Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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05-04-2021
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART II
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART II
Marco Rubio, acting chair of Senate intel committee, demanded retaliation
Rubio said that the hack should be punished with more than sanctions
Trump is yet to acknowledge the hack, which affected swathes of government
Mike Pompeo on Friday became the first to publicly blame Russia for the hack
The Pentagon, FBI, Homeland Security and Treasury were all targeted
Russia has denied being behind the hack, which was carried out over months
Marco Rubio has demanded that the United States retaliate with more than sanctions for a massive cyber attack on the Pentagon, FBI and nuclear programs, which he said was likely carried out by Russia.
SolarWinds timeline: Company stocks and when they discovered attack
March: Updated versions of SolarWinds premier product, Orion, are infiltrated by an 'outside nation state'
SolarWinds customers who installed updates to their Orion software were unknowingly welcoming hidden malicious code that could give intruders the same view of their corporate network that in-house IT crews have
November 18 and 19: Outgoing CEO Kevin Thompson sells $15m in shares
December 7: Leading investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sell $280m shares from SolarWinds
December 7: CEO Kevin Thompson resigns. His transition had already been announced but no set date given
December 8: FireEye announces hackers broke into its servers
December 9: New CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna announced to take over from Thompson in 2021
December 11: FireEye claims it became aware that SolarWinds updates had been corrupted and contacted the company
December 13: The infiltration of Orion becomes public
The US issues an emergency warning, ordering government users to disconnect SolarWinds software which it said had been compromised by 'malicious actors'
The Pentagon, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments reveal they were targeted
FireEye says the attackers stole some of its 'red team' software, which mimics cyber-attacks to test the security of its clients' computers.
Two lawmakers, who were briefed on the hack this week, told Politico that FireEye representatives said that one of their employees had apparently been duped into revealing their two-factor authentication security details.
Company officials have denied the account given by congressional staffers and said none of its employees were tricked.
FireEye said they caught the breach when hackers tried to register a new device on its systems, which tipped the company off to the wider cyber-attack.
Following an investigation, FireEye say they determined that SolarWinds' Orion software had been hacked.
'We initially detected the incident because we saw a suspicious authentication to our VPN solution,' a spokesperson has since said.
'The attacker was able to enroll a device into our multi-factor authentication solution, and that generates an alert which we then followed up on.'
They insist that the SolarWinds breach was the source of the attack against FireEye.
Once it determined that there was a wider cyber-attack, a FireEye executive alerted SolarWinds on December 12 of the compromise.
After learning of the SolarWinds breach, the National Security Council held an emergency meeting at the White House on December 12.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI were brought in to investigate after some government agencies were confirmed to have been hacked.
At this time, people with knowledge of the meeting reported that hackers believed to be working for Russia had been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments.
Sources told Reuters that they feared the hacks uncovered so far may have been be the tip of the iceberg.
SolarWinds began alerting about 33,000 of its customers on December 13 that an 'outside nation state' - widely suspected to be Russia - had injected malicious code into some updated versions of its premier product, Orion.
The company said in a statement that updates to its monitoring software released between March and June of this year may have been subverted by what it described as a 'highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state'.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive ordering federal agencies to 'disconnect or power down' the SolarWinds Orion software due to the breach.
From US nuclear agencies and the FBI to Fortune 500: Who is known to have been targeted by hackers so far
The list of victims continues to grow from the cyberattack that is being described as the biggest hack in American history.
The two US agencies responsible for maintaining America's nuclear weapons stockpile - Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration - have already said they were compromised in the attack.
The attack also breached the Pentagon, FBI, Treasury and State Departments.
The DOE and the NNSA have warned Congress that their breached networks may include the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which conducts the government's most sensitive and advanced nuclear research, Politico reported.
The US has an estimated 5,800 nuclear warheads, some of which are on missiles and bombs ready for launch from submarines, airplanes and land-based missiles, while others are held in storage. Most however are in storage, retired, or being decommissioned.
The FBI (above) has moved routine communication onto classified networks that are believed not to have been breached, according to two people briefed on the measures.
Hacked: The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico conducts the government's most sensitive and advanced nuclear research
Deterrent: Land-based Minuteman missiles are one of the three prongs of the nuclear triad. Experts now fear the agencies that maintain US nuclear stockpiles have been breached
Their status is one of the government's most closely-guarded secrets, as are efforts to create new weapons, which are part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's work.
Another attack was found in a field office of the Energy Department in Richland, Washington state, which Politico reported could have been an effort to gather information on how to disrupt the national electricity grid.
The sprawling attack also compromised broad swathes of the private sector, including Microsoft and likely most of the Fortune 500.
The true scale of who has been affected and what information has been stolen may never be known, officials and experts say.
How hackers used legitimate software updates as camouflage for the 'SUNBURST' attack
WHAT HAPPENED?
The hack began as early as March when malicious code was snuck into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of businesses and governments. The malware, affecting a product made by U.S. company SolarWinds, gave elite hackers remote access into an organization's networks so they could steal information.
It wasn't discovered until the prominent cybersecurity company FireEye determined it had been hacked. Whoever broke into FireEye was seeking data on its government clients, the company said - and made off with hacking tools it uses to probe its customers' defenses.
Its apparent monthslong timeline gave the hackers ample time to extract information from a lot of different targets.
FireEye executive Charles Carmakal said the company was aware of 'dozens of incredibly high-value targets' compromised' by the hackers and was helping 'a number of organizations respond to their intrusions.'
He would not name any, and said he expected many more to learn in coming days that they, too, were infiltrated.
WHAT IS SOLARWINDS?
SolarWinds, of Austin, Texas, provides network-monitoring and other technical services to hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world, including most Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Its compromised product, called Orion, accounts for nearly half SolarWinds' annual revenue. The company's revenue totaled $753.9 million over the first nine months of this year.
Its centralized monitoring looks for problems in an organization's computer networks, which means that breaking in gave the attackers a 'God-view' of those networks.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday released an alert detailing what it knows about the breach, which has been called the biggest in US history.
CISA says that hackers were able to compromise the supply chain of network management software from SolarWinds, specifically recent versions of the SolarWinds Orion products.
Beginning in March 2020, hackers used SolarWinds software updates to install a secret network backdoor, which authorities are calling SUNBURST.
The malicious code was signed by the legitimate SolarWinds code signing certificate. An estimated 18,000 customers downloaded the compromised updates.
Once installed on a network, the malware used a protocol designed to mimic legitimate SolarWinds traffic to communicate with a domain that has since been seized and shut down.
The initial contact domain would often direct the malware to a new internet protocol (IP) address for command and control. The attackers used rotating IPs and virtual private servers with IP addresses in the target's home country to make detection of the traffic more difficult.
'Taken together, these observed techniques indicate an adversary who is skilled, stealthy with operational security, and is willing to expend significant resources to maintain covert presence,' CISA said in the alert.
CISA said that once inside a network, the hackers seemed focused on gathering information, and would frequently target the emails of IT and security staff to monitor any countermeasures.
Without offering further details, the agency warned that the hackers used 'other initial access vectors beyond SolarWinds Orion,' meaning even groups that do not use the network software could be compromised.
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART I
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART I
Marco Rubio, acting chair of Senate intel committee, demanded retaliation
Rubio said that the hack should be punished with more than sanctions
Trump is yet to acknowledge the hack, which affected swathes of government
Mike Pompeo on Friday became the first to publicly blame Russia for the hack
The Pentagon, FBI, Homeland Security and Treasury were all targeted
Russia has denied being behind the hack, which was carried out over months
Marco Rubio has demanded that the United States retaliate with more than sanctions for a massive cyber attack on the Pentagon, FBI and nuclear programs, which he said was likely carried out by Russia.
On Friday Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, became the first U.S. official to publicly attribute a massive hacking campaign to Russia, after broad swathes of the federal government and private sector were revealed to be compromised.
Later on Friday night Rubio, the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged a strong response.
The methods used to carry out the cyberhack are consistent with Russian cyber operations,' he tweeted.
Marco Rubio on Friday night called for 'retaliation' beyond sanctions for the cyber attack
Russia has denied being behind the attack, but Pompeo and Rubio have pointed the finger
'But it's crucial we have complete certainty about who is behind this. We can't afford to be wrong on attribution, because America must retaliate, and not just with sanctions.'
