Fast UFO recorded with a field camera over Orlando, Florida 13-Mar-2021

This fast UFO was flying at really low altitude. It was filmed with a field camera in Orlando, Florida on 13th March 2021.

Witness report: 

video was taken by my field camera approx. 5 feet off ground. As you can see in video, the deer was not affected by the object leading me to believe that it made no sound as it traveled at high speed past the camera.

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23-03-2021 om 16:43 geschreven door peter  

The Way To Find ET’s Intelligent Life

Despite humanity’s best efforts to find evidence of intelligent alien life out there somewhere in the Universe, we’ve turned up squat so far. Is Earth really so unique, or is it just that any extraterrestrials that once existed gave up the ghost long ago?

A new Canadian study suggests there’s an alternative possibility. Aliens may very well be out there and looking for us too, and, if so, our best chance of finding one another is to presume that their ability to see across the chasm of space is effectively the same as our own.

One of the ways our Earthly scientists study faraway planets is by examining their shadows as they pass in front of their host stars. The authors of the new study – to be published in Astrobiology – say this is the most likely way alien observers would know anything of Earth too.

“It’s impossible to predict whether extraterrestrials use the same observational techniques as we do,” said astrophysicist René Heller, who worked on the research while at McMaster University in Canada, and is now at the Institute for Astrophysics in Göttingen, Germany. “But they will have to deal with the same physical principles as we do, and Earth’s solar transits are an obvious method to detect us.”

When a planet performs a transit in front of a star – as seen with Venus passing over the Sun in the NASA image above – it’s the closest astronomers get to shining a light on planets that are so far away, they’re difficult to study in other ways.

Transit observation not only allows scientists to visually see planets using telescopes, but it also helps them to collect other kinds of data, such as atmospheric conditions and surface temperature, giving them an idea of whether the world they’re looking at might be habitable.

It stands to reason that intelligent extraterrestrials with the same level of technology could find Earth the same way – and in fact, they might already have done so.

“If any of these planets host intelligent observers, they could have identified Earth as a habitable, even as a living world long ago and we could be receiving their broadcasts today,” the authors write in their paper.

The scientists propose that we should focus our alien-hunting efforts on Earth’s own transit zone – a thin slice of space, about half a degree wide, but potentially less for atmospheric detection – from which our planet’s passage in front of the Sun can be detected from elsewhere in the Milky Way.

That slender window in space is where we’re most visible to anybody out there, so that’s where we should be looking – or listening – for any kinds of extraterrestrial broadcasts or communications.

“As an ultimate consequence,” the researchers write, “even if our species chose to remain radio-quiet to eschew interstellar contact, we cannot hide from observers located in Earth’s solar transit zone, if they exist.”

By Peter Dockrill

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23-03-2021 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

Perseverance’s first month on Mars has yielded new sights and sounds

By Leah Crane

Since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on 18 February, it has been doing as much science as it can during the testing phase of its scientific instruments. That has involved driving short distances and taking pictures of the rocks near the landing site.

“So far, all of this has been going exceedingly well,” said Ken Farley at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, during a presentation at the virtual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on 16 March. “We’ve had no major technical issues.” The rover’s first drive on 4 March – which lasted 33 minutes and covered about 6.5 metres – demonstrated that it can, in fact, rove, and the other tests are going smoothly as well, he said.

Perseverance has a microphone, which has allowed us to hear the Red Planet for the first time. It recorded more than 16 minutes of audio as it drove around on Mars on 7 March, and some of that is below.

“If I heard these sounds driving my car, I’d pull over and call for a tow,” said Dave Gruel at JPL in a statement. “But if you take a minute to consider what you’re hearing and where it was recorded, it makes perfect sense.” However, one of the high-pitched scratching noises in the recordings was unexpected and NASA engineers are now trying to figure out what is causing it.

Perseverance has also zapped several of the rocks near its landing site with its laser to determine their chemical compositions. They are similar to basaltic rocks on Earth, and some of them also appear to have water locked up in their molecular structure. Many of the nearby rocks contain visible holes, some of which were probably bored by wind, whereas others may have been sculpted by flowing water.

All of these findings are exactly what scientists expected. Basalts form from molten rock and we knew that Jezero crater, where Perseverance landed, ought to have volcanic rocks that were once covered by the lake that used to fill the crater.

One of the images taken during testing even showed a Martian dust devil – a rotating column of dust – moving across the surface. These are common on Mars – most of the spacecraft we have sent there, including the Viking landers in the 1970s, have spotted them at some point.

