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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
06-10-2021
UFO sighting in Falcon Lake, Manitoba Canada 1967
UFO sighting in Falcon Lake, Manitoba Canada 1967
Designed by artist Joel Kimmel, this coin is based on Stefan Michalak’s account of what transpired on May 20, 1967, near Falcon Lake, Manitoba.
Jacque Valle (1975) presents the famous Canadian UFO. Manitoba seems to be a hot spot of sorts for UAP activity. The guy who filmed along with 4 witnesses corroborated his story. This craft “burned” him, sort of like the Dayton, TX incident.
MUFON Field Investigators, MUFON members, sky watchers and the general public all occasionally turn their eyes to the sky and see many amazing things. None are more spectacular that what appears to be a meteor streaking across the sky in any myriad colors and lengths!
MUFON receives hundreds, if not thousands, of cases of possible meteors. Many are but could some of them be something anomalous? Answers can be found by the dogged investigator!
The American Meteor Society has observers all over the United States, Canada and other continents reporting in when they see a purported meteor in the sky. Their expertise ranges from common citizens to astronomers!
For the UFO investigator, lets look into how this can help us determine a natural phenomenon from an artificial one deserving more scrutiny!
For example, if you have a UFO seen at 10:02 PM over New Jersey you can go to the AMS website fireball log at http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_report and see if someone reported a corresponding meteor in the sky at that time over NJ.
This is what the log looks like for June 21st, 2014 for New Jersey local time. You can see that a fireball was reported over Tewksbury at 10:02 (22:02) PM.
This however does not prove that the object was a meteor. Meteors usually enter the atmosphere incredibly fast between 25,000 and 160,000 miles per hour which is what creates its tail as it burns up from friction. Speed and mass determine the length of the tail while composition determines its color (copper=green).
First, to expand on our thesis, extend your search of the North American eastern seaboard south of New Jersey for the time frame 10:02 PM to 10:03 PM. Try Delaware and Maryland!
Let’s say you get a hit from Dover, Delaware at 10:05 PM. That means the object traveled from
Tewksbury, NJ to Dover, Delaware in three minutes. That’s 109.5 miles. Let’s calculate.
There are 3600 seconds in an hour. The object traveled 109.5 miles in 180 seconds.
Multiply 109.5 by 3600 seconds to get miles per second and then divide by 3 minutes (180 seconds) to get miles per hour.
The answer is 2,190 mph. This is definitely not a meteor. It is too slow.
Let’s try another one. The Tewksbury object at 10:02 PM reaches Dover Delaware at 10:10 PM. It took 8 minutes to go 109.5 miles. So 109.5 miles multiplied by 3600 seconds divided by eight minutes (480 seconds) equals 821.25 mph. Most definitely not a meteor!
The other advantage to the American Meteor Society fireball log is that it gives you a trajectory map with times of sightings at various points.
Looking at the map above you can see that the Tewksbury sighting at 22:02 PM and the Somerset NJ sighting at 22:00 PM are probably related but the Dansville and Montrose, Pennsylvania sightings are not related.
Since the distance between Tewksbury and Somerset New Jersey is 20.1 miles and the object took 120 seconds to go from point A to point B we can calculate that it traveled at 603 MPH in that time.
We would have a serious UFO situation here! Thus the importance of using the AMS website in your reporting can not be underestimated! Just because the news tells you it is a meteor, doesn’t mean it is one!
When an object purportedly is registered as a meteor but is far slower than what a meteor would be traveling at then we need to go to the second level of investigation. Here we would use a website called www.flightradar24.com. This website logs all aircraft in the world that use a transponder. This means some military or secret flights might not show up.
But the primary use of flightradar24 is simply to determine if the object flying over your position, is a known aircraft. Why is this important?
SCREENSHOT OF ATLANTA VIA FLIGHTRADAR 24
Well, you saw what appeared to be a meteor. It ended up being too slow. So, craft are the next most likely explanation. Can we identify the craft?
The beauty of flightradar24 is that depending on your membership you can go back in time a year or more to see every flight with a transponder over your location. If you allow them to place an antenna on your home, you get the platinum membership free for life!
So, after ruling out a meteor, you look at all flights over your location on June 21 st at 10:02 P.M.
You see a vehicle traveling in the same flight path as to the object you saw and since your object was moving at 603 mph according to the American Meteor Society log and Flightradar24 shows a plane at near the same speed and direction, you can surmise it is the same object. An IFO.
The issue comes when nothing registers on Flightradar24. That website will only eliminate a known, registered and transponding object from your possibility list. That’s a lot of eliminating. But if you end up with a slow flying object that is too slow to be a meteor and does not register as an aircraft with a transponder, then you have a few possibilities namely it is military, it is private with no transponder, OR you have a vehicle or object of an anomalous nature that requires more in-depth study. This more in-depth study could entail contacting local air traffic control towers, law enforcement to see if other reports were obtained, submitting FOIA requests, trying to canvass a neighborhood for more witnesses or looking for correlating cases in the MUFON Case Management System and/or The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) run by Peter Davenport.
While none of these tools are foolproof for the MUFON Investigator or the interested general public, it does show that citizens are not helpless in trying to identify UFOs. Many, many tools are available to the inquisitive person. And in many cases, primitive tools like a camera or a good website are all that is needed to question the status quo! Maybe, just maybe, you did see something that requires further investigation!
It’s difficult to pinpoint the precise moment the mainstream decided that it might be time to take UFOs seriously. As unlikely as it might sound, it may well be the evening that President Barack Obama appeared on CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Cordenin May of this year.
“Do you have a question for our guest this evening?” asked the presenter, in the direction of bandleader Reggie Watts.
“You betcha…” replies Watts, before proceeding to ask POTUS 44 if he believes in UFOs. No judgement. We’d do the same.
Obama, so often so composed and stately, looks uncomfortable. “Well,” he says gingerly, “when it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on air…”
The audience giggles. Corden asks if Obama will tell them off air. Obama purses his lips.
“Look,” he says, “the truth is that when I came to office, I asked. I was like, ‘is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’”
Corden cackles like a drunk monkey.
“And you know, they did a little bit of research, and the answer was no.”
“But what is true,” continues Obama, “and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they move. Their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern…”
The live studio audience is silent. The look of vacancy on Corden’s face suggests that he doesn’t know what to do with the seismic news that he’s been audience to. Obama chucks him a bone.
“Of course, Reggie might be an alien…”
Cue uproarious laughter.
“That stereotypical UFO nut isn’t the sort of person coming forward anymore. It’s credible people who want to have a serious discussion.”
ANDY MCGRILLEN, CREATOR AND CO-HOST OF THAT UFO PODCAST
Obama isn’t the only person of profile to tease us with insider knowledge of UFOs in recent times. Four years ago, The New York Times broke a story revealing that a secret Pentagon programme entitled the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, helmed by a decorated military intelligence officer named Luis Elizondo, had been investigating reports of UFOs for years, at great fiscal expense. Elizondo, a hero to a new breed of ufologists, broke rank. “My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” he says. His followers, like Elizondo, don’t just want to believe. They already do.
