Beautiful Petroglyphs Discovered in Venezuela Give Hints of Ancient Culture

A newly recorded set of rock carvings in Venezuela’s Monagas state is being described as potentially among the country’s oldest known examples of rock art, with an estimated age ranging from 4,000 to 8,000 years. The petroglyph panel - marked by spirals, concentric circles and human-like forms - was located in a highland area of the Quebrada Seca community in Cedeño, and local officials are now pushing for formal certification and protection, reports Heritage Daily. If the early age range holds up under scientific study, the discovery could reshape how researchers think about early symbolic traditions in eastern Venezuela. 

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Monagas is not the only Venezuelan region producing major rock-art headlines, and comparison cases can help frame what is plausible. In 2024, archaeologists working in Canaima National Park reported dozens of rock art sites featuring pictograms and petroglyphs, with some discussion around the possibility of an as-yet poorly understood cultural tradition in that landscape, explains Live Science. While that research focuses on a different region of the country, it underlines how much remains undocumented and how quickly a new find can expand the map. 

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Historic photo of petroglyph located in Acequias, town of Barinas state, in Venezuela. (Annel Mejías Guizavia 

/Public Domain)

Protection, Tourism—and the risk of losing the evidence

In the short term, the bigger story may be what happens next: documentation, dating, and whether the site can be safeguarded before weathering or people do damage. That urgency is familiar to anyone who follows petroglyph finds globally, where the moment a location becomes widely known can also be the moment it becomes vulnerable. 

Local authorities say their immediate goal is to geolocate and safeguard the site, explicitly citing vandalism prevention, while also developing an “archaeological route” tied to sustainable tourism. The balance of public access versus conservation is delicate, because even light touching, chalking, or repeated foot traffic can accelerate deterioration. Monteverde has also indicated plans to meet with cultural authorities, including Venezuela’s national cultural heritage bodies, to formalize certification steps reports Últimas Noticias.

The wider Orinoco basin offers a reminder of both the scale of Venezuela’s rock art and the long timelines involved. A major 2024 study of monumental engravings along the Orinoco, discussed by Smithsonian Magazine, documented numerous large figures—snakes, animals, and human forms—and argued that visibility and placement may have mattered as much as the images themselves. Even though those Orinoco carvings are thought to be around 2,000 years old, their prominence shows how rock art could function as communication in a river landscape. 

• Top image: Petroglyphs engraved on boulder in Venezuela’s Monagas state.
• Source: Últimas Noticias

By Gary Manners

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21-02-2026 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

This Man Claims There Are Multiple Bases on the Moon – Including a Massive Ancient Ark – and People Living There Who Look Like Indians from Ancient India, Flying Egg-Shaped Crafts

By Vicky Verma

He had previously shared stories anonymously under the name “JP” with ufologist Dr. Michael Salla, who documented them in books.Pabon says he is coming forward now at great personal risk to himself and his family, but he has received a “green light” from certain people connected to Washington to speak about specific topics.

He served as a 91J (quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer), worked with water purification, and was often used as a translator because he speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and some other languages

He was attached to the 7th Special Forces Group (though he makes clear he was not a Green Beret himself; he calls himself a “Red Beret” paratrooper) and reached the rank of E-4.

He says lower-ranking soldiers like him were usually the ones sent on the actual missions, while higher-ranking officers stayed in secure locations.

Before joining the military, Pabon lived in Orlando, Florida, where he cleaned pools, installed security cameras, and made music. He started taking photos of UFOs around 2007–2008, including triangular TR3B craft and cigar-shaped objects.

Mysterious men in tactical gear (sometimes wearing balaclavas) would approach him in white vans or trucks and tell him exactly when and where to look up to photograph the craft.

He calls these men “white hats” who wanted the information to get out. At the same time, other groups of armed men would pick him up, interrogate him, and tell him to stop sharing photos.

After he sent a TR3B photo to Dr. Michael Salla and it got media attention, he lost his job. The “good” men then encouraged him to join the Army so the harassment would stop. He joined at age 34, and the military changed his life for the better.

 Jorge Pabon.

Credit: Redacted/YouTube

Pabon describes secret missions he took part in while in the Army. He was part of multinational teams that included U.S. special forces from different branches, as well as people from other countries.

On these missions, they wore black tactical gear and were transported by helicopters or Ospreys to large Navy ships that could partially submerge to hide.

From there, they went underwater to visit enormous ancient “ark” ships, massive structures the size of three football stadiums or larger, that have been on Earth for hundreds of thousands or possibly millions of years.

He visited one near the Bermuda area off Florida, and says there are others scattered around the world’s oceans, including near Puerto Rico, south of Hawaii near California, south of India, between Venezuela and Puerto Rico, in the Arctic, and in Antarctica.

These arks are alive; they have a consciousness, give off a pleasant smell like hay mixed with algae and vanilla, and feel like they have a heartbeat.

Tall, blonde Nordic extraterrestrials now control them. Inside, there are different departments and rooms, and some areas connect to underground cities where humans and Nordics live and work together. These cities are multi-layered but smaller than major cities like New York, and they function more like bases without children.

Pabon says he was chosen for missions because he seems to have a natural ability to call down or communicate with UFO craft, possibly through prayer or meditation. He has seen UFOs appear at conferences where he speaks, and his wife and children have also witnessed craft.

He describes seeing Nordics training pilots from Artemis Accords countries in Alabama inside a cavern, using flying-saucer-shaped vehicles. He has also seen “ant people” (beings with big eyes and dreadlock-like hair that live underground, similar to stories from Hopi Indians) and, from a distance, one gray alien during a strange mission involving moving large amounts of gold.

He believes the U.S. has very advanced technology—hundreds of years ahead—including anti-gravity propulsion, space-time manipulation, and quantum technology, much of it developed through cooperation with friendly extraterrestrials like the Nordics. He says many UFO sightings today are actually human-made craft using this borrowed technology, though some are still extraterrestrial. Countries work together secretly on these programs despite public rivalries.

He mentions opposition to disclosure. There are “dark forces” (not the regular military or defense contractors) that do not want this information out, possibly because of old unbreakable contracts. He has been threatened at gunpoint and even kicked in the face by aggressive people using advanced craft for bad purposes. Still, he believes disclosure is coming soon, possibly in phases, and that 2026 could be a key year.

Multiple Moon Bases

He speaks openly about his one remembered trip to a moon base, advanced healing technology called medbeds, Stargates and jump rooms for instant travel, and the spiritual side of everything he has witnessed.

Pabon says there are multiple bases on the moon, including at least one large ancient ark similar to the ones he described under Earth’s oceans in part one.

This ark is partly visible on the surface but mostly underground, located somewhere between the near side and the far side (he cannot give the exact spot). Many countries are involved in moon operations.

He reveals that there are people living on the moon who look Indian, with dark skin and traditional Indian features. They are highly spiritual, combine advanced technology with their spiritual traditions, and fly egg-shaped craft.

These craft are connected to ancient Indian culture (he mentions vimanas from old texts). Pabon believes these moon inhabitants sometimes visit Earth and that the U.S. has recovered some of their egg-shaped ships in crash retrievals0

One of these beings, whom he calls “Lovent,” once picked him up in an egg-shaped craft. He says the egg-shaped UFO shown in a recent NewsNation report about a crash retrieval looks almost identical to the ones he has seen.

He remembers being transported to the moon only once, in a group with other military personnel and civilians, aboard a craft similar to triangular TR3B craft. The trip caused him to black out, and when he woke up, they were already there.

The craft flew into an ancient volcanic tunnel lined with beautiful copper-like material. Inside the moon base, the air is thin but breathable and feels refreshing, similar to high altitude on Earth.

There is a lot of crystallized water on the moon, and advanced technology extracts oxygen from it. The base has newer sections built by humans (possibly in cooperation with Nordics) and older parts that look like ancient Roman-style structures built into large caverns.

The moon itself makes a constant humming sound, almost like an engine. Pabon believes the entire moon is alive or is actually a huge ancient craft that has been parked there for a very long time.

He wonders if it could be moved closer to Earth to cause massive waves or resets of civilization, though he stresses he is not trying to spread fear.

While on the moon, his job was mainly to provide security. He says missions often use lower-ranking soldiers who have already had contact experiences because these things become normal to them. He did not see everyday facilities like bathrooms or cafeterias; everyone took special pills beforehand that seemed to handle bodily needs. The visit felt fast-paced, lasting maybe a few hours.

Pabon talks about portal technology for instant travel. He has seen large Stargates big enough for ships to pass through and smaller “jump rooms” that make a person feel dizzy and nauseous before they suddenly appear somewhere else. He believes some are located at major U.S. Air Force bases like Eglin (possibly also linked to the new Space Force headquarters in Alabama). At one Stargate facility, he encountered aggressive “bad people” who act like guards and punish anyone who looks up or steps out of line.

