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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Filer’s Files Jan. 15 2022 UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941 - PART II
Lake Dallas – on January 8, 2022
Filer’s Files Jan. 15 2022 UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941 - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Filer’s Files will be sent out twice monthly due to my macular degeneration instead of weekly.
Special reports are: Admiral Fahrney on UFOs, UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941, Lt. Colonel Talks about Investigating UFO Sightings, Mars Cave Opening, Super Interesting Plane and Drone Designs, Structure Deep Within Antarctica, Monsters of the Deep, Jet Stream Attack, Top 20 UFO Hotspots, Iran Pledges to attack U.S. Homeland, Carbon 60 and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Elk– on December 30, 2021, when the sunsets I take pictures and noticed orb when I scanned over them. A blue object pops up, looks like it had 5 lights, then disappears. It does movements no plane could do. The pictures were shot at 4:52-53 PM. With the backlight from the sunset, any rocket contrails would have stood out, but there is none for 2 pictures. This was nothing like Vandenberg AFB 2nd stage ignitions.
Note: The photos have been requested, but no response. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Colorado Lights
Phoenix– on December 1, 2021.
Connecticut Object
New Haven— on January 4, 2022, saw these weird clouds I’ve never seen. Looked closed saw object shooting upward from the base. Note: Likely a plane.
Florida Lights
Hialeah— on January 2, 2022, I want you to analyze the video and tell me if this is accurate. This is the best footage I have. The video at right shows UFO diving into the ocean.
Georgia Lights
On January 3, 2022, as flying along at 39,000 feet in an Airbus A320 somewhere over Georgia I shot the beautiful Milky with my iPhone 13. Tried to take a video of another aircraft flying just above us and noticed this V shaped object. It appears to be between us and the other aircraft. Both Captain and I would like to be anonymous.
Illinois Triangle
Sims – on December 20, 2021, while traveling north on Route 5, I saw what looked like a bright light in the distance. As it came closer it “glided silently” over my vehicle with 3 lights on the bottom going across the triangle shaped object. The lights were horizontal in the middle of the object. We turn around as fast as we can and see it off to the left across the fields that are there. Then we lost it again since there was no road to follow/
Kentucky Object
Adolohus — on January 10, 2022, on my way home I saw a flame looking thong in the sky. I lost it over the trees and found it, so I was able to get a picture.
New Jersey Lights
Pelican Island – on December 29, 2021, driving towards the Jersey coast over the ocean I observed 4 separate sphere like lights all in different shapes and colors that moved south. I observed them near Seaside Heights. I’m an astronomy buff and I know these were not stars, or aircraft the way they moved. They were pulsating and seemed to change colors and objects were in a triangular pattern with the 4th object located south of the other 3.
New York Object
Brooklyn – on October 19, 2021, I saw a shimmering stationary object in the sky that was changing shape very quickly It looked like a portal was rotating across the object and there was a small light which blinked on and off about 20 feet away.
South Carolina Lights
Orangeburg— on January 6, 2022, I have taken pictures of frequent UFO activity and like to record proof. I have seen many UFOs that were far off, but this was close. The craft came from the tree line pulsing multicolored lights and two orbs came out of it and began to blink red. I worked on C-17s in the Air Force and know that this was no aircraft. These crafts were moving slow and disappeared in the trees. Note: Similar sighting in Australia on January 3, 2022.
Texas Object
Lake Dallas –on January 8, 2018, I have pictures of two UFOs my daughter took. I also saw two in Dallas on different dates. Both were translucent orange the smaller one was almond shaped and was following a Southwest jet. I saw both of these around sunset heading northeast.
Santa Anna– on December 27, 2021, the object is passing in front of the sun at high-speed wit vapor trails.
Note:The witness didn’t elaborate much on the details of the sighting.
