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.
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...
12-11-2021
Fish-Like UFO Seen Over Ocean, Key West, Florida Keys, Nov 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Fish-Like UFO Seen Over Ocean, Key West, Florida Keys, Nov 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 4, 2021
Location of sighting: Key West, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON # 119162
Now I have heard of flying fish, but things are about to get very strange. This object...which resembles a large black fish was seen in the sky over the Florida keys this week. They eyewitness took some photos, and when I made a close up of it...it clearly looks like a fish...but its the size of a city bus. One thing I have noticed over the last few decades of my research...is that many alien structures on moons and planets and even UFOs...sometimes resemble creatures from nature. For instance the jelly fish UFOs sometimes seen. A structure on the moon...a fish with a lions head...closely resembles the Singapore monument. But this UFO is the first of its kind that I have seen ever in my 30+ years of research. Its has two dark eyes in the front of it and a lower head area and a body with fins the go above and below it, as well as a small thin fin in back. Wow! This just screams out, UFO and it defiantly came from an underwater base in the area. As I have said many times, there is an alien base that is partly under Florida and extends out into the ocean.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I noticed an object hovering in the sky while driving down highway US-1 going to Key West.
France UFO videos from 9 November Multiple videos from different angle, including one sudden vanish. Still unexplained.
France UFO videos from 9 November Multiple videos from different angle, including one sudden vanish. Still unexplained.
This strange cigar-shaped bright UFO was filmed by at least three different witnesses in the skies near the Mediterranean coast in the places like Andorra, Narbonne, Perpignan Montpellier, Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots and even Sète. This happened on 9th November 2021.
This interesting footage of some kind of metallic UFOs flying over Aurora, Colorado was filmed on 10th November 2021. Interesting fact: In 1897 there was an alleged UFO crash in Aurora, CO:
Some notes for the viewer. This was taken yesterday, starting at 2:37pm. I live in SE Aurora, close to Buckley AFB, and there is also a landfill a couple of miles from my home, yesterday was an extremely windy day. I thought at first these were silver Mylar balloons, but there must have been hundreds of them. They appeared to be orbs, metallic, reflective and very bright. They moved in the general direction of the wind, but within clusters they would Move every which direction, and seemed to go invisible for brief moments.
Propionamide (C2H5CONH2), a complex alkyl amide with twelve atoms, is the largest peptide-like molecule detected in space, according to a new study led byDr. Juan Lifrom Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust that is located about 390 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Sagittarius B2 is the bright orange-red region to the middle left of the image, which is centered on the Galactic center.
Image credit: ESO / APEX / MSX / IPAC / NASA.
“Proteins, as the building blocks of living cells, are an essential component of living systems on Earth,” Dr. Li and his colleagues from China, Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Ukraine wrote in their paper.
“Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond, -NHCO-.”
“Due to the high molecular weight and extremely low gas-phase abundance, detection of proteins in the interstellar medium at the current stage of development of observation facilities looks like a formidable task.”
“Therefore, molecules with peptide-like bonds are of particular interest for our understanding of possible routes of protein formation in space.”
In their study, the astronomers focused on the giant molecular cloud complex Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2).
“Sgr B2 is the massive star-forming region located close to the Galactic center,” they wrote.
“It has been found to be one of the best hunting grounds for complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium.”
“Many prebiotic molecules have been detected in this source, such as the branched molecule i-C3H7CN and the chiral molecule CH3CHCH2O.”
“Sgr B2 contains two main sites of star formation, Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(M), both of which host several dense, compact, hot cores.”
“Our results provide strong evidence for warm, compact propionamide with high abundance in the hot cores of the Sgr B2 cloud complex,” the researchers wrote.
“From a chemical perspective, the presence of propionamide is not surprising.”
“As a substituted acetamide and the third member of the amide chemical family, propionamide is likely to have formation mechanisms that are similar to or associated with those of the two smaller amides: formamide and acetamide.”
“This detection suggests that large peptide-like molecules can form and survive during star-forming process and may form more complex molecules in the interstellar medium.”
MYSTERIEUZE RUIMTESTEEN LICHT OP IN DE NABIJHEID VAN DE ZON - EN ONDERZOEKERS DENKEN NU TE WETEN WAAROM
MYSTERIEUZE RUIMTESTEEN LICHT OP IN DE NABIJHEID VAN DE ZON - EN ONDERZOEKERS DENKEN NU TE WETEN WAAROM
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ruimtesteen Phaethon is geen komeet, maar gedraagt zich wel zo. Die identiteitscrisis lijkt nu echter eindelijk verklaarbaar.
Kometen bestaan uit puin en ijs. En wanneer ze de zon naderen en opwarmen, verdampt het ijs dat net onder het oppervlak schuilgaat. Waterdamp haast zich weg van de komeet en voert bovenliggend stof en gesteente met zich mee. Zo ontstaat de zo kenmerkende komeetstaart. Ook neemt de komeet in helderheid toe, doordat al dat vrijgekomen gas en stof er omheen zonlicht reflecteert.
Planetoïden Maar naast kometen zijn er ook planetoïden. En ook die wagen zich soms nabij de zon, maar geven dan geen spectaculaire show weg. Ze bestaan immers voornamelijk uit steen en herbergen geen of hooguit een klein beetje ijs. En dus valt er weinig te verdampen, ontstaat er geen staartje en licht de steen ook niet op.
Phaethon Het is een logisch verhaal. Maar dan is daar Phaethon. Een 5,8 kilometer grote planetoïde die wél helderder wordt als deze bij onze moederster in de buurt komt. “Phaethon is een eigenaardig object dat actief wordt als het de zon nadert,” stelt onderzoeker Joseph Masiero.
Natrium Hoe is dat mogelijk? Phaethon doet er slechts 524 dagen over om een rondje om de zon te cirkelen en heeft dat dus al vaak gedaan. Daarbij waagt de ruimtesteen zich zelfs binnen de baan van Mercurius en warmt het oppervlak op tot zo’n 750 graden Celsius. Al het water-, koolstofdioxide- of koolstofmonoxide-ijs dat ooit misschien op het oppervlak te vinden was, moet dan ook al lang verdampt zijn. En toch geeft deze ruimtesteen die geen of amper ijs herbergt, in de nabijheid van de zon iets af, waardoor de helderheid toeneemt. En Masiero en collega’s denken nu te weten wat het is: natrium.
Onder het oppervlak Natrium komt vrij overvloedig in planetoïden voor. En kan bij de temperaturen waar Phaethon in nabijheid van de zon aan wordt blootgesteld, gemakkelijk verdampen. Waarschijnlijk is al het aan het oppervlak gelegen natrium op deze manier lang geleden al verloren gegaan. Maar diep in de planetoïde zit nog natrium dat in nabijheid van de zon opwarmt, verdampt en via scheuren in Phaethons korst een weg naar buiten weet te vinden.
Puin En wanneer dat natrium zich van Phaethon vandaan haast, voert het waarschijnlijk stof en puin met zich mee. “Planetoïden zoals Phaethon hebben een zwakke zwaartekracht, dus er is niet veel kracht voor nodig om puin van het oppervlak of een losgebroken steentje mee te voeren,” aldus onderzoeker Björn Daviddson. “Onze modellen suggereren dat heel kleine hoeveelheden natrium hiervoor al genoeg zijn.”
