Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
27-05-2022
Swarm reveals mysterious magnetic waves across Earth’s outer core
Swarm reveals mysterious magnetic waves across Earth’s outer core
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years.
This fascinating finding opens a new window into a world we can never see. This mysterious wave oscillates every seven years and propagates westward at up to 1500 kilometers a year.
Magnetic waves are likely to be triggered by disturbances deep within the Earth's fluid core, possibly related to buoyancy plumes. Each wave is specified by its period and typical length-scale, and the period depends on characteristics of the forces at play. For magneto-Coriolis waves, the period is indicative of the intensity of the magnetic field within the core.
The research team suggests that other such waves are likely to exist, probably with longer periods – but their discovery relies on more research.
Former Area 51 engineer reveals, “In terms of technology, we are working with an alien race.”
Former Area 51 engineer reveals, “In terms of technology, we are working with an alien race.”
A 71-year-old retired engineer has indicated on several occasions throughout his career that he formerly worked for Area 51. In recent interviews, he has revealed that he was there when an extraterrestrial who was being held there was really brought up.
Bill Uhouse was the engineer described before, and as you can see straight away, he knows a lot about what goes on behind the closed doors of Area 51.
He spoke out on several occasions about the extraterrestrial housed there known as “JRod,” but he never received the respect he earnt, and when he passed back in 2009, this planet lost one of the biggest whistleblowers of all time.
A vast subterranean system consisting of extraterrestrial technology can be seen in this image he posted. Area 51 engineers labor diligently to reverse engineer any piece of alien technology they can get their hands on.
The aliens are identified as EBEs, or Extraterrestrial Biological Entities, according to Bill, and a huge percent of them are not humanoid.
The Greys, Tall Northern aliens, and Reptilians are the ones we know about. The Greys are also divided into three groups based on their size: tall Greys, little Greys, and medium Greys.
Bill mentioned in his most recent interview that we had a peace pact between the United States and the United Nations that’s been signed during President Eisenhower’s presidency, which is why we keep them hidden while acquiring more sophisticated technology on a regular basis.
Researchers uncovered ancient urban centres on forested mounds in the Bolivian Amazon Basin.
Credit: Roland Seitre/Nature Picture Library
Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have discovered. Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from the air, they found that, starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres, featuring 22-metre-tall earthen pyramids, that were encircled by kilometres of elevated roadways.
The complexity of these settlements is “mind blowing”, says team member Heiko Prümers, an archaeologist at the German Archaeological Institute headquartered in Berlin.
“This is the first clear evidence that there were urban societies in this part of the Amazon Basin,” says Jonas Gregorio de Souza, an archaeologist at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. The study adds to a growing body of research indicating that the Amazon — long thought to have been pristine wilderness before the arrival of Europeans — was home to advanced societies well before that. The discovery was published on 25 May in Nature1.
A shift in thinking
Humans have lived in the Amazon Basin — a vast river-drainage system roughly the size of the continental United States — for around 10,000 years . Researchers thought that before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, all Amazonians lived in small, nomadic tribes that had little impact on the world around them. And although early European visitors described a landscape filled with towns and villages, later explorers were unable to find these sites.
Source: Ref. 1
By the twentieth century, archaeologists had yet to confirm the rumours, and argued that the Amazon’s nutrient-poor soil was unable to support large-scale agriculture, and that it would have prevented tropical civilizations — similar to those found in central America and southeast Asia — from arising in the Amazon. By the 2000s, however, archaeological opinion was beginning to shift. Some researchers suggested2 that unusually high concentrations of domesticated plants, along with patches of unusually nutrient-rich soil that could have been created by people, might indicate that ancient Amazonians had indeed shaped their environment.
The hypothesis gained steam when, in 2018, archaeologists reported3 hundreds of large, geometric mounds that had been uncovered because of deforestation in the southern Amazon rainforest. These structures hinted at ancient organized societies capable of thriving in one location for years — but direct evidence of settlements was lacking.
In 1999, Prümers began studying a set of mounds in the Bolivian part of the Amazon Basin, outside the thick rainforest. There, a multitude of tree-covered mounds rise above a lowland area that floods during the rainy season.
Previous digs had revealed that these ‘forest islands’ contained traces of human habitation, including the remains of the mysterious Casarabe culture, which appeared around AD 500. During one excavation, Prümers and his colleagues realized that they had found what looked like a wall, indicating that a permanent settlement had once occupied the area. The researchers also found graves, platforms and other indications of a complex society. But dense vegetation made it difficult for them to use conventional methods to survey the site.
What lies beneath
By the 2010s, a technique called lidar — a remote-sensing technology that uses lasers to generate a 3D image of the ground below — had come into vogue with archaeologists. In 2012, a lidar survey of a valley in Honduras helped lead to the rediscovery of an ancient pre-Columbian city rumoured to exist in the area. The jungle had completely overtaken the settlement since it was abandoned in the fifteenth century, making it all but impossible to see from the air without lidar.
Prümers and his colleagues took advantage of lidar in 2019, when they flew a helicopter equipped with the technology over six areas near sites confirmed to have been occupied by the Casarabe people. The team got more than it bargained for, with lidar revealing the size and shape of 26 settlements, including 11 the researchers hadn’t been looking for — a monumental task that would have taken 400 years to survey by conventional means, Prümers says.