Donald Trump has remained tight-lipped about the attack. Russia has denied being behind it.
But the huge security breach, which is believed to have begun in the spring and gone undetected for months, is thought to have been so sophisticated that only a state-sponsored actor could pull it off.
The Russians are automatically the prime suspect for attacks of this scale and audacity.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the attack compromised federal agencies' 'critical infrastructure' in a manner that was hard to detect and will be difficult to undo.
It means that calculating the true size of the attack will be difficult.
'CISA has determined that this threat poses a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations,' they said on Thursday.
'CISA expects that removing this threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging for organizations.'
Pompeo on Friday confidently pointed the finger at the Russians.
'This was a very significant effort, and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity,' Pompeo told The Mark Levin Show on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman has denied Kremlin involvement, and the Russian embassy said in a statement that the country 'does not conduct offensive operations in the cyber domain.'
The sprawling attack, which went undetected for nearly nine months, compromised the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury, State and Energy, as well as a growing list of companies and local governments across the country.
Officials with the nation's cybersecurity agency warn that the breach could be difficult to undo, saying the hackers 'demonstrated sophistication and complex tradecraft' and that it was likely that they had built additional secret backdoors while active inside the compromised networks.
Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to properly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked, and warn infected networks may have to be 'burned to the ground' and rebuilt from scratch.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has become the first U.S. official to publicly attribute a massive hacking campaign to Russia. He is seen above with Putin in 2019
Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said: 'It's pretty hard to distinguish this from an act of aggression that rises to the level of an attack that qualifies as war'
The Pentagon was among the thousands of users of the infected network software. Teams are now hunting DoD networks for hidden backdoors and signs of the attackers
Democrats in Congress have spoken out about the cyber attack in strong terms, demanding a harsh response and blasting President Donald Trump, who has not spoken about the attack or appeared in public for the past five days.
'The situation is developing, but the more I learn this could be our modern day, cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor,' said Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat, in a tweet on Friday.
'Our nation is under assault. This cyberattack could be the largest in our history,' he added, before slamming Trump for his lack of public response to the cyber attack.
Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, told MSNBC: 'It's pretty hard to distinguish this from an act of aggression that rises to the level of an attack that qualifies as war.'
Coons, 57, called the attack 'as destructive and broad scale an engagement with our military systems, our intelligence systems as has happened in my lifetime.'
Trump has not yet said anything publicly about the intrusion.
He was being briefed 'as needed,' White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern told reporters on Friday.
National security adviser Robert O'Brien was leading interagency meetings daily, if not more often, he said.
'They're working very hard on mitigation and making sure that our country is secure. We will not get into too many details because we're just not going to tell our adversaries what we do to combat these things,' Morgenstern said.
'The situation is developing, but the more I learn this could be our modern day, cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor,' said Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat
'Cozy Bear': The Russian hacker cell suspected in attack
Russia denies involvement in the SUNBURST attack, but US officials say the nation is behind the 'Advanced Persistent Threat' (APT) that carried out the audacious breach.
Sources say that one top suspect is APT29, the Kremlin-linked group also known as Cozy Bear.
Cozy Bear is best known as the group said to be responsible for the 2016 breach of the Democratic National Committee's servers.
Experts believe that Cozy Bear operates as part of one of Russia's intelligence agencies.
Some doubt the attribution of SUNBURST to Cozy Bear, through, noting that the tools used in the attack have never been seen before.
The Democratic chairs of four House committees given classified briefings on the hack by the Trump administration issued a statement complaining that they 'were left with more questions than answers.'
'Administration officials were unwilling to share the full scope of the breach and identities of the victims,' they said.
Morgenstern said earlier that disclosing such details only helps U.S. adversaries.
The long-term planning of the attack became clear on Friday, as officials said that the hackers appeared to have conducted a dry run over a year ago, testing their ability to insert malicious code into network management software from SolarWinds Corp, which was later delivered to some 18,000 of the company's customers.
Private security companies say that the breach bears the hallmarks of a Kremlin operation. Some have pointed at the Russian hacking cell dubbed 'Cozy Bear' -- though other experts argue that the tools and methods used in the new attack are different from any past breach, making attribution tricky.
'At the moment, there are no technical links with previous attacks, so it may be an entirely new actor,' security firm Kaspersy said in a blog post.
FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion into U.S. agencies and was among the victims, has already tallied dozens of casualties. It's racing to identify more.
'We have a serious problem. We don't know what networks they are in, how deep they are, what access they have, what tools they left,' said Bruce Schneier, a prominent security expert and Harvard fellow.
The only way to be sure a network is clean is 'to burn it down to the ground and rebuild it,' Schneier said.
He compared the situation to learning that a serial killer has been inside your house, with his own key. 'You don't know if he's gone. How do you get work done? You kind of just hope for the best,' he said.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin denied Russia was behind the attack
Trump has not made any remarks addressing the attack and has not appeared in public for five days, but posted this Christmas card photo on Friday with First Lady Melania
Many federal workers - and others in the private sector - now must presume that unclassified networks are teeming with spies.
Agencies will be more inclined to conduct sensitive government business on Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted smartphone apps.
'We should buckle up. This will be a long ride,' said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former chief technical officer of the leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. 'Cleanup is just phase one.
Meanwhile, Microsoft President Brad Smith called the attack a 'moment of reckoning' that 'illuminates the ways the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve and become even more dangerous.'
Microsoft, one of the thousands of companies to receive the malicious update, said it had notified more than 40 customers around the world whose networks were infiltrated by the hackers.
The list of victims includes not only government agencies, but security and other technology firms as well as think tanks and government contractors.
'The attack unfortunately represents a broad and successful espionage-based assault on both the confidential information of the U.S. Government and the tech tools used by firms to protect them,' Smith wrote in a blog post.
'The coming months will present a critical test, not only for the United States but for other leading democracies and technology companies,' he added.
This heat map of infections created by Microsoft shows that those infiltrated by the hackers are spread out across the US
On Friday, increasing evidence emerged showing that the hacking campaign had been carefully planned and executed over more than a year.
A version of the SolarWinds Orion product, which was ultimately used to deliver the SUNBURST backdoor to customer networks, was tampered with in October 2019 but did not contain the backdoor, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The tampered files went undetected, and in March of 2020, the hackers began using Orion updates to deliver their backdoor.
SolarWinds timeline: Company stocks and when they discovered attack
March: Updated versions of SolarWinds premier product, Orion, are infiltrated by an 'outside nation state'
SolarWinds customers who installed updates to their Orion software were unknowingly welcoming hidden malicious code that could give intruders the same view of their corporate network that in-house IT crews have
November 18 and 19: Outgoing CEO Kevin Thompson sells $15m in shares
December 7: Leading investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sell $280m shares from SolarWinds
December 7: CEO Kevin Thompson resigns. His transition had already been announced but no set date given
December 8: FireEye announces hackers broke into its servers
December 9: New CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna announced to take over from Thompson in 2021
December 11: FireEye claims it became aware that SolarWinds updates had been corrupted and contacted the company
December 13: The infiltration of Orion becomes public
The US issues an emergency warning, ordering government users to disconnect SolarWinds software which it said had been compromised by 'malicious actors'
The Pentagon, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments reveal they were targeted
'We're thinking they wanted to test whether or not it was going to work and whether it would be detected. So it was more or less a dry run,' a source familiar with the investigation told Yahoo News.
'They took their time. They decided to not go out with an actual backdoor right away. That signifies that they're a little bit more disciplined and deliberate,' the person added.
SolarWinds, which disclosed its unwitting role at the center of the global hack on Monday, has said that up to 18,000 users of its Orion software downloaded a compromised update containing malicious code planted by the attackers.
The attack was believed to be the work of an 'outside nation state,' SolarWinds said in a regulatory disclosure.
In addition to major federal agencies and critical infrastructure, the hackers targeted entities as various as a county government in Arizona and a cable television company.
The Pima County, Arizona government and Cox Communications Inc were identified as victims of the intrusion by Reuters after running a publicly available coding script.
How hackers managed to install a secret backdoor in software used by hundreds of thousands of government departments and companies
The hack began as early as March this year when hackers snuck malicious code into recent versions of SolarWinds' premier software product, Orion.