“It all started with Luis,” explains Andy McGrillen, creator and co-host of one of Britain’s most popular UFO podcasts, That UFO Podcast. “Since The New York Times article, there’s been a slow and steady release of footage and testimony from more and more pilots and the like coming forward. It meant that the U.S. government had to acknowledge it. No disrespect to any hicks coming from the local trailer park in Texas, but that stereotypical UFO nut isn’t the sort of person coming forward anymore. It’s not just people saying, ‘Oh, they’re here from the Zeta Reticuli’, things they would just never know. It’s credible people who want to have a serious discussion.”
Interest in UFOs has been building ever since. Last year, in July, the former acting chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Marco Rubio, told CBS news, “We don’t know [what they are],” he said, “and [they aren’t] ours.”
Later, in December, former C.I.A. director John Brennan told the economist Tyler Cowen in an interview that “some of the phenomena we’re going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.” That same month, located within a $2.3 trillion spending and coronavirus-relief package, was a directive requiring the Department of Defence and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to deliver an unclassified report on UFOs to Congress within six months of that date.
Boyed by the revelations potentially coming their way, with increasingly credible looking captured footage (two of the best being that of the “Tic Tac”, shot in 2004 onboard the USS Nimitz, and from 2015, on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the “Gimbal”) to satiate their thirst in the meantime, many of the planet’s most popular cultural commentators have become more and more vocal in their interest of UFOs. It’s in keeping with the public’s mood. A poll conducted by Pew Research in July claims that 65 per cent of the U.S. population think there is intelligent alien life on other planets. This month, the Daily Star announced they would be the first British newspaper to have a dedicated Extraterrestrial Affairs Correspondent, former THE FACE writer Michael Moran.
“Growing up, as I did, in the era of the Space Race, UFOs seemed perfectly plausible and worthy of being taken seriously,” he says. “I think we’re coming back to that point of view again. My publishers are smart people, they’ve identified that there’s a resurgent interest in the subject. Space is the biggest beat in journalism and if there’s anything to do with space, I’ll be giving it a look.”
The growth in interest isn’t hurt by the patronage of Joe Rogan, who regularly hosts conversations with UFO advocates like Area 51 whistle-blower Bob Lazar, journalist George Knapp, computer scientist Jacques Vallée and documentarian James Fox. “It’s a dangerous subject for someone, because you’re open to ridicule,” the podcast titan told his quarter of a million listeners in the spring. “Now we can say, ‘Listen, this is not something to be mocked anymore. There’s something to this…’”
Perhaps this elimination of shame is the biggest shift in where ufology finds itself. Mainstream entertainment stars such as Demi Lovato, whose docuseries Unidentified with Demi Lovato began last week (to couch Lovato’s credibility, they also believe in mermaids), Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, January Jones, Alicia Keys and Zayn Malik have all spoken about alleged personal encounters with UFOs in recent years. People listened. Few laughed.
In pop culture, an alien influence is also taking root. Doja Cat’s has previously described her thematic Planet Her album as “the centre of the universe”, where “all races of space exist and its where all species can kind of be in harmony there”. And anyone who might have caught Paco Rabanne’s latest ad might have thought the fragrance giant was advertising excursions to a far-off alien world, rather than a perfume. Not since David Bowie slunk into the skin of Ziggy Stardust has culture toyed so much with alien iconography.
“It’s about getting people curious because I think what’s coming is going to be really, really interesting”
TOM DELONGE
Then there’s the strange case of former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge.
“When I started talking about the UFO stuff people thought I’d lost my mind,” says DeLonge, who founded the Las Vegas based company To The Stars… Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2017. “I do feel vindicated to a degree.” To The Stars… currently comprises of aerospace, science and entertainment divisions, working with the likes of Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. It exists not only as a hub for DeLonge’s creative pursuits, but to help promote interest in ufology and the unexplained.
“I want to inspire wonder,” he continues, “and to inspire us to look around. It’s about getting people curious, to help them have the latitude to absorb the information. Because I think what’s coming is going to be really, really interesting.”
Can the human race handle what’s coming?
“I think they can,” he says. “I think that there’s elements of it that probably would be very hard to handle. And maybe a lot of people can’t, but I don’t think that’s the stuff that needs to come first. The way I see it is it’s kind of like telling your kids that terrorists exist. You don’t need to necessarily tell them about people’s heads getting chopped off. There’s a lot of unknowns. But look at COVID, the way the vaccines came about after great cooperation between different parties. I think humans can achieve and handle a lot.”
It’s perhaps not surprising that with life on earth looking more and more desperate, so many are looking to the stars in the hope of being saved. “The UFO is both satisfaction and salvation,” wrote Sarah Jones for New York Magazine this year. “[It’s] the manifestation of a near-religious impulse to find mystery in everyday life. I want to believe in aliens the same way I want to believe in God. Reality remains reality. God is silent and so are the aliens. It’s tempting, though, to imagine otherwise. To think that something more advanced than we visits our small and stupid planet. Even if that power means us ill, it can spell deliverance of a sort.”
In June came the Pentagon report – and a rebrand. Unidentified Arial Phenomena (UAP) is now preferred over UFO, putting a wedge between serious interest in what’s being seen in our skies and the pseudoscience that’s always dogged ufology. Ufologists have long pointed to the alleged spaceship crash at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 or the subsequent U.S. investigation “Project Blue Book” that ran between 1952 and 1969 as evidence we aren’t alone. But here was a sober, credible document that, while not providing many answers, shut few questions down. The report honed in on 144 sightings made since 2004 by U.S. military personnel. Some were dismissed as plastic bags or lens flare. Some were flagged as potential threats from rival superpowers like China or Russia. Some were classified simply as “other”. The report didn’t rule out the involvement of extraterrestrial life. It concluded by saying that more investigation was needed.
“The American people now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to,” says Elizondo, who is writing about his experiences working at the Pentagon in a book due to be published by HarperCollins. “That these UAP are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles.”
“This conversation,” he concludes, “is only just beginning.”
UFOs 'Cause Lightning,' Blogger Claims Over 'Strange Silent Storm' Video
UFOs 'Cause Lightning,' Blogger Claims Over 'Strange Silent Storm' Video
The blogger argued that UFOs may be “creating the lightning in order to harvest some of its energy or special particles of energy that we have not yet discovered."
Blogger Scott C. Waring, who previously speculated about the prospects of alien technology potentially causing a solar explosion big enough to “wipe out life on Earth,” has recently made yet another outlandish claim about the alleged capabilities of UFOs.