Two of the urban centres each covered an area of more than 100 hectares — three times the size of Vatican City. The lidar images revealed walled compounds with broad terraces rising 6 metres above the ground. Conical pyramids made of earth towered above one end of the terraces (see ‘The settlement beneath’). People probably lived in the areas around the terraces and travelled along the causeways that connected the sites to one another.
“We have this image of Amazonia as a green desert — devoid of any type of culture,” Prümers says. But given that civilizations rose and thrived in other tropical areas, he notes, “Why shouldn’t something like that exist here?”
Mysteries remain
Why these settlements were abandoned after 900 years is still a mystery. Radiocarbon dating has revealed that the Casarabe disappeared around 1400.
Prümers points out that lidar images revealed reservoirs in the settlements, perhaps indicating that this part of the world wasn’t always wet — an environmental shift that might have driven people away. However, consistent pollen records reveal4 that maize (corn) was grown in the area continuously for thousands of years, indicating sustainable agricultural practices.
At the very least, the discovery of long-lost Amazonian societies “changes the general perspective people have of Amazonian archaeology”, says Eduardo Neves, an archaeologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Present-day logging and farming in the Amazon Basin are almost certainly destroying important archaeological sites that have yet to be discovered, he says, but a growing interest in Amazonian archaeology could lead to the protection of vulnerable places.
These discoveries also counter the narrative that Indigenous peoples were passive inhabitants of the Amazon Basin before the arrival of Europeans. “The people who lived there changed the landscape forever,” Neves says.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01458-9
UPDATES & CORRECTIONS
Correction 26 May 2022: An earlier version of this story said that there are hundreds of tree-covered mounds rising above a lowland area in the Bolivian Amazon. Some estimates suggest there are many more than that.
References
Prümers, H., Betancourt, C. J., Iriarte, J., Robinson, M. & Schaich, M. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04780-4 (2022).
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
Did this grow from the merger of little black holes to a giant supermassive object called Sagittarius A*? The network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.
We all know that a humongous black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. It’s called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) and it has the mass of 4 million suns. We’ve got to see a radio image of it a few weeks back, showing its accretion disk. So, we know it’s there. Astronomers can chart its actions as it gobbles up matter occasionally and they can see how it affects nearby stars. What astronomers are still trying to understand is how Sgr A* formed.
The answer looks like it involves smaller black holes, especially ones from so-called dwarf galaxies. According to a paper published this past week in The Astrophysical Journal by astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, there’s a whole treasury of them out there. These things are sitting inside many dwarfs and may provide a missing link to the growth of supermassive black holes in larger galaxies.
Massive (and Supermassive) Black Holes and their Lairs
So, let’s dig into this a big more, starting with supermassive black holes. They lurk in the hearts of many, many galaxies. These monsters have millions or billions of solar masses. How did they get to be so big? The answer involves a topic that we see across astronomy and planetary science: hierarchical models. That’s a fancy way of saying that big things are created from smaller things. For example, planets get started as dust grains that stick together to make rocks that slam together to make asteroids that collide to create planetesimals that glom onto each other to make planets.
Galaxy formation has its own hierarchical model, too. What creates one of those stellar cities? Galaxies like the Milky Way started out as a collection of gas in the early Universe. That gas formed stars, which evolved, died, and spread their materials out to help create new generations of stars (and their planets). In many senses, dwarf galaxies are more like the primordial galaxies than they are the evolved spirals and ellipticals. Okay, so we simplified things here to give a look at a complex topic that takes up entire textbooks. And, that’s even before we get to galaxy mergers.
Growing a Big Galaxy from Little Ones
Let’s look at the Milky Way’s past more closely. It has an extensive merger history, going back billions of years. It started as an infant (maybe it was a dwarf) some 14 billion years ago. Other little ones merged with it. Eventually, we got the home galaxy we all know and love today. (And let’s not forget that it will, in fact, merge with the Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years.)
So, those little guys that merged to make the current Milky Way; chances are good some were dwarfs. They’re the little cousins of the big spirals and ellipticals. A typical one has maybe a thousand to a billion stars and sports an irregular shape. Their stars are what astronomers call “metal-poor” (meaning they’re mostly hydrogen and helium). And, these weird little galaxies swarm around some larger ones like fireflies. Sometimes they even get caught and swallowed up.
The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in Gaia’s all-sky view. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The Milky Way has about 20 or so of them orbiting around it. One—the Sagittarius Dwarf—is getting interacting and getting cannibalized as you read this. It’s made the trip through our galaxy numerous times. It seems that dwarf galaxies like this one could have what’s called “growing black holes” as part of their structures. How do we know this? Astronomers found ways to survey the nearby Universe to look for candidate dwarf galaxies with such growing black holes.
Finding Black Holes in All the Small Places
The North Carolina team actually found a number of such dwarfs. It all began when they posed the question: where do supermassive black holes come from? The answer seems to be they grow by collisions with other black holes. That makes sense in a hierarchical model way.