Perseverance’s next major task will be to test Ingenuity, the small helicopter that the rover carried to Mars in its belly. For that, Perseverance will drop Ingenuity off, drive a short distance away and attempt to take a video of the helicopter as it lifts into the Martian air.

After Ingenuity’s test flights, which are expected to happen this spring, the rover will be free to drive further afield and begin its science phase in earnest. At that point, it will begin searching for signs of ancient life and take samples to be returned to Earth by a later mission planned for 2026.

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23-03-2021 om 00:30 geschreven door peter  

The Best UFO Sightings Videos & Encounters Of 2021

We start 2021 very much in the same way we began 2020 – with an apparent expectation of a huge release of information combined with an admission of prior knowledge about the existence of UFOs and alien life. Essentially, “disclosure”. Of course, whether that disclosure arrives remains to be seen....

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22-03-2021 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

The U.S. Navy's “UFO patents” sound like they've been ripped from a science fiction novel.

 By Matthew Gault

IMAGE: LT. STEVE SMITH/U.S. NAVY VIA GETTY IMAGES

The U.S. Navy has patents on weird and little understood technology. According to patents filed by the Navy, it is working on a compact fusion reactor that could power cities, an engine that works using “inertial mass reduction,” and a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” Dubbed the “UFO patents, The War Zone has reported that the Navy had to build prototypes of some of the outlandish tech to prove it worked.

Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais is the man behind the patents and The War Zone has proven the man exists, at least on paper. Pais has worked for a number of different departments in the Navy, including the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR/NAWCAD) and the Strategic Systems Programs. (SSP) The SSP mission, according to its website, is to “provide credible and affordable strategic solutions to the warfighter.” It’s responsible for developing the technology behind the Trident class nuclear missiles launched from Submarines.

The patents all build on each other, but at their core is something Pais called the “Pais Effect.” This is the idea that, “controlled motion of electrically charged matter via accelerated vibration and/or accelerated spin subjected to smooth yet rapid acceleration transients, in order to generate extremely high energy/high intensity electromagnetic fields.” 

Essentially, Pais is claiming to use properly spun electromagnetic fields to contain a fusion reaction. That plasma fusion reaction he claims to have invented will revolutionize power consumption. Experts theorize that a functioning fusion reactor would lead to cheap and ubiquitous energy.

One of Pais and the Navy’s patents described what the propulsion system and fusion drive would be used for—a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” According to the patent, the craft could travel land, sea, and outer space at incredible speeds. Other patents invented by Pais and filed by the Navy include a “high temperature superconductor,” a “electromagnetic field generator,” and a “high frequency gravitational wave generator.”

It all sounds like science fiction, and the Navy has been skeptical too. Navy authorities called bullshit on Pais’ inventions and his patents went through a lengthy internal review at NAVAIR. The War Zone obtained emails about the bureaucratic fight between Pais and the Navy through a Freedom of Information Act Request and revealed that the mad scientist won. According to the patents, some of the technology is “operable.” That means the Navy is claiming some of Pais’ wild tech works and has been demonstrated to Navy officials.

The physics of what Pais is claiming are beyond theoretical and beyond the ken of the layman or lowly science reporter. But a paper about his compaction fusion reactor was accepted by the peer reviewed Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Plasma Science and published in its November 2019 issue. “The fact that my work on the design of a Compact Fusion Reactor was accepted for publication in such a prestigious journal as IEEE TPS, should speak volumes as to its importance and credibility - and should eliminate (or at least alleviate) all misconceptions you (or any other person) may have in regard to the veracity (or possibility) of my advanced physics concepts,” Pais told The War Zone in an email.

Pais continued to toot his own plasma horn. “Do realize that my work culminates in the enablement of the Pais Effect (original physical concept),” he said. “Such high energy [electromagnetic] radiation can locally interact with the Vacuum Energy State (VES) - the VES being the Fifth State of Matter (Fifth Essence - Quintessence), in other words the fundamental structure (foundational framework), from which Everything else (Spacetime included) in our Quantum Reality, emerges. The Engineering of the Pais Effect can give rise to the Enablement of Macroscopic Quantum Coherence, which if you have closely been following my work, you understand the importance of.”

If the email Pais sent sounds like the jargon filled ramblings of a mad scientist, you aren’t alone.

The Pais emails sound like the jargon filled ramblings of a mad scientist, but the Pentagon does have a history of successfully fostering cutting edge technology. More than 100 years ago, nuclear weapons were science fiction. GPS, the TOR network, and the internet itself all began life as Pentagon programs. Perhaps the Navy will soon revolutionize the way we think about energy and transportation.