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A major part of the interview focuses on medbeds, advanced healing devices far beyond current medicine.

Pabon personally used one at Eglin Air Force Base. He lay in a capsule filled with a sticky gel connected to wires, unable to move from the neck down. Blood was taken, and he blacked out for part of the time.

Afterward, he felt dramatically better, almost like he could run two miles in 12 minutes again. He says the technology is borrowed from extraterrestrials but can also be dangerous if misused, which is why it is not released to the public yet.

When the time comes, it will be rolled out slowly through different companies specializing in certain conditions, and people may need preparatory medications or vaccines first. There are medbeds on the moon base as well.

He mentions other advanced technologies, including devices that can transfer consciousness (like in the movie Avatar) and healing “salamander wands” that can regrow missing limbs.

He once tried to build a healing wand at home after receiving instructions from a Nordic being, but unknown people broke into his house and stole everything. The same thing happened to an Air Force friend who builds technology.

Pabon briefly talks about travel beyond the moon. He has memories or dreams of seeing Jupiter and the rings of Saturn up close. He says a multinational company (not just the U.S.) mines materials from Saturn’s rings and other places in the solar system.

He defends the Apollo astronauts, saying they really went to the moon but on missions different from what was publicly shown, focused on making connections rather than just planting flags or driving rovers.

He loves the military, calls joining the best decision of his life, and says he is not a whistleblower but someone given permission to share certain parts of his story. He believes full disclosure will happen in stages and that love and spirituality are the most important messages people should take from all of this.

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21-02-2026 om 22:01 geschreven door peter  

This Man Claimed that in 1994 he Met a Blue, Crocodile-Eyed ‘Alien’ in a Military Uniform

He was born in England to an English mother and a U.S. Army Green Beret father, and later lived in Japan, Massachusetts, Germany, and California because of his father’s military assignments.

At about age 10 in San Jose, Jason says he saw a red light come down from the sky, turn into a silver, mercury-drop-shaped object about the size of a camper, hovering just above his friend’s house, silently and very close. He watched it move under a streetlight, then shoot up, orbit briefly with another light, and then one of them streaked across the sky faster than a shooting star; his mother saw part of this with him, and his friend later reported his TV flickering and a humming sound. This sighting led Jason to read “Chariots of the Gods” and become interested in ancient aliens for a while, but as a child, he mostly returned to normal life, sports, and friends, without making UFOs a central focus.

Jason joined the U.S. Air Force in the mid‑1980s, partly influenced by his father but following his father’s advice not to join the Army or Marines; his father wanted him to learn a trade, so Jason chose the Air Force for its technical skills and later used it to earn a bachelor’s degree. He first worked as an airframe repair specialist on large aircraft like C‑130s and KC‑135s, fixing structural cracks, landing gear tracks, and rivets, before being retrained in signals intelligence due to overmanning in his original field.

As a signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist, Jason monitored telecommunication signals on U.S. military installations, which required strong privacy training because he was listening to Americans, and he had to report threats like planned violent crimes to investigative agencies. He says his work expanded from radios to satellite communications, cell phones, and computer traffic over time, and during Desert Storm, he and his team intercepted information about Iraqi civil engineers being moved, which led to changing U.S. plans to protect those engineers from ambush while they dealt with oil-filled burn pits.

After Germany and Desert Storm, Jason requested western locations like Nevada, Hawaii, or Colorado, and was assigned to Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, living in North Las Vegas. At Nellis, he trained other SIGINT analysts and also received special prototype training to cross over into electronic intelligence (ELINT), working with radar data—this is how he met his future wife, who was an ELINT “scope dope” assigned to the same unit and trained him.

Jason took part in “Red Flag” exercises at Black Mountain and the wider Nevada Test and Training Range, staying for two‑week rotations in small towns like Beatty and Tonopah rather than commuting daily from Las Vegas. He describes how, while training at Black Mountain, people casually pointed across the desert toward the Groom Lake range and talked about “Dreamland” and UFO rumors, which was his first time really hearing those stories in that context.

A few months after arriving in Nevada, Jason and several other analysts were quietly approached by colleagues and told they were being considered for a special access program (SAP) located at Groom Lake. They were asked if they would submit to a full‑scope (lifestyle) polygraph, which probes their entire life history for trustworthiness; Jason agreed, saying he had nothing to hide, and took the polygraph alongside a scientist who was also being onboarded.

After passing, Jason got a call on a Friday telling him to pack his bags without being told the destination, and the next day, he was picked up at his dorm, driven to a special secure part of McCarran Airport, and put on an unmarked “Janet” type flight with other personnel. He noticed that boarding and deplaning were unusually orderly, with no crowding or rushing, and upon arrival, he watched a mandatory security video that introduced the program name, rules, and general mission without openly mentioning aliens.

Jason also notes that he had heard of Bob Lazar in the media but did not know or care about Lazar’s claims while he was actually working at Groom Lake; Lazar had nothing to do with his assignment or chain of command.

 1994 Red Flag exercise near Black Mountain

Jason explains that he and his team were driving in a convoy toward Quartz Mountain, with his truck in the lead. He sat in the back seat behind the driver, with another man in the front passenger seat and a young woman sitting to Jason’s right in the back. They always traveled with at least two vehicles behind them so that if one broke down, the others could help.​

As they drove, Jason saw a man in a standard battle  dress  uniform (BDU), just like his own, standing on the left side of the road about a football field away. When the man noticed their vehicle, he started running toward them in a strange way, leaning forward as if he were falling or pushing against a strong wind. At first, Jason thought he was just another soldier in trouble, not.

As they got closer, Jason noticed that the man’s skin had a light blue tint, like someone who is very cold and hypothermic, not a dark or bright blue, but a pale bluish tone under normal skin color. Jason’s first thought was that the man was freezing and needed help, not that he was anything non‑human. When the stranger was only a few feet from the vehicle, and they were slowing down, the man in the front passenger seat suddenly shouted, “He’s got no ears,” meaning there were no ears at all on the sides of his head.​

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Jason at first thought this comment was rude because he assumed the man was suffering and needed medical help. He quickly opened his door and started taking off his jacket, intending to wrap it around the stranger to warm him up. As Jason stepped onto the road, shut the door, and looked at the figure from very close range—about three feet—he saw clearly that the being had no ears, eyes roughly twice the normal human size, and that same blue tint to the skin. At that instant, he felt a strong surge of fear, like a jolt of adrenaline, and thought, “Oh crap, this does not look human.”

Jason says that when he and the being locked eyes, it felt like looking into the eyes of a crocodile or suddenly seeing a rattlesnake; his primal fear spiked even though the being was not attacking him. He describes it as meeting a sentient creature he could not explain, similar to the shock of seeing a huge whale underwater the first time you scuba dive, but without knowing what this “whale” actually was. Despite his fear, the situation changed when the being began to communicate with him, which calmed him somewhat because Jason had to focus on the conversation.​

The being spoke out loud in a language that sounded to Jason like Norwegian or some northern European language, not English. Jason did not understand the spoken words themselves, but at the same time, he clearly received the meaning in his mind, as if the being was speaking telepathically in parallel. Jason says he could understand everything: the being telling him that his craft was damaged and that he needed material to repair it. (it is unclear what the material name was, but many interpreted Jason as pronouncing something like “tintillium/trintillium”)

Jason then pointed in the direction of “Dreamland,” meaning the Groom Lake/Area 51 complex, and said those people might have advanced metals and high‑tech material that could help. As soon as he mentioned them, Jason felt a strong telepathic wave of disgust from the being, as if the being considered those people primitive or barbaric and wanted nothing to do with them.​

Jason confirms he was speaking normally in English, not just thinking, and the being seemed to understand him perfectly. He compares the language effect to speaking Spanish out loud to someone while the listener simultaneously hears perfect English in their mind via Duolingo—one channel is foreign sounds, the other is clear meaning. The being continued talking in its unknown spoken language, while Jason kept understanding the content telepathically.​

During the exchange, Jason occasionally glanced back at h is teammates in the vehicle. He says they looked “zonked,” like zombies, sitting motionless and staring blankly, similar to people who have been stunned in the Men in Black movies. Their expression was so odd that Jason almost found it comical, but he also recognized something was very wrong because they were not reacting to what was happening just outside the vehicle.​

Jason notes that the driver might have started to roll the window down at first, but likely rolled it back up when he saw Jason opening his door, wanting to keep the cold air out. Jason is not certain about the exact position of the window, because his attention was on the being and the conversation rather than the small details in the car. He says the entire interaction with the being could not have lasted more than about five minutes, though it felt intense and full of sensory input.​