Geminiden En zo kan de door de aanwezigheid van natrium ingegeven activiteit van Phaethon mogelijk ook één van de bekendste meteorenzwermen helpen verklaren: de Geminiden. Het is al langer bekend dat deze meteorenzwerm die elk jaar in december acte de présence geeft, te herleiden is naar Phaethon. De ruimtesteen laat in zijn baan puin en stof achter en wanneer de aarde daar doorheen beweegt, dringen die puindeeltjes de atmosfeer binnen, waar ze grote weerstand ondervinden, waardoor de lucht eromheen opwarmt en licht gaat geven. Vanaf het aardoppervlak zien we dat als een bliksemsnel streepje licht aan de nachthemel dat in de volksmond ook wel een vallende ster wordt genoemd. Het nieuwe onderzoek suggereert nu dat deze puindeeltjes door verdamping van het dieper gelegen natrium loskomen van Phaethon.
Experimenten Het vermoeden dat natrium verantwoordelijk is voor de activiteit op Phaethon wordt onderschreven door experimenten. De onderzoekers namen kleine stukjes van een meteoriet die in 1969 in Mexico neerkwam en afkomstig lijkt te zijn van een planetoïde die op Phaethon lijkt. Vervolgens stelden ze die stukjes meteoriet bloot aan de temperaturen waar Phaethon in nabijheid van de zon mee te maken krijgt. En jawel; natrium ging verloren, terwijl andere elementen achterbleven. “Het suggereert dat hetzelfde op Phaethon gebeurt,” aldus onderzoeker Yang Liu.
Het onderzoek zet de classificatie van kleine objecten in ons zonnestelsel verder onder druk. Nu worden die objecten afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid ijs die ze herbergen als planetoïde of komeet bestempeld. Maar misschien moeten we niet alleen kijken naar ijs, maar ook naar andere elementen die bij hoge temperaturen verdampen. “Onze laatste ontdekking is dat – als de omstandigheden gunstig zijn – natrium de aard van sommige actieve planetoïden kan verklaren,” aldus Masiero. “En daarmee is het spectrum tussen planetoïden en kometen nog complexer dan we dachten.”
BREUK ONTDEKT IN ÉÉN VAN DE ARMEN VAN ONZE MELKWEG
BREUK ONTDEKT IN ÉÉN VAN DE ARMEN VAN ONZE MELKWEG
Vivian Lammerse
Het gaat om een groepje jonge sterren en gaswolken die, vergelijkbaar met een splinter in een houten plank, uit één van de spiraalarmen steken.
Wetenschappers hebben een tot voor kort onbekend kenmerk van onze Melkweg ontdekt. In één van de spiraalarmen blijkt namelijk een heuse breuk te zitten; een uitsteeksel bestaande uit een groepje jonge sterren en stervormende gaswolken. Een bijzondere ontdekking. Want het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers een grote structuur ontdekken die zo’n andere kant op wijst dan de arm zelf.
De Melkweg Astronomen krijgen inmiddels een steeds beter beeld van onze eigen Melkweg; het sterrenstelsel van gemiddelde grootte, waarin het zonnestelsel met de aarde zich bevindt. We hebben daarom wel een idee van de grootte en de vorm van de armen. Maar veel is ook nog onbekend. Dat komt omdat we de volledige structuur van ons eigen sterrenstelsel niet zien omdat de aarde erin zit. Vanuit de positie van de aarde is het nou eenmaal heel moeilijk om de grootschalige structuur van de Melkweg heel precies te bestuderen.
Sagittariusarm Om meer over ons eigen Melkwegstelsel te ontraadselen, tuurden astronomen in een nieuwe studie door de ondertussen gestorven Spitzer-telescoop naar een nabijgelegen deel van de Sagittariusarm; een van de vier grote spiraalarmen van het Melkwegstelsel. Ze zochten naar pasgeboren sterren, genesteld in de gas- en stofwolken (nevels genaamd) waar ze zich vormen. Spitzer detecteerde infrarood licht dat door dergelijke dicht bepakte wolken kan dringen, terwijl zichtbaar licht wordt tegengehouden.
Meer over ruimtetelescoop Spitzer Ruimtetelescoop Spitzer werd op 25 augustus 2003 gelanceerd. Zo’n drie maanden later kon Spitzer zijn werkzaamheden daadwerkelijk beginnen. Oorspronkelijk was het de bedoeling dat de ruimtetelescoop zo’n 2,5 jaar mee zou gaan, maar heeft uiteindelijk zestien jaar meegedraaid. In januari 2020 zette onderzoekers een punt achter de missie.Tijdens zijn zestienjarig bestaan heeft Spitzer heel wat werkzaamheden verricht. Zo heeft hij bijvoorbeeld ontzettend veel mooie foto’s gemaaktvan verre sterrenstelsels en nabije nevels. Het licht van sommige van hen heeft miljarden jaren gereisd om ons te bereiken, waardoor wetenschappers objecten konden zien zoals die lang, lang geleden bestonden. Bovendien heeft de ruimtetelescoop een aantal bijzondere ontdekkingen op zijn naam staan. Zo was het bijvoorbeeld Spitzer die de grootste ring rondom Saturnus ontdekte. Ook ontdekte de telescoop als eerstelicht dat afkomstig was van een planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel en – misschien wel één van de meest verbluffende ontdekkingen – dat er niet drie, maar zeven rotsachtige planeten ter grootte van de aarde rond de kleine, zwakke ster TRAPPIST-1 cirkelen.
Van jonge sterren en nevels wordt gedacht dat ze nauw aansluiten bij de vorm van de armen waar ze zich in bevinden. Maar niet in de Sagittariusarm. De onderzoekers ontdekten namelijk een lang en dun uitsteeksel bestaande uit jonge sterren die duidelijk een andere kant op wijzen. De gehele structuur is maar liefst 3000 lichtjaar lang.
Hellingshoek “Een belangrijke eigenschap van spiraalarmen is hoe strak ze zich rond een sterrenstelsel winden,” legt onderzoeker Michael Kuhn uit. “Een cirkel heeft een hellingshoek van 0 graden. Naarmate de spiraalarm meer open staat (dus losser zit, red.), wordt de hellingshoek groter. De meeste modellen van de Melkweg suggereren dat de Sagittariusarm een hellingshoek heeft van ongeveer 12 graden. Maar de structuur die we hebben onderzocht, wijkt af met een hoek van bijna 60 graden.”
De breuk in de Sagittariusarm.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Niet de enige Overigens is de Sagittariusarm niet de enige met een vergroeiing. Vergelijkbare uitsteeksels worden vaak aangetroffen bij andere spiraalstelsels. Decennialang hebben onderzoekers zich dan ook afgevraagd of de spiraalarmen van onze Melkweg ook bezaaid zijn met uitpuilende delen. En dat blijkt nu inderdaad het geval. “Met de nieuwe gedetailleerde driedimensionale kaart, kunnen we zien dat deze regio behoorlijk complex is,” aldus Kuhn. Bovendien blijkt het nieuw ontdekte uitsteeksel vier bekende nevels te herbergen, namelijk de Adelaarsnevel, de Omeganevel, de Trifidnevel en de Lagunenevel.
De Adelaarsnevel, de Omeganevel, de Trifidnevel en de Lagunenevel, vastgelegd door NASA’s Spitzer-ruimtetelescoop. Deze nevels maken deel uit van een uitsteeksel in de Sagittariusarm.
Astronomen begrijpen nog niet helemaal wat de oorzaak is van de vorming van spiraalarmen in sterrenstelsels zoals het onze. Hoewel we de volledige structuur van de Melkweg niet kunnen zien, is het vermogen om de beweging van individuele sterren te meten – zoals met behulp van de Gaia-missie – heel nuttig om daar meer over te weten te komen. “Uiteindelijk herinnert dit ons eraan dat er nog veel onzeker is over de grootschalige structuur van de Melkweg,” aldus onderzoeker Robert Benjamin. “We moeten naar meer details kijken om het grotere plaatje te begrijpen. Het uitsteeksel is een klein stukje van de Melkweg. Maar het zou ons iets belangrijks kunnen vertellen over de Melkweg als geheel.”