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22-03-2021 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

Having taken a look at the FBI’s files on both George Adamski and George Van Tassel, I thought I would share with you the reasons why some of the other “Contactees” of the 1950s and 1960s were carefully watched by government agencies. We’ll begin with yet another FBI file on a certain friend of the Space Brothers. The man: George Hunt Williamson. It’s intriguing to note that the primary reason why Williamson had a file on him was because he was suspected of smuggling ancient artifacts over the Mexico border and into the United States. Something like that is all but guaranteed to ensure a file will be opened on you. For a while the FBI deeply pondered on whether or not they should get further involved in the pursuit of a potential crime that had occurred outside of its jurisdiction and in another country – Mexico – but finally dropped the matter; rather fortunately, it must be said, for Williamson. There is one particularly curious aspect of this particular affair: a number of the relevant documents are heavily censored according to category 1 of the Freedom of Information Act. Notably, 1 covers nothing less than matters that may have a potential effect on US national security. That strongly suggests there was something about Williamson that we still don’t know of to this very day.

Then, there’s the FBI file on Truman Bethurum, the man who, in the early 1950s, claimed to have met (on more than a few occasions) with a hot alien babe known as “Aura Rhanes.” As for why the FBI took so much interest in the Bethurum, the answer is very simple. The government was already keeping tabs on Bethurum, for one particularly interesting reason: he had made certain statements linking his experiences with Aura Rhanes to matters of a communist nature. In Bethurum’s own words: “Two or three fellows who had sons in Korea and who read a lot in the newspapers about the Communist underground in this country, were convinced in their own minds that I was, if making contact with anyone at all, making it with enemy agents. They even went so far as to tell me belligerently that they intended to get guns and follow me nights, and if they caught up me having intercourse with any people from planes, airships of any kind, they’d blast me and those people too.” And, as an amusing aside, it also led the FBI to refer Aura Rhanes in its files as a “ravishing woman commandant”! Even the Bureau, it seems, was infected by Aura’s intergalactic hotness!

Aura Rhanes, the alien who got Truman Bethurum’s blood-pressure in a dangerously high state!

George King’s Aetherius Society, which was also very much Contactee-driven from the late-1950s onward, was the subject of a secret file created by an arm of the U.K. police force called Special Branch. That file is now in the public domain, thanks to the terms of the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act. The file does not show that Special Branch was worried about alien encounters. Rather, the papers demonstrate that Special Branch was concerned by the fact that the Aetherius Society was allying itself with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was created in 1the 1950s. Special Branch certainly viewed King as, in their words, a “crank.” Special Branch  came to quickly realize that King was highly motivated when it came to getting the word out regarding his views on nuclear weapons and the Russians. That alone was certainly a matter of deep concern to the authorities. The surveillance, hardly surprisingly, continued at a steady and secret pace. A Special Branch document from 1959 provides the following on the Aetherius Society: “It crusades for the suspension of the H-bomb tests and supports the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It took part in what became known as the 1958 Aldermaston March and holds public meetings from time to time. One was held on 23^rd August 1959 when 200 persons formed a ‘quiet, amused’ audience. It was covered by Special Branch.” Special Branch eventually discontinued its surveillance of the Aetherius Society. The strange affair was finally over.

George King’s biggest nightmare: a nuclear war

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22-03-2021 om 21:57 geschreven door peter  

Abducted, She Escapes From An Alien Reptilian Ship! via Elena Danaan

Abducted, She Escapes From An Alien Ship! 

Two experiencers answer questions about how they escaped a reptilian mothership and how you can protect yourself.

Do not mistaken me for a New Age guru. I don’t pretend having the whole infused science. The humble knowledge I share is the result of my personal connexion with the Universe. Concerning aliens, all I know is what was shown to me by real ET’s, and my own physical experience. I am an experiencer with a scientific background and a training in ancient Earth traditions. As everyone, I have walked my path and I do my best at service of balance & justice.

What I do not know is greater than what I know. I feel it is my duty to speak honestly, to chase away the clouds of Artificial Ignorance put upon us to make us lose our way. The answers are to be found within. We have them all. Everything. Darkness tricks us to scatter ourselves that we never stand as a complete sovereign being in full power. If you don’t know how powerful you are, the slaves’ masters know it well and that’s why they keep us in the ignorance of our own selves. Discover who you truly are… you are all the answers.

