Alien Base Found Off Coast Of Japan, Near UFO Hotspot, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of interview: January 15, 2022
Location of UFO hotspot: Senganmori, Japan

Google map location: 

• https://www.google.com/maps/search/Senganmori,+japan/@38.7729666,142.381703,117573m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Here is a great interview with some UFO eyewitnesses and experts in Senganomori, Japan. There is a mountain area there that is a hotspot for UFOs. They say the mountain stone contains a lot of metal and magnetism...and this is what could be attracting the UFOs. Another theory they said is that there may be an alien base below the mountain area. This video shines a light on the unknown craft in our sky and over Japan...and how we see them today is so much more realistic than how we ignored and laughed at such things decades ago. The truth is coming out, little by little. But...truth cannot hide forever. Every person who helps raise awareness of UFOs is helping the cause. Helping all of humanity come...one step closer to full alien disclosure. 

 

I think I found the alien base the UFOs come from. There is an area in the ocean that contains several huge structures on the ocean floor. These structures have a complex design which looks to be made by intelligent beings. This may be the base of the UFOs. Google ruler puts the biggest structure at 10km long and 1.5km wide. It seems undeniable proof that there is an alien base in Japan waters. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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19-01-2022 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

UFO Shaped Cloud Caught Over Beijing Olympic Area, Nov 12, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 12, 2021
Location of sighting: Beijing, China
Source:  

• http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/12/c_1310306311.htm

A low flying UFO shaped cloud flew over Beijing two months ago. 

Aliens have rules, not our rules, but their rules, and one of them is that they have to at least attempt to keep us from seeing them so they don't cause panic down here. So they make a cloud around the UFO. This is also a great way to come in low and bold just a hundred meters over the land itself so they can monitor our internet, phones, and even scan the people, homes, tech within the homes. Mostly its gathering intel, but...why? I hope its just out of curiosity of learning early development of our society in general, but they could be using the data to access if we are worthy to continue living on this planet...a test that may never end, but happen again, and again, and again throughout human history. 

 

Also the winter olympics are going to be held in Beijing in the communing weeks. Perhaps this UFO wanted to look over the area so that they could see the athletes training and competing there. In the face of threat of covid, war, discrimination and political differences...the nations of the world will unite...in peace. That could intrigue aliens a bit.

 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

 

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19-01-2022 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

George Knapp & Luis Elizondo – UFOs: What’s Next?… COAST TO COAST AM 2022

COAST TO COAST AM – January 2022. UFOs were a hot topic in 2021, from a new program approved by Congress to study the phenomenon to dramatic statements issued by intelligence and military officials. Lue Elizondo, a former intelligence officer who spent ten years working with a secret DOD effort investigating UAP, joined George Knapp in the first half to discuss what comes next.

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19-01-2022 om 17:12 geschreven door peter  

Trivia buffs will know that Italy contains two other countries within its boundaries – the famous Vatican City and the not-so-famous San Marino. The Most Serene Republic of San Marino is located in northeastern Italy, has a population of over 33,000, and is led by two equal heads of state known collectively as Captains Regent. The current Captains Regent may make San Marino more famous than Italy or Vatican City as they recently approved allowing the country to make a historic United Nations request to host periodic UFO/UAP conferences.

San Marino’s Mount Titan castle

“On January 12, 2022, in fact, an important meeting took place in San Marino. Dr. Roberto Pinotti and Dr. Augusto Casali were received by the Most Excellent Captains Regent [Capitani Reggenti], the Heads of State of the Republic of San Marino. The object of the cordial meeting, which lasted over an hour, was the presentation of the Titano Project to the highest authorities of the Republic.”

The meeting was announced by Paolo Guizzardi, creator and project manager of Project Titan (Titano Project) – named for Mount Titano, the highest peak in San Marino. Roberto Pinotti is the President of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale (CUN) of Italy, President of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER), the UFO organizations behind the project, and former editor of UFO magazine. Pinotti is also the author of “UFO Contacts In Italy: Volume One : 1907 – 1978” which contains photos he claims are of real extraterrestrials that landed in Francavillia, Italy, starting in 1956.

The author of “UFO Contacts In Italy: Volume One : 1907 – 1978” is Dr. Robert Pinotti, the founder of the National UFO Center (CUN) who is considered to be a leading expert in European UFO sightings. In that capacity, he has acted as a UFO consultant for the Italian government and claims to have seen secret documents on encounters from the Italian Department of Defense.

Augusto Casali is San Marino’s former Minister of Tourism who previously helped hold a series of International Symposia on Unidentified Flying Objects under the auspices of the San Marino government.

“Dr. Pinotti then gave a clear picture of the latest developments of the situation in the USA that sees the full “clearance” of the UAP phenomenon, making it clear that the only reasonably foreseeable obstacle that could have had negative repercussions for San Marino was now overcome.”