The U.S. government has begun taking UFOs more seriously recently, even though they are probably not real. Probably, right?
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Skeptics may believe extra-terrestrial life is found only in cinematic forums, but when it comes to understanding UFOs, there are real-life experts keeping their eyes towards the skies, including here in San Antonio. Since 1969, clusters of people across the country, united by the Mutual UFONetwork (MUFON), have devoted their time to debunking and confirming reported UFO sightings.
While the organization tends to fly under the radar, I became aware of the unique group while attending San Antonio's first annual "UFO Festival" at the Wonderland of the Americas mall in August. While I didn't oblige the festive create-your-own tinfoil hat station at the time, it was admittedly interesting to hear some alien insights.
Ken Jordan, state director of the Texas division of MUFON and head of the San Antonio chapter, was happy to oblige. Jordan is among the local experts who have studied evidence of UFOs whizzing through San Antonio airspace.
Alien in a car at Baker, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Feifei Cui-Paoluzzo/Getty Images
"In the last 20 years, we've had 311 reports specifically out of San Antonio, and a little bit over 8,000 in the state of Texas," Jordan tells me, while combing through a meticulous MUFON database. "About 90 percent of what we investigate is mundane, or can be explained as natural or man-made incidents, but the rest we can't explain."
The most frequently deceptive objects are things like Chinese lanterns, drones, and inflatable LED balloons. Natural planetary phenomenon and tricks of the eye can also lead some to dial MUFON in a panic.
But not everything is so readily dismissed.
"Out of the 10 percent that we can't explain, I would say half of those would be what we think of as a UFO," says Jordan.
From U.S. Army to MUFON
A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S Army and a lifelong San Antonian, Jordan believes these UFOs represent advanced extra-terrestrial life. He didn't always feel this way though.
"I was very skeptical about the whole thing. I didn't really know what the deal was about UFOs. I wasn't totally sold," says Jordan. Still, through his faith, he says, he's always been open to the notion that human beings aren't alone in the universe.
After retiring from the military in 2006, Jordan returned for several years to work on building future combat systems. During a project in California's Napa Valley, a group of service members were gathered after hours at a wine tasting when the topic of UFOs came up. After one man had a bit too much to drink, he shared some classified information that piqued Jordan's interest. Jordan says some of the group thought the man was a loon, but what he said stuck with him.
Not too long after, he received an email from MUFON, inviting him to a meeting. Curious, he soon found himself at a local Denny's to listen in on a chapter meeting.
"I just wanted to come and check it out. I didn't know if they were serious researchers are just a bunch of nuts," says Jordan.
After one meeting, he deemed the group to be legitimate and has been steadily involved in the pursuit of the "UFO question" since 2013. Officially, he retired from active-duty military in 2014.
Local case of interest
There are currently around 50 MUFON members researching UFO reports made here in San Antonio, and around 280 members in all of Texas. The research methodology typically includes thorough review, with trained members examining things like weather patterns occurring at the time of a given sighting and cross-referencing descriptions with previous reports, local police stations, and the Federal Aviation Administration. If necessary, the team will also consult with Gregory Cisko, MUFON's amateur astronomer.
Reports are typically called in from a variety of sources, from your garden variety alien watchers to regular people who choose to remain anonymous. Sometimes, according to Jordan, they'll even get calls from military personnel. Mufon's most recent verifiable case based in San Antonio happened just a few days ago on October 29, 2021.
According to MUFON files, a couple driving to get coffee near I-10 and DeZevala Road around 2 p.m. witnessed and recorded what appears to be a saucer-like object fading in and out from view. After examining the report, MUFON closed the case by assigning the object the rare true UFO designation.
In Texas, MUFON describes a variety of UFO phenotypes that have been observed, with shapes ranging from saucer and Tic Tac to triangle and donut.
Since former military personnel disclosed the possibility of UFOs in 2017, Jordan believes the general public has begun to open up to the idea. Earlier this year, the U.S. government officially confirmed unidentified aerial phenomena, which spurred even more interest. Previously popular on the fringes, UFOs have officially touched down as a popular topic of conversation.
Whether these aerial objects in MUFON's "unknown" bucket are intelligent extraterrestrial life, products of terrestrial military technology or something else entirely has not been officially or publicly identified and disclosed by officials. We may never know the answers to these questions.
For those interested in exploring UFOs more, Jordan shares some sage words of advice: "Start researching and reading the articles that are out there, but the one thing I would always caution anybody on is whatever you read, whatever you hear, check your source."
NASA waarschuwt: asteroïde even groot als Eiffeltoren komt (in december) op aarde af
NASA waarschuwt: asteroïde even groot als Eiffeltoren komt (in december) op aarde af
Een asteroïde zo groot als de Eiffeltoren stevent momenteel op de aarde af, dat zegt de NASA. Er is echter geen paniek nodig: volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie zal de rots onze planeet met 3,8 miljoen kilometer missen.
De 330 meter brede asteroïde 4660 Nereus zou de aarde passeren op 11 december. Volgens de NASA is de kans klein dat de rots een gevaar vormt: uit berekeningen zou blijken dat de asteroïde onze planeet de komende decennia nog 12 keer voorbijvliegen, op 14 februari 2060 het dichtst: op “amper” 2 miljoen kilometer. Ter vergelijking: de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan is 384.400 kilometer.
Het bestaan van de asteroïde werd in 1982 ontdekt. Die is interessant voor wetenschappers, omdat ze door haar dichte baan bij de aarde potentieel bereikbaar is voor ruimtetuigen. Er bestaan momenteel geen plannen voor zo’n expeditie, maar dat scenario werd in het verleden al meermaals overwogen.
Het is niet ongewoon dat grote asteroïden de aarde naderen. In maart kwam nog een rots zo groot als de Golden Gate-brug in San Francisco op 2 miljoen kilometer van onze planeet. NASA classificeert asteroïdes als “potentieel gevaarlijk” als ze de aarde naderen op minder dan 7,5 miljoen kilometer en een diameter van meer dan 150 meter hebben.
This man ran the Pentagon's secretive UFO programme for a decade. We had some questions
This man ran the Pentagon's secretive UFO programme for a decade. We had some questions
Early last year, the US government officially acknowledged videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” filmed by its Navy pilots. Was it evidence of extraterrestrials? Here, Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon intelligence officer in charge of investigating these incidents, reveals (almost) all he knows…
There was a time when UFOs were for cranks. A time when serious news organisations wouldn’t cover them. A time when congress wasn’t demanding Defense Department reports on them. A time when their existence wasn’t freely acknowledged by American presidents (“There is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” said Barack Obama in May) and also by ex-spy chiefs (“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” said former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe in March). When it came to UFOs, there was a time when the US government’s official line was that it didn’t study them.
Luis Elizondo was instrumental in changing that.
In late 2017, he met with the freelance journalist Leslie Kean and revealed the existence of a $22 million (£16m) Pentagon programme investigating military reports of UFOs – a programme he had been in charge of since 2010. He had left the job the day before and decided to turn whistle-blower in the name of national security. As he put it in his resignation letter to secretary of defense Jim Mattis: “Bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets continue to plague the department at all levels... The department must take serious the many accounts by the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond next-generation capabilities... There remains a vital need to ascertain the capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
Luis ‘Lue’ Elizondo
Roger Kisby/New York Times/Redux/eyevine
Kean joined forces with two other reporters, one from the New York Times, and on 16 December 2017 the story appeared on the paper’s front page. It detailed the “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program” set up in 2007 to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena or “UAP”, the term that has replaced the now stigmatised “UFO”. Many UAPs, the Times reported, appeared impossible to explain, lacking any visible means of lift but able to travel at unfathomable speed. What’s more, the story stated, Elizondo and his colleagues had “determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country”.