After reviewing a video of a “strange silent lightning storm” supposedly spotted over New Jersey last month, where a peculiar-looking cube-like shape can be glimpsed among the clouds, Waring alleges that UFOs can produce lightning (the veracity of the footage in question could not be immediately confirmed).
“It’s a well-known fact among UFO researchers that UFOs cause natural disasters,” he wrote in his blog. “UFO also cause lightning...to what end in unknown, but when they are in the area...the UFOs speed increases and the movement often becomes erratic and unpredictable. So from that I would assume that the UFOs are creating the lightning in order to harvest some of its energy or special particles of energy that we have not yet discovered, but may be used to power up the alien craft.”
The blogger also went on to declare that “this is 100 percent real and absolute proof that UFOs do cause lightning,” though he did not elaborate on exactly how he arrived at this conclusion.
Biblical archeologists face a major challenge – a book that so many believe to be a historical record has few bona fide artifacts to back it up. While city walls, gates and buildings are interesting, and coins, etchings and pottery fragments are tantalizing, true believers want true historical artifacts. That list includes THE Holy Grail and many minor grails – two of which popped up in the news recently … Noah’s Ark and Mount Sinai. Have archeologists discovered the genuine grails or just more mirages?
“But what if these scholars have actually been looking in the wrong spot? Move over into the Arabian peninsula and you find incredibly compelling evidence matching the Biblical account.”
You know the story
The Doubting Thomas Research Foundation, a non-profit research group, is conducting both of these searches and president Ryan Mauro told The Sun that the mount named Sinai on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is not the biblical one where Moses was said to get the commandments, which is why no one has found any evidence to support the claim. His group is pushing for Jabal Maqla, a peak within the Jabal al-Lawz mountain range in the northwestern province of Saudi Arabia, as the real Mount Sinai. However, the evidence presented is more circumstantial than physical. He points to the blackened peaks of Jaal Maqla as the result of the biblical story of God descending on Mount Sinai in fire – a claim which can’t be physically verified. He then gives other circumstantial evidence to support the claim – a split rock that ‘could’ be the rock Moses made to gush water; stones that ‘could’ be altars; petroglyphs that ‘could’ depict people worshiping calves. Unfortunately, none of are a physical grail for Mount Sinai.
“This is not what you would expect to see if this site is just a solid block of rock or an accumulation of random debris from a mudflow. But these results are what you would expect to see if this is a man-made boat matching the Biblical requirements of Noah’s Ark.”
Did it really look like this?
Mauro tells The Sun of the results of the organization’s Noah’s Ark Scan which scanned a boat-shaped rock discovered in 1959 by Turkish army captain Ilhan Durupinar on Mount Tendürek in Turkey. Non-biblical archeologists and geologists have dismissed it as a boat-shaped rock, but Mauro claims new surveys using ground-penetrating radar found “parallel line and right angles below the surface” which are “something you would not expect to see in a natural, geologic formation.” This combined with the claim that the rock matches the ark dimensions given in the Hebrew bible story are the main ‘evidence’ presented. Is that enough to raise the funds to crack open the ark-rock and prove or disprove the theory? That remains to be seen.
This is not to discount the efforts of biblical archeologists but to point out that physical evidence is the cornerstone of science and these claims are more like the archeological equivalent of pareidolia – fitting patterns to fit what you want them to be. Wood, oars, bones, a list of animal passengers, stone tablets with ten sentences on them, the head of a golden calf, any port of a golden calf … these are the kinds of things that constitute physical evidence. The public is not biased toward believers … they want to believe but they need more than circumstantial evidence.
The spot on the mantle for The Grail or any grail is still open.
The vast majority of Bigfoot researchers subscribe to the viewpoint that Bigfoot is nothing stranger than a giant ape that science and zoology have yet to conclusively classify. There is, however, a small body of data that suggests Bigfoot is something far stranger than just a regular ape. Peppered throughout Bigfoot lore and history are stories of the beasts vanishing in flashes of light, of them fading away into nothingness, and of them becoming invisible to the human eye. This has given rise to an intriguing theory: that Bigfoot has the ability to traverse multi-dimensions. In other words, while the creatures may be comprised of flesh and blood, their overwhelming elusiveness may be due to the fact that they are only temporary visitors to our realm of existence. A perfect example has been recorded by Jack Lapseritis, author of The Psychic Sasquatch. He tells the story of a group of people that had an amazing encounter with a Bigfoot. The story came from a Mrs. Jeffery, and whose story Lapseritis summarizes as follows:
“After returning from a long hike, the group was stunned when a nine-to-ten foot Sasquatch stepped out in front of them a short distance away. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, the Bigfoot completely disappeared in front of the witnesses! The witnesses insisted that it literally dematerialized! Mrs. Jeffrey reported that she was so awed at what she saw, that when they returned home, she did not leave the house for two weeks. The woman was in such a total state of shock that she did not return to the area for some time.” Ronan Coghlan is the author of a number of acclaimed books, including A Dictionary of Cryptozoology and – with Gary Cunningham – The Mystery Animals of Ireland. In a 2012 interview with me, Coghlan provided his views on the nature of Bigfoot, and what he believes may be evidence of a link between the phenomenon and that of multi-dimensions. His words are primarily focused on Bigfoot in Britain, but they could quite easily apply to the creatures seen just about here, there, and everywhere.
“The idea that there is a viable, reproducing population of apes or humanoids in Britain is totally risible; it just couldn’t be. So, alternative explanations for their presence are to be sought,” begins Coghlan. “A lot of the British reports seem to be quite authentic. So, there probably are actual beasts or humanoids out there. And the question is: How did they arrive there in the first place?” Coghlan answers his question with the following words of reply: “It’s now becoming acceptable in physics to say there are alternative universes.” He continues on this controversial but thought-provoking path: “The main pioneer of this is Michio Kaku, of the City College of New York. He has suggested that not only are there alternate universes, but when ours is about to go out in a couple of billion years, we might have the science to migrate to a more congenial one that isn’t going to go out. I think he expects science to keep improving for countless millennia, which is very optimistic of him, but whatever one thinks about that, the idea of alternative universes is now gaining an acceptance among physicists, and he’s the name to cite in this area.”
(Nick Redfern)
The subject is far from one lacking in mysteries and questions, however, as Coghlan acknowledges: “Now, how do you get into, or out of, alternative universes? Well, the answer is quite simple: You have heard of worm-holes, I’m sure? No-one has ever seen a worm-hole, I hasten to add. They are hypothetical, but mainstream physicists say they could be there, and there’s one particular type called the Lorentzian Traversable Wormhole. Physicists admit there is a possibility that this exists, and it would be like a short-cut, from one universe to another. Thus, for example, it’s rather like a portal: Something from the other universe would come through it. Or, something from another planet could come through it.” Turning his attentions towards the links between worm-holes and bizarre beasts, Coghlan comments that: “If there are any of these worm-holes on Earth, it would be quite easy for anything to come through, and it’s quite possible any number of anomalous creatures could find their way through from time to time. You remember John Keel and his window-areas? That would tend to indicate there’s a worm-hole in the vicinity; such as Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where the Mothman was seen.”