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22-03-2021 om 20:59 geschreven door peter  

Steve Quayle: Stargates, UFOs and Demons and Fallen Angels

Steve Quayle is a researcher and author of over a dozen books dealing with advanced ancient technology and civilizations. His documentary film production company Gensix Productions films the “True Legends The Series” all over the world in search of the Lost Cities and the giants of history who were the builders of the great megalithic structures of the ancient world.

Steve is a former talk radio show host who has been warning against genetic armageddon and the end of the human race for decades. He claims transhumanism and the hybrid age is the most dangerous advancement in the technological war against humanity in history.

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22-03-2021 om 20:39 geschreven door peter  

Major Geomagnetic Storm Underway, Effects March 23rd - March 26th, Expect Major Disruptions

WARNING! March 23rd-March 26th will probably be the Worst Days of the Month. Expect Trouble.

Major Geomagnetic Storm Underway, Effects March 23rd – March 26th, Expect Major Disruptions 

Tsunami Alert! 7.2 Earthquake Japan & Geomagnetic Storm & Iceland Volcano Eruption

I’ve discussed this time period for a few months now and we are almost there. plus, i will probably be out of pocket during this time period. Stay aware & Stay cool.

Major Eatchquake Forecast For March 23rd through March 26th.

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22-03-2021 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

Tictac UFO Over Jupiter, Florida 3 Videos! March 22, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 22, 2021
Location of sighting: Jupiter, Florida, USA

 

This eyewitness recorded a long tictac UFO over Jupiter, Florida today. They were confused at what it might actually be and thought it may be a plane. This object has no sound, no wings, no windows and no propulsion of any kind. This could be a blimp, but I see no undercarriage that would hold people and I see no tail fins to steer it. So I rule out blimp. This looks like a real UFO flying low and boldly over the city of Jupiter. Note, I have said many times that there is an alien base off the Florida coast, which I attribute the abundance of UFO sightings too. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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22-03-2021 om 20:14 geschreven door peter  

On March 18, 2021 NASA's Lasco C2 probe captured a strange event next to the sun. 

A triangular object fires a beam into space on which a cross-like anomaly appears. 

The triangle / beam and the cross-like anomaly appeared within 24 seconds of each other.

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22-03-2021 om 18:28 geschreven door peter  

FOX News report with John Ratcliffe who served as the Director of National Intelligence under former President Trump, speaks about Government UFO UAP investigation AATIP UAPTF ongoing motion to investigate strange objects performing impossible maneuvers in the skies around the world, reportedly detected and witnessed by the Navy, the Air Force, and even tracked via satellites. 

The interview answers some questions on Unidentified Flying Objects, aka Unidentified Aerial Phenomena but also opens up so many more questions. 

There is a lot of anticipation for the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and Department of Defense report which is due for inspection by a congressional committee. 

Do the objects represent a threat? Are the UAPs piloted by extraterrestrials? Are aliens visiting Earth? 

It is important to note that while some are awaiting a form of UFO Disclosure to the public at large, the mystery of the UFOs in the skies of our planet will more than likely not occur with the release of such a report, but in fact may instigate further investigations that can hopefully draw more interest from leaders in Washington to notice what many are calling for, which is a more transparent investigation into sightings, especially those who are witnesses in the Armed Forces. 

With that said, given some of the comments spoken about by John Ratcliffe, members of Congress have already been briefed on various aspects of the phenomenon, and maybe have been alerted to some form of established threat identification. 

UFOs UAPs have been seen penetrating sensitive military and commercial airspace on many repeated occasions, tracked on radar, and witnessed by reliable sources. 

This interview seems to hint at what we may expect to come in the next 60 days, but more importantly, it brings the topic out of the fringes it has resided in for many years, into a far more serious mode of understanding, and the public wants to know! 

Editor's note: Be aware for a false flag alien attack!

  

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22-03-2021 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

And a witness observed several glowing orange red orbs in triangle formation over Toronto, Canada around 9 pm. They hovered and were silent.

  

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22-03-2021 om 18:18 geschreven door peter  

Stationary cigar-UFO over Jupiter, Florida 21-Mar-2021

This stationary cigar-shaped UFO was filmed hovering in the daytime sky above Jupiter in Florida on 21st March 2021.

Witness report: 

I want to know what it is . It looked like an airplane.

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22-03-2021 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

In politics, it’s always easier to admit to things and make promises when one is out of office. That’s especially true on the national level and one field that suffers from these “I didn’t reveal the secrets when I was in office but there’s a lot of them and I’ll do better next time” pronouncements is UFOs and UAPs. Think John Podesta, who claimed he regrated not digging deeper into UFOs and offer some disclosure while working for President Bill Clinton, promised to do better if Hillary Clinton was elected and still hasn’t revealed anything. Now comes John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump. He had this to say during a recent interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo (summarized by the Washington Examiner):

“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain. Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”

Former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe is referring to incidents like the Navy Tic Tac UFO sightings, which all happened before he became Director of National Intelligence in May 2020. Nothing new here.