But the reader didn’t have to take the Times’ word for all this. There were videos. An ally of Elizondo’s, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence Chris Mellon, had helped the reporters obtain footage shot from the cockpits of US Navy fighter jets. One of the videos corroborates arguably the most compelling UAP episode ever to come to light.
An F/A-18 Super Hornet
Ian Hitchcock
According to reports, it took place in November 2004, when pilots were flying training missions from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier. While squadron leader commander David Fravor was in the air, he was asked to intercept a mysterious aircraft. Upon arrival at its coordinates, what he saw was extraordinary: a 40-foot object, resembling a huge white Tic Tac, that had no visible propulsion system, rotors, wings or exhaust plume. Yet Fravor says it was able to jam radar, react to his movements and run rings around his F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet – turning so sharply it was as if the UAP had no inertia – before flying away faster than anything he had ever seen. Simply put, it defied the known laws of physics. Not only were there multiple eyewitnesses – including another pilot who filmed the Tic Tac using his plane’s targeting camera (this was the footage passed to the Times) – but the UAP was also detected by the radar of the nearby USS Princeton, an Aegis-class missile cruiser with state-of-the-art sensor systems.
Cmdr. David Fravor
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In December 2017, Fravor also went on the record with theNew York Timesand later, in 2019, so did further Navy pilots, who said that in 2014 and 2015 they encountered UAPs “almost daily”. TheTimes’ reporting radically changed the conversation. After decades of ridicule and taboo, UAPs were suddenly a legitimate political and journalistic talking point. Elizondo ran with the momentum, discussing his work with the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) on major TV networks and, in tandem with the likes of Mellon, briefing officials behind the scenes in Washington and facilitating meetings between them and military members who had experienced UAPs. Through keeping the story alive, he hoped to compel the government to finally establish a more transparent, coordinated, thorough investigation into the phenomenon.
It hasn’t all been plain sailing: in 2019, a Pentagon spokesperson called into question Elizondo’s claim to have worked on AATIP. In response, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent a letter to NBC News vouching for Elizondo’s story. “As one of the original sponsors of AATIP, I can state as a matter of record Lue Elizondo’s involvement and leadership role in this program,” Reid wrote.
A still from one of the US Navy videos showing a UAP
U.S. Department of Defense
Now, Elizondo’s hopes for government action have started to be realised. On 27 April 2020, the US Department Of Defense confirmed the veracity of the Times’ UAP videos and released them officially into the public domain. In a statement, the Pentagon said, “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified’.” In August that same year, the Pentagon announced a new UAP Task Force “to detect, analyse and catalogue UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security”. And in June 2021, the Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence released a report to congress about the government’s work on the UAP issue. Of the 144 encounters studied, it stated, 143 could not be explained. It didn’t blame extraterrestrials, but nor did it rule that explanation out.
Inevitably, Elizondo has attracted considerable interest. There was a bidding war for his forthcoming book, he was recently named one ofPeople’s “100 Reasons To Love America In 2021” and he reveals toGQthat he is working on a new documentary about the UAP topic, although details are under wraps for now. But Elizondo says that he is doing more behind the scenes as a disclosure advocate than ever before. In addition to his role on the advisory board of the UAP think tank Skyfort, he retains high-level national security clearance and is employed as a government defence contractor, although he is not able to say what that work involves.
Luis Elizondo
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One of the consequences of his efforts, he says, is a significant piece of legislation that is going through congress. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act contains important developments for the study of UAPs. It requires that the secretary of defense sets up a permanent office to carry out the duties currently performed by the UAP Task Force but on a department-wide basis. This new office would have to submit an annual report to congressional committees on a range of its findings, including updates on efforts to track, understand, capture and exploit UAPs – as well as an assessment of health-related effects on those who encounter these strange flying objects. Elizondo calls it “historic”.
GQ spoke to Elizondo as he prepared to head to Washington, DC, to brief members of congress on how to work with foreign allies on the issue.
GQ: What makes you convinced that these flying objects haven’t been made by the US, the Chinese or any other government?
Luis Elizondo: We know it’s not the US because the US has already come out and admitted it’s not us. So now let’s talk about the potential for it to be a foreign adversarial technology. Well, if that were the case, this would be the greatest intelligence failure that this country has ever faced, including that of 9/11. Because some country, for more than 70 years, has managed to be able to conduct operations with a technology that surpasses anything that we’ve ever had or currently have. And they’ve been able to operate in and around our restricted airspace unchallenged.
But the second reason is there’s a time aspect. I have in my possession official US government documentation that describes the exact same vehicle that we now call the Tic Tac [seen by the Nimitz pilots in 2004] being described in the early 1950s and early 1960s and performing in ways that, frankly, can outperform anything we have in our inventory. For some country to have developed hypersonic technology, instantaneous acceleration and basically transmedial travel in the early 1950s is absolutely preposterous.
The proposed new UAP office would have to report on health-related effects for individuals who have experienced UAPs. What kind of thing might happen if you were near one?
A lot. Let me give you a notional... I’ve got to be careful, I can’t speak too specifically, but one might imagine that you get a report from a pilot who says, “Lue, it’s really weird. I was flying and I got close to this thing and I came back home and it was like I got a sunburn. I was red for four days.” Well, that’s a sign of radiation. That’s not a sunburn; it’s a radiation burn. Then [a pilot] might say, if [they] had got a little closer, “Lue, I’m at the hospital. I’ve got symptoms that are indicative of microwave damage, meaning internal injuries, and even in my brain there’s some morphology there.” And then you might get somebody who gets really close and says, “You know, Lue, it’s really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel. How is that possible?” Well, there’s a reason for that, we believe, and it probably has to do with warping of space time. And the closer you get to one of these vehicles, the more you may begin to experience space time relative to the vehicle and the environment.
Have you personally ever had a UAP sighting?
I prefer not to answer that. I do not want my own personal experiences or opinions or perspectives to skew the collection of data.
Before you were approached to be part of AATIP, you were a counterintelligence special agent hunting terrorists and drug traffickers. Why did they approach you?
I have no idea. I think probably because I wasn’t prone to any flights of fancy. I wasn’t a particular fan of science fiction. I do have some background in advanced aerospace technology. When I was a young special agent, I did “tech protect” [counterintelligence work to stop US technology from falling into enemy hands] of advanced avionics and my background was a scientist. At university, I had three majors: microbiology, immunology and parasitology.
You came to this not particularly caring about UFOs, but I have read there was a moment where you said to yourself, “Holy f***. This is real.” What was that moment?
It’s funny because the people in the office kind of giggled and they were like, “Oh, he just had his epiphany,” because everybody has one eventually in that office.
But what convinced you it was a real thing?
It was the overwhelming weight of evidence and data. I was talking to pilots routinely. There’s videos out there [in government, that the public haven’t seen] – there’s one that’s 23 minutes long. There’s another one where this thing is 50 feet away from the cockpit. I mean, it ain’t ours. We know that. Sometimes you just couldn’t believe it – you’d have seven or eight incidents in a single day. I’d get these emails from an admiral or a ship’s captain saying, “Lue, what do you want me to do? I can’t keep people below deck forever. These things are swarming my ship, they’re all over the place.” That’s tough. I kept promising the cavalry was coming and I’d have answers for them and the cavalry never came. Senior leadership didn’t want to deal with it.