The popular software tool helps organizations monitor the performance of their computer networks and servers.
Hackers managed to install a secret network backdoor - which authorities are calling SUNBURST - into Orion's software updates.
Its centralized monitoring looks for problems in an organization's computer networks, which means that breaking in gave the attackers a 'God-view' of those networks.
It is not yet clear how hackers managed to infiltrate SolarWinds and go undetected for nine months.
During this time-frame, as many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers - including federal agencies and major companies - downloaded the compromised updates that contained the back door.
The software update became an instrument for hackers to steal information undetected for nine months.
Once installed on a network, the malware used a protocol designed to mimic legitimate SolarWinds traffic to communicate with a domain that has since been seized and shut down, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has since revealed.
The initial contact domain would often direct the malware to a new internet protocol (IP) address for command and control. The attackers used rotating IPs and virtual private servers with IP addresses in the target's home country to make detection of the traffic more difficult.
CISA said that once inside a network, the hackers focused on gathering information and frequently targeted the emails of IT and security staff to monitor any countermeasures.
The hackers are feared to have had access to government emails as far back as June.
SolarWinds: The Texas company at the center of the biggest attack in American history
Before this week, few people were aware of SolarWinds, the Austin-based software company providing vital computer network monitoring services to major corporations and government agencies worldwide.
But the revelation that elite cyber spies have spent months secretly exploiting SolarWinds' software to peer into computer networks has put many of its highest-profile customers in national governments and Fortune 500 companies on high alert.
It's also raising questions about whether company insiders knew of its security vulnerabilities as its biggest investors sold off stock.
The hack began as early as March this year when hackers snuck malicious code into recent versions of SolarWinds' premier software product, Orion. The Austin-based software company provides vital computer network monitoring services to major corporations and government agencies worldwide
A SolarWinds SEC filing from December 7 - just days prior to the hack emerging -revealed that the company's board had appointed a replacement CEO.
SolarWinds' longtime CEO, Kevin Thompson, had months earlier indicated that he would be leaving at the end of the year as the company explored spinning off one of its divisions.
The SolarWinds board appointed his replacement, current PulseSecure CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna, on December 7, according to the financial filing.
It was also on December 7 that the company's two biggest investors, Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo, which control a majority stake in the publicly traded company, sold more than $280 million in stock to a Canadian public pension fund.
The two private equity firms in a joint statement said they 'were not aware of this potential cyberattack' at the time they sold the stock.
Global alarm bells ring: How the hack was first discovered by a California cyber-security firm FireEye
The breach of SolarWinds' software was first discovered by one of its customers: The prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye.
The California-based cyber security firm, which is also a government contractor, noticed a suspicious log-in on its network around December 8.
Republican Senator Says UFOs Are Flying Our Facilities, and Nobody Knows What They Are
Republican Senator Says UFOs Are Flying Our Facilities, and Nobody Knows What They Are
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio told TMZ recently he’s worried by the lack of information on the stuff flying over our facilities. Rubio said that the worry is the presence of things flying over our facilities, and we can’t identify them.
Rubio laughed when the TMZ reporter asked if we’ll find friendly aliens in the upcoming reports. He said that we should not jump to conclusions about extraterrestrials or alien spaceships but rather take it one step at a time.
Rubio said that his thing is straightforward and explained that while we don’t know what that object is flying over the top of our installations, we should find out first if it’s from another country, which would be bad news too.
Rubio also revealed that the report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) of the Pentagon might miss its deadline on June 1, 2021.
Rubio’s comments come after the ex-director of National Intelligence announced the report last week.
The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021.
The first helicopter on Mars is officially on Martian soil.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touched down on the surface of the Red Planet after being dropped by its mother ship, the Perseverance rover, the space agency announced late Saturday (April 4). The helicopter's first flight is just over a week away.
"#MarsHelicopter touchdown confirmed! Its 293 million mile (471 million km) journey aboard @NASAPersevere ended with the final drop of 4 inches (10 cm) from the rover's belly to the surface of Mars today," officials with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Californiawrote in a Twitter announcement. "Next milestone? Survive the night."
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet after being deployed by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet after being deployed by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet after being deployed by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Weighing in at just 4 lbs. (1.8 kilograms), Ingenuity is a tiny, solar-powered helicopter that relies on a rechargeable battery to keep its systems warm during the harsh Martian night. Until today, Ingenuity has been attached to Perseverance's belly, feeding off the rover's nuclear-powered system to stay warm.
Now, the helicopter is using its internal battery to power a vital heater.
"This heater keeps the interior at about 45 degrees F through the bitter cold of the Martian night, where temperatures can drop to as low as -130 F (minus 90 degrees Celsius)," NASA's Bob Balaram, chief engineer for the Mars Helicopter project, wrote in a status update Friday (April 2). "That comfortably protects key components such as the battery and some of the sensitive electronics from harm at very cold temperatures."
Ingenuity is expected to make its first flight on April 11, with the data from that test reaching Earth on April 12, NASA officials have said. The $85 million drone is the first helicopter ever sent to another world and is designed to test technologies for future flying vehicles on other planets. Ingenuity carries two cameras to document its flights, which will also be observed by the Perseverance rover.
If all goes well, Ingenuity will perform a series of ever-longer flights over Jezero Crater (where the Perseverance rover landed on Feb. 18) over the next 31 Martian days, which are called sols. Each flight should reach no higher than 16.5 feet (5 m) and will be conducted over a 300-foot-long (90 m) flight range.
NASA plans a series of tests before that first flight to fire up Ingenuity's four rotor blades (they spin at up to 2,537 revolutions per minute) while Perseverance watches from a safe distance. The rover will be stationed a safe 16.5 feet away from the drone before the first flight.
But first, of course, Ingenuity must survive the bitter cold of its first night alone on Mars. The helicopter's battery will power its heater enough to maintain a steady temperature of about 5 degrees F (minus 15 degrees C).
"The Ingenuity team will be anxiously waiting to hear from the helicopter the next day," Balaram wrote Friday. "Did it make it through the night? Is the solar panel working as expected?"
This graphic shows the activities NASA has planned for its Ingenuity Mars helicopter. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Mission team members will closely watch Ingenuity's temperature and battery performance over the weekend to ensure the helicopter is healthy, Balaram added. If everything looks good, Ingenuity can then move on to its rotor tests and other system checks ahead of the first flight, he said.
As novel as Ingenuity is, the helicopter is just part of NASA's ambitious Perseverance rover mission to explore an ancient delta in Mars' Jezero Crater. The rover is expected to spend the next two years exploring the area to seek out signs of ancient life. Perseverance will also collect samples of Mars rocks to be collected and returned to Earth on a later mission.
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Government Agencies Are About To Disclose What They Know About UFOs, And That Will Be A Dramatic Paradigm Shift
Government Agencies Are About To Disclose What They Know About UFOs, And That Will Be A Dramatic Paradigm Shift
Do you believe in UFOs? Decades ago, if you answered yes to such a question many would have considered you to be a nutjob. But at this point UFOs are not a “conspiracy theory” any longer. In fact, even the U.S. government is admitting that they exist, and in just a few weeks we may learn a whole lot more about what the U.S. government really knows about this phenomenon. When President Trump signed a 2.3 trillion dollar COVID relief bill last December, it contained a provision which requires all U.S. intelligence agencies to submit an unclassified report to Congress that reveals all that they know about UFOs…
In December 2020, President Trump signed a coronavirus relief bill that included an interesting stipulation – the bill set into motion an 180-day time frame in which US intelligence agencies must tell Congress everything they know about UFO sightings, via an unclassified report.
Remarkably, in what sounds like the opening crawl of an unimaginative sci-fi film, the report must also include an analysis as to whether or not UFOs pose a threat to national security (perhaps, one day, our puny, primitive weapons will be used to “bring democracy” to a space-faring civilization).
Unfortunately, U.S. intelligence agencies insisted that 180 days did not give them enough time, and so now the report is expected to be released somewhere around June 1st.
The report will include all data found through “geospatial intelligence, signals intelligence, human intelligence and measurement and signals intelligence.” Classified information held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI will be included as well.
It will be fascinating to see what actually ends up in this report.