Small stellar-mass black holes could collide, particularly in crowded environments (like a dwarf galaxy or a thickly settled cluster). Eventually, they form more-massive ones. Such “growing black holes” are seen in big, bright galaxies, but what about the dwarfs? Could they have them? If they do, how abundant are they in such small galaxies? And, could they be key to understanding the growth of supermassive black holes?
To get answers to all those questions, a team led by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members Sheila Kannappan and Mugdha Polimera got to work. They analyzed galaxy data from several surveys to hunt for evidence of growing black holes. The team looked for bright emissions like those you’d see indicating star formation or around black hole accretion disks.
Their data came from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, plus the REsolved Spectroscopy of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) and Environmental COntext Catalog (ECO). They found evidence of growing black holes in a significant percentage of dwarf galaxies. These galaxies sometimes get “tossed out” of surveys of brighter, bigger galaxies because their emissions aren’t (or weren’t) well-understood. It turns out, they are a treasure trove for black hole research.
Bright Emissions Reveal Black Holes
The clue was in the strong emissions the regions around those black holes give off. Kannappan compared this black hole discovery to a familiar source of light here in some places on Earth. “Just like fireflies, we see black holes only when they’re lit up—when they’re growing—and the lit-up ones give us a clue to how many we can’t see,” she said. Essentially, Kannapan and the team are talking about dwarf galaxies with active black holes at their hearts (in other words, active galactic nuclei).
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. (Original image by NASA & ESA/Hubble, artistic conception of a black hole with jet by M. Polimera.)
Of course, there are other reasons why a dwarf galaxy could have strong emissions. For example, the dwarfs could have massive spurts of star formation going on. That activity causes bright spectral emissions, too. “We all got nervous,” Polimera said. “The first question to my mind was: Have we missed a way in which extreme star formation alone could explain these galaxies?”
Polimera spent years researching any alternative explanations for these dwarf galaxy AGNs. After excluding all the other possibilities, growing black holes fit the data the best.
Implications for Growing Black Hole Monsters
The discovery of growing black holes in dwarf galaxies brings us back to the Milky Way and its central black hole. Based on the implications of the North Carolina research, Sgr A* very likely grew as our galaxy did. Not only did its past mergers mingle stars, but each dwarf could also have brought along its own growing black hole. They had to go somewhere, right? So, why wouldn’t they gravitate (excuse the pun) to each other to add to the greatness of Sgr A*?
“The black holes we’ve found are the basic building blocks of supermassive black holes like the one in our own Milky Way,” Kannappan said. “There’s so much we want to learn about them.”
UFO Witnessed And REC By Three Different People Miles Apart In the State Of Missouri
Cylinder or Cigar shaped UFO witnessed and recorded by three different people miles apart in the state of Missouri
Cigar Shaped UFO Seen On The TV Show Catfish & Cylindrical Object Sighted Over Massachusetts
Clip one comes from the MTV show Catfish and this black cylindrical shaped UFO was spotted in an insert of season 8, episode 49. This is timelapped footage but i felt that we should take a look at it as it doesn't seem to be a blimp or balloon and i wonder if the people at Catfish spotted this?
To view the original clip: This was in season 8, episode 49 at the 21:08 mark. Thanks to MTV & The guys at Catfish.
Thanks to Victor Escobedo for spotting this...
Clip two was sighted over Norwood in Massachusetts on May 20, 2022 and the witness stated the following " I recorded it during my lunch break last Friday and the clouds weren’t anything special at all when I recorded this actually. I’m that weirdo who is just always randomly filming the sky no matter how uninteresting it may look. Lol. But yesterday I kept getting weather alerts and was so badly hoping for something exciting to happen but the storms didn’t hit where I was. There was a tornado warning for somewhere in Maine all day yesterday, thought that was interesting. I took this video of the clouds then messed w/ the exposure. I don’t know how to circle the spot I’m trying to show you on a video… but it’s on the right hand side of the screen, down by where the tree is, in between two branches."
Thanks to Jillian for allowing me the use of her footage and to view the original:
Hey, I found this is an old NASA index and its a photo taken from the Shuttle Endeavour from the STS113 mission. That was a mission to take support replacement crew to the space station and bring some important parts of the station up. The mission didn't mention any satellites at all, so i know its not a satellite. This object is very strange looking and seems to be following and observing the space shuttle.
Its funny isn't it? How so much evidence exists about UFOs existing, even in the NASA index itself and yet, so much of the public is still wears a blindfold when it comes to the subject and the US gov is the one still holding it there. Trust me, the best is yet to come.
UFO In Thunderstorm, Julbach, Germany May 20, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO In Thunderstorm, Julbach, Germany May 20, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 20, 2022
Location of sighting: Julbach, Germany
Now its not the first time I have ever seen such entities. These kind of entities are energy entities. They don't need a ship to travel it and are only visible at night. Usually they travel in groups, but sometimes they read a persons thoughts who see them and they will travel over the person for a while before leaving. This one is very energized from the static electricity in the air from the storm. It seems to feed on it, returning to the storm to get some more, then leave, and repeating.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I witnessed strange balls or beams of light during a ride back home. i stopped my motorbike to, turned off the lights and it was almost completely dark. a thunderstorm was coming and i thought, it might have been some reflections from somewhere, but even with a strong torch, i should have seen some beam from the ground.