Some people say theTimesvideos don’t show anything particularly amazing. What do you say to them?
The government has already admitted not only that they’re real, but that they truly are unidentified objects and they’re behaving in a very peculiar way. For example, you have an object that is at altitude, going at 120 knots against the wind, that is rotating at 90 degrees without losing altitude. Anybody who understands aerodynamics, when you’re flying an aircraft and you turn 90 degrees you lose lift, unless you’re in a hard bank. What makes those videos more compelling is not so much what you see, but what you don’t see. It’s the radar signatures, it’s the call signs from pilot to pilot, and pilot to ship, saying, “Hey, we’ve got a bogey up here.” And in one case you hear one of them say, “Look, we have a whole fleet of these things on the ASA [radar display].” Some of the pilots have come out and said there was actually a whole fleet of these things manoeuvring right off camera. The pilots are trained observers. They are trained to identify an aircraft silhouette at 20 miles away – an SU-22, a European Tornado, a Harrier or even an F-16 – and literally within a split moment’s notice be able to identify friend or foe and shoot it down. What they’re reporting doesn’t fit any type of parameters of any type of conventional aircraft that we know of.
When you initially spoke to theNew York Times, were you worried about repercussions?
I was getting calls all the time that the FBI was going to come and Swat my house. There was a point when I got a call like, “Hey, dude, you might have people visit you, like, in the next hour.” So in the middle of the night, I had to stash everything [copies of emails] in my neighbour’s barbecue grill just in case, because that was all the proof and the evidence of the fact that our government was really involved in this topic. It wasn’t easy. It caused a lot of stress on my wife and my daughters. Until recently they were still trying to come after my security clearance.
Do you have a sense of why they didn’t raid you and throw you in jail and instead let you carry on talking?
My personal opinion, which I rarely give because I have no way to substantiate this, [is] there were enough people on the inside that said, “Look, he was briefing the senior brass and you need to be careful because if you squeeze Lue too hard, you’re gonna have very, very senior people come to his defence.”
In your interviews, you tend to emphasise the interdimensional hypothesis that UAPs might not be from “outer space” but from another dimension. Do you think that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is even likely?
I think it’s just as likely as something that is interdimensional. I also think it’s possible that it’s something that has been on Earth for a very long time.
But you don’t have data that has particularly led you to think it could be interdimensional?
There’s information that both supports and negates that. What we do know is there’s a correlation with [UAPs being near or emerging from] water and then there’s also a correlation toward [UAPs appearing near] nuclear technology.
What’s your theory about the water correlation?
Could be as simple as a fuel stop. If you wanted to warp space time, there’s only two ways to do it: lots of energy or lots of mass. So if you wanted to mine something for its energy, you would start with hydrogen, because it’s a simple element. Even though hydrogen is abundant in the universe, it’s found primarily in a gaseous state, which makes it hard because it might take you 100 years to mine a nebula cloud sufficiently to use it as fuel. There is only one type of hydrogen configuration that is super dense that’s found in the universe and that’s liquid water. So in a relatively small amount of time you can mine enough hydrogen to do whatever you need to do with literally a bucket of water.
Let’s talk about crash retrievals and debris. Do you believe we have recovered a craft?
I have been told I have to be very careful how I answer this question. I am not allowed to expound upon anything I’ve already said. What I have said is that it is my opinion, my belief – a strong belief, hint, hint – that the US government is in possession of exotic material associated with UAPs. That is all I’m allowed to say.
Do you believe organic matter or beings have been recovered?
I am respectfully going to pass on that question. There’s a couple questions that I’m really not at liberty to discuss. That’s one of them.
Do you believe these ships may be manned?
They’re intelligently controlled, for sure, because they’re responding and reacting to our actions. That is for certain. They are absolutely intelligently controlled by something.
Is it your opinion that they’re more like drones or do you think they’ve got things inside them?
I suspect they have things inside them.
Why do you think they seem interested in military sites, nuclear sites particularly?
I’ve got some very specific theories. Nuclear technology is a gateway to understanding unlocking the atom. And once you do that, you have a potentially limitless supply of energy. It could very well be that we are a violent species that is on the cusp of understanding space-time and no longer going to be stuck in our little cage. And that could be a problem for an advanced species. Because, you know, we are not necessarily very peaceful to each other.
What’s the consensus around how these things fly?
Right now one of the leading theories out there is that someone has figured out a way to manipulate space-time and, in essence, master the idea of antigravity.
So if you see a UAP moving left to right, it’s not “flying” left to right, it’s bending that space towards it?
Correct. Current hypothesis is that it creates a bubble around it and that bubble is insulating itself from the space-time that all of us experience. And so, therefore, the way it experiences space-time within the bubble is fundamentally different from outside the bubble.
How many presidents have been briefed on the issue and do you know who engaged the most?
I know, as a matter of fact, three presidents have been briefed at some point, but I’m not going to disclose who they were and what was discussed. That’s not up for me to talk about.
In cultural depictions of UFOs, who do you think has got the closest to reality?
I would have to say Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. I just recently saw it for the first time and I was shocked at some of the performance characteristics and how they depicted the UAPs, because that is exactly how they’ve been described in some, up until recently, very classified US documents.
What in particular?
The description of how they do right-angle turns at very fast velocity, the illumination, the shapes of some of these craft. [Steven] Spielberg definitely had somebody on the inside that was giving him information, for sure. I mean there’s a lot of that movie that, if you know what you’re looking at, is very, very close to real life.
Some suggest that the post-2017 UAP disclosure narrative is actually just a government disinformation effort or psyops campaign. What do you say to that?
At no time since I’ve been involved with AATIP has my government been involved in an active disinformation campaign, other than initially denying that it was real. The United States government is not in the habit of conducting disinformation on American citizens. There was a time when our government did do that and got caught and so congress passed laws to make sure that will never happen again.
What can you tell us about what’s coming up in 2022, in terms of new evidence that may come to light or new developments?
I think we’ll see a lot more participation by the international community and a lot more transparency. We’re going to begin sharing information a lot more and I think people may be surprised just how much information is possessed on this topic by other countries. My only hope is that the UK will be able to do the same thing. Much for the same reason that the United States didn’t want to admit that UFOs were real, I suspect the UK [doesn’t] as well. What I can tell you is during my time in AATIP it was very apparent to me that there were certain elements within the royal family that were very interested in this topic. I will not elaborate any more than that. And I hope that those voices within the royal family can be heard, because it is an important topic, perhaps one of the greatest topics that affects all of mankind, all of humanity. And I think if we’re smart, this will be a topic that will help unify us and not divide us.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
“I have in my possession official US government documentation that describes the exact same vehicle that we now call the Tic Tac [seen by the Nimitz pilots in 2004] being described in the early 1950s and early 1960s and performing in ways that, frankly, can outperform anything we have in our inventory. For some country to have developed hypersonic technology, instantaneous acceleration and basically transmedial travel in the early 1950s is absolutely preposterous.”
If he did nothing else, Luis Elizondo – the former head of the Department of Defense’s ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)’ – would still go down in history as being instrumental in revealing UFO/UAP encounters that military pilots and Navy ship crews witnessed, recorded and reported … only to have them covered up for years until they were exposed by The New York Times. Those so-called ‘Tic Tac’ UFOs were new to the public … but not to the government, according to an interview Elizondo gave to GQ magazine. In it, he claims these transmedial (both aerial and underwater) vehicles have been known to the government and the military since the 1950s. Elizondo then states the obvious – if these crafts belong to a foreign country, it’s the greatest security failure since 9/11.