Nederlandse tourgids doet bijzondere ontdekking tijdens Noorderlicht-reis: “Wat is die witte schim?”
Reisgids Ramon Lucas uit het Nederlandse Wierden wist niet wat hij zag vorige week, tijdens een speurtocht naar het Noorderlicht in Noorwegen. Een witte schim vloog op een bepaald moment dwars door het magische groene licht heen. Wat was dit? “Dit is een hele bijzonder situatie”, kirt de Nederlander.
Noem de fotoserie die hij maakte gerust uniek. Ramon Lucas, reisgids bij Cape Tracks uit Wierden, heeft in zijn leven veel meegemaakt, maar hier keek zelfs hij van op. Op een heldere avond in de Lofoten - een eilandengroep in Noorwegen - was hij samen met reisgenoten bezig met een fotoshoot.
Ze hadden sowieso al geluk die avond, omdat het magische groene en mysterieuze Noorderlicht - een van 's werelds meest bijzondere natuurverschijnselen - fraai zichtbaar was vanaf de punt van het dorp. “Rond elf uur verscheen er opeens iets vreemds wits in de lucht, dat spontaan voorbij flitste”, beschrijft Lucas wat er toen gebeurde.
Dwars door de horizon
Een witte schim trok diagonaal door de horizon, dwars door het Noorderlicht. Lucas drukte snel af en legde het tafereel tot in detail vast. Zijn beelden zijn zo bijzonder, dat het onder UFO-gelovers vast voer voor discussie is.
Het echte antwoord ligt iets anders, zo ontdekte de reisgids de volgende ochtend. En is iets minder spannend, maar nog steeds heel bijzonder. Het witte schijnsel betrof namelijk een raketlancering vanuit Californië, ruim 7.000 kilometer (!) verderop. Daar vertrok op dat tijdstip de Landsat 9, een aardobservatiesatelliet vanaf de Vandenberg Space Force Base in Californië. Voor de liefhebbers: dat gebeurde op een Atlas V 401-draagraket.
Het gaat om een van de meest geavanceerde aardobservatiesatellieten, die elke zestien dagen onze aarde gedetailleerd in beeld zal moeten brengen.
Voor de Nederlandse reisgids blijft het helemaal speciaal. Tja, hij had er dan ook nog eens het magische Noorderlicht bovenop.
“Dit is een hele bijzondere situatie. Het vereist namelijk nogal wat geluk”, benadrukt hij. “Ten eerste is het Noorderlicht lang niet altijd zichtbaar. Raketlanceringen zijn er ook maar sporadisch en dan moet het ook nog eens helder zijn in de lucht.” En dan vergeet Lucas het belangrijkste nog: je moet er maar net staan om het ook op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen.
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Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space
Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space
The Mars Perseverance rover is on the move! The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the rover from above, the first view since shortly after the rover landed in February 2021. Perseverance appears as the white speck in the center of the image above, in the the “South Séítah” area of Mars’ Jezero Crater.
The HiRISE team said the rover is about 700 meters (2,300 feet) from its original landing site.
“The rover doesn’t drive in a straight line,” wrote team member Shane Byrne, “and has covered much more ground than that, and faint wheel tracks on the nearby ground are visible.”
You can see the various arrays of sand dunes in the image, and HiRISE shots like this one allow the rover team to choose the best route to get to their primary target. These images also help put the rover’s observations in context within Jezero Crater.
HiRISE also took dramatic images of the rover’s landing, nabbing a shot of Perseverance rover as it descended through the Martian atmosphere, hanging under its parachute, as well as photos of the “debris” from landing: the discarded backshell and parachute.
The Mars 2020 descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind, in this image taken on February 18, 2021 by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona
The Mars perseverance rover looks as wee and lonely as ever in this satellite image from above the Red Planet.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
Perseverance will spend its mission (two years primary mission, which will likely be extended) searching for signs of past microbial life. Jezero Crater appears to have a preserved river delta and clay-rich sedimentary deposits, leading planetary geologists to deduce this crater could have hosted a standing body of water billions of years ago. For this reason, it was selected as the landing site for the mission, since it is believed to be a good place to find evidence of past life.
Rest assured, MRO and the other orbiters at Mars will continue sending back images of the various rovers and landers on Mars, and we’ll keep posting ‘em!
Bright Lights Hanging Over Aurora Colorado.(UFO SIGHTING)
Starting with two lights then a third bright light suddenly appears in the night sky over Aurora Colorado.
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Cube Shaped UFO Filmed During Silent Lightning Storm Over Vineland, New Jersey. September 28, 2021
This was captured around 8:00pm on September 28th with the witness stating the following: "I pulled out my phone to film a strange silent lightning storm. After reviewing the footage, I noticed what appears to be a cube like shape in the clouds."
Dark Cube In Storm Clouds, New Jersey, 9-28-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Cube In Storm Clouds, New Jersey, 9-28-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Location of sighting: Vineland, New Jersey, USA
Date of sighting: September 28, 2021
Source: MUFON
Its a well known fact among UFO researchers that UFOs cause natural disasters. UFO also cause lightning...to what end in unknown, but when they are in the area...the UFOs speed increases and the movement often becomes erratic and unpredictable. So from that I would assume that the UFOs are creating the lightning in order to harvest some of its energy or special particles of energy that we have not yet discovered, but may be used to power up the alien craft. This is 100% real and absolute proof that UFOs do cause lightning.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I pulled out my phone to film a strange silent lightning storm. After reviewing the footage, I noticed what appears to be a cube like shape in the clouds.
Black Cube UFO Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Oct 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Black Cube UFO Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Oct 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 4, 2021
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Source: MUFON 118436
Take a look at this! The guy caught a dark UFO moving across Nevada yesterday. The object was seen crossing over Las Vegas...which is famous for its top secret USAF base...Nellis Air Force Base. This base is notorious for giving the "Tall White," aliens some land behind the old firing range back in the mountain range. This doesn't look like Tall White technology. Their ships usually glow white, but what they look like in the day...nobody knows. This dark cube UFO is something isn't it? Just so ominous sitting up there looking down on everyone and everything. Also Area 51 is not far away, so aliens have a high interest in what these secret bases are up too. This is 100% proof that aliens are watching us. If thats not a warning to the US military then I don't know what is.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Not sure what it was, but I know it ain't a plane or helicopter. It didn't look like any drone I have seen.