A Lost Primeval World Has Been Found in a Giant South China Sinkhole!
A Lost Primeval World Has Been Found in a Giant South China Sinkhole!
Chinese explorers have discovered a lost world in an exceptionally deep and large sinkhole in south China. And in this ancient subterranean space they expect to find flora and fauna unknown to science.
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, caused by bedrock collapsing in karst terrain that exposes groundwater channels. When we read the word cenote it's normally followed up with a story about Aztec or Maya bodies and artifacts. This is because Mexico and Central America virtually float on underground rivers with thousands of cenotes peppering the landscape. However, this sinkhole story is from China, where an enormous karst sinkhole has recently been discovered containing its own untouched primeval ecosystem.
The 630-foot-deep sinkhole in China with primeval forest in its depths.
Karst terrain describes a landscape where the surface can be dissolved by groundwater circulating through soluble salt beds and carbonate rocks like gypsum and limestone. In China, cenotes are called tiankeng (heavenly pit), and a lost world has been found in a hitherto unknown sink hole near Ping'e village in the county of Leye, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Central China, according to LiveScience.
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region borders Vietnam and is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site . The area is known for its stalactites and stalagmite riddled caves, charging rivers, and towering tooth-like karst formations, and countless sinkholes. According to the Xinhua news agency the latest south China sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep and the interior measures 1,004 feet (306 meters) long and 492 feet (150 meters) wide. This is about half the depth of the deepest water-filled sinkhole on the planet, the El Zacatón sinkhole in northeast Mexico , which is 335 meters (1099 feet) deep.
Exploring Worlds Lost In Time
According to Newsweek this is the 30th sinkhole discovered in this area of China. George Veni, the US executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI), told Live Science the discovery “is no surprise.” Southern China is “karst topography,” said the cave specialist, and he added that the entire region is a “landscape prone to dramatic sinkholes and otherworldly caves.”
Veni explained that rainwater is slightly acidic and that it picks up carbon dioxide as it runs through the soil, becoming even more acidic. It permeates cracks in the bedrock and wears away tunnels which over time create chambers. When these spaces get big enough they collapse and create sinkholes, like the one recently discovered in China. However, where most of the Mexican sinkholes are full of water, the Chinese speleologists and spelunkers discovered ancient trees measuring 131 feet (40 meters) tall in the latest China sinkhole.
People walk across a bridge in the man-made woods in Kashgar, China, which are said to increase drought when non-indigenous trees are used.
Expedition leader, Chen Lixin, told Xinhua that the dense undergrowth on the sinkhole floor was as high as a person's shoulders. And so bizarre was this lost space that Lixin added that he wouldn't be surprised to learn “there are species found in these caves that have never been reported or described by science.” Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology, said the bottom of the sinkhole “seemed like another world.”
Botanists around the world will be waiting with bated breath for news of new tree species, and any such discoveries will perhaps shift focus from China's current íssues with trees. The Gobi Desert and other arid regions in China are expanding because of overgrazing that has depleted border vegetation allowing wind and gravity to erode soils. In response, China has planted 66 billion trees in the past four decades as part of its fight against expanding deserts. Covering an area the size of Ireland every year, these new trees have successfully slowed down China′s deserts.
Notwithstanding, Troy Sternberg, a geographer at the University of Oxford, UK, says “it’s kind of foolish to plant trees in a desert” and that this will worsen water scarcity . A 2019 Nature article explains that most of the billions of trees planted in China “are not native to the regions where they have been planted and they use a lot of water.” This in effect compounds the negative effects of global warming by reducing the available water for human consumption.
Top image: An aerial photo of the giant China sinkhole or tiankeng at Leye-Fengshan Global Geopark, in south China's Guangxi Province, which was huge and is home to an amazing primeval forest. Source: Zhou Hua / Xinhua
70-YEAR-OLD ASTRONOMY PHOTOS MAY BE CLUES TO ALIEN VISITORS — STUDY
70-YEAR-OLD ASTRONOMY PHOTOS MAY BE CLUES TO ALIEN VISITORS — STUDY
The plates, taken prior to the launch of Sputnik, show satellite-like objects near Earth.
ON A SERIES of 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they’ve found something weird: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.
“We found one image where nine stars were out there, and they vanished. And they are not there half an hour earlier, and they are not there six days later,” says Beatriz Villarroel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. “And you wonder, ‘Is this real?’”
There isn’t any readily available astronomical explanation for what these vanishing points of light, which the researchers call transients, might be. The dots might be defects in the photographic emulsions or image artifacts from when astronomers first scanned the plates. But in a series of recent papers, Villarroel and a small team of astronomers have been more seriously probing the possibility that the flashes might be something more exciting — extraterrestrial objects.
A shiny, spinning object passing by Earth would leave a line of dots in a long-exposure image of the night sky. Asteroids or meteors aren’t likely to look like that — most asteroids are dark, and meteors are moving so fast they’d look like streaks. And, most intriguingly for the researchers, there weren’t any satellites in the night sky when the images were taken, as all the plates were before the launch of Sputnik.