Luis Elizondo
“You know, Lue, it’s really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel. How is that possible?”
Elizondo then talks about radiation burns, brain malfunctions and time-space warps pilots have told him about after UAP encounters … conditions that could only have been caused by getting too close to the UAP or its weapons. He claims this is not hearsay – he’s seen evidence like a 23-minute video of an encounter or another that was 50 feet away from the cockpit. However, what’s truly shocking is his accounts of the capabilities of the Tic Tac as reported by trained military pilots with onboard equipment that can help “identify an aircraft silhouette at 20 miles away – an SU-22, a European Tornado, a Harrier or even an F-16 – and literally within a split moment’s notice be able to identify friend or foe and shoot it down” – yet they can’t identify the Tic Tacs that he says both pilots and ship captains have told him they’ve encounter in “fleets” and “swarms.”
“I think it’s just as likely as something that is interdimensional. I also think it’s possible that it’s something that has been on Earth for a very long time.”
If it’s not ours or an Earthly theirs, Elizondo speculates that the Tic Tacs may not be from space but from another dimension. He believes “They are absolutely intelligently controlled by something” and suspects “they have things inside them”” … things being beings of some sort. When asked what sci-fi crafts they might resemble, he referred to “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
“I just recently saw it for the first time and I was shocked at some of the performance characteristics and how they depicted the UAPs, because that is exactly how they’ve been described in some, up until recently, very classified US documents.
The description of how they do right-angle turns at very fast velocity, the illumination, the shapes of some of these craft. [Steven] Spielberg definitely had somebody on the inside that was giving him information, for sure. I mean there’s a lot of that movie that, if you know what you’re looking at, is very, very close to real life.”
Whoa! If you haven’t seen the movie, now would be a good time … so you know what to look for. Elizondo avoided answering a number of questions about his own personal experiences and about the existence of crashed spacecrafts. He confirmed that “I know, as a matter of fact, three presidents have been briefed at some point, but I’m not going to disclose who they were and what was discussed.”
There are many who believe Luis Elizondo and wonder why some powers that be – ours, theirs or alien – haven’t silenced him There are those who don’t believe him and would be happy to have him silenced. In the relatively short time he’s been in the public eye – not just the UFO/UAP Public but the general public – Elizondo probably has done more to either expose or at least generate interest in UFOs than any other person in recent history.
If you take away nothing else from Luis Elizondo’s interview with GQ (available in its entirety here), listen to him and watch “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Then watch a video of the Tic Tacs. Then go to a quiet place and think.
The first continents on our planet began forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously estimated. These first continents, which are called cratons, rose up from the ocean sometime between 3.3 and 3.2 billion years ago. Previous studies claimed that this event occurred about 2.5 billion years ago.
Scientists came up with this new timeline based on sedimentary rocks at the Singhbhum Craton in the eastern part of India that date back over 3 billion years. These rocks would have only been created when land came up through the oceans’ surface. In fact, they believe that large whole cratons – and not small portions of land – came up from the oceans even though Earth didn’t have “modern-style plate tectonics” that could have helped them emerge.
In an interview with Live Science, Priyadarshi Chowdhury, who is a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment in Melbourne, Australia, went into further details, “When we joined all the sedimentary pockets together, we found that all of them kind of formed simultaneously” in a beach-like or river environment, adding that the craton would have been exposed to water and air at the exact same time.
The team then used a laser to analyze small crystals named zircons that contain uranium. Since uranium decays into lead over a specific time frame, the researchers were able to determine that the craton emerged from the ocean between 3.3 and 3.2 billion years ago.
Their next task was to find out what caused the Singhbhum Craton to emerge from the water, so they analyzed the chemical composition of igneous rocks from the craton (these are rocks that are created by hot magma crystallizing) that are located not far beneath the sedimentary rocks. They found that hot plumes of magma were present underneath the crust between 3.5 and 3.2 billion years ago that caused some parts of the craton to become much thicker and had numerous buoyant, lightweight materials such as quartz and sicilia. That’s when the craton emerged from the water.
Since several other cratons, including the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa and Pilbara Craton in Australia, have sedimentary rock that date back to around the same time as the Singhbhum Craton in India, they might have also fully emerged from the water during that period.
While this is a very important discovery, several questions still remain, like how long these cratons remained above the water and how many of them were visible at the same time. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) where it can be read in full.
How do you know if a shapeshifting Reptilian has been in your house while you were out? Footprints might be a good hint … especially if they’re 10 inches (25 cm) long and have odd abnormal toes. The fact that the footprints seem to appear and disappear would be another clue … especially if the doors were locked, the windows barred, and no one was inside the residence. Welcome to the twilight zone of Adrián Escalante, a resident of Caracas, Venezuela, who seems to have had a close encounter with a Reptilian.
“Reptilians among us?: A strange footprint appears in a house in Caracas.” (Google translation)
Hector Escalante, a well-known South American UFO researcher and journalist, revealed the account told to him by Adrián Escalante on Instagram. The incident took place on November 6, 2021, in a house in the center of Caracas. Adrián Escalante told him the prints (images here) were found on the second floor – an unusual place that would have led one to look for prints on the stairs, at the door, near a window and outside. Hector Escalante is a thorough investigator and checked all of those places … and found no other prints. The only two prints in the house were the 10-inch ones made of dark mud that had already dried by the time he saw them. Did this creature arrive while it was raining?
“It hadn’t rained, therefore, it was impossible for someone to have stepped on the swamp on the street and left those marks.”
Venezuela has had its share of Chupacabra sightings, but Hector Escalante doesn’t seem to think that’s what made these prints. The country has a bigfoot-like creature called the Mono Grande but these don’t look like humanoid or primate prints. The closest cryptid might be the giant caiman, which is said to resemble a regular 16-foot caiman but grows up to three times as large and is capable of crushing boats and swallowing humans whole. A beast of that size would have left a path of destruction in a house, so that gets ruled out too.
Not a caiman?
“A practical joke, large animal, interdimensional entities of a reptilian nature? You decide. “
Hector Escalante throws “interdimensional entities of a reptilian nature” into the realm of possibilities … because there’s nothing else to blame other than a hoax. Could a Reptilian have entered the house of Adrián Escalante? If so … why? Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and has had major political problems for years. Could the Reptilians be causing them?
Unfortunately, that’s all the data provided by Hector Escalante on the mysterious reptile-like footprints found in Caracas. If it was a hoax, it was impressively executed. If it was a Reptilian … let’s hope Hector keeps an eye on the situation and keeps us informed.
More than 1,200 Mesolithic worked stone tools dating back to around 6,000–10,000 years ago have been found alongside the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The flints — which include blades, scrapers and waste material — were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13–17 March this year.
The tools, the experts explained, would have been used by some of the earliest communities in the area to kill, butcher and prepare animals for food and materials.
One group member, a student from nearby University of Aberdeen, also found part of a Neolithic-age, egg-shaped mace head during the 'fieldwalking' exercise.
Building on these finds, the group will be conducting a 'test pitting' — digging a series of small trenches — at the Milton of Crathes from November 11–14.
Alongside hunting for more flints, the archaeologists will also be investigating features seen in aerial survey maps that may represent the remains of a settlement.
The group will also be joined by geologists who will probe the ground of the river terrace to look for evidence of former flooding and past environmental conditions.