Oval UFO Caught Moving Over Washington DC Area, Oct 2, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Oval UFO Caught Moving Over Washington DC Area, Oct 2, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 2, 2021
Location of sighting: 13th St Bridge, Washington DC, USA
Source: MUFON #118437
Now this UFO is great. What I mean is the UFO was recorded over the worlds most powerful city in the world...Washington DC. There is even a monument in the background not far away from the UFO. Clearly the UFO is in this location scanning the political activity of the US government buildings such as the Pentagon, White House, US Supreme Court, and more. Russia and China are causing political turmoil being a royal pain in the ass to all other countries in the world and I believe that aliens want to watch, record and possibly decide if they should intervene into an situation that could become an apocalyptic event. Yes aliens to interview and yes, they don't want humanity destroying the planet in a nuclear winter that could last for ten thousand years. Yeah, they like the planet more than they like us, can you blame them?
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was crossing the bridge from Arlington into downtown Washington DC I noticed one black helicopter and one desert camo colored helicopter as well circling around the Jefferson Memorial and that’s when I noticed egg shaped or TicTac shaped beautiful just hovering there was stuck in traffic With my Uber passenger in the car I managed to take five pictures of the objects meanwhile it was just stationary for about 5 to 7 minutes then traffic started moving and had to start driving!
Cube Shaped Anomaly appears during lightning storm over Vineland, NY
Cube Shaped Anomaly appears during lightning storm over Vineland, NY
During a silent lightning storm over Vineland, New York a strange cube shaped anomaly appears in the clouds.
The strange apparition raises many questions and some suggest it is an atmospheric refraction or an optical phenomenon like a mirage but others say that is a Blue Beam test, using a holographic technology or it is a temporarily vortex of a possible parallel universe.
A Mirage or Fata Morgana distorts objects in the distance like the mysterious city floating In the clouds over Foshan Guangdong, China or the ghostly Hogwarts-style castle above Jinan, Shandong Province, China - But that does not apply to this anomaly since it appears at night during a lightning storm and there are no objects or tall buildings in the distance visible.
So, what could it be, a rare atmospheric refraction or it has something to do with a holographic display or a parallel universe?
These bright lights were filmed in the sky above Denver, Colorado on 4th October 2021.
Witness report:
On Monday the 4th of October at 7:35 pm I had taken my sick dog outside to use the restroom. I have to carry him out so after I set him down in the grass a bright light above me caught my eye. It was a very bright white light slowly moving from the north to the north east. It appeared to be moving strangely at times unnaturally almost scooting from one point to another while still on the path towards the north east. It didn’t have any blinking lights like a plane would and definitely was strange looking and acting, so I quickly ran in to get my phone so I could film it. I ran back out and begin to film. At that point I noticed it would periodically blink. As it flew over a plane flys by and you can clearly see the difference. Then as it got further away the light slowly dimmed until it was gone. It never came back. I stopped filming right before it disappeared then tried to start filming again as it disappeared but couldn’t catch it and I am kicking myself for it. I’d also like to mention I have a couple videos because I’d stop filming to move to the other side of my yard as it flew over because a tree was beginning to block my view. I also included the last 4 second video I took where I was trying to catch the last second of it disappearing, if anything you can see that it is gone and no longer there.
Northernmost Palaeolithic Settlement Reveals Mass Butchering of Woolly Mammoths
Northernmost Palaeolithic Settlement Reveals Mass Butchering of Woolly Mammoths
Scientists and archaeologists have discovered the world’s northernmost Palaeolithic settlement on Kotelny Island, 990 kilometers (615 miles) north of the Arctic Circle! Ancient hunters resided on this island off the coast of Yakutia, and their tools as well as several woolly mammoth bones provide evidence that they butchered the now extinct animal at the site.
“This is a unique event for the Arctic and world archaeology. We are talking about the northernmost human site in the Palaeolithic era ,” said Alexander Kandyba, senior researcher at the Stone Age Archaeology Department of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientists say that Kotelny Island has the northernmost Palaeolithic settlement.
The woolly mammoth faced its extinction after the waning of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago, but their numbers dwindled throughout the preceding period due to widespread hunting - although isolated numbers remained until as recently as 4,000 years ago on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean .
At the site on Kotelny Island called Taba-Yuryakh the team of scientists reconstructed up to 70% of the skeleton of one Palaeolithic mammoth that lived 26,000 years ago. It had been hunted and was feasted upon by early man, reports The Siberian Times . Alexander Kandyba said:
“The mammoth was butchered by people. A large number of processed bones and tusk fragments were found. There are linear cuts, traces of chopping blows on the vertebra. People used a wide range of tools for cutting. There is not a single bone that would be without traces of human impact. In particular, we now know how they butchered a mammoth.”
Experts say there is not a single bone that would be without traces of human impact.
Woolly mammoths are the third most commonly depicted animal in cave paintings – this suggests that people hunted them not just for their meat, but for other uses too. Long, furry coats protected the animals from the harsh and frigid temperatures of the Ice Age , and large sebaceous glands secreted oil to waterproof their coats. Additionally, they had camel-like humps filled with fat to store extra nutrients for long winters, according to History of Yesterday .
The Palaeolithic Age and Mammoths
The Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory which was marked by the beginning and usage of rudimentary stone tools between the first recorded tools made by hominins 3.3 million years ago, to 11,500 years ago, when the Ice Age began to wane. This period was marked by nomadic hunting-gathering and the presence of small clans known as ‘bands’, who subsisted by gathering roots, berries, and plants or by scavenging and hunting animals.
After the waning of the Ice Age, Palaeolithic people found weather conditions ideal for settling down and practicing agriculture. While hunting and gathering continued at a reduced scale, the first societies began developing and social differentiation occurred – storage surpluses meant that jobs were created within the fold of a clan, while populations boomed as babies no longer had to be carried on people’s backs while moving. Plants and animals began to be domesticated, particularly Einkorn wheat, and animals like chickens, goats, sheep, and cattle were used for their resources.
Palaeolithic humans were living in Siberia above the Arctic Circle by 25,000 BC. This area, once a forest, became grasslands and savannas during this time period – the change in vegetation caused long-necked grazers to enter the region. Although the Taba-Yuryakh Palaeolithic settlement is now on an island, when the ancient humans inhabited the area it was connected to the mainland.
Within mainland Siberia, scattered patches of grasslands appeared, but with the slowly rising temperature, more and more ice melted, allowing human beings to enter previously inaccessible areas where they could hunt mammoths , which had formerly been out of their reach. Thus, a combination of global warming and hunting caused the population of mammoths to rapidly dwindle.
A combination of global warming and hunting caused the population of mammoths to rapidly dwindle.
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously?
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously?
‘I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me’: Whitley Strieber.Illustration: Ana Yael
The Pentagon has been quietly investigating unidentified flying objects since 2007. The fact that they think they might exist is good news to those who claim to have seen them
In June, the US government published a long-awaited report into UFOs. Although the report did not, as many had hoped, admit to the existence of little green men, it did reveal that not only were objects appearing in our skies that the Pentagon – which controls the US military – could not explain, but some clearly pose “a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security”.