Still, Villarroel and colleagues haven’t ruled out Earthly explanations for these tantalizing dots. And there’s a long history of events associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) fizzling out under closer scrutiny.
WHAT THEY FOUND — The disappearing dots that got Villarroel so excited first showed up as part of a search for more mundane astronomical phenomena. There are a number of things in the universe that will shine brightly for a short period and disappear again, like supernovae, actively feeding black holes, flaring stars, and more. But searching for these transient objects is nearly impossible today because of the thousands of satellites and millions of pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth, many of which appear as momentary flashes of light in photos of the night sky.
“The whole sky is filled with multiple transients today from all the space debris,” Villarroel says.
So she and other astronomers turned to photos of the night sky taken before the satellite era. Beginning in the late 19th century, astronomers have undertaken surveys of the night sky, using telescopes and photographic plates to take images of large swaths of the cosmos as seen from Earth. Villarroel used a series of plates from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, which ran from 1949 to 1958 and covered much of the sky as seen from the northern hemisphere, on the hunt for transients.
One of several plates with disappearing point sources. Villarroel et al
Her research is part of the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, which, along with an associated citizen science project, is searching for transient light sources in the night sky. But after looking at the plates carefully, Villarroel and her colleagues noticed something odd: Nine dots of light, all in a line, appeared in just one plate from April 12, 1950. It didn’t look anything like the supernovas and quasars they’d normally find, which appear just as single points.
In a paper published in Scientific Reports in 2021, the scientists take a closer look at the nine transients to see if they could find a more ordinary explanation for them. They ruled out astrophysical explanations, passing airplanes, asteroids, and other known light sources. The dots could have come from contamination caused by nuclear fallout, they say — it was the era of nuclear experimentation, after all. But no known tests happened in 1950. Villarroel and her colleagues hint that that leaves the door open to other explanations. Like, say, extraterrestrial spacecraft.
A second plate with “missing” transients. Villarroel et al
WANTING TO BELIEVE — In two subsequent papers, the researchers take that idea more seriously. In a paper in Acta Astronautica published in 2022, they explore ways to find similar instances of transients in other images, laying the groundwork for future research. And in a paper published in 2022 to the pre-print server the arXiv (meaning it hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet), the researchers detail other instances of transient flashes of light that seem to line up.
Villarroel isn’t saying it’s aliens, of course. “We are very careful when we write our papers, because we are not sure if they are real or not,” she says. “We need to always assume that it is the most boring explanation.”
There are some good reasons to suspect the explanation is indeed more boring, says Paul Horowitz, an emeritus professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard and a member of the ET-hunting PANOSETI project, who was not involved in the study.
He used the Palomar plates earlier in his career, he says, and the presence of odd flashes of light doesn’t surprise him.
“There would be these things that we’d call Kodak stars, which were basically blemishes in the emulsion,” Horowitz says. “Film is full of that kind of stuff. If you look at enough of these, and there’s a lot of them, you’re going to find artifacts.”
He also points out that the object, if there was one, needn’t be in geosynchronous orbit, as Villarroel and her coauthors suggest. Depending on how often it flashes and how long the flashes are, an object could appear as a series of dots in a long exposure at a range of distances, from within Earth’s atmosphere to far beyond our planet. That could mean whatever’s on the plates could also be something launched from Earth.
Animation to show the difference between plates. Villarroel et al
An earthly object might be the best explanation for the flashing lights, Eliot Gillum, the director of optical SETI at the SETI Institute, tells Inverse. While there weren’t any satellites in 1950, the U.S. government had begun testing rockets several years earlier, relying on expertise from ex-Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. after the Second World War. There are several military bases near the Palomar Observatory, Gillum points out, any of which could have been launching rockets by 1950. He says the glints could come from a maneuver known as a roll program or from debris that broke off after launch.
There’s also ample precedent for seemingly wild observations turning out to be far more prosaic. In 1962, two French astronomers were stunned to discover that the stars they were observing were giving off massive flares of potassium, something astronomers had never seen a star do before. But on closer inspection, the “potassium flare stars” were just match heads, which had potassium in them, being lit by astronomers taking a smoke break at the observatory. And more recently, scientists studying Fast Radio Bursts were excited by what appeared to be strange new signals coming from near Earth — only to discover later they were from a microwave warming up the astronomers’ lunches.
Even if the mysterious flashes of light aren’t extraterrestrials, that doesn’t mean we haven’t learned anything, Gillum says. “One of the things that I think is truly great about SETI is that it says, ‘OK, I think I understand all of the science of the things out there, [so] what is on the edge, what is outside of what I understand?’” he says.
Exploring the edges of science could bring new insights — or, sometimes, simple explanations like dust grains that landed on photographic plates seventy years ago. But Villarroel says that if their research rules out an actual object, it suggests an upper limit on the number of extraterrestrial objects that could be near Earth. At one-billionth for every square kilometer of space, the number is tiny — not a great sign for people hoping to find extraterrestrials visiting our solar system.