According to Guizzardi, the Captains Regent were impressed with the presentation and like the idea of San Marino and Mount Titan becoming the new “Geneva of UFOs.” The next step is for Francesco Mussoni and Giacomo Simoncini, the current Captains Regent, to the Grand and General Council, San Marino’s legislative body, for approval. (They need to do this quickly because they only serve six month terms as Captains Regent). Since this is an international program, Guizzardi says the proposal would then be presented to the United Nations for a preliminary examination, discussion and ultimately a vote by the General Assembly.

I didn’t know there was another Geneva.

Project Titan obviously has two purposes – to tap into the rising interest of UFOs around the world by becoming a center for international meetings, and to use that publicity to turn it into a tourist attraction. It obviously has a high-powered and highly experienced UFO research team behind it. However, Pinotti points out that this was tried once before in 1978 by Sir Eric Gairy, then Prime Minister of Grenada, who made a similar proposal to the UN which was shut down by the UK.

Will San Marino become the “Geneva of UFOs”? Let’s hope so. It beats Area 51 in the summer.

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19-01-2022 om 01:42 geschreven door peter  

An odd and surprising discovery was made when water vapor was detected in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet. The Neptune-like planet, which has been named TOI-674 b, has a mass that is 23.6 times greater than Earth’s. It is located about 150 light-years away from us in the constellation Antlia.

During the recent virtual American Astronomical Society media briefings, Jonathan Brande, who is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, stated, “We think we see water vapor on TOI-674 b, which is really exciting.” It’s also very odd because the planet completes a full orbit its host star (a red dwarf) every two days, so the radiation from the star should have stripped the planet of its atmosphere.

As a matter of fact, TOI-674 b orbits its star at a very close distance of just 0.025 AU (one AU is the distance of Earth to the sun), so it’s baffling as to why water vapor was detected. Furthermore, the planet would have temperatures of 680 degrees Fahrenheit (360 degrees Celsius).

(Not TOI-674 b)

Brande, as well as his advisor, astronomer Ian Crossfield from the University of Kansas, detected the water in TOI-674 b’s atmosphere by analyzing data from the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. They studied the atmosphere when the planet traveled in front of its host star during three separate occasions.

TOI-674 b is one of only a few examples of water vapor being found on this type of planet. They have such short orbital periods that are so rare that astronomers call that area the “Neptune Desert”.

Another mystery is finding out where exactly TOI-674 b was formed, particularly in comparison to the water ice line (this is at a distance from the star where the temperature would be cold enough to sustain solid ice). In an interview with Astronomy, Brande explained this in further detail, “Planets forming closer to their host stars inside the water ice line should have less atmospheric water than those forming further away, outside the water ice line.”

(Not TOI-674 b)

It’s still unclear as to how much water is in the planet’s atmosphere, but if the amount can be calculated, experts would be able to determine where TOI-674 b formed. “…it almost certainly didn’t form this close to the star and needed to migrate into its current orbit somehow,” Brande added.

An artist’s impression of TOI-674 b can be seen here.

TOI-674b orbits its red dwarf host star about every two days. Despite its close orbit, the super-Neptune, seen in this artist's concept, has water vapor in its atmosphere.

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19-01-2022 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

It seems one can’t buy a car these days that isn’t equipped with obstacle-detection and accident-avoidance systems to compensate for the blind spots that hide these dangerous encounters. Too bad the same isn’t true for planets! NASA just revealed that its fancy-schmancy asteroid detection system has a major blind spot that causes it to miss not the really fast asteroids but the slowest moving space rocks. Show we all point our doorbell monitors upwards until they fix it?

We’ll try anything!

“For some objects that approach Earth from east of opposition, the induced topocentric motion coming from Earth’s rotation cancels the natural eastward motion in the sky, making the object appear to be almost stationary, This makes discovery difficult.”

Near Earth Objects (NEOs) don’t become problems until they’re Nearer-and-nearer Earth Objects. That’s why the JPL Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS) tracks and models their orbits in support of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. It’s also why space agencies are working on asteroid defense programs such as the recently launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to test if crashing a spacecraft on an asteroid can knock it off a collision course. Unfortunately, the news over the past few years has been more about large asteroids that show up without anyone noticing their approach until they hit the ground, splash into the ocean, blow up in the atmosphere or shoot by on their way to another unsuspecting planet. Fortunately, a new study has found the cause of the blind spot these asteroids are sneaking through and may be able to fix it before we become a real-life version of the hit movie “Don’t Look Up.”

“In the event that we find something that is going to hit the earth we would like to do something about it. It’s not a matter of finding them and sitting there and letting it hit.”

According to Professor Richard Wainscoat, head of the research team whose NASA-funded study was published this week in the journal Icarus, the current detection systems are programmed to search for objects on the most common path of traveling west in the sky due to Earth’s eastward rotation. However, when an extremely slow asteroid approaches from the east heading west, it appears to the programs to be stationary and harmless. While even one large asteroid sneaking past the sentry is bad news, the study found that 50 per cent of space rocks coming in from the east are the slow-motion, blind spot kind.

“The bright moon produces temporary blindness for surveys in areas of the sky adjacent to the moon.”