The Pentagon also revealed that it has been taking UFOs so seriously that in 2007 it discreetly set up the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which has been gathering data on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) ever since.
The unclassified version of the report (there was also a classified version seen only by US lawmakers) found “no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation” for the sightings. But neither did it rule it out. The report offered five typically mundane possible explanations for the UFOs and, crucially, one catch-all “other” bin.
It’s that “other” bin that has arrested the attention of stargazers and conspiracy theorists. If the US military has been quietly and seriously investigating UFOs (or, as the Pentagon would have it, UAPs) since 2007, and if the Pentagon’s official report cannot rule out the existence of extraterrestrials, is it time we looked again at claims of close encounters and the people who have made them?
Enthusiasm for UFOs and ETs has permeated popular culture ever since a US air force balloon crashed near Roswell in 1947. Conspiracy theorists confused the balloon for a UFO; the US government did a lousy job debunking those claims, and they quickly captured the public’s imagination. Fast forward to 1961, when Barney and Betty Hill told the world’s first alien abduction story.
Andrew Abeyta, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, co-authored We Are Not Alone, a study into why some of us want to believe in aliens. Abeyta explains that belief in aliens is akin to religiosity: unfounded beliefs in unfalsifiable ideas, which require a leap of faith. “People have a need to feel like their lives are meaningful, and these beliefs might suggest that there’s something bigger out there; there’s something more important going on,” Abeyta says
I tell Abeyta about an interview I carried out with a young man in Florida. The man, who did not want to be named, described an ambiguous close encounter that took place during his sleep. When I asked him what he preferred the truth to be – a real encounter or merely a vivid dream – the young man said he would prefer it to be true because that would mean he was “special”.
“I can imagine being a protagonist in an alien-abduction story seems pretty meaningful, like a meaningful achievement, an accomplishment,” Abeyta says. That feeling of specialness plays an important role in these stories. “Feeling like your unexplained experience is a result of an alien abduction just seems more exciting and more important than a natural explanation.”
Still, the topic of alien encounters remains sensitive. I discovered just how sensitive when author Whitley Strieber, who some claim was abducted by non-humans in 1985, terminated our call after learning that I had not read his books. In a subsequent email, he wrote: “I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me and attempt to understand what it was. I was turned into ‘alien abductee Whitley Strieber’ by the media. That is not my position.” He added: “You are lost in space when it comes to this subject, my friend – all of you.”
After I got off on the wrong foot with Strieber, though, he did come back and introduce me to highly decorated former US navy cryptologist Matthew Roberts. He was stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt when fighter jets recorded the infamous “Gimbal” and “Go Fast” videos of unexplained objects off the Florida coast during 2015, which went a long way to prompting the Pentagon’s UFO report.
Now retired from the military, Roberts is unmoved by the debunkers. “These things are picked up by multiple sensors that are sometimes from different manufacturers, so to think that they would all be glitching in the same way at the same time would just be impossible – it just doesn’t happen that way.”
Mick West, a science writer and video game programmer turned conspiracy-theory debunker, offers his own, more down-to-earth explanations for the objects: arguing that mundane things – tech glitches, camera glare, balloons and birds – are more likely than aliens.
However, now even the Pentagon has conceded there’s more to UFOs than that. In its nine-page report it states: “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers and visual observation.” In other words, there was something out there and the images were not technical glitches. I ask Roberts about a theory put forward by West that the Gimbal object was glare caused by a nearby aircraft. “All aircraft – nationally, internationally – have to broadcast who they are. If they’re not broadcasting that, that’s very unusual. Mick West, bless his soul, he has never been in the military,” he says.
Roberts explains that, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, unidentified air tracks escalate very quickly. “It will go to the captain, it will go to the admiral, and they’ll want to know what that is because the thought would immediately be: ‘Is this a commercial airliner? Has it been hijacked?’ We’re not as incompetent as Mick West would have you believe. If something is unidentified, it absolutely has to be identified immediately.”
Despite the debunkers and proliferation of more mundane explanations for UFOs, reports of close encounters have persisted for decades. Terry Lovelace, a retired assistant attorney general in Vermont, USA, and author of Incident at Devil’s Den, kept his abduction to himself for 40 years due to fear of losing his job. He had a close encounter in 1977 while serving in the US air force.
Lovelace, now 67, was on a camping trip in Devil’s Den state park in northern Arkansas with a friend and colleague named Toby when things got strange. They were sitting around a fire, struggling to chat over the din of buzzing crickets and croaking tree frogs before everything went quiet. “That sounds kind of clichéd – out of a movie – but that is exactly what happened to us,” he says.
Three bright lights appeared on the horizon and moved in their direction. When the lights were overhead, they could see that they were emanating from a black triangular prism as wide as two city blocks.
A blue laser beam darted over them, which Lovelace thought was scanning them. When it shut off, they became sleepy. Next thing, he woke and saw Toby peering out of the tent. The triangle was hovering above what appeared to be a dozen children standing in a meadow below them. “What are these kids doing out here in the middle of the night?” said Lovelace.
“They aren’t little kids. Don’t you remember they took us and they hurt us?” Toby answered.
Lovelace says the moment Toby said that, fragmented memories of being inside the UFO flashed in his mind. Years later, hypnosis helped him fill in more blanks and he recalled actually encountering creatures while inside the UFO.
‘People who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing’, says Nick Pope.
Illustration: Ana Yael
For some, thefact that the Pentagon has finally admitted it cannot explain the behaviour of the objects may have been a surprise but, for PC Alan Godfrey, 73, it merely proves what he already knows.
On a windswept and wet West Yorkshire evening in November 1980, Godfrey was in hot pursuit of a herd of escaped cows in Todmorden’s housing estate. Instead of cows, he stumbled across a giant levitating diamond that would change the course of his life. Godfrey’s close encounter with this UFO went viral worldwide and transformed Todmorden into Britain’s Roswell.
Godfrey, a no-nonsense Yorkshireman born and raised in Oldham, is long retired from the force but still recalls the events of that night when he came face to face with the peculiar object – a diamond-shaped aircraft hovering 5ft off the ground while spinning on its axis.
He just had time to sketch the UFO on his notepad before he was blinded. In his next moment of conscious awareness, he was sitting in his patrol car. The UFO was gone. “I got out of the car, looked at the road surface, and it was like a whirlpool,” he says. The UFO’s rapid revolutions had arranged the dead leaves, twigs and other debris into an autumn-themed spiral.
In the aftermath of his encounter, he had visits from the Ministry of Defence, correspondence from a Russian scientist and interest from the world’s press. He even underwent hypnosis to uncover memories of his abduction.