At some point, Jason clearly realized, “Holy ****, I’m talking to an alien,” especially after he understood that the being was using an unknown language with a telepathic overlay and after noting that the being’s appearance was completely non‑human. He stresses that he has never before or since had someone speak to him in a foreign language while he simultaneously understood them telepathically in his own language. That combination of physical strangeness and telepathic communication convinced him he was dealing with a non‑human intelligence.​

The craft itself was parked off the road in the desert, about 50 yards from where Jason and the being stood. Jason says he looked to his left as he exited the vehicle and saw it clearly in profile. The craft had a bulbous, egg‑shaped cockpit, white in color, roughly comparable in size to the cockpit of a modern fighter jet, and seemingly able to hold about two occupants. Attached to the back of this cockpit was a flat, black, pancake‑like “egg” about a foot to a foot and a half thick, sticking out where the tail of a helicopter would normally be.​

Jason compares the overall shape to certain helicopters that have a large, rounded canopy where the pilots sit, except this craft had that big,ig rounded section plus the black disk at the rear and no wings or propellers visible. He emphasizes that, as part of Red Flag exercises, he and his colleagues were familiar with every type of aircraft in the U.S. inventory and many foreign allied aircraft, including bombers and fighters. He is confident this craft matched none of them and was unlike anything they were trained on or saw during the exercises.​

Jason says he could take people back to the exact location on that road and point out the spot where the craft sat, probably within about ten feet. He remembers the spot very clearly on the route toward Quartz Mountain. As the conversation continued, Jason ran out of helpful ideas; after being reacted with disgust to the Groom Lake suggestion, Jason told him the only other possibility he could think of was a geophysics professor he knew at the community college in downtown Las Vegas, who might have access to metals or specialists.​

When Jason mentioned the professor, the being accepted this as a possible option and said something like “OK” in response. Shortly after that, the conversation ended; Jason did not want to stay any longer and also felt they had reached the limits of what he could do to help. The being then walked back to his craft, entered it, and the craft lifted off.​

Jason describes the takeoff sound as a strange noise, somewhat like a squeaking fan belt in a car, but not very loud. The craft rose straight up from its position, then began moving horizontally while rising in a kind of stair‑step pattern rather than a smooth line, which Jason thinks could be due to the damage the being had mentioned, especially affecting the vertical flight system. The craft flew south‑southeast across the range, in a direction roughly toward Las Vegas, and eventually passed out of sight.​

After the craft left, Jason got back into the vehicle. At that moment, his teammates seemed to “come to”: their faces no longer looked zoned out, and they suddenly acted normal again. No one said, “What the hell was that?” or reacted the way Jason expected after such an extraordinary event. When he asked them directly if they had seen what just happened, they all said no.​

Jason felt this was strange, and he sensed that at least the ranking driver did remember something, because that man firmly said no and added that they should not talk about it. Jason took this as a sign that the senior man had seen enough to be frightened or concerned and wanted the subject shut down. He thinks it is likely that some of the people in the car, maybe all of them except him, experienced “lost time” or had their awareness switched off during the main part of the encounter.​

Jason explains “lost time” as a gap in memory where a section of time disappears, either because of a physical blow to the head or, in many abduction stories, because the beings have a way to turn off a person’s consciousness. He mentions reports where car radios and electronics shut down around craft, and afterwards, witnesses realize more time has passed than they remember, even though it felt like nothing happened. Jason believes something like this may have affected his teammates and may also connect to his own later missing time that day.​

He then continues the story to describe what happened after they reached Black Mountain. The convoy proceeded as scheduled; they had to arrive at a set time to power up their equipment and start their operational work, so outwardly, everyone focused on the mission. Jason, however, drove in shock, silently replaying the encounter in his head and thinking, “Holy crap, what just happened?”​

At Black Mountain, they set up their gear, worked through the mission, and then later returned to their hotel. Jason says that only the ranking man seemed to recall any part of it, because he was the only one willing to acknowledge anything when Jason tried to talk to him later. Around lunchtime that same day at Black Mountain, Jason felt a very strong, strange urge to eat his lunch outside even though it was extremely cold.​

He followed this feeling, took his lunch, and walked down the road from the Black Mountain site about 100 to 150 feet. He remembers walking down the road—and then his memory simply stops. That is where his own missing time begins: he has no recollection of what happened after walking that short distance away from the main site.

Post-Alien Encounter

Years later, in 2022, Jason says he was asked by people associated with the UAP Task Force to contact the other men from the car to corroborate the event. He reached out to one former colleague, who initially replied warmly, but when Jason mentioned “remember that day back in ’94, that UFO,” the man never responded again and effectively ghosted him.​

Jason interprets this as either fear, unwillingness to revisit traumatic or sensitive material, or pressure to remain silent, although he cannot know the exact reason. He states he is willing to take a polygraph specifically about this UFO encounter and his Groom Lake experiences because he considers himself an honest person and believes he is telling the truth as he remembers it.

He mentions that he has spoken privately, in more detail, to a very small number of trusted people and that some of what he told them included references to operations that could be interpreted as involving non‑human intelligences (NHI), but he stresses he is still trying to sort out what is memory, what is nightmare, and how his mind might have protected him by altering or hiding details.​

Jason repeatedly acknowledges that claims about missing time, UFO craft at Black Mountain, and any implication of being ordered to harm an NHI sound unbelievable and can severely damage his credibility. He says his hesitation and emotional reaction are partly because he knows how bad this sounds, even “if it’s true,” and he does not want these aspects to be used to dismiss his documented military career and more conventional intelligence work.​

At the same time, he emphasizes that his life story, service record, positions of trust, and multiple polygraphs show that he has generally been considered reliable and responsible within the system. Jason’s current stance is that he stands by what he has described about his UFO encounter and his involvement in a Groom Lake SAP, but he draws a line on discussing the most extreme alleged incidents until he and his psychiatrist can fully unpack them, out of concern for both truth and his own mental health.

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21-02-2026 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

This Man Behind the Documentary “The Age of Disclosure” Claims Donald Trump Might Be the One to Confirm the Existence of Aliens

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21-02-2026 om 21:18 geschreven door peter  

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21-02-2026 om 20:53 geschreven door peter  

When President Trump posted on his Truth Social website Thursday evening that he was directing the government to release records tied to aliens and UFOs, understandably, the reaction was immediate excitement, speculation, and a fresh wave of “disclosure” chatter across social media.

However, buried in the adrenaline rush of the government revealing its UFO secrets is a quieter—and far more consequential—detail. President Trump’s statement, as written, does not clearly order the declassification of any such records (if they exist).

So, is Trump really set to release all existing alien and UFO files? Not so fast.

A Review and Release Effort?

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” President Trump wrote.

The President’s statement reads more like a directive to begin a review-and-release effort—an important distinction in a national security system where “release” is often conditional, redacted, delayed, or quietly denied.

Similarly, Trump’s phrasing—to begin the process”—matters. It implies bureaucracy and coordination. It does not explicitly say, “These records are now declassified.”

President Trump’s post, then, may be less a sudden opening of the vault than a signal that the government is being told to look for material it can safely put out—on a timeline and through a process controlled by the same agencies that have long treated UAP information as sensitive.

The gap between the headline-grabbing word “release” and the legal action behind “declassify” is the pivot point in the story, because without an explicit declassification order, any disclosure is likely to arrive slowly, selectively, and heavily shaped by national security concerns.

And the timing only heightens the confusion, given that Trump’s directive follows a recent surge of presidential alien talk—first from former President Barack Obama, then from Trump himself.

Obama’s viral “aliens are real” moment—and Trump’s Air Force One reaction

Former President Obama recently went viral after telling podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.” The remark, delivered in a speed-round tone, ricocheted online—especially among audiences primed by years of congressional UAP hearings, leaked military videos, and renewed public debate about what the government may be sitting on.

Days later, Obama walked back the remark, clarifying on Instagram, “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”

The viral moment was also amplified by fresh intrigue within Trump’s orbit. On the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump suggested she believes the president has a prepared address he’s saving for later, saying: “There is some speech that he has, that I guess at the right time, I don’t know when the right time is, he’s going to break out and talk about and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life.”

​Pressed on Wednesday about Lara Trump’s claim, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said she was unaware of any such plans, calling the idea “very exciting” and of “great interest,” but adding that a speech on aliens was “news to me.”

Yet, rather than brushing off the new wave of alien talk, President Trump appeared to pour fuel on it. During a Q&A with reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday, framing Obama’s original quip as if it were an accidental national security leak.

“He gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump told Fox News’s Peter Doocy,  before adding that he might “get him out of trouble by declassifying.”

The entire sequence was tailor-made for the modern UFO information ecosystem. A viral soundbite and walk-back by a former President, whispers of a coming “alien speech,” and a sitting President hinting at secrecy.