Personally, I don’t think that the intelligence agencies will come even close to revealing everything that they know. But the fact that former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe was willing to share so much information during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Friday seems like a good sign. According to Ratcliffe, there have been “sightings all over the world”…
Ratfcliffe said some UFO sightings have been declassified in the past, but a report to be released by the Pentagon and other federal agencies will present more information to the American people.
“There have been sightings all over the world,” Ratcliffe said. “And when we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you, 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.”
Yes, it is definitely quite true that there have been sightings all over the planet, but Esri has released an animated map that shows that more UFO sightings happen in the United States than anywhere else by a good margin.
“Frankly, 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 been 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.”
Of course videos that the U.S. Navy has previously released have already confirmed the fact that UFOs often perform aerial feats that human pilots simply cannot match…
Videos from the Navy were released last year through the Freedom of Information Act that showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers.
One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were shot in January 2015. The three videos were code-named ‘FLIR1,’ ‘Gimbal,’ and ‘GoFast.’
In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.
If UFOs can perform “seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers”, that would seem to suggest that whoever is piloting them is even more technologically advanced than we are.
I am entirely convinced that the U.S. government knows a great deal about UFOs and those that are flying them, and millions of Americans are very much looking forward to the release of the upcoming unclassified report.
U.S. government agencies will certainly not tell us everything, but I do believe that they will reveal more details than they ever have before.
Ultimately, I believe that the stage is being set for a great deception of epic proportions, and that is why I am starting to write more about the UFO phenomenon.
As more information is shared with the public, the narrative will be that UFOs are “spacecraft” that contain “aliens” from another planet.
And I think that it is quite likely that officials will insist that they are “friendly” and that we should be open to “learning” from them.
But the truth is that they are definitely not our “friends”.
As humanity moves into the darkest hours that it has ever known, people will become increasingly desperate for someone to come along and save us.
And if “aliens” were to show up with technology that we do not currently possess, many would be tempted to embrace them as “saviors”.
For decades, Hollywood has been relentlessly priming us for such a scenario, and now the U.S. government is starting to publicly acknowledge that UFOs aren’t just science fiction.
This is a story that is going to become increasingly important over the next few years, and it isn’t going to end well.
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FBI UFO Files, This is Where the Flying Saucers Come From, What The Pilots Look Like & Why They're Here
FBI UFO Files, This is Where the Flying Saucers Come From, What The Pilots Look Like & Why They're Here
This file is incredible, Declassified documents from the FBI describe the occupants of the Flying Saucers, Where They Come From, Why They Are Here and What They Look Like. After reading this it confirms many people beliefs that the Others are Interdimensional beings and don’t live on a Planet that is Physical like ours.
The Real Men In Black... The Strangest and Spookiest Experiences via Nick Redfern
The Real Men In Black... The Strangest and Spookiest Experiences via Nick Redfern
The Men in Black were elevated to superstar status in 1997 in the hit movie of the same name. Although the Hollywood blockbuster was fiction, the real Men in Black have consistently attempted to silence the witnesses of UFO and paranormal phenomena since the 1950s.
Researcher and author Nick Redfern delves deep into the mysterious world of these mysterious operatives. He reveals their origins and discusses classic cases, previously unknown reports, secret government files, and the many theories that have been presented to explain the mystery.
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Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Admits To Alien Craft Existance
Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Admits To Alien Craft Existance
Gordon Cooper was one of America’s original astronauts. He helped pioneer this country’s space exploration efforts when, aboard a tiny space capsule known as Mercury [Faith] 7, Cooper orbited the Earth for 34 hours, proving that man could live outside our atmosphere for prolonged periods. His patriotism, bravery and respectability go without saying…
Cooper has recently made several public pronouncements concerning his strong belief in UFOs. While a guest on the Merv Griffin Show, Cooper shocked the viewing audiences by speaking for over five minutes on a topic that was only within the past few years often considered too bizarre for polite conversation.
But there were some things that Cooper wouldn’t even discuss on the air in front of the curious multitudes. Luckily Lee Spiegel is a personal friend of Gordon Cooper. They have conferred on several occasions, and while in the company of the man who is bound and determined to crack the ‘Cosmic Watergate’ which he is convinced exists within the higher echelon of government, the former space traveler is more than happy to talk about his UFO experiences – and they are man.
In the early 1950s, Cooper was assigned to a jet fighter group in Germany. While stationed there, he remembersvery vividly the week an entire formation of circular objects passed over the Air Base on almost a daily routine.
‘We never could get close enough to pin them down, but they were round in shape and very metallic looking,’ Cooper points out. UFOs were to continue to haunt him when the Air Force Colonel was transferred several years later to Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Center in the California desert.
What happened one afternoon while he was on duty at this military base is evidence enough that the government definitely does keep a lot of secrets when it comes to UFOs!
The incident took place in the late 1950s, either 1957 or 1958 – as Cooper can best recall; and to this day, the photographic evidence of an actual UFO touching down upon the Earth is being kept under wraps.
During this period, Cooper was a Project Manager at Edwards Air Force Base, just three or four years before entering America’s space program. After lunch this particular day, Cooper had assigned a team of photographers to an area of the vast dry lake beds near Edwards.
In a taped interview with UFOlogist Lee Spiegel, the former Astronaut disclosed thatwhile the crew was out there, they spotted a strange-looking craft above the lake bed, and they began taking films of it.
Cooper says the object was very definitely ‘hovering above the ground. And then it slowly came down and sat on the lake bed for a few minutes.’ All during this time the motion picture cameras were filming away.
‘There were varied estimates by the cameramen on what the actual size of the object was,’ Cooper confesses, ‘but they all agreed that it was at least the size of a vehicle that would carry normal-sized people in it.’
Col. Cooper was not fortunate enough to be outside at the time of this incredible encounter, but he did see the films as soon as they were rushed through the development process.
‘It was a typical circular-shaped UFO,’ he recollects. ‘Not too many people saw it, because it took off at quite a sharp angle and just climbed straight on out of sight!’
Cooper admits he didn’t take any kind of poll to determine who had seen the craft, ‘because there were always strange things flying around in the air over Edwards.’ This is a statement Lee Spiegel was able to verify through his own research efforts, having obtained closely guarded tapes of conversations between military pilots circling the base and their commanding officers in the flight tower, tracking the presence of unknown objects.
‘People just didn’t ask a lot of questions about things they saw and couldn’t understand,’ notes Cooper, who adds that it was a lot simpler to look the other way, shrug one’s shoulders, and chalk up what had been seen to ‘just another experimental aircraft that must have been developed at another area of the air base.’
But what about the photographic proof – the motion picture footage – that was taken? ‘I think it was definitely a UFO,’ Cooper states, as he makes no bones about it. ‘However, where it (the object) came from and who was in it is hard to determine, because it didn’t stay around long enough to discuss the matter – there wasn’t even time to send out a welcoming committee!’
After he reviewed the film at least a dozen times, the footage was quickly forwarded to Washington. Cooper no doubt expected to get a reply in a few weeks’ time as to what his men had seen and photographed, but there was no word, and the movie *vanished* – never to surface again….
On coast-to-coast television, Cooper recently made a blockbuster statement that had the telephone lines tied up the next day, as viewers telephoned the stations which carried the syndicated Merv Griffin Show, anxious to find out if their ears had been playing tricks on them the night before.
Toward the end of the talk-show host’s interview with the former Astronaut, Merv broke into a secretive tone of voice right on the air, and aimed a hundred-thousand-dollar question at his guest: ‘There is a story going around, Gordon, that a spaceship did land in middle America and there were occupants, and members of our government were able to keep one of the occupants alive for a period of time. They’ve seen the metal of the aircraft and they know what the people look like – is that a credible story?’
For all intents and purposes Cooper should have laughed for assuredly such a speculative story belongs in the category of science fiction or space fantasy. But Gordon Cooper kept a straight face when he replied: ‘I think it’s fairly credible. I would like to see the time when all qualified people could really work together to properly investigate these stories and either refute or prove them.’
The bombshell had been dropped. Cooper went on to say that from the various reports of UFO contacts and abductions he had been privy to, he was convinced that the occupants of this crashed UFO were ‘probably not that different from what we are,’ – that they are almost totally humanoid (i.e., have two arms, two legs, a torso and readily identifiable facial features) in appearance.