Godfrey was ridiculed for years – many who claim to have had encounters with UFOs are reluctant to go on the record for fear of the same treatment – but things are changing. High-ranking government officials such as Christopher Mellon, a former US secretary for defence in intelligence, and Luis Elizondo, former director of AATIP, insist that there are aircraft in our skies that don’t obey the known laws of physics. Even Barack Obama has gone on record on the subject, talking to CBS this year: “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
When it comes to abduction stories, sceptics will say these encounters are either hoaxes or accounts of vivid dreams or hallucinations. Christopher French, emeritus professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has spent years studying the paranormal and argues that sleep paralysis is a better explanation for many of these stories. “In some cases, you get associated symptoms, and they include a sense of presence; a very strong feeling that there’s something in the room with you,” French says. He adds that sufferers might hallucinate and “see strange lights moving around the room or strange figures or shadow people”.
That doesn’t fit for Godfrey’s story – he was driving and on duty at the time. “I think in Alan Godfrey’s case, he was sleep-deprived; he had been on duty for a long time. The most likely explanation is some kind of hallucinatory experience due to tiredness,” says French. What about the story he told under hypnosis? “The thing with hypnotic regression is that it is one of the best ways known of generating false memories. If you go for hypnotic regression expecting to recover memories of alien abduction, there’s a very good chance that’s what you’ll get.”
But Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the Ministry of Defence, is not convinced and thinks that Godfrey is genuine. “He had a lot to potentially lose by coming out with this and yet stuck to his guns.”
Doesn’t a hallucination explain what he saw? “I get that people do have hallucinations, but they tend to be the result of either mental illness or some sort of hallucinogenic substance, and this guy was on duty and was, by all accounts, rational. And so those explanations don’t seem to apply – I’m stumped when it comes to that particular case. Ask yourself: how many times have you been tired and come to the end of a long day? We’ve all been in that situation, and we don’t suddenly construct bizarre narratives about spacecraft and aliens.”
Is it time to start taking these stories more seriously? “I’m not saying that I believe it’s literally true that these are alien spaceships,” says Pope. “But at the very least, these people who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing.
“For everyone who tells you these people are attention seekers after fame and fortune, I would say, ‘What fame? What fortune?’ Who outside the UFO community has heard of Alan Godfrey or Terry Lovelace?”
Does Pope think ETs are among us? “I don’t know. I am certain that they are out there, but whether they’re down here or not? I don’t know. I think it’s much more likely that we’re dealing with unmanned probes.”
If not hallucinations, equipment glitches or mistakes, many will say black ops, conducted by the US, China, Russia, or other militaries, are a more plausible explanation than aliens. “I accept that most military personnel won’t have sight of every single black project and, therefore, won’t necessarily know about every secret prototype, aircraft or drone that’s flying,” says Pope. “But the military and government, and the intelligence community have a pretty good idea of roughly where the ceiling is in terms of technology. So, when these expert military witnesses describe the sorts of speeds, accelerations, manoeuvres that are reported with these sorts of incidents, I sit up and take note.”
Whatever one thinks about the veracity of these stories, many of the people who tell them believe they are real, and some suffer from severe mental illness in the aftermath. Chris French says the levels of psychological arousal in people living with PTSD go “through the roof” when they’re asked to retell their stories. “If you do the same thing with the alien abductees, you get the same thing.”
Lovelace’s night in Devil’s Den changed his life and the life of his friend Toby. The US air force got wind of their ordeal and, per military protocol, separated and reassigned them. Lovelace ignored his orders and visited Toby to say goodbye. “Toby was falling apart,” Lovelace says. The two embraced. Toby said: “It happened, didn’t it?” “Yes, my brother, it really happened. You’re not losing your mind,” Lovelace replied.
Lovelace has suffered enormously since that night. “I’ve had 40 years’ of nightmares. I still have a phobia of crossing open ground. I still sleep with a light on and a gun beside my bed.” But he feels vindicated by acknowledgments made by the US government, military personnel and Obama. “I’ve got a long list of people that I’m going to email and say, ‘I told you so.’”
For Godfrey, it’s 40 years too late. He is adamant about what he saw that morning in Todmorden. “I’ve had all sorts: you fell into some sort of trance when you were driving – all that shit. No, it was real. It left debris on the road – my headlights were reflecting off it, as were the blue lights. This was a real incident. I didn’t need the Pentagon to tell me there are things out there. I know what I saw that night was real, nuts and bolts. If I’d got out and thrown a brick at it, it would have gone, ‘Clang!’ It doesn’t change what happened to me and how I was treated back then.”
Tussen 2 en 16 oktober zullen er geen commando’s worden gestuurd naar de diverse ruimtemissies op en rond Mars. Dat hangt samen met het feit dat de rode planeet vanaf de aarde gezien momenteel dicht bij de zon staat. Zo’n conjunctie van Mars en zon treedt eens in de twee jaar op.
De zon stoot heet, geïoniseerd gas uit dat zich tot ver in de ruimte verspreidt. Tijdens perioden dat de aarde en Mars elkaar niet kunnen ‘zien’, kan dit gas de radiosignalen die met de diverse Marsmissies worden uitgewisseld verstoren. En dat kan ertoe leiden dat de commando’s worden verhaspeld, met alle mogelijke gevolgen van dien. De Marsvoertuigen blijven overigens wel hun statusrapporten naar de aarde zenden.
Een deel van het Marsonderzoek gaat overigens gewoon door. NASA heeft de diverse Marsmissies voor enkele weken ’huiswerk’ gegeven, dat ze tijdens de communicatiepauze moeten afwerken. Zo zullen de Marsrovers Perseverance en Curiosity weerkundige metingen blijven doen en uitkijken naar stofhozen in hun omgeving. En de stationaire Marsrover InSight blijft ‘aardbevingen’ registreren.
Ook de diverse ruimtesondes die als satellieten om de rode planeet cirkelen zetten hun onderzoeksprogramma’s voort. De gegevens die zij verzamelen zullen echter pas na half oktober naar de aarde worden overgeseind.
Scientists have developed a tiny 3D-printed microneedle vaccine patch that could offer a pain-free alternative to needles.
In trials on mice, it offered a 10-fold greater immune response and a 50-fold greater T-cell and antigen-specific antibody response compared with a needle in the arm.
The polymer patch, which is smaller than a 5p coin, needs lower doses and could be mailed to people's homes and self-administered, eliminating the need for trained medical personnel.
It also offers an 'anxiety-free' vaccination option for people who have a 'needle phobia', also known as trypanophobia, which is putting some off getting their Covid jabs.
The researchers are yet to conduct clinical trials of the patch on humans, which could pave the way for a new way of administering vaccines in the future.
Researchers from Carolina and Stanford University have developed a microneedle vaccine patch that outperforms a needle jab to boost immunity. It also doesn't need to reach as deep as a needle, researchers claim
HOW DOES THE VACCINE PATCH WORK?