Villarroel says she hopes to be able to study the Palomar plates themselves — her team had been using scanned images of them — to study the images with a microscope for a better look at the transients. And she’d like to look at images from other sky surveys to see if similar transients appear. It may be that there was indeed something out there on April 12, 1950. But what it was is still a mystery.
Het nieuwe exemplaar van het oude vliegende reptiel, pterosauriër genoemd, was zo’n negen meter lang — ongeveer net zo lang als een schoolbus. Daarmee is het wezen de grootste pterosauriër die ooit in Zuid-Amerika is gevonden. Volgens onderzoekers is het reptiel ouder dan vogels en dus een van de eerste wezens op aarde die zijn vleugels gebruikte om op zijn prooi te jagen.
Paleontologen ontdekten de fossielen van de Thanatosdrakon amaru (letterlijke vertaling: draak des doods) in het Andesgebergte in de westelijke provincie Mendoza in Argentinië. Ze ontdekten dat de rotsen waarin de fossielen van het reptiel zaten zo'n 86 miljoen jaar terug de tijd in gaan. Dat is 20 miljoen jaar voordat een inslag van een asteroïde driekwart van het leven op aarde wegvaagde.
Leonardo Ortiz, projectleider van de zoektocht naar het fossiel, zei dat de nooit eerder vertoonde kenmerken van het fossiel een nieuwe geslachts- en soortnaam vereisten. Daarbij woorden de oude Griekse woorden voor dood (thanatos) en draak (drakon) gebruikt. “Het leek gepast om het zo te noemen”, aldus Ortiz. “Het wezen zag er angstaanjagend uit.”
Vietnam Vet Has Tall White Aliens Contact Experiences via Charles Hall
Vietnam Vet Has Tall White Aliens Contact Experiences via Charles Hall
Charles Hall, a former US Air Force serviceman claims that the U.S. military have had contact with – and worked alongside – the Tall Whites since the Fifties.
In the Sixties, he claims that the ‘shocking’ aliens liked to unwind by donning disguises, including sunglasses, and hitting casinos such as the Stardust, surrounded by CIA handlers.
The Vietnam veteran first published his detailed accounts of his meetings with the Tall Whites as a series of four sci-fi novels, Millennial Hospitality – but then ‘revealed’ that they were true.
He claims that the U.S. military used technologies they traded with the aliens – but did not tell the public as they felt they were not ‘emotionally ready’ for the encounter.
‘In 1964, when I was a weather observer at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, I witnessed interactions between the military and a group of mysterious tall, white, human-like extra-terrestrials,’ he said. ‘Their craft are capable of traveling faster than the speed of light because Einstein was wrong about relativity.’
Hall worked at a former military site near Las Vegas, where he claimed that many of the personnel had met and dealt with Tall Whites – but which has since been disused.
Craft Seen Over Mathews, Alabama On May 24, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Craft Seen Over Mathews, Alabama On May 24, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 24, 2022
Location of sighting: Mathews, Alabama, USA
This is a very exciting white orb moving across the sky in Alabama this week. The object is semi-transparent and seems to be hovering over the area, however fast moving clouds soon hide it. UFOs often mimic the colors around them, for instance, the white clouds are the closest thing to the UFO, thus the white appearance. This has all the signs of a genuine UFO.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
1500 local time, partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Temp 91F. No haze. Observation took place for at least 1 and a half hours by 4 other family members. We all observed the object through binoculars and then through a spotting scope. I tried to see it through my IR binoculars, but with no luck. I am a 49yr old aviation maintenance representative and former U.S Army aviation mechanic/ crew chief.
NASA controllers and astronauts have a conversation about UFOs they witness then NASA cut feed
NASA controllers and astronauts have a conversation about UFOs they witness then NASA cut feed
This older recording not only proves that NASA astronauts do encounter UFOs, but it shows how NASA controls the narrative about UFOs during the STS missions and other space missions.
Normally NASA astronauts follow a "script" and they know exactly what and when to say. These astronaut however were too shocked by something they had never seen before. They forget their "lines" and no longer follows the script, instead a not planned discussion and conversation starts on which one NASA controller tries to save the situation and cut the live feed in an attempt to hide the truth that these astronauts had a couple "visitors" passing by.
Conversation between the astronauts and NASA's control Houston
What a flash...?
What'd say Mark?
I saw alight flash...(unintelligible)...there it is again.
I thought it must have been me...
I said I thought it was my imagination...
I saw it too so it's not...
There's two of them.
There's another one...
What are they?
I think I saw lights flickering in here...
Who'd be taking pictures?
What is this?
It's just gone past in front of us...
Further lights...
Which ones?
I lost surveillance for a second...
but had veillance the whole time...(unintelligible)
Admiral Byrd, Operation High Jump, and a Strange Battle With An Ancient Aliens Race
Admiral Byrd, Operation High Jump, and a Strange Battle With An Ancient Aliens Race
Admiral Byrd’s version and the secret truth of Operation HighJump are told here. A maneuver that concluded in a full-fledged fight with aliens from the Arctic Shelf.
Admiral Richard Byrd, the iconic pilot, headed the project, which was formally designated the United States Navy Antarctic Development Program, that happened between year 1946 and 1947.