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21-02-2026 om 20:39 geschreven door peter  

Ook geen maanmissie in maart voor Artemis II, technische problemen gooien roet in eten

Maanmissie Artemis II zal zeker niet in maart plaatsvinden. Dat heeft NASA-baas Jared Isaacman zaterdag bekendgemaakt. Hij liet weten dat technische problemen met de SLS-raket de oorzaak zijn van het uitstel.

De problemen werden in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag door NASA-teams vastgesteld. Het gaat om een storing in de heliumtoevoer in een van de trappen van de raket, specificeerde Isaacman.

"Wat de mogelijke oorzaak van de storing ook is, deze problemen zullen het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap dwingen de raket terug te sturen naar de assemblagehal, waardoor de geplande lancering in maart niet doorgaat", legde hij uit op X.

Vrijdag nog had NASA aangekondigd dat het streefde naar een lancering op zijn vroegst 6 maart, na een grote test die succesvol leek te zijn verlopen.

Eerder waren er ook al technische problemen opgedoken waardoor de startdatum in februari moest uitgesteld worden.

Het huidige startvenster voor Artemis II loopt tot april. Met deze missie wil NASA voor het eerst sinds 1972 weer mensen richting de maan sturen. Later moeten ook bemande maanlandingen volgen.

De immense wit-oranje raket is bijna 100 meter lang. De bedoeling is dat de raket vier astronauten, drie Amerikanen en een Canadees, in een baan rond de maan zal brengen.

In het kader van de Artemis II-missie moeten de ruimtevaarders voorbereidende werken uitvoeren voor de volgende missie (Artemis III). Die staat gepland voor 2027. De bedoeling van Artemis III is om astronauten opnieuw op het maandoppervlak te doen landen, waar ze een permanente menselijke aanwezigheid moeten uitbouwen.

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21-02-2026 om 20:07 geschreven door peter  

Top-secret Air Force jet spotted near Area 51 hours after Trump demands UFO files

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Just hours after President Donald Trump called for the release of UFO files, a top-secret Air Force jet was spotted near Area 51 on Friday morning.

Flight tracking data shows a Boeing 737-600, known as 'Janet,' departing from Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas's main airport, at 4.06am PT (7.06am ET).

The jet headed toward the Tonopah Test Range, an area closely linked to Area 51 within Nevada’s Nellis Range Complex. Both highly classified sites are testing secret aircraft and advanced weapons.

Area 51 has long been rumored to host crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft and other mysterious technologies, leading some to speculate that Friday's flight may be tied to Trump's announcement. 

The president directed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to release government files related to aliens and UFOs after criticizing former President Barack Obama for allegedly confirming their existence on a podcast.

'Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War… to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs),' Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday night. 

He added that the aim is to release 'any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.'

Area 51 has fueled decades of speculation, particularly since the Cold War, when its remote desert location and secret operations made it a natural target for UFO rumors. 

The Janet, designed by Boeing, is a white jet with a single red strip from front to back. The fleet flies contractor employees, Department of Defense staff and military personnel to secure spaces that house classified information

The US government has acknowledged the base exists but says it is used for testing advanced military aircraft. 

Janet jets are the primary mode of transport, designed by Boeing, white with a single red stripe running from nose to tail, and operating from a dedicated terminal since the remote facility cannot be accessed by regular vehicles.

The base has six runways for Janet planes, including a massive 12,000-foot strip, among the longest in the world, capable of handling flights to and from Las Vegas under tight security.

Trump made his announcement just hours after lashing out at Barack Obama for allegedly sharing classified information when he appeared to confirm that aliens exist while speaking on a podcast.

He told reporters on his way to Georgia that Obama was 'not supposed' to share classified information after he appeared on Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast and said aliens were 'real.' 

Obama added, 'They're real, but I haven't seen them,' joking that they are not kept at Area 51 as far as he knows. 

Cohen asked Obama if extraterrestrials were real in an episode that aired January 14.

The jet headed toward the Tonopah Test Range, an area closely linked to Area 51 (PICTURED) within Nevada ’s Nellis Range Complex. Both highly classified sites are testing secret aircraft and advanced weapons

'They're real, but I haven't seen them,' Obama replied. He joked that they are not being kept at Area 51, as far as he knows.

His comments, delivered with a mix of humor and authority, amounted to a clear rejection of claims that the US government is secretly housing alien life forms at the classified base.

The secrecy surrounding Area 51 has fueled widespread conspiracy theories about its true purpose, but a resurfaced interview from an aviation journalist with firsthand sources who have worked there said the truth could be revealed this year.

Jim Goodall gave an interview in the mid-1990s where he discussed top-secret technologies at the site that 'would make George Lucas envious.' 

'One gentleman spent 12 of his 30 years in black programs at Groom Lake [as Area 51 is also known],' Goodall explained in the unearthed documentary interview.

'I asked him, 'Can you really tell me what's happening out there?'' he continued.

'And he said, 'Well, there are a lot of things going on there that I won't be able to tell you until the year 2025.''

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20-02-2026 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Trump says US government will declassify its UFO files. Will we actually learn anything this time, or is this a distraction?

20-02-2026 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

Antarctica's worst–case climate scenario laid bare: Terrifying study reveals how ice coverage could plummet by 20% by 2100 – sparking catastrophic global sea level rise

• READ MORE: The $80 billion mission to save the Doomsday Glacier

By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

Antarctica's vast ice sheets and fragile ecosystems are already changing at an alarming rate – and now scientists have revealed just how bad it could get.

A terrifying new study has laid bare the frozen continent's best and worst–case climate change scenarios.

The international team of researchers focused their predictions on the Antarctic Peninsula, a region that is particularly sensitive to human–caused climate change.

In the worst scenario, sea ice coverage around the Peninsula could plummet by 20 per cent by 2100. 

This would be devastating for polar species, such as penguins and whales, but could also cause disastrous consequences around the globe.

Like taking the ice cubes out of a cold drink, massive loss of sea ice will accelerate ocean warming, eroding the glaciers and ice shelves that threaten catastrophic sea level rise.

Lead author Professor Bevan Davies, of Newcastle University, says: 'Changes in the Antarctic do not stay in the Antarctic.

'Though Antarctica is far away, changes here will impact the rest of the world through changes in sea level, oceanic and atmospheric connections and circulation changes.'

These maps show the changes in sea ice coverage under a low (top), medium–high (middle), and very high (bottom) emissions scenario. The dark blue shows areas of more extreme ice loss 

Scientists have laid bare Antarctica's worst–case climate scenario, as scientists predict that sea ice coverage could shrink by 20 per cent. Pictured: An area of the Antarctic Peninsula that had been covered by ice for thousands of years until 2024

Although the entire Antarctic continent is changing, the Antarctic Peninsula is in a unique position.

Unlike most of the continent, the Peninsula has been frequently visited by researchers, tourists, and fishers for much of the last century.

This means scientists have an extremely good picture of how the region has been affected by the warming climate.

Co–author Professor Peter Convey, of the British Antarctic Survey, says: 'For a casual visitor, the first impression is still inevitably that the region is ice–dominated.

'However, to those of us that have the privilege to go back multiple times, there are very clear changes over time.'

This area is also extremely important for ensuring that the global climate remains cool and stable.

The vast stretches of white ice reflect heat out into space and lock up fresh water that would otherwise increase sea levels and weaken vital ocean currents.

To understand how this sensitive region might continue to change in the future, the researchers used computer modelling to predict what would happen in low, medium–high, and very high emissions scenarios.

The researchers focused their predictions on the Antarctic Peninsula (pictured), a region that is particularly sensitive to human–caused climate change, to see how the area would change under different emissions scenarios 

Antarctica's worst–case climate scenario

If emperatures rise by 4.4°C (7.92°F) by 2100:

- Ice coverage will plummet by 20%, sparking 22mm of sea level rise

- Krill will be decimated, limiting food for penguins, seals, and whale

- Heavy rain will wipe out the Adelie penguin population

In the low emissions scenario, global temperatures rise 1.8°C (3.24°F) above the pre–industrial average by 2100.

In the medium–high scenario, temperatures would increase by 3.6°C (6.48°F) by 2100, and the high emissions scenario will see the world get 4.4°C (7.92°F) hotter.

Co–author Professor Martin Siegert, of Exeter University, told the Daily Mail that the hottest scenario would be 'a world very different to today, in ways our human civilisation development has not previously coped with.'

In the worst–case scenario, water temperatures in the Southern Ocean will get hotter much faster.

This will make the Antarctic's ice shelves much more likely to collapse, dumping vast quantities of fresh water into the oceans and sparking massive sea level rise.

According to the researchers' modelling, the Antarctic Peninsula alone could increase sea levels by up to 22 millimetres in 2100 and up to 172 millimetres in 2300.