If that’s not bad enough, Wainright points out that asteroids approaching from a direction close to the moon are also hard to see – think about what it’s like driving into direct sunlight in the early morning or late evening. So far, only 40% of large asteroids that are closely approaching Earth have been catalogued and Wainscoat says he won’t feel comfortable until that number reaches “more than 90%.” Unfortunately, that means depending on existing tracking systems — Pan-STARRS, the Catalina Sky Survey, ATLAS, the Rubin Observatory and ESA’s Flyeye Telescope – because the planned NEO Surveyor Mission (NEOSM) (scheduled to launch in 2026) will survey the sky from inside Earth’s orbit and be unable to detect impacting asteroids in the blind spot.

Artist’s depiction of the NEO Surveyor Mission (NEOSM)

“This isn’t happening, right? Kate, this isn’t real, right? This is just some sort of alternate reality, right? Say something.” (Dr. Randall Mindy, played Leonardo DiCaprio, in “Don’t Look Up.”)

Sorry, Randy … it’s real.

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19-01-2022 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

These Newly-Discovered Planets are Doomed

Astronomers have spied three more exoplanets. But the discovery might not last long. Each planet is in a separate solar system, and each orbits perilously close to its star. Even worse, all of the stars are dying.

The results?

Three doomed planets.

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other planet-hunting endeavours have found thousands of exoplanets in the last few years and decades. The exoplanets vary widely, from Earth-like planets in their stars’ quiet habitable zones to planets so hot that vaporized iron falls as rain.

But these three exoplanets have something in common. They have very short-period orbits—some of the shortest ever found—around sub-giant or giant stars. For planets like these, the writing is on the wall: they’ll spiral inward towards their stars, which will eventually engulf them.

A team of researchers presented these grim findings in a new paper titled “TESS Giants Transiting Giants II: The hottest Jupiters orbiting evolved stars.” The Astronomical Journal accepted the paper, and it’s up on the pre-press site arxiv.org. Samuel Grunblatt is the lead author. He’s a postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and the Flatiron Institute.

The discovery might sound macabre: three doomed planets that’ll spiral inwards toward their end, with stars that are also inching towards death as they leave the main sequence. But that would be misrepresenting the discovery. Instead, think of it as planetary archaeology.

“These discoveries are crucial to understanding a new frontier in exoplanet studies: how planetary systems evolve over time,” Grunblatt said in a press release. “These observations offer new windows into planets nearing the end of their lives before their host stars swallow them up.”

The three planets are TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI-2669b. TOI stands for Tess Object of Interest, and the number is the star. The “b” denotes the planet closest to the star in each system.

All of the planets are gas giants, similar to Jupiter in our Solar System. Astronomers found them during a survey looking for new planets orbiting evolved host stars. The worlds range from 0.4 to 1.8 Jupiter masses and 0.8 to 1.8 Jupiter radii. The stars range from about 1.2 to 1.5 solar masses and about 2.3 to 4.1 solar radii.

The planets have a wide range of densities, which indicates that each of the solar systems underwent a chaotic period of planet-to-planet interactions. Astronomers think that the history of those interactions contributed to the density variations through unpredictable heating rates and timescales.

The James Webb Space Telescope may be able to tease out some of the details in at least one of these systems. When it examines the TOI-4329 system, the presence or lack of water vapour and CO2 in the planet’s atmosphere could restrain the location where the planet formed. It could also provide insight into the types of planetary interactions that put the planet into its current orbit.

In planet-star configurations like these, astronomers expect the planets to inflate as they inch closer to the stars and as the stars expand. The stars will eventually engulf the planets as their orbits spiral inwards. So far, TESS hasn’t detected any evidence of a decaying orbit. But TESS found these planets during its Prime Mission. It’ll gather more data during its Extended Missions, and that data will form a longer baseline of observations. That more extended baseline may indicate that the planets are already in their death spirals.

Planetary inflation is becoming an important metric in understanding exoplanets. Why do some planets as massive as Jupiter have much greater radii? Gas giants experience radiative cooling from their inner depths, inhibiting inflation over long timescales, beginning shortly after formation. Proximity to a star might delay that cooling and promote inflation.

But there’s also growing evidence that proximity to a star can actively cause inflation through stellar flux. In a previous paper by lead author Greenblatt in 2017, the authors wrote, “Stellar flux flowing to the planets’ deep convective interiors could therefore explain their current size, an indication that planet ‘inflation’ is directly tied to stellar irradiation rather than delayed atmospheric cooling after the planets’ formation.”

But planetary inflation is a complicated issue. In the same 2017 paper, the authors write that “Planets may be inflated by methods that are more strongly dependent on other factors such as atmospheric metallicity than incident flux.”

Though there’s no indication of orbital decay in the planets yet, there is evidence of inflation for at least one planet. TOI-2337b has the shortest orbital period of any world ever found around a red giant star, but it shows no sign of inflation. The TOI-2669b system is the most evolved system of the three, yet the planet doesn’t show any signs of inflation either. TOI-4329b, however, does show signs of inflation.