Admiral Byrd was famed for going to the North and South Poles and obtaining the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In his writings, which were published at a Nat Geo Convention honoring Byrd, we learn that he was discovered beaten with his teeth pulled out in a warehouse.
Researchers recovered Byrd’s first map of Hollow Earth, which he drew in his notebook during Operation HighJump. This journal, which had been lost for years, contained a detailed description of their Antarctic adventures.
That Journal even claimed to have seen a ship that we able to fly from one pole to the other one in seconds. They were clueless about what they would be in for when they left in August of 1946.
As Byrd’s 13-ship naval squadron, 33 aircraft, and over 5000 soldiers reached Antarctica. A radioman aboard the USS Bronson said he and his shipmates observed for many minutes some bright lights that plummeted approximately 45 degrees into the sky very swiftly while standing on the pilothouse port side, and they couldn’t see the lights since their equipment only ran 250 miles of a straight line.
These have been just the first of Bird’s warnings. Things were going to get a lot worse, and it was coming much too soon.
The objects came up out of the water with amazing velocity, almost as if they were being followed by the devil himself, according to Lieutenant Pilot John Sarson.
He said that everyone was astonished for a second as the creature sat and floated in front of them, beckoning them to make the first move.
That’s when Byrd said it wasn’t on his orders. However, one of the ships opened fire on the UFO. This led to complete chaos, and both sides began trading fire.
It wasn’t long until the losses were too much to bear. Admiral Byrd had lost after a minor fight with the Arctic aliens. Two ships vanished totally, along with a small number of planes and a few unlucky troops.
Admiral Byrd heard a voice in his thoughts after the conflict and everything had calmed down.
This voice was the driving force behind the fleet’s visit to Antarctica.
Admiral Byrd heard voices in his brain six months before the voyage was ever planned, according to the original records.
They sent him a telegram soon after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He took a flight through one of the crevices after hearing the stories again.
This was when he encountered entities he referred to as the Masters or Earth Keepers. They told General Byrd, “You are a man of height.”
They have also added that among his people, he is a hero. They believe what he says. As a result, they’ve sent him a note. Byrd doesn’t realize how powerful the explosives he set off are.
And if they continue along this route, they will have a bleak future. These were some of the things the Masters said.
Byrd, who delivered the message 10 years later, died.
About a century ago, an amazing find was made. A cave under the earth’s surface stored several ancient giants, apparently alive, in some kind of resuscitation capsules.
The history of humanity is extremely complex . They have made us believe that the only possible canon is the one they teach us . However, it is already impossible to deny the existence of giant beings in ancient times.
Sleeping giants in resuscitation pods
Whistleblower Corey Goode claims to have spent decades in different US government secret space operations and programs.
In that time, he witnessed a lot of strange happenings, visited places that he didn’t know existed, which were inaccessible to ordinary people.
According to his account, there are sleeping giants inside underground chambers , in a state of stasis, hidden throughout the world .
He stated that during his downtime in the secret space program tasks, from 1987 to 2007, he constantly checked the information on the “intelligent glass pads” .
This was a Wikipedia type system, to which the personnel of the Solar Warden and other secret space programs had access. There was information about Earth, including ancient finds, extraterrestrial life, and advanced technologies .
Goode claimed to read information about giants that lived on Earth in the remote past. But they are currently “asleep” in capsules, as if hibernating .
One of the most important places related to this is an ancient underground chamber where the Anunnaki were kept in a state of suspended animation.
The popularizer commented that the chamber was built by an “ancient race of builders.” Being the giants that are hibernating the last of their kind .
The veracity of Goode’s claims
Are you waiting for the ideal moment to wake up?
At the time of its disappearance, this civilization had technology that was capable of altering the flow of time . Thousands of years could pass, but for the occupant of the capsules, it would only be minutes.
Many question these statements as Goode did not provide any evidence , beyond his story.
According to him, the smart glass pads also revealed that Abraham Lincoln witnessed one of these hibernating giants. This happened in the ancient mounds that were found in the United States.
This is not entirely wrong. In fact, Lincoln gave a speech in 1848 , at Niagara Falls, where he mentions the giants:
“The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed upon Niagara, as ours do now.”
Obviously, the technology with which these capsules were manufactured is light years away from ours. Therefore, no one has managed to replicate it, despite the fact that it has been present on Earth for thousands of years .
As to the “why” of his hibernation, Goode isn’t entirely sure. However, he believes the answer could lie in the cosmic energies that the solar system is increasingly generating. This is something he says space systems have been keeping a very close eye on.
It is normal to have a certain degree of skepticism in the face of these types of complaints. However, giants are present in our earliest cultures. Our ancestors even reported how they fought against them. Is it possible that some of these specimens are hibernating to wake up at the right time?
In a partial response to a report alleging evidence of several significant anomalies during a recent private astronaut launch that could affect a crew of NASA astronauts launched last month, the space agency has issued a statement denying those claims. However, the same statement simultaneously revealed that SpaceX recently discovered a different problem with a different Crew Dragon spacecraft component during ground testing.