Update – Jan 9, 2022: The witness sent two more photos taken with a game camera. The second photo above (12:40 PM) shows the object. I have no idea of the identity of this object, but it’s not a kite, balloon, or drone. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
West Virginia Lights
A8gusta– on November 18, 2021, took the dog outside to discover these three objects flying directly over my house. They had many lights, some of which were steady and some flashing. They were moving slowly while emitting a humming sound.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
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Maleny — on January 3, 2022, y wife, our 2 sons and their partners were sky watching when we noticed an extremely low bright light. It was heading from north and at one stage zipped extremely fast then faded out nowhere near the horizon. You can see it zip really fast as another one also seems to fade in above it.
Canada Object
Red Deer – on December 18, 2021, while delivering a food item I witnessed an object that was red in color. At first thought it could be a balloon, but it suddenly changed shape from oval to triangle and emitted a bright red light on top and bottom. It was gone in seconds.
Hudson Bay–- on March 21, 2021, they look like really bright twinkling stars that move around like no stars or satellites or anything celestial ever could. They are there outside of Cranbrook every night going on 16 months now. I have seen videos from 35 U.S. states and 11 other countries of similar objects. They look like the things flying around the Space Shuttle. Zoom in and they look like round disks of plasma pulsating, and changing colors, changing to diamond, square, or rectangle. They are now a global phenomenon that often project faces of humans or alien faces. I have hundreds of images with faces with them.
France Light
Le temple sur lot– on December 24, 2021, orange ball at medium altitude moving fast.
Germany Light
Altenriet– on December 31, 2021, I took a series of 12 photos from 11:55pm to 11:57pm., and early an object in a circular shape of lights appears with a second light near it. The shape changes to a triangle of three lights very high. Someone 2.5 hours north reported having also seen the object.
Mexico Lights
Tijuana– on December 24, 2021, while shooting a landscape picture showing Venus a light flew south over the Pacific coast was captured. It “looks blurry” because it moved so fast but next picture is fine. I noticed a hovering cloud next to the bright star. The main shape is oval, and it has three luminescent spots.
Philippines Light
Manila – on December 29, 2021, sitting on my balcony I noticed a mall bright white flying northeast, 1-2 kilometers away. It was definitely not an aircraft. Minutes later, the object re-appeared heading west. It flew directly over my building emitting a yellow light underneath.
Puerto Rico Light
Dorado– on January 2, 2022, it was floating then it just continues west over us.
Philippines Light
Manila– on December 29, 2021, sitting on my balcony I noticed a mall bright white flying northeast, 1-2 kilometers away. It was definitely not an aircraft. Minutes later, the object re-appeared heading west. It flew directly over my building emitting a yellow light underneath.
UK/England Object
Bicester on January 5, 2022, two large brown/black silent craft flew 20-40 feet above me quickly. After sunset they looked like a lozenge shape a little bigger than cars with small wings on each side. They were in formation with no lights, no sound, very low.
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Curiosity, the silver-haired veteran of the Red Planet rover corps, has proven once again there’s still life in its batteries and surface samples driller – but has it proven that there’s life on Mars? Many recent headlines seem to be blaring this, but David Bowie wouldn’t be adding a verse just yet, and NASA agrees … although what Curiosity dug up is definitely an unusual carbon signature that is one of the signs of life. But … is it THE sign of life on Mars?
Curiosity
“After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists today announced that several of the samples are rich in a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes.”
That’s a pretty strong opening sentence in NASA’s press release on the discovery, which highlights findings soon to be published in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Before we dig into what Curiosity dug up, a shout-out is in order for SAM – the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) chemistry lab aboard Curiosity whose Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) instrument inside it heated 24 samples from geologically diverse locations in the Gale crater (Curiosity’s Daytona International Speedway) to about 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (850 degrees Celsius), releasing their gases and then measuring the isotopes. They surprisingly showed that nearly half of their samples containing high amounts of carbon 12 compared to the Martian atmosphere or Martian meteorites found on Earth. Drop the mic time?
“The hardest thing is letting go of Earth and letting go of that bias that we have and really trying to get into the fundamentals of the chemistry, physics and environmental processes on Mars.”