“When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection. Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things, and … some of these are unexplained phenomenon, and there is actually quite a few more than have been made public.”

There’s Ratcliffe’s “I knew about this but didn’t tell you when I could have” confession. Then comes the “hint about aliens without admitting anything” moment.

“Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances. Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or than we realized. But there are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.”

Why would the former Director of National Intelligence be hinting about extraterrestrials now? He’s out of office and has no chance of getting his old position back for at least four years. Ratcliffe was also a member of the House of Representatives. Could he be planning another run so he can get back to Congress, become the next Harry Reid and influence disclosure?

Former Senator Harry Reid

Sorry, that’s not it either. Ratcliffe’s hints are coming ahead of the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill that former President Trump signed into law in December, which contained the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 which stated that the Intelligence Committee must reveal any threats posed by “unidentified aerial phenomena” and submit them “in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.” Being the former director, Ratcliffe ‘should’ known what’s in the report. If it’s a real revelation, he can take credit for it since it was committed to under his brief watch. If it has nothing new, he can blame it on the new administration and its director for withholding information. It’s a win-win for Ratcliffe … and nothing as usual for the American UFO-disclosure-seeking public.

Unless there’s really some disclosure in it. The report is supposed to be released by June 1, but anything with “national security” in its content often has a way of being withheld or heavily redacted. All we can do is wait … and elect officials who will really do what they promise, at least when it comes to UFO/UAP disclosure.

Would David Duchovny consider running?

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22-03-2021 om 01:46 geschreven door peter  

Does an area become a UFO hotspot because it has a lot of UFOs or a lot of UFO spotters? A case could be made for the latter in Argentina, where a dedicated group of UFO/UAP hunters added another to their collection with a recording of a “ufo flash” over Pie de Palo in the west-central Argentine province of San Juan. Is it time for the Guardianes del Cielo (Guardians of the Sky) Cuyano to go international?

“Hello friends!!! We told you that a couple of weeks ago, as a result of some complaints received from people in the Caucete area regarding some curious lights that can be observed in the well-known Cerro Pie de Palo in the province of San Juan, we began to make a series of vigil around the area which we came across this event that the locals told us … We are in the process of investigation soon we will upload more of these events.”

A video was uploaded on YouTube recently (watch it here) by the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano of lights over Pie de Palo which they recorded after residents concerned about them received no explanations from officials. This was quickly picked up by San Juan media, which left it to the Guardians to speculate what the UFOs might be. And speculate they did!

“The supposed UFO that appears in the images, would fall into the category of” ufo-flash “. Ships of unknown origin that appear and disappear for brief moments. One more mystery in this great enigma that is the probable presence of alien life on the planetary ground.”

Before you skeptically scoff at the “alien life” assessment, Tiempo de San Juan beat you to it. Prior to reporting on this sighting, a reporter interviewed members of the Guardianes back in December 2020. The group began in 2011 when current president Jorge “Toto” Pérez and some friends met weekly on a Pocitana mountain to eat barbecue. After seeing a white “watermelon seed” UFO repeatedly, they dedicated themselves to studying unexplained aerial phenomena, eventually forming Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano to follow up on the sightings of others in the region. They purchased an image intensifier – a low-light device used in night-vision goggles – and set up a Facebook group, which attracted members who helped expand the group. A satellite tracking system helps them distinguish human-made aircraft from unidentified flying objects or anomalies. As a result, they have become a go-to group for UFO sightings in Argentina.

“It is seen that there is a greater maturity about this phenomenon, they no longer take it so hard.”

As we are seeing in the U.S., the search for UFO is gaining “maturity” as they’re reported in the mainstream media and slowly confirmed by the government. Argentina is one of the countries that has a dedicated government department for UFOs, and the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano are playing an important part in “declassifying” documents. Unfortunately, while they have a good record of types of UFOs, neither the video nor the article explain why they suspect “alien life” for the recent UFOs in Pie de Palo.

On the subject of the cause of UFO hotspots, Elentrios.com also reported in December on the increase in sightings in Argentina and notes that there are a number of groups like Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano in that country, and the clear skies from less traffic during the pandemic lockdown coupled with the number of people with more time on their hands to look up has certainly resulted in more sightings. But … these groups were there before pandemic … which means the UFOs were there as well.