This level of heating would also lead to a significant loss in Antarctic sea ice, which would have a significant knock–on effect.

Professor Davies told the Daily Mail: 'This would darken the ocean, making it better at absorbing heat, amplifying global warming.'

The Antarctic Peninsula has already undergone rapid changes due to global warming. In the 1990s, the exposed black peak emerging from the glacier in the top right was a tiny rock poking through the ice that was small enough to ski over

The loss of sea ice in the worst–case scenario will lead to widespread knock–on effects, including rapid ocean warming, the collapse of global ice shelves, rapid sea level rise, and greater severity of extreme weather events 

Likewise, warmer water means the oceans can store more energy, leading to more violent weather all around the globe.

Loss of sea ice this dramatic will also have a huge impact on the Antarctic ecosystem, especially on the population of krill, a small crustacean that thrives in the Peninsula.

Krill are the base of the Antarctic food chain, supporting iconic species like penguins, seals, and whales.

However, krill are entirely dependent on sea ice, so their population shrinks along with the ice.

Scientists have found that species like the Adelie penguin, which are highly dependent on sea ice and krill, have started to be replaced by more adaptable species.

As the planet warms, Antarctica will also start to see more rain, which can wipe out entire penguin breeding colonies.

'Adelie penguin chicks cannot tolerate rain as their downy feathers are not waterproof, so if they get wet, they get hypothermia,' Professor Davies explains.

However, the loss of krill also has serious consequences for humans because they are one of the major means by which the southern ocean absorbs and traps carbon dioxide.

Scientists have found that species like the Adelie penguin (pictured), which rely on sea ice and the krill that live there, are already vanishing from parts of the Antarctic Peninsula 

This means that a collapse of the Antarctic ecosystem could accelerate the already devastating process of global warming.

Currently, researchers estimate that the world is on track for a medium or medium–high emissions scenario.

In a medium scenario, carbon dioxide emissions flatline and then begin to fall from 2100, while the medium–high scenario is a world in which emissions double by 2100.

Professor Davies says that we are currently somewhere between these two cases, but that 'resurging nationalism and protectionism' threatens to push the world towards the medium–high case.

In a lower emissions scenario, the ongoing effects of climate change will continue to trigger ice loss and extreme weather, but the effects will be much more muted.

Sea ice will only be a little smaller than it is today, and the sea level rise contributions from the Antarctic Peninsula will be limited to a few millimetres.

However, the hotter the world gets, the more destructive and permanent the effects of climate change will become.

Professor Davies says: 'These changes would be irreversible on any human timescale. It would be very hard to regrow the glaciers and bring back the wildlife that makes Antarctica special. If we don’t make changes now, our great–grandchildren will have to live with the consequences.'

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20-02-2026 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

NASA has completed an investigation into the 2024 Starliner fiasco that stranded two astronauts in space for nine months.

The space agency labeled the incident a 'Type A' mishap, the most severe classification of mission failure, it revealed on Thursday. That puts the Starliner test flight in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia disasters, which claimed a total of 14 lives.

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in July 2024 for what was intended to be an eight-day stay. However, the capsule malfunctioned, making it unsafe for human travel and forcing NASA to return it to Earth, leaving the astronauts stranded on the ISS until March last year.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said: 'Mistakes occurred from the program's inception and continued throughout execution, including contract management, oversight posture, technical rigor and leadership decision making. 

'Boeing built the spacecraft, and from the onset, NASA approved variances and agreed to fly it. As development progressed, design compromises and inadequate hardware qualification extended beyond NASA's complete understanding.'

The investigation found both technical and organizational issues that affected the mission’s safety and oversight. 

Decisions and pressures before and during the flight contributed to a culture that sometimes prioritized schedule over caution. 

After the mission, concerns about reputation delayed the formal declaration of a mishap, and the program initially conducted its own review. 

The Starliner launched Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station in July 2024 for what was intended to be an eight-day stay

The capsule malfunctioned, making it unsafe for human travel and forcing NASA to return it to Earth, leaving the astronauts stranded on the ISS until March last year

Starliner, developed under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program since 2010 to ensure continuous American access to low Earth orbit, faced a series of technical setbacks before its first crewed mission. 

Early test flights, including Orbital Flight Test (OFT) 1 in 2019 and OFT-2 in 2021 and 2022, suffered guidance errors, thruster failures and oxidizer valve malfunctions, with investigations often addressing only immediate causes rather than underlying issues. 

The crewed test flight in June 2024 encountered multiple propulsion anomalies, thruster failures and a temporary loss of full control during docking operations. 

The launch took place under the Biden Administration. 

Despite these challenges, the astronauts remained safe aboard the ISS, Isaacman said. 

Starliner returned autonomously to Earth in September 2024 without crew, and Wilmore and Williams were later brought home safely by SpaceX Crew-9.

The report noted that engineering variances are common across major aerospace programs, but NASA found that Starliner’s qualification deficiencies made it less reliable for crew survival. 

The agency acknowledged that it managed the contract, accepted the spacecraft, launched the crew and made critical decisions from docking through post-mission operations, placing a significant portion of responsibility on itself.

The investigation identified both organizational and technical factors contributing to the mishap, though the precise causes of the service and crew module thruster anomalies remain under review. 

The American space agency labeled the incident a 'Type A' mishap, the most severe classification of mission failure, and the same as the Challenger disaster

NASA’s limited oversight, according to Issacman's report, left the agency without full insight into spacecraft systems, while Boeing’s propulsion design operated beyond safety qualifications. 

Additionally, NASA’s desire to maintain two competing crew transportation systems influenced risk and operational decisions throughout the mission.

Pre-launch, more than 30 scheduled attempts created schedule pressure and decision fatigue, and prior thruster risks were inadequately addressed. 

On-orbit disagreements over crew return options led to unprofessional conduct, while advocacy for the Starliner program often overshadowed safety priorities, the report said.

Post-mission, despite a severe loss of control and costs far exceeding Type A thresholds, a mishap was not initially declared due to concern for program reputation, and the Commercial Crew Program first investigated itself.

The independent investigation concluded that these decisions were inconsistent with NASA’s safety culture. 

The agency has now formally designated the flight a Type A mishap to ensure lessons are captured for future missions. 

Officials emphasized that program advocacy had exceeded reasonable bounds, placing the mission, crew and America’s space program at risk, and pledged leadership accountability to prevent such a culture of mistrust from recurring.

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20-02-2026 om 22:34 geschreven door peter  

See Uranus like NEVER before! Scientists capture incredible 3D view of the planet – revealing details in the upper atmosphere for the first time

• READ MORE: Photo captures every planet in the solar system at the same time 

By XANTHA LEATHAM, EXECUTIVE SCIENCE EDITOR

A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed the ice giant for nearly a full rotation, revealing the inner workings of its upper atmosphere for the first time.

The team, led by Paola Tiranti from Northumbria University, mapped out the temperature and density of ions in the electrically–charged layer that sits 3,100 miles (5,000km) above the cloud tops.

This has provided the most detailed picture yet of where the planet's stunning auroras form, releasing energy that creates a signature glow.

Their observations detected two bright auroral bands near Uranus's magnetic poles, which are lopsided and tilted by nearly 60 degrees.

As a result, its auroras sweep across the surface in complex patterns.

'This is the first time we've been able to see Uranus's upper atmosphere in three dimensions,' Ms Tiranti said.

'With Webb's sensitivity, we can trace how energy moves upward through the planet's atmosphere and even see the influence of its lopsided magnetic field.'

A collage showing Uranus's auroras captured during a full rotation. Observations detected two bright auroral bands near Uranus's magnetic poles, which are lopsided and tilted by nearly 60 degrees

The JWST data revealed two bright auroral bands near the magnetic poles and a zone of low emission and ion density between them.

According to researchers, this feature may be tied to the way Uranus's magnetic field directs charged particles, similar to observations made at Jupiter.

The measurements revealed that temperatures peak between 1,864 miles (3,000km) and 2,485 miles (4,000km) above the cloud tops, whilst ion densities reach their maximum around 621 miles (1,000km).

Analysis also confirmed that Uranus's upper atmosphere is still cooling, extending a trend that began in the early 1990s.

The team measured an average temperature of around 426 kelvins – about 150°C – lower than values recorded by ground–based telescopes or previous spacecraft observations.

Understanding why Uranus is cooling could provide crucial insights into how ice giant planets regulate their atmospheric temperature.

'By revealing Uranus's vertical structure in such detail, Webb is helping us understand the energy balance of the ice giants,' Ms Tiranti said.

'This is a crucial step towards characterising giant planets beyond our Solar System.'