TOI-2669b is a brighter target than the other two in this study. That makes it a good target for spectroscopy with the James Webb Telescope. That data, along with tighter constraints on the planet’s eccentricity, “… could place new constraints on planet inflation and migration mechanisms and timescales.”

The three planets in this study are just the beginning. TESS should find many more of them. “We expect to find tens to hundreds of these evolved transiting planet systems with TESS, providing new details on how planets interact with each other, inflate, and migrate around stars, including those like our Sun,” said Nick Saunders, a graduate student at UH IfA and co-author of the study.

TESS had some help in this work. While it found the planets with the transit method, those findings only reveal candidate exoplanets. Confirmation as exoplanets requires ground-based follow-up observations. The Keck Observatory provided those via its High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) instrument. Data from HIRES fleshed out the discoveries.

“The Keck observations of these planetary systems are critical to understanding their origins, helping reveal the fate of solar systems like our own,” said UH IfA Astronomer Daniel Huber, who co-authored the study. Studies like this one might also be tiny steps towards answering humanity’s most significant question: Are we alon

All of this might sound academic to a casual reader. But our own Sun will one day leave the main sequence and begin to expand into a red subgiant and will likely engulf Earth. It’s doubtful that humanity will survive until then since it won’t happen for billions of years. Extinctions are the norm here on Earth, but maybe humanity will somehow beat the cosmic odds.

In the meantime, at least we’re learning more about nature and the Universe we’re a part of.

More:

• Press Release: Newly-Found Planets On The Edge Of Destruction
• New Paper: TESS Giants Transiting Giants II: The hottest Jupiters orbiting evolved stars
• Universe Today: Astronomers Find a Planet That Orbits its Star in Just 16 HOURS!

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18-01-2022 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

18-01-2022 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

25KM Alien Base On Mars, Elevation Map, NASA Link, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of discovery: January 14, 2022, but reporting it today

Location of discovery: Mars, Sulci Gordii region

Source photo: 

• https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mars/Nomenclature/mc9_2014?p=3&pb=1#downloads

Now this is one of the best detailed structures I have ever found on Mars. According to the photo ruler at the bottom of the photo, the structure measures 25km and could be up to 45km across! Now I thought that was amazing and it really blew my mind, but then I thought about it and decided to look around the photo more and found that there were dozens of blurred out areas...almost 10% of the entire photo! Some of those areas had blurred structures slightly visible (about 20-30% transparent) and then I realized...NASA had fooled me into thinking there were less structures on Mars. But this photo proves that theory wrong. There are hundreds of structures in this photo alone! I feel like a fool to not have known earlier. I guess the regular photos I looked through were too highly edited, but these elevation photos, were much less edited. Anyways, in the video I not only show people what I found, but teach others how to find such things. The video is in HD so the detail is great. 

 

100% proof aliens inhabited Mars on a global scale! 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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18-01-2022 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

Black Object Shoots Past Plane 9-24-2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 9-24-2018, but reported yesterday to MUFON
Location of sighitng: London, UK
Source: MUFON

 

Note that on the close up of the UFO above there are no wings, not propellers, nothing to indicate its anything but a UFO. UFOs often scout out the most high tech devices they can in order to scan them and learn about our current technological levels of humanity. Here we see a perfect oval UFO shoot past the passenger jet as if it were standing still. Also note, most UFOs are cloaked from  radar, and our radar tech is the same today as it was back in the 1970, so that tech is basically stunted (stagnate) and easy to hide from. What we see here in this 2018 video is 100% proof that UFOs investigate passengers jets, jeopardizing the crew and passengers by coming incredibly close to the plane before shooting away. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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18-01-2022 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

Harvard Professor Explores Does extraterrestrial intelligence exist? UFO Sighting News.

Date of interview: Dec 11, 2021
Location of interview: University of Harvard, USA

 

Professor Avi Loeb is interviewed about the existence of intelligent alien life in the universe. The answers are enlightening. He says that humanity is trying to comprehend beyond itself to better understand the possibility of intelligent life out there, but its hindered by the fact that most humans can't see beyond themselves, but mostly focus on the self. The big picture is ignored, but he is optimistic that humanity will continue to evolve and science will one day unlock all doors including finding intelligent life in the universe. As a Harvard professor it may be bit difficult to come out and just say, yes, aliens exist, but in his long winded and well explained interview...he did state it already. He doesn't want to jeopardize his position at an ivy league university. So yes, he believes there is life more intelligent than humans, but they are so intelligent and beyond us that we cannot comprehend such creatures even exist. Very exciting really. I totally agree 100%.

