaatsvindt. Zelf noemen de wetenschappers het een “verzekeringspolis voor de Aarde”. Volgens professor Jekan Thanga is de kans groot dat de Aarde ooit geconfronteerd wordt met een natuurramp of een menselijke bedreiging zoals een globale nucleaire oorlog, waardoor een groot aantal soorten in korte tijd uitgeroeid zal worden.

De oplossing is volgens zijn team de bouw van een Ark van Noach op de maan. En dat plan is verrassend realistisch. De Ark zou ondergebracht worden in de lavatunnels op onze satelliet. Die werden voor het eerst ontdekt in 2013, zitten 80 tot 100 meter onder de grond en er heerst een vrij constante temperatuur van -25 graden Celsius. Ze zouden al drie tot vier miljard jaar ongerept gebleven zijn. “Ze zijn ook maar vier dagen van de Aarde verwijderd”, aldus Thanga. “En ze zijn een perfecte schuilplaats tegen de temperatuurschommelingen aan de oppervlakte van de maan, kosmische straling en het inslaan van kleine meteorieten.”

Doomsday Vault

De Ark zou het aardse leven bewaren in speciale modules, bij een temperatuur van minder dan -180 graden Celsius. Op die manier kan het honderden jaren overleven, volgens de wetenschappers. Het zou om een opzet gaan dat te vergelijken is met de Doomsday of Global Seed Vault. Die zit een paar honderd meter onder de eilandengroep Spitsbergen vlakbij de Noordpool en herbergt 556 miljoen zaden. De zaden zouden daar veilig moeten zitten voor het geval een gigantische ramp alle gewassen op aarde zou vernietigen. Een soortgelijke kluis op de maan zou echter nóg veiliger zijn, volgens de Amerikaanse wetenschappers.

Energie opwekken voor het project zou geen probleem mogen zijn op de maan. Met amper 190 vierkante meter aan zonnepanelen zou het moeten lukken, volgens de wetenschappers. Zowel de levering als de constructie van de Ark zou niet evident zijn, maar ook niet onmogelijk.

Het vervoeren van de stalen naar de maan zou volgens Thanga met 250 vluchten geklaard kunnen worden. Ter vergelijking: de bouw van het internationaal ruimtestation ISS gebeurde met 40 vluchten. Zelf vindt hij dat dit meevalt. “We hadden verwacht dat het er veel meer zouden zijn”, zegt hij.

Hindernissen

Maar eerst moeten nog een aantal praktische hindernissen overwonnen worden. “Ons onderzoek leert ons dat er nieuwe technologieën nodig zijn om dit tot een goed einde te brengen", klinkt het. “Er zijn ook investeringen en nieuwe ontwikkelingen nodig in de robotica, om onder de extreem koude temperaturen te kunnen opereren.”

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12-03-2021 om 17:34 geschreven door peter