Is there something that attracts UFOs to Argentina? Are the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano correct to speculate on and search for aliens on the ground summoning them? We’ll keep our eyes on the group for further information.

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22-03-2021 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

A new study reveals “by far the best evidence” for the elusive cosmic filaments that supercharge ancient galaxies with cold gas.

 By Becky Ferreira

IMAGE: JOHN LUND VIA GETTY IMAGES

If you peer into the deep reaches of time and space to glimpse the universe when it was just a few billion years old, you’ll see an ancient era populated by many massive galaxies. Simulations suggest these galactic behemoths must have been fed by cold gas in dark matter filaments—structures that make up the cosmic web that connects galaxies in the universe—but the nature of these gas infusions has remained murky in the absence of direct observations.

Now, scientists led by Hai Fu, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Iowa, have spotted what they describe as a “pipeline” gas filament feeding an enormous galaxy that formed when the universe was 2.5 billion years old, about one fifth of its current age. 

The discovery, which was years in the making, confirms long-standing models that suggest star-forming material is delivered to huge galaxies via these cosmic filaments, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal.    

“This is by far the best evidence we have” for the mysterious gas streams, said Fu in an email. While previous studies have detected possible filaments in the past, they weren’t able to capture detailed chemical information “to support their origin as inflows,” he added.

Fu and his colleagues, in contrast, were able to identify the chemical signatures of the gas stream in the galaxy they studied, thanks to the very rare and fortuitous alignment of giant luminous bodies around it. The galaxy, which is known as SMM J0913, is part of a larger cosmic neighborhood that contains two radiant quasars, which are special galactic cores that are among the most brightest phenomena in the universe.

Because the two quasars are located behind SMM J0913 from our perspective on Earth, the brilliant objects backlight the foreground galaxy, enabling Fu’s team to view never-before-seen details of the gas stream that nourishes this growing entity.

“The stream stood out in silhouette against two bright quasars,” Fu explained. 

DIAGRAM OF COLD GAS PIPELINES THAT SURVIVED DESPITE HOTTER SURROUNDINGS AND ALLOWED THESE GALAXIES TO FORM STARS.

IMAGE: HAI FU, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Using spectral information captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), currently the largest radio telescope on Earth, the team probed the abundance of chemicals in the filament. 

The results showed that the stream lacked heavy elements such as aluminum, carbon, iron, and magnesium. Since the environment inside massive galaxies like SMM J0913 is constantly being enriched with heavy elements, which are spewed out by the explosion of stars, this telltale hint demonstrated that the gas was getting piped in from outside of the galaxy, from a depleted environment. 

Cosmic simulations have proposed that these narrow filaments can explain how cold gas gets pumped into galaxies without being disrupted by the hot atmospheric surroundings of such gargantuan entities. But actually detecting these filaments is a tough hurdle to clear; Fu and his colleagues pored over observations of 70,000 galaxies over a period of five years before they tracked down the perfect system that contained SMM J0913.

“The understanding of the system took many years, so it has been a gradual realization synthesizing data from various telescopes,” he said. He added that he was excited when “the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle was in place” and felt “a tremendous relief” when he received the spectral information from ALMA that confirmed SMM J0913 was the exact right type of galaxy needed to illuminate this question.

“It showed that I didn't waste the precious telescope time and we indeed found something interesting,” Fu added.

While the new study represents a breakthrough in our understanding of how massive galaxies formed in the early universe, there’s still plenty of work left to be done. The team only looked at two points along the stream, leaving room for follow-up studies to attempt to “see its full physical extent,” Fu said, which he hopes to attempt to do in March using the Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

 “In the long term, we would need to find more streams around other massive galaxies,” he concluded, “and I wonder how we can achieve that efficiently, using existing telescopes.” 

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22-03-2021 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

: Knowles Family Encounter in Mundrabilla, Australia

(Last Updated On: September 30, 2015)

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: January 21, 1988

Sighting Time: 4.00am

Day/Night: early morning

Location: Mundrabilla , Australia

Urban or Rural: –

Hynek Classification: CE2

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  1

Height & Speed:

Size of Object(s): 1 metre wide

Distance to Object(s): 20 metres

Shape of Object(s): Oval

Color of Object(s):

Number of Witnesses: Multiple

Source: UFO Research Queensland (Australia) Original Source

Summary/Description: The Mundrabilla incident of a few years ago received much media publicity. The Knowles described how the UFO shot over their car and lifted it off the road. Their voices changed in pitch, the family dog in the car went crazy, and the car started shaking. The news media described the incident as a ‘UFO attack’ and reported that the car was covered by strange dust. [map id=”380″]

Full Report

January 20 1988 was the day that the Knowles family and their two dogs had an unexplainable experience whilst travelling across the Nullarbor Plain in the early hours of the morning.