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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18-01-2022 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

Light Over Home At Tupelo, Mississippi 1-17-2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 17, 2022
Location of sighing:Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
Source: MUFON

 

Now one of the complaints from inexperienced viewers I often get is that those are planet lights. The first comment on this video stated, "Come on...anything that flashes like that is...a plane. But his impatiences and inexperience shows. You see I can quote hundreds of UFO reports that state the UFO had "flashing lights"...such incidences can be found in Project Blue Book, MJ12 files, US Pentagon documents and much more. So...flashing lights doesn't mean its always a plane. It just means the lights can easily cause a human to BELIEVE it's only a plane. Aliens are masters at deception...since they have mostly gotten away with hiding from us for so long. This video below...it's a UFO. Welcome to the truth, the truth will set you free, but first it will hurt like hell. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

Eyewitness states:

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18-01-2022 om 21:49 geschreven door peter  

Was Area 51 Home to a Live Extraterrestrial?

Taken from JRE #1510 w/Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Hc6pbG4wICA

George Knapp is an author, speaker, and the chief investigative reporter at KLAS TV in Las Vegas, NV. Jeremy Corbell is a contemporary artist and documentary filmmaker.

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18-01-2022 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

Men in Black Really Exist – A Strange US Air Force Memo Suggests

UFO seekers have had to deal with the enigmatic Men in Black throughout the years.

According to John Keel, Men in Black are persons who act as military commanders with the intent of suppressing the UFO mystery inquiry, reducing the credibility of those participating in such investigations, and instilling terror in witnesses.

A previous US Air Force report corroborates this, stating that the branch and the Blue Book Project were aware of these black guys and had recorded multiple occasions in which they intimidated UFO witnesses and seized photographic evidence.

What our fans have to say:

“I’ve seen the guys in black and they absolutely exist, but not in the context of UFOs. You will encounter these folks if you are one of the unlucky ones working on a SAP. I’m not sure why they dress in all black and have such a commanding presence, but they do… they don’t only deal with UFOs, they deal with black projects in general. It all sounds a little over-the-top and somewhat comical to me, but these men are dead serious, and I’m quite sure they have carte blanche to do whatever they want.”

“They’re also in Canada… their attitudes are out of this planet… simply ignore them like a nightmare… did I or didn’t…(?)”

Take a look at the video below and let us know what you think.

VIDEO:

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17-01-2022 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

A Fleet Of UFOs Flew Low Over A Highway In Illinois

A mysterious group of several glowing spheres silently and slowly flew along a busy road in Illinois near Lake Michigan before the glow of the balls began to fade and eventually disappeared into the night sky.

This video (see below) was filmed on November 26, 2021 at approximately 6 p.m. According to an eyewitness, the objects moved completely silently and, changing formation, moved towards Lake Michigan.

Initially, a “triangle” of three shining spheres was seen in the sky, and then it broke up and more spheres appeared moving in the dark sky.

Earlier, UFOs were repeatedly spotted in the Lake Michigan area, which is why American ufologists have a theory that the deep cold waters of the lake may hide an alien base.

As for this video, initially skeptics began to say that Elon Musk’s satellites got on the video, and then a version appeared that the shining spheres were actually helicopters with searchlights.

 TR-3B

In turn, political scientist Thomas Wawrusko suggested that the video could have captured the flight of the secret US aircraft TR-3B.

The TR-3B is an as yet unconfirmed “black project” by the US Air Force, allegedly created by the advanced weapons laboratory DARPA.

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17-01-2022 om 22:58 geschreven door peter  

World's largest fish breeding colony that's the size of BIRMINGHAM and includes 60 million active nests is found in Antarctica's Weddell Sea

• The unprecedented fish population is a biomass of more than 135 million pounds

• Most of the nests were occupied by a single adult guarding over 1,700 eggs 

• Scientists believe the area is utilised heavily by seals and other predators

• The icefish, or notothenioids, play an important role in the wider food web  

By RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE 

A massive icefish breeding colony, covering almost 100 square miles, has been discovered in Antarctica's Weddell Sea, with about 60 million active nests.

It is the world's largest breeding colony of fish, representing a biomass of more than 135 million pounds, and covers an area roughly the size of Birmingham.

Until now it was not known that such a thing existed. 

Each of the nests include about 1,700 eggs, with a number of fish carcasses found within, or near the site - as it is thought to be a feeding ground for seals.

Also known as notothenioids, these fish play an important role in the wider food web, say experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. 

The discovery will play an important role in the conservation of Antarctica and surrounding oceans, the researchers claim, adding that they plan to return to the area later this year to survey more of the ocean floor for signs of nests. 

A massive icefish breeding colony, covering almost 100 square miles, has been discovered in Antarctica's Weddell Sea, with about 60 million active nests

Each of the nests include about 1,700 eggs, with a number of fish carcasses found within, or near the site - as it is thought to be a feeding ground for seals

WHAT ARE ICEFISH (NOTOTHENIIDAE)?

The team used an underwater camera 'sledge' called Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS) in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

The researchers were surveying the Filchner ice shelf, a vast slab that has floated off the land onto the sea, as well as the surrounding seafloor, which included an upwelling of water that was 3.6 F warmer than the surrounding area.

While they were able to examine the change in water temperature, finding the massive fish colony and breeding ground was 'rather unexpected'.     

Their bodily fluids contain antifreeze proteins that enable them to survive the very cold temperatures of the Southern Ocean.