More than 1,200 Mesolithic worked stone tools dating back to around 6,000–10,000 years ago (some of which are pictured) have been found alongside the River Dee in Aberdeenshire
The flints — which include blades, scrapers and waste material — were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13–17 March this year. Pictured: an example of so-called 'flint scatter' that the volunteers have found along the course of the River Dee
The tools, the experts explained, would have been used by some of the earliest communities in the area to kill, butcher and prepare animals for food and materials. One group member, a student from nearby University of Aberdeen, also found part of a Neolithic-age, egg-shaped mace head during the 'fieldwalking' exercise
Every flint found by the group is meticulously bagged and tagged with a GPS provenance, analysed by a specialist and the information collated into a database, making the Dee one of Scotland's most extensively studied rivers for flint deposits. Pictured: a map showing the finds from the group's fieldwalks back in March 2021. The different icons reflect the flint types
Mesolithic Deeside chair and archaeologist Alison Cameron told the MailOnline that the long and varied nature of the River Dee would have provided the inhabitants of the region 6,000–10,000 with everything that they needed to live. Pictured: a flint from the River Dee
Mesolithic Deeside chair and archaeologist Alison Cameron told the MailOnline that the long and varied nature of the River Dee would have provided the inhabitants of the region 6,000–10,000 with everything that they needed to live.
This, she explained, is why so much so-called 'flint scatter' can be found today in the fields along the river banks, showing where people made and used stone tools.
Every flint found by the group is meticulously bagged and tagged with a GPS provenance, sent off for analysis by a specialist and the information collated into a database, making the Dee one of Scotland's most extensively studied rivers for flint deposits.
Coinciding with the dig this week, Mesolithic expert Caroline Wickham-Jones and her fellow group members have compiled a dossier on their discoveries to date, which will be published in Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports.
The group — which was launched in 2017 and has some 50 members — is funded in part by the Aberdeenshire Council and the King George V Wind Turbine Trust.
Interested members of the public are welcome to volunteer in this week's excavations at the Milton of Crathes — such as by helping the dig itself and sorting the finds — or to simply visit to see what the group has uncovered.
'If visiting the site may be very muddy so wear sensible shoes or wellies!', said Alison Cameron.
'The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,' said archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, formerly of the University of Aberdeen.
'Fieldwalking is fun but was obviously impacted by lockdown and they have worked hard to keep group members enthused.'
Aberdeenshire regional archaeologist Bruce Mann agreed, adding: 'The volunteers of Mesolithic Deeside have contributed so much to our understanding of early prehistory in this part of the world through their fieldwalking.'
Coinciding with the dig this week, Mesolithic expert Caroline Wickham-Jones and her fellow group members have compiled a dossier on their discoveries to date, which will be published in Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports. Pictured: a flint found by the group in March
The group — which was launched in 2017 and has some 50 members — is funded in part by the Aberdeenshire Council and the King George V Wind Turbine Trust. Pictured: a Mesolithic Deeside volunteer admires a flint found during a fieldwalking exercise
'I started fieldwalking with Mesolithic Deeside in 2018 and am now totally hooked,' said Mesolithic Deeside volunteer Roslyn Hay. 'The thrill of finding something that has been hidden in the soil, knowing that you are the first person to hold it since it was dropped thousands of years ago. You feel a connection with that person way back in prehistory. Pictured: two of the flints that the group found in fieldwalks back in March
'I started fieldwalking with Mesolithic Deeside in 2018 and am now totally hooked,' said Mesolithic Deeside volunteer Roslyn Hay.
'I've learned so much and made so many new friends, with the added benefit of plenty of exercise and fresh air. We walk, we talk (a lot), and find wonderful things.
'The thrill of finding something that has been hidden in the soil, knowing that you are the first person to hold it since it was dropped thousands of years ago. You feel a connection with that person way back in prehistory.
'My most memorable find was a large blade. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it! It was confirmed as most probably from the Late Upper Palaeolithic.
'Finds from this period, which predates the Mesolithic, are rare in Scotland, so this was a very exciting find for the group.'
'When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project,' said Mesolithic Deeside co-secretary and founding member Sheila Duthie. The group's efforts, she added, are 'without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside — it’s a blast!' Pictured: some of the group's finds
'When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project,' said Mesolithic Deeside co-secretary and founding member Sheila Duthie.
The group's efforts, she added, are 'without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside — it’s a blast!'
'My ideal pastime is footerin in flat fields with fine folk finding flints, fair or foul!' she exuberantly concluded.
'The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,' said archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, formerly of the University of Aberdeen. Pictured: a Mesolithic Deeside volunteer with one of the group's flint finds back in March
Building on these finds, the group will be conducting a 'test pitting' — digging a series of small trenches — at the Milton of Crathes from November 11–14. Alongside hunting for more flints, the archaeologists will also be investigating features seen in aerial survey maps that may represent the remains of a settlement
Interested members of the public are welcome to volunteer in this week's (November 11–14) excavations at the Milton of Crathes— such as by helping the dig itself and sorting the finds — or to simply visit to see what the group has uncovered. 'If visiting the site may be very muddy so wear sensible shoes or wellies!', said Alison Cameron. Pictured: the dig site
HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE DURING THE MESOLITHIC PERIOD?
The Mesolithic period, also called Middle Stone Age, is an ancient time period (8000 BC to AD 2700) that took place between the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age) with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) with its polished stone tools.
The Mesolithic period's material culture is characterized by greater innovation than the Paleolithic.
Among the new types of chipped stone tools were microliths: very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft in order to produce a serrated edge. Polished stone was another innovation that arose in some Mesolithic groups.
Northern European Mesolithic people (called Maglemosian's), who flourished at about 6000 BC, left behind traces of primitive huts with bark-covered floors and adzes for working wood.
At Starr Carr in Yorkshire, there are signs that four or five huts existed there, with a population of around 25 people. There is evidence that these sites may only have been occupied on a seasonal basis.
An artist's impression of tribes fishing during the Mesolithic period
Aracheologists have also found smaller flint tools from this group. These were mounted as points or barbs for arrows and harpoons and were also used in other composite tools.
They used adzes and chisels made of antler or bone, as well as needles and pins, fish-hooks, harpoons and fish spears with several prongs. Some larger tools made of ground stone, such as club heads, have also been found.
Wooden structures have also been found and have remained well-preserved due to the preservative qualities of bogs. Some of the structures discovered include ax handles, paddles and a dugout canoe, and fishnets were made using bark fibre.
Deer were hunted as well as fish and waterfowl, and some varieties of marsh plants may have been used.
More than 1,200 ancient Mesolithic stone tools have been found along the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by archaeologists and volunteers during a “field walk”. These flints, which included scrapers, waste material, blades, and a portion of an egg-shaped mace head, would have been used by ancient humans who lived along the river between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago. It is believed that the tools were used to kill animals and prepare the food as well as to make raw animal hide into clothes.
Sheila Duthie, who is the co-secretary at the archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside, talked about her decades-long discoveries of ancient tools, “When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project which is without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside.”
In an interview with MailOnline, Alison Cameron, who is the chair of the Mesolithic Deeside and an archaeologist, stated that the individuals who would have lived next to the River Dee between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago would have had everything they needed in order to survive thanks to the nature during that time. This was why so much “flint scatter” has already been discovered in the fields next to the river banks as the individuals would have made and used the stone tools there.
Since every tool found at the site has been collected and sent for analysis where the information gathered will then be put into a database, River Dee is one of the most substantial studies ever conducted on flint deposits found near a river in all of Scotland. “The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,” noted archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones.
Further excavations will be conducted in the coming days at the Milton of Crathes (this includes digging numerous small trenches), so perhaps they’ll discover even more items and/or other significant findings. Additionally, the archaeologists will look at specific features that were noticed during aerial survey maps of the site that may indicate the remains of an ancient settlement. Geologists will be in the area to investigate the ground of the river terrace in order to find out if there was ever an ancient flood as well as to look at what types of environmental conditions were present during the time that the individuals lived there.