Taken aback by what Cooper had said over the national airwaves, Lee Spiegel telephoned Cooper’s office the following morning and managed to get past his private secretary, though others in the media were getting the cold shoulder.
‘Cooper admitted to me that he could have revealed more on the air, but he decided not to play his entire hand because he felt certain that some ‘official eyebrows were going to get raised’.’”
I was watching the volcano Popocatepetl volcano using the online live cam when I saw a glowing object shooting down from space towards the mouth of the volcano and then exploded. I believe this to be an alien craft disguised as a meteor, this way anyone who sees them will not believe its a UFO, but a meteor. Now we I have seen dozens of shows an movies all with this same method of disgusting the craft as a meteor. For instance in a Star Trek episode they had to get to the planets surface but it was a primitive planet and they didn't want to be seen, so they made the shuttle entry into the atmosphere appear to be a meteorite trail. This way throwing off anyone who sees it. Now, reciting Star Trek is not all that far from reality really. I mean many things today exist because Star Trek inspired it to happen.
Some of the many Star Trek items they inspired that are real today:
1. Transparent aluminum.
2. Tablet computers
3. Universal translators
4. Hand held communicator...very similar to the Nokia flip phones.
5. Tractor beams...remember MIT created one.
6. Phaser gun, its a direct energy weapon...which is used today thanks to DARPA.
This photo is absolutely fantastic evidence of alien activity in Argentina desert. Alien craft have been recorded for decades around volcanos and mountain areas. This UFO obviously has little to scan and learn from out in the barren desert. So for it to buzz past the cyclists is no surprise. A group of cyclists out for competition and exercise is of high interest to aliens to understands human competitiveness and health interests.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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A group of cyclists was going by one of the loveliest landscapes in the area; upon taking a photo, they became aware of a strange formation. A photo taken of a group of cyclists touring the roads of Malargue quickly became the focus of attention, but not for the breathtaking southern landscaptes or the prowess of the athletes. What capture the attention of many was that the image displays a strange object that many have associated with a UFO flying of the legendary Castillos de Pincheira formation. The image came about from a post to Facebook by Lucio Aguirre and which went viral immediately. "Some friends from Alvear were pedaling around the Castillos de Pincheira region in Malargue. They took several shots of the landscape and in one of them, you can see this..." says the man in his profile. The photo shows a dirt road only meters away from the rocky formation. Above it, meters above the structure, a blurry object seems to hover above the surface.
Below screenshot has added focus only, bringing out real color and shape.
Harry Reid: U.S. Government Is Hiding Facts On UFOs From Public
Harry Reid:U.S. Government Is Hiding Facts On UFOs From Public
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the U.S. government has information about UFOs that it has been hiding and covering up for years.
Reid, 80, served as a Nevada senator from 1987 to 2017. While in office, he sought to continue funding a Defense Department program called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification that had had been discontinued.
In the documentary, “The Phenomenon,” director James Fox asked Reid if there’s some evidence on UFOs that still hasn’t seen the light of day, Huffpost reported.
“I’m saying most of it hasn’t seen the light of day,” Reid replied.
“There’s more than one up there,” Reid said, adding that he believes UFOs may have interfered with U.S. weapons.
The film examines the history of UFO sightings in and outside the U.S. with new details about encounters involving U.S. Navy pilots. It also details a 1967 report about how 10 missiles became inoperative over a U.S. missile base at the same time that a UFO appeared above the base.
The Pentagon studied recordings of UFOs in a classified program, launched at the request of Reid in 2007 that ended in 2012 due to lack of funding.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the classified program, told CNN in 2017 that he thinks “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone. These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of.”
Elizondo said he resigned from the Defense Department in 2017 to protest the secrecy surrounding the program and the opposition to funding it.
“They did everything they could to stop the program from going forward … they wanted nothing to do with this … Nobody has to agree why it’s there. But shouldn’t we at least be spending some money to study all these phenomena? Shouldn’t we study this stuff? The answer is yes,” Reid said.
Instead, Reid said, “the federal government all these years has covered up, put brake pads on everything, stopped it. I think it’s very, very bad for our country.”
Elizondo described the documentary as setting “a new benchmark for disclosure” and “the most accurate and informative documentary ever made about UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena),” according to “The Phenomenon” website.
The “unwarranted stigma” around UFOs has “prevented the government and academia from taking this important topic seriously,” said Chris Mellon, former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in Defense Department.
“The rapidly increasing number and quality of land and space-based sensors is making the UAP issue impossible to avoid,” said Mellon, whose voice is also included in the documentary.
In August 2020, the Pentagon announced that the U.S. Navy was overseeing a new task force to investigate “unexplained aerial incidents” that have been observed on several occasions by U.S. military aircraft.
The new task force — the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) — will report to the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
“The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report,” the Pentagon said in a press release. “This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.”
Who Will Resist The Aliens Who Want To Destroy Us?
Who Will Resist The Aliens Who Want To Destroy Us?
Military news site Task & Purpose confirmed a disturbing fact: the newly created U.S. Space Force has no intention of fighting aliens.
Despite the recent uptick of military UFO sightings, the Pentagon appears uninterested (at least officially) in the possibility of hostile aliens. But if an alien invasion does take place, which arm of the Pentagon would respond? The answer: probably all of them.
During a recent Pentagon roundtable, Task & Purpose’s Pentagon reporter Jeff Schogol asked if the Space Force “is concerned about threats posed by extraterrestrial intelligence.” The official answer he got back? “No.”
Schogol’s question was asked with tongue firmly planted in cheek, but the revelation last year that U.S. Navy fighter jets encountered alleged UFO craft in 2004 and again in 2015—in both instances appearing on radar and leaving behind video evidence—makes one wonder.
If the unidentified flying objects described by Navy pilots, as well as military and civilian personnel for the past seventy years, are really of extraterrestrial origin and unfriendly, how would the Pentagon deal with them?
If UFOs suddenly descended from the skies, toasting the Statue of Liberty, the Great Mall of America, and the Golden Gate Bridge with death rays, the Pentagon would need to convene some sort of study group to quickly determine what kind of threat it was dealing with. If that happens, forget the Air Force.
Ironically, the service that would most likely take the lead is the U.S. Navy.
Why the Navy? Aliens would likely come from vast distances, traveling light years in long distance voyages, to smash puny humans. The U.S. Navy is unique among the services in planning similar, though much, much shorter voyages.
Both submarines and UFOs deal with pressure—in the case of submarines the pressure is on the outside, while in space the pressure is on the inside of the vehicle. From an operational and technical standpoint, aliens and sailors have a few things in common.
There are other reasons the Navy might take the lead. Seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and if aliens operated from the water (remember, the 2004 sighting included reports of a 737-sized object on the surface of the ocean) the Navy is unique in having manned aircraft, surface ships, and submarines prowling above, on, and below the surface of the ocean.
The Navy could also sail to the most remote locations in the world’s oceans, establishing a military presence for weeks or months, to investigate and monitor for enemy activity.
The Air Force could operate against aliens, but the service’s fighters and bombers could only remain on station for mere minutes or hours before returning to base.
Against a terrestrial threat this isn’t really a big deal, but against an alien threat we know nothing about—and according to the 2004 incident, theoretically capable of traveling extraordinary distances in a blink of an eye—such a force will be less useful.
If humans could lure aliens into a set-piece battle the Air Force could bring a lot of firepower, but how one lures aliens into battle is anyone’s guess. In the meantime the Space Force, nestled under control of the Air Force, would contribute to the alien war by maintaining the U.S. military’s network of position, navigation, and timing/GPS satellites, communication satellites, and other space-based assets.
The Army would be the service responsible if aliens attempted a landing in the United States, or presumably one of our allies. The Army’s 10 combat divisions would spring into action, attempting to destroy the aliens with fire and maneuver.
It would be in many ways similar to countering an airborne landing, with the Army attempting to destroy the alien’s landing zone and prevent the flow of alien reinforcements.
The Marines could also get in on the alien fighting, particularly overseas in Asia, Europe, or even the Middle East—though one would like to think aliens would be smart enough to avoid that region and the prospect of their own 18-year war altogether.
Of course, all of this is contingent on the U.S. military being on par with alien technology… which, frankly, is extremely unlikely.