As a result, blood is less thick and sticky - increasing supply of oxygen to organs.

Lead author Dr Autun Purser said data revealed this area is a prime feeding ground for seals, with 'a great many spending their time in close proximity to the nests'. 

'We know this from historical tracking data and fresh tracking data from our cruise. The nests are exactly where the warmer water is upwelling.

'These facts may be coincidence, and more work is needed, but the recorded seal data show seals do indeed dive to the depths of the fish nests, so may well be dining on these fish.'

'A few dozen nests ha$

ve been observed elsewhere in the Antarctic - but this find is orders of magnitude larger,' added Dr Purser.

The researchers used an underwater camera 'sledge', OFOBS, which is a large, towed device, weighing one ton and towed behind the icebreaker RV Polarstern.

'We tow this at a height of about 5ft to 8ft above the seafloor, recording videos and acoustic bathymetry data,' explained Dr Purser. 

Live images were transmitted from 1,755ft to 1,377ft down to monitors aboard the research ship, and the longer the mission lasted, the more excitement grew.

The discovery will play an important role in the conservation of Antarctica and surrounding oceans, the researchers claim, adding that they plan to return to the area later this year to survey more of the ocean floor for signs of nests

The team used an underwater camera 'sledge' called Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS) in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Nest followed nest, the team said. Precise evaluations identified an average one breeding site per 33 square foot - with up to two per 10 square feet.

Mapping suggested it extended across a region roughly equivalent to an island the size of Malta - about 92 square miles.

Dr Purser said: 'The idea such a huge breeding area of icefish in the Weddell Sea was previously undiscovered is totally fascinating.'

The Polarstern icebreaker has been exploring it for four decades. Only individual Neopagetopsis ionah fish or small clusters of nests had ever been detected. 

Dr Purser said: 'We did not know to expect any sort of fish nest ecosystem.' That part, he adds, came as a 'total surprise.'

Dr Purser said: 'After the spectacular discovery of the many fish nests, we thought about a strategy on board to find out how large the breeding area was - there was literally no end in sight.

'The nests are three quarters of a metre in diameter - so they are much larger than the structures and creatures, some of which are only centimetres in size, that we normally detect with the OFOBS system.

'So, we were able to increase the height above ground to about three metres and the towing speed to a maximum of three knots, thus multiplying the area investigated.

'We covered an area of [490,000 sq ft] and counted an incredible 16,160 fish nests on the photo and video footage.'

The round fish nests could be clearly identified - about six inches deep and two-and-a-half feet in diameter.

They stood out from the otherwise muddy seabed due to a circular central area of small stones. Several types were distinguished.

Some were 'active' with between 1,500 and 2,500 eggs and guarded in three-quarters of cases by an adult icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah.

Others contained only eggs. There were also unused nests, in the vicinity of which either only a fish without eggs could be seen, or a dead fish.

The researchers used OFOBS's longer-range but lower-resolution side scan sonars - which recorded over 100,000 nests - to work out distribution and density.

They were a popular destination for seals in search of food. Transmitters attached to the marine mammals showed 90 per cent of diving activities occurred there.

Nest followed nest, the team said. Precise evaluations identified an average one breeding site per 33 square foot - with up to two per 10 square feet

It's likely to be the most spatially extensive contiguous fish breeding colony discovered worldwide to date.

Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German Federal Research Minister, congratulated the researchers on their discovery, saying it makes an important contribution towards protecting the Antarctic environment.

The researchers have now deployed two camera systems to monitor the icefish nests until a research vessel returns. 

The hope is that photographs taken multiple times a day will yield new insights on the workings of this newly discovered ecosystem. 

Purser says he has plans to return in April 2022 for surveys of the seafloor in areas of the northeast Weddell Sea. 

The findings have been published in the journal Current Biology. 

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WEDDELL SEALS 

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Grootste groep broedende vissen ooit ontdekt onder pakijs Antarctica: 60 miljoen actieve nesten

Vijfhonderd meter onder het pakijs van Antarctica hebben wetenschappers de grootste groep broedende vissen ooit gevonden. Het zou gaan om naar schatting 60 miljoen actieve nesten van een soort ijsvis, goed voor een oppervlakte van zeker 240 vierkante kilometer of iets meer dan de oppervlakte van de stad Antwerpen. Er wordt gesproken over “een ongelofelijke ontdekking”.

De kolonie werd ontdekt in de Weddellzee, een deel van de Zuidelijke Oceaan dat voor het grootste deel uit ijs bestaat en tussen Antarctica en het Zuid-Amerikaanse continent in ligt.

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Veel vissen maken nesten en soms verzamelen ze met honderden tegelijk om die te bouwen. In het geval van de ijsvissen werd in het verleden hooguit een handvol nesten samen ontdekt. Tot diepzeebioloog Autun Purser van de Alfred Wegener Institute in het Duitse Bremerhaven en zijn collega's begin vorig jaar op de gigantische kolonie botsten, terwijl ze met een onderzoek bezig waren op de Weddellzee.