The polymer microneedle vaccine patches are printed using a CLIP prototype 3D printer.
The microneedles are coated with the vaccine fluid, such as the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.
Upon entry to the dermis layer of the skin, the vaccine fluid dissolves.
A vaccine needle goes as deep as the muscle, past the skin layers.
The microneedles don't go as deep - only to the dermis layer of the skin - but this layer is rich in immune cells.
The new vaccine patch has been developed by researchers at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
'In developing this technology, we hope to set the foundation for even more rapid global development of vaccines, at lower doses, in a pain- and anxiety-free manner,' said lead study author Joseph M. DeSimone, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University.
The microneedle patches were 3D printed using a CLIP prototype 3D printer that DeSimone invented and is produced by CARBON, a Silicon Valley company co-founded by Professor DeSimone.
3D-printing uses software to create a three dimensional design before being printed by robotic equipment.
Automated robotic arms have a nozzle at the end that emit the printing substance – in this case polymer – layer by layer.
Thanks to the flexibility of 3D printing, the microneedles can be easily customised to develop various vaccine patches for flu, measles, hepatitis or Covid-19 vaccines.
While vaccines are typically administered as injections under the skin, there is increasing interest in what's known as intradermal injections - more shallow injections that only reach the dermis of the skin, which is located between the epidermis and the hypodermis.
Beyond the hypodermis is the fat and muscle that a traditional vaccine needle usually penetrates.
Intradermal injections are suitable for vaccinations as human skin is rich in immune cells (Langerhans cells and dermal dendritic cells), the researchers point out.
In trials conducted with animals, the patch gave an immune response that was 10 times greater than a vaccine delivered into an arm muscle with a needle jab
NEEDLE PHOBIA COULD BE THE CAUSE OF 10% OF UK COVID VACCINE HESITANCY
Needle phobia could be the cause of 10 per cent of Covid vaccine hesitancy in the UK, recent research suggests.
University of Oxford researchers asked 15,014 UK adults to rate their anxieties about needles and blood, and their willingness to receive a Covid vaccine.
In total, 3,927 (26.2 per cent) screened positive for blood-injection-injury phobia.
Individuals screening positive (22.0 per cent) were more likely to report Covid vaccine hesitancy than those screening negative (11.5 per cent).
Blood-injection-injury fears may explain approximately 10 per cent of cases of Covid vaccine hesitancy, the researchers said.
'If we could wave a magic wand and rid people of their injection anxiety, just over 10 per cent of instances of vaccine hesitancy might disappear,' said study author Daniel Freeman for the Conversation.
Other reasons for not getting jabbed include safety of the vaccines and scepticism about Covid's seriousness.
The current coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder of the difference made with timely vaccination, according to the researchers – but getting a vaccine typically requires a visit to a clinic, hospital or vaccine centre.
There, a healthcare provider obtains a vaccine from a refrigerator, fills a syringe with the liquid vaccine formulation and injects it into the arm.
Although this process seems simple, there are issues that can hinder mass vaccination – from cold storage of vaccines to needing trained professionals who can give the shots.
The vaccine patch, on the other hand, could be shipped anywhere in the world without special handling, letting people apply the patch themselves, a bit like at-home Covid testing.
The patch's microneedles would be coated in the vaccine fluid, which would be painlessly applied to the skin.
The microneedles could be fabricated using 3D-printing from a range of materials – solid metal and silicon, for example, as well as polymers.
It's generally a challenge to adapt microneedles to different vaccine types, said lead study author Shaomin Tian, a researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine.
'These issues, coupled with manufacturing challenges, have arguably held back the field of microneedles for vaccine delivery,' she said.
Most microneedle vaccines are fabricated with master templates to make molds.
However, the molding of microneedles is not very versatile, and drawbacks include reduced needle sharpness during replication.
The 3D-printed microneedle vaccine patch offers an 'anxiety-free' vaccination option for people who have a 'needle phobia'
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3D-printing offers microneedles of controlled geometries, which is difficult to achieve using traditional methods.
The ease of using the vaccine patch may lead to higher vaccination rates and avoid vaccine hesitancy during future pandemics.
The team of microbiologists and chemical engineers are continuing to innovate by formulating RNA vaccines, like the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, into microneedle patches for future testing.
3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY MAKES OBJECTS BY DEPOSITING MATERIALS ONE LAYER AT A TIME
First invented in the 1980s by Chuck Hull, an engineer and physicist, 3D printing technology – also called additive manufacturing – is the process of making an object by depositing material, one layer at a time.
Similarly to how an inkjet printer adds individual dots of ink to form an image, a 3D printer adds material where it is needed, based on a digital file.
Many conventional manufacturing processes involved cutting away excess materials to make a part, and this can lead to wastage of up to 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) for every one pound of useful material, according to the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
By contrast, with some 3D printing processes about 98 per cent of the raw material is used in the finished part, and the method can be used to make small components using plastics and metal powders, with some experimenting with chocolate and other food, as well as biomaterials similar to human cells.
3D printers have been used to manufacture everything from prosthetic limbs to robots, and the process follows these basic steps:
* Creating a 3D blueprint using computer-aided design (CAD) software
* Preparing the printer, including refilling the raw materials such as plastics, metal powders and binding solutions.
* Initiating the printing process via the machine, which builds the object.
* 3D printing processes can vary, but material extrusion is the most common, and it works like a glue gun: the printing material is heated until it liquefies and is extruded through the print nozzle
* Using information from the digital file, the design is split into two-dimensional cross-sections so the printers knows where to put the material
* The nozzle deposits the polymer in thin layers, often 0.1 millimetre (0.004 inches) thick.
* The polymer rapidly solidifies, bonding to the layer below before the build platform lowers and the print head adds another layer (depending on the object, the entire process can take anywhere from minutes to days.)
* After the printing is finished, every object requires some post-processing, ranging from unsticking the object from the build platform to removing support, to removing excess powders.
Image courtesy: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The timely development of Covid-19 vaccines brought hope to the fight against the global pandemic. But getting a vaccine requires a visit to a clinic or hospital. The vaccine needs cold storage and a health care provider to inject it into the arm. This is slowing down the mass vaccination rate.
Scientists from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill have developed a new way to deliver vaccines quickly and painlessly.
Greater protection than a traditional immunization shot
The 3D printed vaccine patch is more effective than a traditional immunization shot. The vaccine patch has been tested on the animal skin. The resulting immune response was found to be 10 times greater than a needle jab delivered into an arm muscle.
The patch can be self-administered easily
This patch has 3D-printed microneedles lined up on a polymer strip, these needles are just long enough to reach the skin to deliver the vaccine. The idea is to apply the vaccine patch directly to the skin which is full of immune cells.
Apart from COVID-19 vaccines, these microneedles can be easily customized to develop vaccine patches for other diseases like flu, measles, or hepatitis.
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