The universe is billions of years old, and other races could easily have a head start of a million years or more on us. And certainly, any species capable of interstellar flight is far more technologically advanced.
Consider that a handful of 21st-century tanks could crush an army from the 11th century, or even the 19th century for that matter. Even a difference of a thousand years would be ample enough to ensure humanity’s defeat from even a minor alien expedition/hunting trip/bachelor party.
If aliens do exist, ultimately it may not matter if they are hostile or not. Our destruction at their hands would be about as inevitable as destruction from an extinction-level meteor impact.
They could even be friendly, the combination of advanced, destructive technology and violent tendencies leading to intelligent life self-screening itself from interstellar travel. (That would be bad news for humanity.)
The “UFOs” people are seeing could even be top secret U.S. government craft. The aliens could be us. In the end, maybe it doesn’t matter if the Pentagon has a plan to fight aliens after all.
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J’ai vu un objet volant non identifié : que faire ?
J’ai vu un objet volant non identifié : que faire ?
Nathalie Mayer - Journaliste
Les années passent et une chose reste : à travers le monde, les gens observent des ovnis. Le signe de visites de civilisations extra-terrestres ? Pas nécessairement. Mais si cela vous est déjà arrivé, vous pouvez le signaler. Des experts vous apporteront une réponse.
[EN VIDÉO] Quel est cet ovni filmé depuis l'ISS ?Régulièrement, les caméras de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) filment des objets volants non identifiés, alias ovnis. Satellites, débris ou étages de lanceurs, quand ce ne sont pas de simples reflets dans les vitres : ces images font le bonheur des ufologues. Ici, on voit un objet allant dans le même sens que l’ISS, un peu plus bas et (logiquement) un peu plus rapide. Rêvons un peu.
Il arrive régulièrement que l'observation d'un objet volant non identifié (ovni) soit rapportée par des personnes tout à fait censées et lucides. Et les personnes en question en restent parfois marquées à jamais. La presse s'en fait généralement l'écho. Notamment lorsque l'observation est le fait d'un groupe de personnes, plus ou moins indépendantes et géographiquement séparées. Et sachez que si vous aussi, vous avez vu un ovni, vous pouvez être entendu.
D'abord, notez tout de même que les ovnis, officiellement, ça n'existe plus. Oubliez les objets volants non identifiés. Veuillez désormais parler de préférence de phénomène aérospatial non identifié (Pan). Peut-être, parce que le terme est moins connoté « extra-terrestres ». Mais aussi parce qu'il est moins réducteur. Beaucoup de signalements se rapportent en effet à des phénomènes naturels -- la foudre, par exemple -- qui ne sont pas des « objets ».
Si vous avez observé un pan, vous pouvez vous tourner vers la gendarmerie de votre secteur. Elle est habilitée à recueillir votre témoignage. Elle rédige alors un procès-verbal administratif qui enregistre la date et le lieu d'observation. Mais aussi tout ce qui peut être utile à percer le mystère : la forme de l'objet, ses dimensions, d'éventuels sons qu'il aurait pu émettre, etc. Des informations que les gendarmes transmettent ensuite à une cellule spécialisée du Centre national d'études spatiales (Cnes).
Avec la multiplication des drones, les signalements d’ovni augmentent.
Des explications terre à terre dans la plupart des cas
Le Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (Geipan) a été créé dès 1977. Et il est aussi possible de s'adresser directement à lui, par l'intermédiaire d'un formulaire à remplir en ligne.
Plus votre description sera précise, plus l'enquête du Geipan pourra être menée de manière poussée. Scientifiques et détectives privés en renfort. Car le Groupe affirme que tous les signalements sont pris très au sérieux. Et qu'en cas de doute, mieux vaut en parler afin de pouvoir s'appuyer sur des experts de la question pour les lever.
Ceci étant dit, la plupart du temps, les explications fournies par le Geipan aux observateurs de Pan manquent d'exotisme. Des lanternes lâchées à l'occasion d'un mariage. Un petit avion à l'atterrissage, feux temporairement éteints. Un vol de montgolfière. Un lancement de satellites. Seuls 3,5 % des signalements resteraient aujourd'hui encore sans explication. Sans pour autant vouloir dire qu'ils se cachent derrière, des visites extra-terrestres. Certains restent simplement non identifiés faute de renseignements suffisamment précis ou de moyens techniques. Mais tout comme certains cas anciens trouvent aujourd'hui solution, peut-être que ceux-ci seront résolus à l'avenir avec l'aide d'évolutions technologiques.
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Incredible UFO Sighting Over Arizona: Full-On Lights Beaming Down
Incredible UFO Sighting Over Arizona: Full-On Lights Beaming Down
That night, a local resident was driving down the highway from Yuma to Fax, Arizona and saw something incredible, reportslatest-ufo-sightings.net.
Witness report: “I saw 4 of them flying in a square formation towards Yuma, couldn’t pull my phone out fast enough for those though, and the movement on those were crazy. Maybe next time I’m down there I’ll catch them on camera.
“In all my years here I’ve never seen them have full-on lights beaming down. Maybe flashes of red and green here and there like a normal plane/jet but I’ve never seen 4 of them flying in a square, solid white light the whole time.
“They all disappeared at the same time. The only thing that was letting me see them was the crazy amount of light they were emitting, so it just looked like someone just turned some lights off lol.
“Yuma Proving Grounds does military testing but I’ve never seen shit like this in all 23 years of living here, I wish I could’ve recorded the 4 flying in a square formation but I couldn’t pull my phone out fast enough after I was done being in awe.
“I saw no smoke trails like in the video. I was literally trying to see where smoke would be if they were flares but I couldn’t see a single column of smoke. It was from my phone, Samsung S20. Would’ve been awesome if I had a Nikon. Right after the BP checkpoint leaving Yuma, they were by the mountains.”
L'hélicoptère martien de la Nasa, toujours accroché au rover Perseverance, est quasiment prêt à toucher Mars. Il est désormais suspendu sous l'astromobile, à quelques centimètres de la surface de la planète, ses quatre petits pieds dépliés.
Ingenuity n’est plus qu’à une dizaine de centimètres au-dessus de la surface de la planète rouge. Le déploiement de l’hélicoptère martien semble se passer comme prévu, comme en témoignent les clichés régulièrement envoyés par le rover Perseverance. Sur les images brutes, obtenues avec la caméra WATSON sur l’instrument SHERLOC, on peut voir Ingenuity suspendu sous l’astromobile, ses quatre pieds dépliés.
« L’hélicoptère martien a abaissé ses quatre pieds et est en mesure de se poser sur la surface martienne. Quand il sera prêt, Perseverance le posera doucement à la surface », a tweeté le Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la Nasa le 31 mars 2021. Sur l’image suivante, prise le 30 mars avec WATSON, on distingue à la fois l’hélicoptère suspendu à Perseverance, et l’une des roues du rover.
Tel qu’il apparaît sur ces images, Ingenuity n’est plus relié que par le haut à Perseverance, qu’il peut encore utiliser comme source d’énergie. Une fois que le rover l’aura posé, il devra reculer rapidement, pour exposer Ingenuity aux rayons du Soleil. L’hélicoptère va puiser son énergie de cette source, à l’aide d’un panneau solaire installé au-dessus de ses deux pales. Ingenuity ne pourra plus compter que sur sa propre autonomie après sa séparation définitive de l’astromobile.
Une fois Ingenuity en contact avec la surface de Mars, sa mission pourra commencer. Une fenêtre de 30 sols (le nom du jour sur Mars), soit 31 jours terrestres, va s’ouvrir : il faudra mener toutes les tentatives de vol et les vérifications dans ce laps de temps.
UN PREMIER VOL AU PLUS TÔT LE 11 AVRIL
Le tout premier vol d’Ingenuity doit avoir lieu au plus tôt le 11 avril. Le petit engin de 1,8 kilogramme doit s’élever dans les airs à une altitude de 3 mètres, planer pendant 20 secondes, puis redescendre. Cela peut sembler modeste, mais c’est pourtant déjà un grand défi de voler ainsi dans l’atmosphère ténue de Mars. Perseverance observera la scène à 100 mètres de distance, de façon à pouvoir prendre des photos de son compagnon, tout en évitant de se mettre en danger si Ingenuity venait à avoir un incident. L’hélicoptère vise avant tout à faire une démonstration technologique du vol propulsé sur une autre planète et n’embarque pas d’instruments scientifiques — il dispose juste de deux caméras.