Bodem van de zee

De onderzoekers waren de chemische verbanden aan het bestuderen tussen de oppervlaktewaters en de bodem van de zee. Daarvoor werd het leven op de zeebodem in kaart gebracht. Dat gebeurde met een toestel dat achter een ijsbreker aangesleept werd en videobeelden maakte.

Eén van de medewerkers merkte plots dat er overal cirkelvormige nesten van ijsvissen (Neopagetopsis ionah) te zien waren. Die ijsvissen komen alleen in dergelijke wateren voor en zijn aangepast aan de extreme koude daar, onder meer door een soort van antivries in hun bloed. “Toen we een halfuur later nog altijd het ene nest na het andere zagen verschijnen en dat voor de rest van onze vier uur durende tocht ook zo bleek te zijn, wist ik dat we iets ongewoons op het spoor waren”, vertelt Purser aan ‘ScienceNews’.

Drie expedities

De wetenschappers maakten nog drie expedities in de buurt en bleven nest na nest vinden, kilometer na kilometer. Waarom de vissen daar zo massaal verzamelen, is niet duidelijk. Er zou wel veel plankton aanwezig zijn, microscopisch kleine diertjes die de perfecte voeding vormen voor pas uitgekomen vissen. In de buurt was ook een zone met warmer water, wat de vissen kan helpen bij het lokaliseren van de broedgrond.

Zelf zouden de ijsvissen dan weer als voedsel dienen voor zeehonden. Daarvan is geweten dat ze heel wat tijd spenderen in de wateren boven de kolonie, volgens de wetenschappers in ‘Current Biology’.

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Intermixed with the nests were fish carcasses.

(AWI OFOBS team)

Cameras will monitor the ecosystem to try to establish how it functions. 

Photograph: Alfred Wegener Institute

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Saturn's moon Mimas may be hiding a 'stealth' ocean buried beneath almost 20 miles of ice, study finds

• Mimas is the closest 'large' moon to Saturn and has a diameter of 246 miles

• It has a thick, 20 mile deep crust of ice covering its crater-marked surface

• Despite no evidence of water breaking through the ice, it may have an ocean

• Researchers looked at how Saturn's pull might heat the moon's interior over time

• They found that it would be enough to produce a liquid water ocean under ice 

By RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE 

Saturn's moon Mimas is covered in 20 mile thick ice, but astronomers now believe there is a 'stealth ocean' buried deep beneath its thick frozen surface.

Mimas, the closest of Saturn's 'large' moons, has a diameter of 246 miles, and is the smallest astronomical body known to still be round in shape due to self-gravitation.

There are no hints of any liquid water, when looking at the moon in images and from observations, according to experts, but simulations by the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, suggest there is one, deep underneath the blanket of ice.

Measurements taken by the NASA Cassini spacecraft in 2014 hinted there might be some water under the surface, but this hasn't been corroborated until now.

In the new study, the team explored the size and formation predictions for the small moon, to determine that its internal heat would be enough to allow for flowing water.

Saturn's moon Mimas is covered in 20 mile thick ice, but astronomers now believe there is an 'stealth ocean' buried deep beneath its thick frozen cover

Also known as Saturn I, due to it being the closest to the ringed world, Mimas has a total surface area slightly less than the land area of Spain.

That surface bears none of the fracturing, or evidence of melting that astronomers and planetary scientists would expect to see from a world with a hidden ocean. 

'When we look at a body like Mimas, it is a little, cold, dead rock,' Alyssa Rhoden, lead author of this new study told New Scientist. 

'If you put Mimas in a gallery with a bunch of other icy moons, you would never look at it and say "oh, that one has an ocean".'

As well as it baring no signs of having an ocean, none of the accepted theoretical models of moon formation suggest it should have an ocean.

However, observations from 2014, taken by Cassini, show the moon wobbling as it spins, suggesting something strange going on under the ice.

At the time researchers suggesting there was water under the icy shell, and so, since then astronomers have been attempting to see whether that is the case, and how it is possible.

Rhoden told New Scientist that researchers set out to prove that Mimas can't have an ocean — because it seemed so unlikely.

The problem is, the scientist explained, that they did find evidence of an ocean, and findings backed up earlier observations from Cassini.

They performed simulations of how the interior is stretched and heated by Saturn's gravity, and what that would do the an icy outer shell.

The heating was enough to support a global ocean of liquid water, as much as 18 miles below a thick crust of ice, deep enough not to crack the surface. 

Cassini measurements of Mimas' physical properties are either explained through a non-hydrostatic core, or a global liquid ocean as much as 20 miles below the ice. 

A combination of tidal heating, caused by the pull of Saturn, played a bearing on the inner-world ocean developing, as well as its eccentricity and libration. 