Watch Live: SpaceX, NASA are ‘go’ for third operational astronaut launch
Watch Live: SpaceX, NASA are ‘go’ for third operational astronaut launch
With less than three hours to go before liftoff, SpaceX and NASA remain on track – with the vehicle, crew, and weather conditions all in great shape – for Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon’s third operational astronaut launch.
Originally scheduled for late October, a minor crew health issue, a small hardware qualification delay, and – primarily – a variety of good and bad weather conditions ultimately pushed Crew-3 into the second week of November. As a result, SpaceX and NASA chose to return Dragon and four Crew-2 astronauts to Earth before launching Crew-3, and that process was flawlessly completed on the evening of November 8th. During Dragon’s fourth crewed reentry descent and landing, though, one of the spacecraft’s four main parachutes ran into a minor but well-understood issue.
Designed to safely splash down with one parachute out, the safety of the Crew-2 astronauts was never in question but the apparent parachute issue was easily visible to anyone watching NASA and SpaceX’s live coverage. In reality, the behavior observed had been seen – and even intentionally created – many times before in the dozens upon dozens of Dragon parachute tests SpaceX completed to qualify the system for human spaceflight. Specifically, one or more of Dragon’s four huge chutes occasionally lags behind and takes longer to fully inflate. In the case of Crew-2, the problem chute behaved exactly as expected based on that testing and ultimately wasn’t a problem at all, properly inflating to slow Dragon to the exact desired descent speed well before splashdown.
Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, virtually everyone familiar with NASA and the Commercial Crew Program expected the agency to closely examine the behavior and make absolutely sure that all is well. Indeed, in a prelaunch briefing late last night, SpaceX VP Bill Gerstenmaier confirmed as much, revealing that the company rapidly completed reviews of Crew-2 and Crew-3 parachute build data and even airlifted the problem chute – recovered from the Atlantic – back to Florida facilities. Less than 24 hours after that parachute was in Earth orbit, SpaceX managed to dry it out and complete thorough inspections – all with NASA officials in the loop – to confirm that the chute itself was healthy (undamaged, no missed design/build errors, etc).
Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Matthias Maurer, Kayla Barron ride Tesla Model Xs to Pad 39A and the Falcon and Dragon that will soon carry them to space.(Richard Angle)
Crew Dragon C210 and Falcon 9 B1067: Crew-3’s rides to space.
(Richard Angle)
Ultimately, in an impressive display of professionalism and expertise, SpaceX and NASA were able to verify in a matter of hours that Crew-2’s reentry, descent, and landing was fully nominal and posed no problem for Crew-3’s launch just two days later.
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PEOPLE HYPNOTIZED & ABDUCTED BY ALIENS IN RUSSIA | CAUGHT ON CCTV POLICE CAR CAMERA
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Mysterious Lights Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 02, 2021, | UAP UFO News |@UFOTV -VIRAL
Dark Object Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Object Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:October 20, 2021
Location of sighting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Source: MUFON
They eyewitness was recording in his backyard in New Mexico when suddenly a dark obelisk objects moves over his home. The object was thick and looked to be two meters tall by 1/3 meter wide. The bottom had a small tail to it, which could be part of the craft or it could be indications it is a deflated balloon. But we cannot just to that conclusion yet. When UFOs fly low, they use techniques...strategies to appear as something else. The object really doesn't look deflated and it has no string hanging from its tail. This UFO does rotate a little as its moving...which makes it appear as if it were noticing the human below, but then rotating back and continuing on its way. Odd one, but...UFOs are far from normal.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was a silent, black object that moved vertically and appeared to also change altitude gradually going down and then sort of back up.
Huge UFO struck by lightning caught on ISS Live Feed
Huge UFO struck by lightning caught on ISS Live Feed
During a lightning storm seen on the ISS live feed November 8, 2021 something strange happened.
It looks like a massive rectangular shaped object becomes visible after getting struck by a lightning strike.
Could it be that the UFO was waiting for the right moment to connect to a lightning strike? It is said that UFOs use lightning strikes as an energy source.
Glowing Cigar Shaped UFO Sighted Over Various Area Of Occitania, Southern France. November 9, 2021
Intriguing luminous phenomenon in the sky this Tuesday, November 9. This strange light activity is said to have been observed near the Mediterranean coast.
Testimonies have been pouring in since the observation by several people of a particularly strange luminous phenomenon in the sky, Tuesday, November 9. 2021. Several inhabitants of departments close to the Mediterranean observed and filmed this intriguing activity.
Thanks to Yann Fenn, Muriel J'Riviere & William for their outstanding footage...
Quel est cet objet céleste de couleur orange qui se déplace depuis la nuit de mardi à mercredi et qui a de nouveau été observé la nuit dernière, autour de Montpellier ? Des témoins ont été intrigués d’assister à ce ballet nocturne lumineux depuis Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots ou encore Sète.
C’est le site Météo Gard-Hérault géré par Loïc Spadafora depuis le nord de Nîmes qui diffuse depuis mercredi des vidéos inédites, qui ne font qu’épaissir le mystère. Même le météorologue gardois se perd en conjectures, avouant avoir rarement vu un tel objet céleste en dehors de météorites et d’étoiles filantes.
Les commentaires vont bon train, avec cette interrogation : s’agit-il d’un OVNI ? Dans une des vidéos, on entend une famille s’interroger : « C’est quoi ce truc ? ». Nombreux sont les internautes curieux qui l’assurent, ce n’est pas un avion de ligne. Alors, vous aussi vous avez été intrigué ? En analysant les vidéos, avez-vous une idée de ce que peut être cet objet, parfois en forme de boule, parfois en forme de petit cigare ? Ce jeudi, le mystère perdure.
Une vidéo publiée sur les réseaux sociaux montre un phénomène lumineux dans le ciel particulièrement intriguant ce mardi 9 novembre. Cette activité lumineuse étrange aurait été observée près du littoral méditerranéen.
Une phénomène observé dans plusieurs département du sud de la France.
Sur les réseaux sociaux, les témoignages affluent depuis l'observation par plusieurs personnes d'un phénomène lumineux particulièrement étrange dans le ciel, mardi 9 novembre. Plusieurs habitants de départements proches de la Méditerrannée ont observé et filmé cette activité intriguante. Le site de météorologie Météo Gard - Hérault a publié sur Twitter plusieurs vidéos pour le moins énigmatiques.
Un rectangle lumineux, plusieurs vidéos
On peut observer une forme lumineuse rectangulaire divaguer dans la nuit noire. Selon nos confrères météorologues, l'événement aurait été observé depuis Montpellier, Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots ou encore Sète. Des signalements auraient même été rapportés depuis l'Andorre, Narbonne et Perpignan.
Drone, satellite, lasers... Sur les réseaux sociaux, les internautes développent des théories pour expliquer le phénomène.
Un Ovni déjà identifié à Montpellier en septembre
Le mercredi 15 septembre, une activité lumineuse étrange avait aussi défrayé la chronique. Lors d'une soirée orageuse, des lumières ont été observées dans le ciel de Montpellier. Il s'agissait là d'éclairages provenant de projecteurs près de la Halle Tropisme rapportent nos confrères de France 3.
En revanche, l'anomalie observée par plusieurs dizaines de personnes ce mardi 9 novembre estdifficilement explicable. Un nouveau dossier qui ne devrait pas manquer d'intéresserles experts du Geipan, un service du Cnes à Toulouse chargé des phénomènes spatiaux non identifiés.
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