Si Ingenuity réussit sa première tentative de vol et qu’il est encore fonctionnel, la Nasa pourra envisager un deuxième essai, en changeant probablement un peu les paramètres du vol. Ingenuity pourrait s’élever jusqu’à 5 mètres d’altitude et voler horizontalement, parcourant quelques mètres de distance, lors d’un vol un peu plus long. Jusqu’à 5 tentatives de vol pourront être envisagées, s’il reste assez de temps et sous réserve des résultats des vols précédents.
The underwater continent broke off from Gondwana 80 million years ago.
Zealandia is a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and the territory of New Caledonia (part of which is shown here) in the South Pacific.
(Image credit: Arne Hodalic via Getty Images)
A new ocean-mapping expedition is drawing the boundaries of Zealandia, a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and the territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
Zealandia broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana between 79 million and 83 million years ago. Except for New Zealand and New Caledonia, this fragment of continental crust now sits on the ocean floor. It's not the only bit of continental crust that's detached from a larger continent, but it is the largest at 1.9 million square miles (4.9 million square kilometers). That's six times larger than the next-largest continental fragment, the microcontinent of Madagascar.
Zealandia, also known as Te Riu-a-Māui in Māori, was assigned continental status in 2017. Since then, researchers have been working to map the lost continent — no easy feat, as 94% of it is under water.
Now, Derya Gürer, an earth scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia, and her colleagues have collected new data on the northwestern edge of Zealandia, which is located offshore in Queensland's Coral Sea Marine Park. The researchers spent 28 days aboard the vessel Falkor exploring the region, mapping 14,285 square miles (37,000 square km).
"Our expedition collected seafloor topographic and magnetic data to gain a better understanding of how the narrow connection between the Tasman and Coral Seas in the Cato Trough region — the narrow corridor between Australia and Zealandia — was formed," Gürer said in a university statement.
The area between the Australia plate and the Zealandia plate is likely very complicated, Gürer said. There are probably several microcontinents submerged there, all of which splintered off the main continental masses when Australia broke free of Gondwana. (The supercontinent encompassed what is today South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia, Arabia and the Indian subcontinent.) These fragments of continental crust are different from the surrounding oceanic crust of the seafloor, which is denser and thinner than continental crust.
Done in collaboration with the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the mapping was part of the Seafloor to Seabirds expedition. The mapping data will also feed into a larger project, the Seabed 2030 collaboration, which aims to make a publicly available, comprehensive map of the ocean floor by 2030. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), less than 10% of the seafloor has been mapped by modern sonar methods, which use sound to reveal undersea topography. The Seafloor to Seabird expedition not only collected information about topography, but also data on the intensity of the magnetic field across the area. Because oceanic crust and continental crust are made of different mineral concentrations with different magnetic signatures, this data will enable researchers to reconstruct the broken fragments of Gondwana.
"The seafloor is full of clues for understanding the complex geologic history of both the Australian and Zealandian continental plates," Gürer said.
In the winter of 1850, a fierce storm hit the Orkney island archipelago of Scotland, causing massive amounts of devastation, particularly in the area of the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland Island, and when the storm passed it left behind swaths of damage and 200 people dead. Yet in addition to the tragedy and damage left in its wake, the ferocious storm had also uncovered a mystery that had been there under the earth for thousands of years. There, partially exposed by the raging storm atop a knoll called Skara Brae, was what appeared to be a previously unknown ancient Neolithic village, which would uncover more mysteries as it was further exposed, and unearth ancient enigmas that have never really been explained.
The first attempts to uncover more of the apparent buried village were amateurish affairs carried out by locals, which they conducted until 1868 before quitting after having unearthed four ancient houses. The site would then sit abandoned for decades, in the meantime being set upon by looters and hit with yet another storm, before it finally came to the attention of the University of Edinburgh’s Professor V. Gordon Childe and was properly investigated in 1917. When real archeologists got to work, it was found that the site was likely inhabited from between around 3180 BC to about 2500 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, and was composed of a total of ten clustered houses tucked down in earthen dams and mounds, meant to help support the walls and provide insulation. These houses were constructed of flagstone and featured stone hearths, beds, and various stone-built pieces of furniture, including cupboards, dressers, seats, and storage boxes, and there was even an indoor sewer system or toilet in each home, with small antechambers equipped with drains that carried waste to the sea and would have been very advanced for the time. This was all incredibly well preserved and complete.
Skara Brae
This elaborate design was one of the first mysteries of Skara Brae, and another was that it seems that the settlement was suddenly and inexplicably abandoned at some point. Whatever had made them leave caused the inhabitants to apparently flee in great haste, as there have been found many items that would have been considered very valuable at the time and even the remains of what are thought to have been meals laid out. Theories as to why these people so suddenly and decisively abandoned the village range from some sort of catastrophe like a storm, to some other calamity like disease, but no one really knows. Whatever the reason for this sudden exodus, the people who once lived here sure did leave a lot of stuff behind. Throughout this tiny village, which was estimated to have held perhaps 50 inhabitants at any one time, there were found fragments of stone, bone, and antler thought to be from some tool-making process, as well as numerous objects made of animal, fish, bird, and whalebone, whale and walrus ivory, and killer whale teeth, including awls, needles, knives, beads, jewelry, adzes, shovels, small bowls and plates. In addition to this there were found countless pieces of pottery, thousands of strange beads made from bone and sheep’s teeth, lumps of red ochre thought to have been used for body painting, and even one of the only pieces of preserved rope from a Neolithic site ever found. Much of this would have been seen as incredibly valuable at the time, but it is all just sitting around, with no real attempts to stow it, hide it, or take it along. Yet for as amazing as all of this is, by far the most mysterious objects found at Skara Brae are its inexplicable carved stone balls.
Scattered around the site are stone balls, about the size of a baseball and adorned with elaborate carvings of intricate patterns of spirals, circles and straight lines, with each one typically sporting between three to ten small knobs or bosses on the surface. It has long been considered a complete mystery as to how these ancient people could have created such elaborate inscriptions and carvings with only stone tools to work with, but the bigger mystery is that no one really knows what they are for. When it comes to the mysterious stone balls of Skara Brae the theories are numerous. Ideas include that they were used as weights for fishing nets, or that they were primitive scales, standardized weights for Neolithic traders, tools for the use of making beads or a multi-tool of some sort, objects used for rituals, oracles or fortune telling devices, status symbols, rollers for the transport of the giant stones used in megalithic monuments, or even weapons. Hugo Anderson-Whymark, curator of National Museums Scotland, has said of this theory:
It is perhaps best to think of them as ceremonial or stylized weapons. Things that could inflict damage if you wanted to use them, and may in some circumstances have been used that way, but are more likely to be objects which represent the status or power of the individual that held them in that community. Many of the ideas you have to take with a pinch of salt, while there are others that may be plausible. What’s interesting is that people really get their imaginations captured by them — they still hold a lot of secrets.
Some of the mysterious stone balls
Another idea is that the balls could represent what are called “Platonic solids,” which were symmetrical polyhedrons first proposed by the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Plato to represent the classical elements of earth, water, air, fire and ether. If this theory is true it would be an amazing discovery, as it would mean that these Neolithic people understood these geometries and mathematics over a millennium before Plato first described it all. In an effort to come to some understanding of their mysterious purpose, scientists have created 3-D models of the balls and others like them found at other sites in Scotland, and while these have not provided any concrete answers one thing that was found is that the they seemed to have been worked and reworked or modified over several generations.
Similar balls have been found at other locations around Scotland, and indeed there have been around 500 of the objects found at various sites, with the Skara Brae examples being among the most famous, but all are equally enigmatic. No one really has a clue what they were for. They could have simply been left behind as a prank to mess with people in the future for all we know, and your guess is as good as anyone’s. The stone balls have baffled scientists for years, with no one any closer to a definitive answer. What happened to Skara Brae? What were these mysterious balls used for? Considering there is no written record for any of it we will probably never know, and your guess is as good as anyone else’s.