Not yet, says Goddard Space Flight Center astrobiologist and study participant Jennifer L. Eigenbrode. One explanation for the carbon signatures is that the Solar System once passed through a giant, molecular cloud of dust that left the carbon deposits behind. Another is that ultraviolet light converted CO2 to organic compounds through abiotic (non-biological) processes – this can happen on Earth as well. Finally, there’s the biggie – Mars may have once had methane-producing microbes living on its surface.
“All three possibilities point to an unusual carbon cycle unlike anything on Earth today. But we need more data to figure out which of these is the correct explanation.”
We need to send some humans.
In a separate press release, Penn State geoscientist and study leader Christopher House points out that not only is Mars not like Earth today, it may have never been much like its close neighbor. The same could be said of Curiosity – it may not have its own helicopter like Perseverance, but its discoveries keep revealing more details about the freakiest show that may one day answer David Bowie’s most famous question — is there life on Mars?
Guys, I was looking into this photo again that I reported a 25km structure on Mars in...and the URL is giving me a 404 error code and it says, "The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists." If that doesn't scream out guilty by NASA then I don't know what does. This photo was just taken off line after making it into world news several times! Look at the screenshot below to see it in the news.
This is why I make videos and give you the sources...but NASA is using my information, stealing it, to edit their photo index! That means what I found...is 100% real! And NASA just admitted to it by deleting it!
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.
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.
George Knapp & Luis Elizondo – UFOs: What’s Next?… COAST TO COAST AM 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.”)
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.
This figure shows what TESS data can look like after it’s processed. Each panel was processed differently, but each one shows the same overall result. In this study, a nearby star contaminated the stellar flux data from TOI-4329, so the researchers used data processed in three different ways to strengthen their results. TESS gathered the data over 2.9 days of observations. Image Credit: Grunblatt et al 2022.
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.
The spectrographs onboard the James Webb Space Telescope provide scientists with the data needed to analyze the materials that make up stars, nebulae, galaxies, and planets’ atmospheres. Image Credit: ESA
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.”
Scientists think that gas giants like Jupiter have a deep radiative zone that transfers heat to a convective zone. Over time, the release of heat keeps the planet from inflating. But as a gas giant comes closer to its star, stellar flux can add heat to the planet, causing inflation. Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI
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 Sun sets on Mauna Kea as the twin Kecks prepare for observing. Credit: Laurie Hatch/ W. M. Keck Observatory
“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.
Alien Underground-Phil Schneider True Story. New Documentary by Darcy Weir
Alien Underground-Phil Schneider True Story. New Documentary by Darcy Weir
Alien Underground-Phil Schneider True Story. New Documentary by Darcy Weir
THE UNDERGROUND – A HIDDEN REALITY AND THE TRUE STORY OF PHIL SCHNEIDER BY DARCY WEIR New and Improved Documentary about the mysterious life of Phil Schneider and the claims he made about underground bases built by the government to house Alien technology and secrets.
Phil Schneider died in 1996. Previous to his death he had been on tour across the United States speaking out about various subjects including his involvement with building a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico for the military. During this time, he was said to have had an encounter with a violent E.T race in the late 1970′s which would change his whole life immediately after. This documentary explores some of the information Phil Schneider spoke about to the public in the 1990′s by examining each claim in detail with expert opinions from Richard Dolan, Richard Sauder, and Cynthia Drayer (Phil’s Ex-Wife). In this documentary you will find never before published photos of Phil’s Autopsy, documents about the Philadelphia Experiment from Oscar Schneider’s files (Phil’s father) and a very well explained background about Underground Bases. — Darcy Weir
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!
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Black Object Shoots Past Plane 9-24-2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
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:
We were out on our balcony at our Airbnb in London, UK. We were directly under a flight landing path, and my girlfriend took this video. After examining it later, we noticed at the 25 second mark, something flew by this plane. It went from tail to nose. Left hand side of the video. If you slow it down you’ll see something fly from the bottom left, up toward top left of the screen. Pretty amazing because the plane was right there beside it in the video, and can give you a great scale of the size comparison.