The map has provided the most detailed picture yet of where the planet's stunning auroras form, releasing energy that creates a signature glow

More than one billion miles away from Earth, Uranus is one of the least explored planets in our solar system . So it comes as no surprise that scientists still regularly make new discoveries about the gas giant planet

At more than one billion miles away from Earth, Uranus is one of the least explored planets in our solar system.

Last year, scientists uncovered a secret moon hiding in its orbit, which is believed to be around six miles wide.

The discovery expands the total known number of moons orbiting Uranus to 29.

'No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter–relationships with the rings hint at a chaotic history that blurs the boundary between a ring system and a system of moons,' said Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a member of the research team.

The new findings, published in the Geophysical Research Letters, are part of an international collaboration that also involved the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

HOW DOES URANUS'S MAGNETIC FIELD COMPARE TO EARTH'S?

A study analysing data collected more than 30 years ago by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that the Uranus's global magnetosphere is nothing like Earth’s, which is known to be aligned nearly with our planet’s spin axis.

A false-color view of Uranus captured by Hubble is pictured 

According to the researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, this alignment would give rise to behaviour that is vastly different from what’s seen around Earth.

Uranus lies and rotates on its side, leaving its magnetic field tilted 60 degrees from its axis.

As a result, the magnetic field ‘tumbles’ asymmetrically relative to the solar wind.

As a result, the magnetic field ‘tumbles’ asymmetrically relative to the solar wind.

When the magnetosphere is open, it allows solar wind to flow in.

But, when it closes off, it creates a shield against these particles. 

The researchers suspect solar wind reconnection takes place upstream of Uranus’s magnetosphere at different latitudes, causing magnetic flux to close in various parts.

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20-02-2026 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

Eeuwenoude mysteries die onderzoekers nog steeds niet kunnen verklaren

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Eeuwenoude mysteries die onderzoekers nog steeds niet kunnen verklaren
De oudheid spreekt al eeuwenlang tot de verbeelding van het publiek. Van verloren begraafplaatsen tot verzonken steden, er zijn nog steeds veel dingen die een mysterie blijven voor historici en archeologen. En hoewel wetenschap en technologie grote vooruitgang hebben geboekt, maken deze onopgeloste mysteries onze wereld ontzettend fascinerend.

Van mysterieuze geogliefen in de Nazca-woestijn tot honderden perfect ronde bollen in de jungle van Costa Rica, klik verder om een paar van de meest hardnekkige mysteries van de oude wereld te ontdekken.

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Antikythera-mechanisme
Een 2000 jaar oude mechanisme van Antikythera, dat ook wel de ‘eerste computer’ wordt genoemd, werd gevonden in een oud Grieks scheepswrak. Het maakte gebruik van een opwindbaar wijzerplaatensysteem om de hemelse tijden van de zon, de maan en vijf planeten bij te houden, samen met een kalender, de fasen van de maan en het moment van eclipsen. Onderzoekers begrijpen nog steeds niet hoe de Grieken toen al zo'n geavanceerd instrument konden maken.

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Voynich-manuscript
Het Voynich-manuscript werd in het begin van de 15de eeuw in Midden-Europa geschreven. Maar wetenschappers weten nog steeds niet wat er op de pagina's staat, of in welke taal het is geschreven.

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Vlakte der Kruiken
In de bergen van Laos ligt een vallei met duizenden stenen kruiken, wat bekend staat als de Vlakte der Kruiken. De enorme stenen kruiken zijn 2500 jaar oud en niemand weet waarom ze daar liggen.

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Lijnen van Nazca
Tussen 1 en 700 na Christus hakten de Nazca-bewoners van Peru in roestkleurige rotsen, waardoor de lichtere steen in diepere lagen blootgesteld werd. Enorme figuren van dieren, planten, mensen en geometrische vormen waren het resultaat, maar tot nu toe weet niemand waarom ze deze figuren hebben uitgehouwen.

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Romeinse twaalfvlakken
Deze mysterieuze voorwerpen, gemaakt van brons of steen tussen 100 en 300 na Christus, danken hun naam aan hun 12 zijden. Maar hun vorm is zo ongeveer het enige waar experts het over eens zijn.

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Lineair A
Op oude Minoïsche relikwieën zijn twee verschillende maar vergelijkbare schrijfstijlen aangetroffen, namelijk Lineair A en Lineair B. Terwijl Lineair B in 1952 werd ontcijferd, breken onderzoekers zich nog steeds het hoofd over Lineair A.

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Paracas Candelabra
De Paracas Candelabra, uitgehouwen in een Peruaanse heuvel van versteend zand, lijkt op de Nazca-lijnen. Het is rond 200 voor Christus gemaakt, maar niemand weet precies wat het voorstelt.

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Dogū
De dogū, die dateren uit de Japanse neolithische Jōmon-periode, zijn kleifiguren die een kruising zijn tussen mens en dier. Archeologen hebben er ongeveer 18.000 gevonden, variërend in leeftijd van 2300 tot 10.000 jaar oud, maar ze weten nog steeds niet waarvoor ze werden gebruikt.

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Sacsayhuamán
Er zijn veel vragen rond de stenen structuur van de Inca's in Cusco, Peru. Sommigen beweren dat het een fort was, anderen zeggen dat het werd gebruikt voor ceremonies. Maar hoe dan ook, het is zeker indrukwekkend!

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De Lijkwade van Turijn
De lijkwade is een stuk linnen waarop een vervaagde afbeelding te zien is van een man die veel op Jezus lijkt. Hoewel uit onderzoek is gebleken dat het doek uit de middeleeuwen stamt, geloven velen dat het de echte lijkwade van Jezus Christus

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Yonaguni Monument
Voor de kust van het Japanse eiland Yonaguni ligt een onderwaterrotsformatie die lijkt op een door mensen gemaakte trappenpiramide. Deze formatie werd in de jaren 80 ontdekt en wordt door sommige onderzoekers beschouwd als de ruïnes van een oude beschaving.

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De Grote Sfinx van Gizeh
De sfinx, een van de meest raadselachtige monumenten uit het oude Egypte, zou zijn gebouwd tijdens het bewind van farao Khafre in het derde millennium voor Christus. Sommige historici suggereren echter dat het monument wel eens 9000 jaar oud zou kunnen zijn.

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Skara Brae
Het oude stenen dorp Skara Brae, dat ongeveer 5000 jaar geleden werd gesticht, ligt op de Orkney-eilanden in Schotland. Het bestaat uit een aantal stenen huizen en het oudst bekende toilet van Schotland. Het dorp werd rond 2500 voor Christus op mysterieuze wijze verlaten. Omdat er geen menselijke resten of andere aanwijzingen zijn gevonden, vragen onderzoekers zich af: waarom zijn de bewoners vertrokken?

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Angkor
De heilige stad Angkor, gelegen in het hart van de Cambodjaanse jungle, was van de negende tot de 15de eeuw de hoofdstad van het Khmer-rijk. Hoewel er geen duidelijke verklaring is voor de ondergang van deze stad, wijzen recente onderzoeken erop dat klimaatverandering hiervoor verantwoordelijk zou kunnen zijn.

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De dood van Farao Toetanchamon
Archeologen denken dat de jonge koning onverwacht is overleden. Zijn lichaam lijkt echter in brand te zijn gevlogen nadat hij was gemummificeerd en zijn graf werd verzegeld. Dit, in combinatie met de overhaaste begrafenis, heeft experts doen twijfelen of zijn graf oorspronkelijk voor iemand anders was gebouwd en of er misschien nog andere mummies in hetzelfde graf begraven liggen.

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Paaseiland
Een van 's werelds grootste mysteries is het afgelegen Paaseiland in Chili, dat ooit de thuisbasis was van een welvarende Polynesische gemeenschap. Maar waarom en wanneer de eerste kolonisten arriveerden, blijft onbekend. Over de ondergang van deze beschaving wordt dan ook nog steeds gediscussieerd.

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Tempels van Ġgantija
Deze enorme megalieten, gelegen op het Maltese eiland Gozo, zijn naar schatting zo'n 5500 jaar oud. Archeologen vermoeden dat de tempels mogelijk toegewijd waren aan een oude vruchtbaarheidscultus, maar dat is tot vandaag nog niet vastgesteld.

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Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe ligt in een landelijk gebied in Turkije en dateert uit 8000 voor Christus. Het bestaat uit meerdere ringen van enorme stenen pilaren met daarop afbeeldingen van dieren en wordt beschouwd als een van de oudste plaatsen van aanbidding. Maar de vraag blijft wie de bewoners daadwerkelijk waren.

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Stonehenge
Stonehenge, een van de meest iconische prehistorische monumenten ter wereld, zou rond 3000 tot 2000 voor Christus zijn gebouwd. Na eeuwenlang onderzoek zijn de meeste onderzoekers het erover eens dat het als begraafplaats heeft gefungeerd. Maar er blijven nog andere geheimen bestaan, zoals de mogelijke religieuze en ceremoniële betekenis ervan.