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If Astronomers see Isoprene in the Atmosphere of an Alien World, There’s a Good Chance There’s Life There
If Astronomers see Isoprene in the Atmosphere of an Alien World, There’s a Good Chance There’s Life There
It is no exaggeration to say that the study of extrasolar planets has exploded in recent decades. To date, 4,375 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,247 systems, with another 5,856 candidates awaiting confirmation. In recent years, exoplanet studies have started to transition from the process of discovery to one of characterization. This process is expected to accelerate once next-generation telescopes become operational.
As a result, astrobiologists are working to create comprehensive lists of potential “biosignatures,” which refers to chemical compounds and processes that are associated with life (oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, etc.) But according to new research by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), another potential biosignature we should be on the lookout for is a hydrocarbon called isoprene(C5H8).
The study that describes their findings, “Assessment of Isoprene as a Possible Biosignature Gas in Exoplanets with Anoxic Atmospheres,” recently appeared online and has been accepted for publication by the journal Astrobiology. For the sake of their study, the MIT team looked at the growing list of possible biosignatures that astronomers will be on the lookout for in the coming years.
An arrangement of 3 exoplanets to explore how the atmospheres can look different based on the chemistry present and incoming flux. Credit: Jack H. Madden
To date, the vast majority of exoplanets have been detected and confirmed using indirect methods. For the most part, astronomers have relied on the Transit Method (Transit Photometry) and the Radial Velocity Method (Doppler Spectroscopy), alone or in combination. Only a few have been detectable using Direct Imaging, which makes it very difficult to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces.
Only on rare occasions have astronomers been able to obtain spectra that allowed them to determine the chemical composition of that planet’s atmosphere. This was either the result of light passing through an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transitted in front of its star or in the few cases where Direct Imaging occurred and light reflected from the exoplanet’s atmosphere could be studied.
Much of this has had to do with the limits of our current telescopes, which do not have the necessary resolution to observe smaller, rocky planets that orbit closer to their star. Astronomers and astrobiologists believe that it is these planets that are most likely to be potentially habitable, but any light reflected from their surfaces and atmospheres is overpowered by the light coming from their stars.
However, that will change soon as next-generation instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) takes to space. Sara Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Sciences at MIT, leads the research group responsible (aka. the Seager Group) and was a co-author on the paper. As she told Universe Today via email:
“With the upcoming October 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope we will have our first capability of searching for biosignature gases—but it will be tough because the atmospheric signals of small rocky planet are so weak to begin with. With the JWST on the horizon the number of people working in the field has grown tremendously. Studies such as this one coming up with new potential biosignature gases, and other work showing potential false positives even for gases such as oxygen.”
Artist’s impression shows the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Once it is deployed and operational, the JWST will be able to observe our Universe at longer wavelengths (in the near- and mid-infrared range) and with greatly improved sensitivity. The telescope will also rely on a series of spectrographs to obtain composition data, as well as coronagraphs to block out the obscuring light of parent stars. This technology will enable astronomers to characterize the atmospheres of smaller rocky planets.
In turn, this data will allow scientists to place much tighter constraints on an exoplanet’s habitability and could even lead to the detection of known (and/or potential) biosignatures. As noted, these “biosignatures” include the chemical indications associated with life and biological process, not to mention the types of conditions that are favorable to it.
These include oxygen gas (O2), which is essential to most forms of life on Earth and is produced by photosynthetic organisms (plants, trees, cyanobacteria, etc.). These same organisms metabolize carbon dioxide (CO2), which oxygen-metabolizing life emits as a waste product. There’s also water (H2O), which is essential to all life as we know it, and methane (CH4), which is emitted by decaying organic matter.
Since volcanic activity is believed to play an important role in planetary habitability, the chemical byproducts associated with volcanism – hydrogen sulfide (H2S), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen gas (H2), etc. – are also considered biosignatures. To this list, Zhan, Seager, and their colleagues wished to add another possible biosignature – isoprene. As Zhan explained to Universe Today via email:
“Our research group at MIT focuses on using a holistic approach to explore all possible gases as potential biosignature gas. Our prior work led to the creation of the all small molecules database. We proceed to filter the ASM database to identify the most plausible biosignature gas candidates, one of which is isoprene, using machine learning and data-driven approaches – Dr. Zhuchang Zhan.”
Image taken by a crew member of Expedition 13 from the ISS, showing the eruption of Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Credit: NASA
Like its cousin methane, isoprene is an organic hydrocarbon molecule that is produced as a secondary metabolite by various species here on Earth. In addition to deciduous trees, isoprene is also produced by a diverse array of evolutionary-distant organisms – such as bacteria, plants, and animals. As Seager explained, this makes it promising as a potential biosignature:
“Isoprene is promising because it is produced in vast qualities by life on Earth—as much as methane production! Furthermore, a huge variety of life forms (from bacteria to plants and animals), those that are evolutionary distant from each other, produce isoprene, suggesting it might be some kind of key building block that life elsewhere might also make.”
While isoprene is about as abundant as methane here on Earth, isoprene is destroyed by interaction with oxygen and oxygen-containing radicals. For this reason, Zhang, Seager, and their team chose to focus on anoxic atmospheres. These are environments that are predominantly composed of H2, CO2, and nitrogen gas (N2), which is similar to what Earth’s primordial atmosphere was composed of.
According to their findings, a primordial planet (where life is beginning to emerge) would have abundant isoprene in its atmosphere. This would have been the case on Earth between 4 and 2.5 billion years ago when single-celled organisms were the only life and photosynthetic cyanobacteria were slowly converting Earth’s atmosphere into one that was oxygen-rich.
By 2.5 billion years ago, this culminated in the “Great Oxygenation Event” (GOE), which proved toxic to many organisms (and metabolites like isoprene). It was also during this time that complex lifeforms (eukaryotes and multi-celled organisms) began to emerge. In this respect, isoprene could be used to characterize planets that are in the midst of a major evolutionary shift and laying the groundwork for future animal phyla.
But as Zhang noted, teasing out this potential biosignature will be a challenge, even for the JWST:
“The caveats with isoprene as a biomarker are that: 1. 10x-100x the Earth’s Isoprene production rate is needed for detection; 2. Detecting Near-Infrared isoprene spectral feature can be hindered by the presence of methane or other hydrocarbons. Unique detection of isoprene will be challenging with JWST, as many hydrocarbon molecules share similar spectra features in Near-Infrared wavelengths. But future telescopes that focus on the mid-IR wavelength will be able to detect isoprene spectral features uniquely.”
Beyond the JWST, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (successor to the Hubble mission) will also be taking to space by 2025. This observatory will have the power of “One-Hundred Hubbles” and its recently-upgraded infrared filters will allow it to characterize exoplanets on its own and through collaborations with the JWST and other “great observatories.”
There are also several ground-based telescopes currently being built here on Earth that will rely on sophisticated spectrometers, coronographs, and adaptive optics (AOs). These include the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) These telescopes will also be able to conduct Direct Imaging studies of exoplanets, and the results are expected to be ground-breaking.
Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of 2013 April 18. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists’ renditions). Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech.
Between improved instruments, rapidly improving data analysis and techniques, and improvements in our methodology, the study of exoplanets is only expected to accelerate further. In addition to having tens of thousands of more available for study (many of which will be rocky and “Earth-like”), the unprecedented views we will have of them will let us see just how many habitable worlds are out there.
Whether or not this will result in the discovery of extraterrestrial life within our lifetimes remains to be seen. But one thing is clear. In the coming years, when astronomers start combing through all the new data they will have on exoplanet atmospheres, they will have a comprehensive list of biosignatures to guide them.
The Lost Pacific Continent of Advanced Human Beings... Did It Really Exist?
The Lost Pacific Continent of Advanced Human Beings... Did It Really Exist?
According to Churchward, the lost Pacific continent of Mu “extended from somewhere north of Hawaii to the south as far as the Fijis and Easter Island.”
He claimed Mu was the site of the Garden of Eden and the home of 64,000,000 inhabitants known as the Naacals.
Its civilization, which flourished 50,000 years before Churchward’s day, was technologically more advanced than his own, and the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt and the Mayas were merely the decayed remnants of its colonies.
Could this strange land and advanced human’s have really existed?
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