There are no hints of any liquid water, when looking at the moon in images and from observations, according to experts, but simulations by the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, suggest there is one, deep underneath the blanket of ice

Measurements taken by the NASA Cassini spacecraft in 2015 hinted there might be some water under the surface, but this hasn't been confirmed until now

'An ocean within Mimas would be surprising, given the lack of comparable geologic activity to that observed on other ocean-bearing moons like Europa and Enceladus, and thus has important implications for the prevalence and identification of ocean worlds,' the researchers wrote in a paper published in the journal Icarus. 

'We find that, using the most reasonable assumptions, Mimas would have the suggested ocean and ice shell thicknesses today.' 

This would put it under the category of 'stealth world's' — that is icy moons with an unexpected ocean buried beneath its surface.

'There are a lot of icy satellites in our solar system, and if Mimas could be an ocean world, any of them could be ocean worlds,' Rhoden said.

'The more we understand the pathways by which we can form an ocean, the more we're going to learn about the habitats that are available in our solar system.'    

WHAT DID CASSINI DISCOVER DURING ITS 20-YEAR MISSION TO SATURN?

Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1997, then spent seven years in transit followed by 13 years orbiting Saturn.

An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft studying Saturn 

In 2000 it spent six months studying Jupiter before reaching Saturn in 2004.

In that time, it discovered six more moons around Saturn, three-dimensional structures towering above Saturn's rings, and a giant storm that raged across the planet for nearly a year.

On 13 December 2004 it made its first flyby of Saturn's moons Titan and Dione.

On 24 December it released the European Space Agency-built Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan to study its atmosphere and surface composition.

There it discovered eerie hydrocarbon lakes made from ethane and methane.

In 2008, Cassini completed its primary mission to explore the Saturn system and began its mission extension (the Cassini Equinox Mission).

In 2010 it began its second mission (Cassini Solstice Mission) which lasted until it exploded in Saturn's atmosphere.

In December 2011, Cassini obtained the highest resolution images of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

In December of the following year it tracked the transit of Venus to test the feasibility of observing planets outside our solar system.

In March 2013 Cassini made the last flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea and measured its internal structure and gravitational pull.

Cassini didn't just study Saturn - it also captured incredible views of its many moons. In the image above, Saturn's moon Enceladus can be seen drifting before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora. It was captured on Nov. 1, 2009, with the entire scene is backlit by the Sun

In July of that year Cassini captured a black-lit Saturn to examine the rings in fine detail and also captured an image of Earth.

In April of this year it completed its closest flyby of Titan and started its Grande Finale orbit which finished on September 15.

'The mission has changed the way we think of where life may have developed beyond our Earth,' said Andrew Coates, head of the Planetary Science Group at Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London.

'As well as Mars, outer planet moons like Enceladus, Europa and even Titan are now top contenders for life elsewhere,' he added. 'We've completely rewritten the textbooks about Saturn.'

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According to a new study, Saturn’s moon Mimas may have an ocean buried under several miles of ice.

Mimas was discovered in 1789 by English astronomer Sir William Herschel. The moon is covered with craters, some of which measure 25 miles in diameter (40 kilometers). The massive Herschel crater, however, measures a whopping 88 miles across (142 kilometers) and spreads out almost a third of the moon’s diameter.

Mimas is the closest major moon that orbits Saturn at a distance of just 115,280 miles (185,525 kilometres). It completes a full orbit around the planet in just 22 hours and 37 minutes. It is believed that the moon consists of most water ice with a small amount of rock. The surface temperature is about minus 209 degrees Celsius (minus 344 degrees Fahrenheit).

Mimas

While there is no proof of there being an ocean on Mimas, some researchers do think that there is one hidden far beneath the icy surface based on simulations conducted by Colorado’s Southwest Research Institute. They performed the simulations based on measurements taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2014.

The experts claimed that there is enough heat inside of the moon to sustain flowing water. The simulations showed how the inside of the moon could be heated and stretched from the gravity of Saturn. And they found that the heat was enough to support a liquid water ocean measuring as far down as 18 miles (29 kilometers) beneath the icy surface. Since it would be so far down, it wouldn’t be able to crack the surface of the moon.

In an interview with New Scientist, the lead author of the study Alyssa Rhoden explained this in further detail, “When we look at a body like Mimas, it is a little, cold, dead rock.” “If you put Mimas in a gallery with a bunch of other icy moons, you would never look at it and say ‘oh, that one has an ocean’.” But the Cassini data revealed something very interesting about the moon as it was observed wobbling while it spun, which suggested that there could be something odd occurring beneath the thick ice.

In their study, the researchers wrote in part, “An ocean within Mimas would be surprising, given the lack of comparable geologic activity to that observed on other ocean-bearing moons like Europa and Enceladus, and thus has important implications for the prevalence and identification of ocean worlds.” “We find that, using the most reasonable assumptions, Mimas would have the suggested ocean and ice shell thicknesses today.”

If this is correct, it would mean that Mimas is a “stealth world”, meaning that it is an icy moon with an unexpected ocean deep beneath the surface. “There are a lot of icy satellites in our solar system, and if Mimas could be an ocean world, any of them could be ocean worlds,” Rhoden stated.

Their study was published in the journal Icarus.

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