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Terracotta Leger
In het mausoleum van Qin Shi Huang Di, de eerste keizer van China, staat een leger van 8000 levensgrote beelden op wacht. De tombe van Qin is echter nog niet opgegraven, waardoor men zich afvraagt welke andere verrassingen er nog te vinden zijn.

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De Grote Piramide van Gizeh
Archeologen zijn van mening dat het ongeveer 20 jaar heeft geduurd om de Grote Piramide van Gizeh te bouwen, een van de zeven wereldwonderen uit de oudheid. Het precieze doel van deze piramide is tot de dag van vandaag nog steeds een mysterie.

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Schijf van Phaistos
De schijf van Phaistos, gevonden op Kreta in 1908, is gemaakt van brons en is aan allebei de zijden bedekt met een spiraal van gedrukte symbolen. De oorsprong en betekenis ervan blijven veelbesproken.

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Hobbits
In 2003 werd op het afgelegen Indonesische eiland Flores een skelet van een 30-jarige volwassen vrouw gevonden met een lengte van slechts 1,06 meter. Aanvankelijk dachten onderzoekers dat de kleine botten mogelijk afkomstig waren van een mens met microcefalie, een aandoening die wordt gekenmerkt door een klein hoofd en een kleine lichaam. Maar latere vondsten van skeletten van vergelijkbare grootte suggereerden dat deze "hobbit" een aparte soort was, de Homo floresiensis. Deze soort dateert van 50.000 jaar geleden, maar de exacte plaats in de stamboom van de menselijke voorouders is nog steeds een raadsel.

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Chichén Itzá
Chichén Itzá, gelegen op het schiereiland Yucatán in Mexico, werd rond de zesde eeuw na Christus gesticht door de Maya's. Ooit was dit een bloeiende metropool met 50.000 inwoners, maar we weten nog steeds niet wat de oorzaak van haar ondergang was.

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Tikal
Tikal, gelegen in het regenwoud van Guatemala, herbergt de ruïnes van een machtige Maya-stad uit de periode tussen 300 en 800 na Christus. Tot op de dag van vandaag hebben archeologen nog steeds geen aanwijzingen over de oorzaak van de ondergang van Tikal.

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Koperen Rol
De koperen rol, die dateert van 2000 jaar geleden, werd in 1952 ontdekt op de locatie van Qumran. Onderzoekers denken dat de rol een beschrijving bevat van een verborgen schat, maar niemand weet waar deze zich bevindt, of dat deze schat daadwerkelijk bestaat.

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Tiwanaku
Deze Inca locatie in Bolivia blijft de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap verbazen. De locatie dateert uit ongeveer 536 na Christus, maar het is onduidelijk hoe de stenen blokken ooit werden vervoerd en gevormd.

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Stenen ballen van Costa Rica
De stenen bollen van Costa Rica zijn een verzameling van meer dan 300 petrosferen in de jungle van Costa Rica. Ze werden ontdekt in de jaren '30 en sommige dateren zelfs uit 600 na Christus. Tot op de dag van vandaag is er weinig bekend over de oorsprong van de stenen of hoe ze gebruikt werden.

Bronnen:

• (National Geographic)
• (History)
• (Live Science)

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20-02-2026 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

UFO Orbs Over Ocean Off Japan, Nov 14, 2025, UAP Paranormal sighting news. Possible alien base under water in that area.

Date of sighting: Nov 14, 2025

Location of sighting: 700 miles East of Japan

Source: NUFORC 

 

Watch this short video and you will see a fleet of glowing spheres rising out of the ocean and moving upwards out of earths atmosphere. This is a very similar UFO that was also seen in front of tens of thousands of people back at Dome of Rock in 2011. It's also common to see this sphere UFO around the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. This is absolutely a real alien craft, such things are coming to light very fast in our society. Are you ready to meet them?

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20-02-2026 om 20:36 geschreven door peter  

Artikel door Kathleen Heylen

 

Donald Trump in een gesprek met de pers op het presidentiële vliegtuig Air Force One op 19 februari 2026.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zal het ministerie van Defensie en andere instanties de opdracht geven om alle dossiers over de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven vrij te geven. Documenten moeten worden bekendgemaakt "gezien de enorme belangstelling", zegt hij op Truth Social. Hij vindt ook dat ex-president Barack Obama met zijn 'alien'-uitspraak geheime informatie vrijgegeven heeft. 

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"Gezien de enorme belangstelling zal ik de minister van Oorlog (zoals Trump het ministerie van Defensie noemt, red) en andere relevante ministeries en instanties opdracht geven om te beginnen met het identificeren en vrijgeven van overheidsdocumenten met betrekking tot buitenaards leven, ongeïdentificeerde luchtverschijnselen (uap's) en ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten (ufo's), en alle andere informatie die verband houdt met deze zeer complexe, maar uiterst interessante en belangrijke onderwerpen."

Een aankondiging van Trump op zijn platform Truth Social waarmee hij lijkt te reageren op uitspraken van voormalig president Barack Obama in de podcast van Brian Tyler Cohen  vorig weekend.

Tijdens een snelle vragenronde had Obama al grappend gezegd dat hij in 'aliens' gelooft. "Ze bestaan ​​echt, maar ik heb ze niet gezien en ze worden niet vastgehouden in Area 51. Er is geen ondergrondse faciliteit, tenzij er een enorm complot gaande is dat ze voor de president van de VS verborgen hebben gehouden."

Een uitspraak die de Amerikaanse krantenkoppen haalde. Waarna Obama het noodzakelijk achtte te verduidelijken dat hij het statistisch gezien waarschijnlijk vindt dat er buitenaards leven bestaat, gezien de omvang van het universum. En: "Ik heb tijdens mijn presidentschap geen bewijs gezien dat buitenaardse wezens contact met ons hebben opgenomen. Echt waar!"

Trump: "Obama beging een grote fout"

Einde commotie, zou je denken, maar niet zo. Donald Trump kwam er gisteren op terug in een interview met journalisten op Air Force One. "Hoewel veel mensen geloven in het bestaan van buitenaards leven, praat ik er nooit over en heb ik er geen mening over", zei hij.

Trump beweerde bovendien dat Obama geheime overheidsinformatie vrijgegeven had. "Ik weet niet of aliens echt zijn of niet. Ik kan je wel zeggen dat hij classified information vrijgaf. Hij beging een grote fout. Hij haalde dat uit geheime informatie, hij had dat niet moeten doen. (...) Ik kan hem misschien uit de problemen helpen door het te declassificeren."

Voor alle duidelijkheid: er zijn geen aanwijzingen dat Obama gebruikmaakte van geheime informatie tijdens de podcast. Het is ook geen geheim dat Trump graag kritiek geeft op Obama.

Wel of geen mening?

Het is de vraag of Trump geen mening heeft over aliens en er niet over spreekt. Toch niet als we Lara Trump mogen geloven, de schoondochter van Donald Trump. Zij vertelde deze week in de podcast 'Pod force one' dat hij er wel degelijk iets over wil zeggen. De president heeft een toespraak over buitenaardse wezens voorbereid die hij "op het juiste moment" zou houden, klonk het.

Dat zou dan toch niet afgestemd zijn met het Witte Huis, als het al zou kloppen. Woordvoerster Karoline Leavitt kreeg er woensdag een vraag over van journalisten en reageerde lachend: "Een toespraak over buitenaardse wezens zou voor mij ook nieuw zijn."

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Up deze archieffoto van 22 juli 2019 waarschuwen borden voor verboden toegang bij een ingang van het Nevada Test and Training Range van het Amerikaanse leger, in de buurt van Area 51.

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"Tot op heden geen bewijs"

De publieke belangstelling voor ongeïdentificeerde luchtverschijnselen (uap's) en ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten (ufo's) is altijd al groot geweest. Net als verhalen dat de Amerikaanse regering geheimen over buitenaards leven zou verbergen. Area 51, een zwaar beveiligde militaire basis in de woestijn in Nevada, is een vaste waarde in die complottheorieën.

De belangstelling én de complotverhalen laaiden opnieuw op toen ex-medewerkers van het Pentagon en de regering in 2017 video's van onbekende objecten van de marine naar Amerikaanse media lekten. Dat leidde ertoe dat het Congres in mei 2022 voor het eerst in 50 jaar hoorzittingen over ufo's hield.

Ook het Pentagon beloofde toen meer transparantie over het onderwerp. In 2022 werd het het All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) opgericht, bedoeld als centraal meldpunt voor alle militaire ufo-waarnemingen. De informatie die openbaar is gemaakt, toont dat de overgrote meerderheid van de meldingen van het leger onopgelost blijft, maar dat de geïdentificeerde objecten grotendeels goedaardig van aard zijn.