On May 23rd, Space Explored published a report alleging that a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft experienced major issues during Axiom-1, the company’s first all-private astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS). According to sourced info and a possible internal SpaceX memo, some of Dragon’s toxic propellant leaked during the 17-day flight, damaged or weakened parts of its heat shield, and “[caused] dangerously excessive wear upon reentry.” In general, the report appeared to be well-sourced and even alleged that NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) had opened an investigation. Additionally, when approached for comment, neither NASA nor SpaceX were initially willing to speak on the record, which also meant that neither denied the accusations.
A day later, NASA provided an official statement to Space Explored explicitly denying that there has been any propellant leak, heat shield contamination, or excessive heat shield wear on any of “Dragon’s recent crew reentries.”
NASA also dismissed concerns about the reuse of a previously-flown Cargo Dragon 2 heat shield structure on Crew-4, which launched just two days after Axiom-1’s recovery and is scheduled to spend four to five more months in orbit. It also noted that the reuse of Dragon’s heat shield tiles – the structures that take the brunt of most reentry heating and are immersed in salt water after every mission – is extremely limited and has only been attempted on occasional Cargo Dragon missions.
Simultaneously, NASA revealed that “a new heat shield composite structure intended for flight on Crew-5 did not pass an acceptance test” at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California Dragon factory. The unrelated test failure was blamed on a manufacturing defect and NASA betrayed no sign of serious concern in its statement, suggesting that the problem may be less serious than it sounds. In response, NASA says SpaceX will simply use a different heat shield composite structure for Crew-5, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than (NET) September 2022.
The data associated with Dragon’s recent crew reentries was normal – the system performed as designed without dispute. There has not been a hypergol leak during the return of a crewed Dragon mission nor any contamination with the heat shield causing excessive wear. SpaceX and NASA perform a full engineering review of the heat shield’s thermal protection system following each return, including prior to the launch of the Crew-4 mission currently at the International Space Station. The heat shield composite structure (structure below the tile) was re-flown per normal planning and refurbishment processes. The thermal protection system on the primary heat shield for Crew-4 was new, as it has been for all human spaceflight missions. SpaceX has only demonstrated reuse of selected PICA (Phenolic-Impregnated Carbon Ablator) tiles, which is a lightweight material designed to withstand high temperatures, as part of the heat shield on cargo flights.
NASA and SpaceX are currently in the process of determining hardware allocation for the agency’s upcoming SpaceX Crew-5 mission, including the Dragon heat shield. SpaceX has a rigorous testing process to put every component and system through its paces to ensure safety and reliability. In early May, a new heat shield composite structure intended for flight on Crew-5 did not pass an acceptance test. The test did its job and found a manufacturing defect. NASA and SpaceX will use another heat shield for the flight that will undergo the same rigorous testing prior to flight.
Crew safety remains the top priority for both NASA and SpaceX and we continue to target September 2022 for launch of Crew-5.
ome oddities do remain. While NASA’s explicit refutation should be taken as the definitive final word on the matter, it’s still very unusual that NASA and SpaceX refused or were unable to quickly and publicly deny the claims within a few hours of being asked. That could simply be a consequence of NASA and SpaceX’s poor internal and external communication or both parties’ love for withholding information from taxpayers about systems and technologies that those same taxpayers have paid for.
Axiom-1 was recovered without (reported) issue on April 25th.
(Axiom Space)
Less than two weeks later, after greenlighting SpaceX’s Crew-4 NASA astronaut launch two days after Axiom-1’s recovery, NASA allowed SpaceX to return four Crew-3 astronauts to Earth with a third Crew Dragon. (SpaceX)
On the opposite hand, after Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 run-in with greater-than-expected heat shield wear in 2020, it’s almost impossible to imagine that NASA and SpaceX would have proceeded with Crew-4’s launch two days after Axiom-1’s recovery without confidently verifying that heat shield erosion was within normal bounds. SpaceX’s upgraded Phenolic-Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA-X) Dragon heat shield tiles are reportedly designed to erode [PDF] less than a centimeter of their circa-2017 ~7.5 cm (3 in) thickness after each reentry. Musk has gone even further, stating in 2012 that “[PICA-X] can potentially be used hundreds of times for Earth orbit re-entry with only minor degradation each time.” If true, it would be extremely difficult for even a brisk post-flight inspection of Axiom-1’s Dragon capsule to miss what Space Explored described as “dangerously excessive wear.”
In theory, during recovery, even a minute propellant leak should have also been immediately detected by SpaceX’s recovery team, as the very first part of the hands-on process involves a small team with gas masks and detectors approaching the floating capsule to ensure that it’s safe for others to approach. Crew Dragon’s liquid monomethylhydrazine (MMH) fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide (NTO) oxidizer are highly toxic in small quantities and MMH is a known carcinogen.
All told, news of a potential propellant leak and anomalous heat shield performance appears to have been a false alarm, although – coincidentally or not – a seemingly minor anomaly with an unflown Crew Dragon heat shield structure did occur earlier this month. Despite that anomaly, Crew-4 and Crew-5 are otherwise proceeding nominally and NASA appears to be content with Crew Dragon’s performance during several recent launches and recoveries.
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