At about 4.00am, Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne 18 were between Madura and Mundrabilla with Sean driving and Patrick next to him in the front seat when a bright light was seen ahead of them. Sean thought the light strange and asked his brother if he thought it was a spaceship. This idea was rejected by his brother, but Sean’s interest was piqued and he sped the car up in order to catch up to the object and get a closer look. At about 20 metres from the object the family say they were confronted with a white blinding light that moved along in front of their moving vehicle. It was about 1 metre wide and described as a slightly angular egg in an egg-cup shape with a yellow centre. The object, which at first appeared to be either on the ground or immediately above it then began to move back and forth. Sean swerved the car to the opposite side of the road to avoid a collision with the object, but then nearly collided with a station wagon towing a caravan coming in the other direction. (The occupants of this second car have never come forward) The object then circled around to the right side of their car and appeared to give chase to the second vehicle towing the caravan. The Knowles made at 2 u-turns at this point, the first to give chase to the object, and the second to abandon this idea as they had grown frightened. They had at this point gained the idea that the object was after them.

At some point the family felt that the UFO had returned and had landed on their vehicle. They heard a clunking sound and felt that the car was being pushed down by a weight that rested on top of it.

By now the family was understandably frightened, and the following events are difficult to unravel in retrospect. The family believed that the car was lifted above the road, though none of them were able to estimate for how long or how high. Mrs Knowles wound down a rear window and reached for the roof. She felt something soft and rubbery that was hot but did not burn her hand, and when she brought her hand back into the car she found it covered in a blackish dust. This event caused a panic in the rest of the family. Patrick wound down his window, only to be covered in the fine dust, which was accompanied by a foul smell that was likened to dead bodies. A high-pitched sound was then heard, which sent the dogs into a frenzy. The family became disoriented and felt that their voices had become slower, and lower in pitch. They believed at this point that they were going to die. Patrick said that he felt that his ‘brain was being sucked out’, and Mrs Knowles likened it to having something ‘going into our heads’.

A while later, the family felt the car forced back down onto the road, bursting the rear right tyre. Sean brought the car to a sudden stop and then blacked out. The family left the car hurriedly and hid in some bushes by the side of the road. They remained there for 15 minutes before changing the tyre and continuing on to the nearest town.

Unknown to the Knowles’, a truck driver, Mr Graham Henley also saw, at the same time and in the same area, a strange light in his rear view mirror. He described as being like a strong spotlight and like a ‘big fried egg hung upside down”. He kept the object in view for 5 minutes and did not see any car headlights beneath it. Shortly after Henley pulled into Mundrabilla, he saw the Knowles’ car arrive, and was confronted by the frightened family all trying to describe their experience. He looked over their car and confirmed the presence of black ash in various areas, both inside and on the exterior of the vehicle, and likened it to fine silicon sand with a burnt odour to it. He also noted four indents in the roof of the car and the damaged tyre. Henley and two of his friends also surveyed the scene of the incident, finding skid marks, footprints and tread tracks that they felt confirmed the Knowles account of their incident.

The family had by this time arrived at Ceduna and been interviewed by the police there, who confirmed that the family were visibly shaken. They also reconfirmed the presence of the four dents and the fine dust. UFO Research South Australia was contacted and arrangements were made for the Knowles’ to continue to Adelaide for further investigation. Keith Basterfield was at this stage brought into the investigation, and he stated that it “appeared to be an extraordinary example of a close encounter that had left physical traces.” However, owing to the story reaching the media, serious investigation became obstructed by chequebook journalism, with investigators needing to mediate with a television station to be able to talk to the Knowles’. The TV station did, however, commission a laboratory investigation of the vehicle, which concluded that ‘no significant dust was observed on the vehicle as presented for inspection’. Ufo researchers did manage to obtain samples themselves, which they forwarded to Dr Richard Haines, a NASA scientist at the time, who concluded that the dust taken from the interior of the car was different to the dust sampled from the exterior. Further tests by different analysts have provided no evidence of it being alien or unusual.

Unfortunately none of this is conclusive. There were other UFO reports in the same area at the same time, which tends to imply that something unusual occurred. The only conclusion we can safely come to though, is that something happened, and that the family witnessed an unusual light and were extremely frightened by its effects. All we have is an interesting story, and still no clear idea of exactly what happened.