In 2024 werd een 18 pagina's tellend, openbaar rapport voorgelegd aan het Congres. Dat stelde dat militairen in het afgelopen jaar 485 meldingen van uap's hadden gedaan, maar dat 118 gevallen "alledaagse objecten" betroffen, zoals verschillende soorten ballonnen, vogels en onbemande luchtvaartuigen. 

"Het is belangrijk te benadrukken dat AARO tot op heden geen bewijs heeft gevonden van buitenaardse wezens, activiteiten of technologie," benadrukte het rappor

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20-02-2026 om 20:25 geschreven door peter  

UFO Disk Over Saint Ives, England, United Kingdom Nov 16, 2025, UAP sighting news.

Date of sighting: Nov 16, 2025

Location of sighting: Saint Ives, England (near ocean)

Source: NUFORC

 

The screenshots don't do this justice, you have to see the video below to see the detail of the giant disk UFO passing over the hills at Saint Ives near the ocean. This UFO came from an underwater base off Saint Ives and it was trying to hover a bit to dry off before shooting out of the atmosphere to keep the water from freezing on its outer hull in space, potentially causing damage to the outer hull of the ship. 

This is 100% proof aliens exist. 

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20-02-2026 om 19:56 geschreven door peter  

Artikel door Fabienne Ba

 

Een wetenschapper beweert het mysterie van de "Bermudadriehoek" te hebben opgelost.© Photo d'illustration : Beatrice Ekenstierna/Pexels

De "Bermudadriehoek" heeft decennialang zowel dromen als angsten opgeroepen, gevoed door verhalen over onverklaarbare verdwijningen en spectaculaire theorieën. Nu beweert een Australische wetenschapper dat dit raadsel wellicht veel minder mysterieus is dan eerder werd gedacht.

Een gebied dat legendarisch is geworden.

De Bermuda-driehoek ligt in de Atlantische Oceaan, tussen Florida, Puerto Rico en de Bermuda-archipel, en beslaat een gebied van ongeveer 500.000 vierkante kilometer. De term werd in 1964 populair gemaakt door journalist Vincent Gaddis, voordat schrijver Charles Berlitz het gebied tien jaar later tot een object van wereldwijde fascinatie maakte.

Door de jaren heen hebben verhalen over verdwenen schepen, vliegtuigen en verdwijningen van bemanningen talloze hypotheses aangewakkerd: paranormale verschijnselen, verzonken beschavingen, magnetische anomalieën, zeedieren of tijdsverstoringen. De collectieve verbeelding is op hol geslagen en heeft dit stuk oceaan omgetoverd tot een symbool van absoluut mysterie.

Een veel rationelere verklaring

Karl Kruszelnicki, een gerenommeerd Australisch wetenschapper, biedt een pragmatischer perspectief. Volgens hem is er niets echt uitzonderlijks aan dit gebied. De reden is simpel: de Bermudadriehoek is extreem druk, met zowel commerciële schepen als vliegtuigen. Hoe dichter het verkeer, hoe meer incidenten er kunnen plaatsvinden. Relatief gezien, ten opzichte van het verkeersvolume, is het aantal verdwijningen niet hoger dan in andere maritieme gebieden.

Met andere woorden, het mysterie komt minder voort uit de geografie zelf dan uit de berichtgeving in de media eromheen. De legende is gegroeid door sensationele verhalen, terwijl de wetenschappelijke feiten vrij gewoon blijven.

Officiële instellingen en gegevens: niets abnormaals

Officiële analyses bevestigen deze rationele aanpak. De National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) heeft inderdaad geen abnormale frequentie van ongevallen in de regio geregistreerd. De weersomstandigheden kunnen echter complex zijn: de Golfstroom veroorzaakt snelle veranderingen en onvoorspelbare stromingen, terwijl de geografische configuratie – met zijn talrijke eilanden en smalle doorgangen – de navigatie lastiger maakt. Zelfs de maritieme verzekeraar Lloyd's of London is van mening dat het gebied statistisch gezien geen groter gevaar oplevert dan andere veelgebruikte scheepvaartroutes.

Magnetisme, weer en menselijke fouten

Sommige verschijnselen zijn zeer reëel, maar perfect gedocumenteerd. Kleine variaties in het aardmagnetisch veld kunnen navigatie-instrumenten tijdelijk ontregelen. Daarbij komen nog bekende factoren: menselijke fouten, technische problemen en extreme weersomstandigheden. Samen verklaren deze de meeste ongelukken. Er zijn dus geen verborgen geheimen, geen mysterieuze wervels en geen legendarische zeedieren. De wetenschap toont aan dat de oorzaken klassiek, rationeel en begrijpelijk zijn.

Wanneer de mythe de cijfers overstijgt

Ondanks deze duidelijke verklaringen blijft de Bermudadriehoek fascineren. Het gebied bevindt zich op het kruispunt van wetenschap en verhalen, tussen tastbare cijfers en buitengewone vertellingen. Verdwijningen uit het verleden, of ze nu per ongeluk plaatsvonden of door legendes zijn versterkt, hebben een blijvende indruk achtergelaten op de collectieve verbeelding.

Voor Karl Kruszelnicki is de boodschap duidelijk: er zijn geen bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen geverifieerd. Wat wij als een mysterie ervaren, is in de eerste plaats een verhaal, maar paradoxaal genoeg is juist dit legendarische element wat de Bermudadriehoek zo fascinerend maakt.

Uiteindelijk bewijst de Bermudadriehoek dat wetenschap en verbeelding hand in hand kunnen gaan. Wetenschappelijke gegevens ontrafelen de mysteries van het gebied, maar de fascinatie blijft. Er is niets onverklaarbaars, niets magisch... gewoon een veelbezochte plek, onderworpen aan dezelfde natuurwetten als de rest van de oceaan. En misschien is het juist deze subtiele mix van feit en fictie die de verhalen, films en gepassioneerde discussies rondom deze uithoek van de Atlantische Oceaan blijft voeden.

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19-02-2026 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

7km Tall Archway On Planet Mercury, Why hasn't NASA spoken about this? UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: 2-2-2020 but new video about it today.

Location of discovery: Mercury

Source URL: 

• https://messenger.quickmap.io/?extent=-179.1682273,-54.8560805,-175.1713479,-52.3058865&proj=5&layers=NrCMBYCYBoAZtA6JIE5YGYn0QOwK4A2h0A3gL4C6lZVy4GWOSIGoArONkgcbdf0pA

 

I just wanted to share this unique find I made back in 2020 so that my newer followers could see it too. It's something that should be impossible for nature to create, and yet it's there on the side of a crater on planet Mercury. The reason it was created by aliens could be that they use it as a wormhole manipulator, a method of harnessing wormholes to travel across the universe in a blink of an eye. Any technology that controls it, will be within its walls. All an alien needs to do is pass though it slowly with any ship. I'm confident there are many other portals too. I just wonder, can the end destination of the portal be adjusted to anywhere or is it limited to only other portal locations?

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19-02-2026 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

UFO disk cloaked as cloud creates tunnel cloud behind it, Canada, UAP Sighting News.

Date of sighting: unknown

Location of sighting: Calgary, Canada

Source photos: 

• https://www.zolo.ca/rural-rocky-view-county-real-estate/10-acres---township-road-240a

Now this one is strange. I was searching for UFOs and came across this listing that was selling a house and farm land. In one of the photos a disk is seen cloaked as a cloud and behind it, it's creating a cloud tunnel so that other smaller UFOs can follow its direction. It's a well known fact among UFO researchers that UFOs can make clouds, often to distract onlookers attention away from the UFO itself. This photo is a fantastic catch, although it's by pure accident, never the less, it's 100% proof that UFOs make clouds. 

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19-02-2026 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

Mars Doorways Found And Cat-Like Head Statue On Hill, UFO UAP Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Feb 16, 2026

Location of discovery: Mars Sol 1769 Perseverance

Source photo: 

• https://gigapan.com/gigapans/238716

Hey check this out. Not only did I find a doorway into a rock on Mars, but there are a dozen of them or more. The others are partly visible, but covered partly in sand. But the first one I show in the video really explains it all. It's a rectangle doorway entrance that is about 1 foot tall by 8 inches wide. It really fits with the dozens of human-like figures that me and others have discovered over the last ten years in Mars photos, most were under 1 foot tall, but highly detailed. I am 100% confident that these entrances are to primitive homes under the surface and that the face I found on the hilltop reveals to me the face of the species that lived here. A cat-like bipedal species. Bipedal because the door is tall, it's obvious they were standing up as they entered the structures. Also all the figures we have found in the past were two legged, similar to humans. 

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19-02-2026 om 23:23 geschreven door peter