Harvard Professor Explores Does extraterrestrial intelligence exist? UFO Sighting News.
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%.
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Light Over Home At Tupelo, Mississippi 1-17-2022, UFO Sighting News.
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:
Moved slowly through the air with a low humming noise and had a pulsing reddish orange light and the shape of a sphere.
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.
Men in Black Really Exist – A Strange US Air Force Memo Suggests
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.
A Fleet Of UFOs Flew Low Over A Highway In Illinois
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.
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)?
Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes, live in the Southern Ocean.
They are a family of ray-finned fish first described in 1861, with the name meaning 'coming from the south'.
They are found around the Antarctic and have elongated bodies.
They typically have two dorsal fins and grow to up to 85 inches.
Researchers from Germany discovered more than 60 million icefish nests in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
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
'Oasis of life' is discovered beneath Antarctica's Ekström Ice Shelf
Deep beneath the Antarctic ice shelves, the environment is about as harsh as it gets.
Extremely cold, perpetually dark and with food sources almost non-existent, it is not exactly conducive to life, even if Earth is home to some remarkably hardy and resolute creatures that exist in all corners of the world.
But surprisingly scientists have discovered 77 species living there, including evidence that this 'oasis of life' dates back some 6,000 years.
Among them were sabre-shaped moss animals and unusual worms, researchers in Germany found.
Using hot water, the team from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) drilled two holes through nearly 656ft (200 metres) of the Ekström Ice Shelf near Neumayer Station III in the South Eastern Weddell Sea in 2018.
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
Scientific name: Leptonychotes weddellii
Description: Weddell seals are large animals. Both adult males and females are about 3 metres long and weigh around 400–500kg. The head is small relative to body size and the colour is usually dappled grey and black on the back with a mostly white under-belly.
Distribution and abundance:Weddell seals have a circumpolar distribution and are coastal, staying around the fast ice and venturing only 9-12 miles (15–20km) into the Southern Ocean to feed. Weddell seals haul-out onto the fast-ice to rest and moult, and for females to pup.
Weddell seals are incredibly placid sedentary animals. They can be approached without much apparent stress to the animal. When they haul-out they remain close to their access hole on top of the ice. Underwater they remain relatively close to their breeding colonies, usually within 50–100km though occasional migrations of several hundred kilometres do occur, especially by juveniles.
Weddell seals are the most southerly ranging mammal to permanently inhabit the continent. Sightings of the seals have been made in New Zealand and Australia, though they are very rare here.
Threats: The under-ice environment is relatively safe from air breathing predators such as killer whales and leopard seals.
Special adaptations: Because Weddell seals breath air and live under the fast-ice, they must breath through cracks and holes in the ice cover. There are many cracks in the ice during the warmer summer months.
During winter these openings freeze over and Weddell seals use their canine and incisor teeth to rasp open the new ice and so maintain holes through which to breathe.
Conservation status:least concern
Breeding: Weddell seals haul-out onto the stable fast-ice to rest and moult, and for females to pup, returning to the same area each year. Females of 6 years and over give birth in October to 1 pup per year. Pups weigh 25–30kg at birth and mothers care for them for 6 weeks by which time they have grown to 110–140kg. Pups learn to swim and haul-out of the water from 1 week old.
During the breeding season males defend underwater territories from other males for access to breathing holes and females. Both male and female seals vocalise, males may do so to maintain established territories. The only observation of mating (Cline et al, 1971) reported that it took place under water for 5 minutes or more. The male maintained rhythmic body undulations at a rate of 160 per minute.
Diet and feeding:Weddell seals are carnivores. Their food varies with time and location but mid-water (pelagic) and bottom dwelling (benthic) fish, squid, octopus and prawns are common. One seal was repeatedly observed to capture a fish weighing more than 40kg. Weddell seals are very capable divers, remaining under water for up to 45 minutes and reaching depths as great as 720m in search of prey. Lengthy shallow dives are probably exploration dives for new ice holes and food sources.
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.
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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