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Lying off the coast of Uruguay, in South America, is a tiny speck of rock called Isla de Lobos, meaning “Island of the Fur Seals.” It is nothing more than a desolate slash of rock patrolled by its titular seals and not much to see except a spire reaching up towards the grey sky that is the island’s lighthouse, which at 66 meters in height is among the tallest lighthouses in the world. Although it is now fully automated, there was a time when a garrison of men was required to live in isolation at this remote place in order to operate it, and our story here comes from that era. Here we get into a strange alien encounter from a faraway, remote place, which has never really been adequately explained.

In October of 1972, a total of five men were stationed at the Isla de Lobos lighthouse, working a shift of 15 days, after which another crew would come in and take over. At the time the lighthouse was operated by the Navy, and stationed there were Corporal Juan Fuentes Figueroa, enlisted men Jose Gomez and Hector Gimenez, a telegraph operator Jose Lima, and the sub-officer in charge, Francisco Cascudo. On the evening of the 28^th, at around 10 PM Corporal Fuentes went out on a routine patrol to check on the power generators at the back of the facility, but his attention was caught by some strange lights in the sky hovering near the top of the generator building, seemingly right above a terrace that was situated up there about 20 feet above the ground. The lights looked to him like car headlights, although this was of course impossible, and they seemed to be flashing and oscillating between a mix of white, yellow and violet.

Isla de Lobos lighthouse

Fuentes was so unsettled by the sight that he went back to get his pistol, oddly not telling any of the other men what was going on. When he went back outside to approach the generator building again, this time he could see that there was an object up there apparently landed on the terrace, escribed as a metallic, copper-colored object shaped like an inverted bowl, standing on some sort of landing gear and with a rotating antenna of some sort on its top. What’s more, in the eerie illumination of the lights there was what looked to be a figure standing beside the object, and a second and third figure were descending from the craft. They seemed to be wearing some sort of dark suits akin to diving suits, their heads appearing somewhat elongated and oversized, and one seemed to be noticeably taller than the others, although Fuentes could not make out a lot of details. He then realized that they had turned towards him and seemed to be very aware that he was there.

At this time, Fuentes was overcome with fear and panic, and raised his pistol to point it up at the craft. It was at this point that he felt a strange sensation throughout his body like a vibration that sent his hair standing up on end, and found that he was unable to move, as if paralyzed, all while a voice boomed through his head that said “Don’t shoot because it is useless.” After this, the strange entities went back up into their ship, seemingly walking up steps of some kind, appearing to be pulling themselves up with handrails, after which the craft closed and began to lift off as its landing legs retracted telescopically. It hovered up in the air momentarily, then silently sped off at breathtaking speed with a flash of bright light like a fireball. At this point, Fuentes ran back to the others and told them what had happened, but no one believed him. Considering he was the superior officer and no one believed him, this came as a shock, but it would seem that at least one of the men, Francisco Cascudo, thought it was odd enough to pass it along to a superior officer.

Not long after their tour at the lighthouse ended, Fuentes was called aside by high-ranking officials, who interviewed him at length on what he had allegedly seen. Fuentes would claim that there were also two men who he believed to be from the U.S. Embassy lurking in the background taking notes, and who were later identified as officers of the “Spatial Affair Service.” Fuentes was also shown various pictures of different UFOs and asked to point out which were most similar to what he had witnessed and then dismissed. At no point was he ever directly questioned by the mysterious Americans, but he could see them excitedly talking to his interrogators in another room, making it obvious they were very interested in his sighting. After this, the case came to the attention of the Uruguayan UFO Investigation Center, who subjected Fuentes to some psychological tests and came to the conclusion that he was a solid witness, described as “sincere, uncomplicated and simple, with no tendency to fabrication or fantasy and lacking an average imagination.” It was also noted that Fuentes had no previous interest in or knowledge of UFOs, and they came to the conclusion that he at least truly believed he had seen what he claimed. Sub-officer Cascudo would back this up, describing Fuentes as a “simple and honest man, incapable of inventing a story of this nature.”

Skeptics of the case have speculated that Fuentes merely saw a helicopter and its occupants, who had panicked and flew off when he had aimed his pistol, but how does this explain the mysterious paralysis or the voice in his head? Also, why would a trained Navy man mistake a helicopter for a UFO, especially since he was painted as an honest man with no propensity towards jumping to far out claims? The case of the Isla de Lobos UFO encounter has never been solved, and we are left to wonder whether this was all tall tales, misidentification, or perhaps a true bizarre phenomenon at work.

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