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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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02-10-2019
Otherworldly Worms with Three Sexes Discovered in Mono Lake
Otherworldly Worms with Three Sexes Discovered in Mono Lake
This newly discovered species of nematode is considered an extremophile--it thrives under high-salt, high-pH, arsenic-rich conditions that are otherwise hostile to life. But it is surprisingly versatile because it can also live in "normal" conditions in the laboratory.
Credit: Caltech
Caltech scientists have discovered a new species of worm thriving in the extreme environment of Mono Lake. This new species, temporarily dubbed Auanema sp., has three different sexes, can survive 500 times the lethal human dose of arsenic, and carries its young inside its body like a kangaroo.
Mono Lake, located in the Eastern Sierras of California, is three times as salty as the ocean and has an alkaline pH of 10. Before this study, only two other species (other than bacteria and algae) were known to live in the lake—brine shrimp and diving flies. In this new work, the team discovered eight more species, all belonging to a class of microscopic worms called nematodes, thriving in and around Mono Lake.
Auanema sp., a newly discovered nematode species in Mono Lake, is considered an extremophile for its ability to thrive under harsh conditions.
Credit: Caltech
The work was done primarily in the laboratory of Paul Sternberg, Bren Professor of Biology. A paper describing the research appears online on September 26 in the journal Current Biology.
The Sternberg laboratory has had a long interest in nematodes, particularly Caenorhabditis elegans, which uses only 300 neurons to exhibit complex behaviors, such assleeping, learning, smelling, and moving. That simplicity makes it a useful model organism with which to study fundamentalneurosciencequestions. Importantly, C. elegans can easily thrive in the laboratory under normal room temperatures and pressures.
As nematodes are considered the most abundant type of animal on the planet, former Sternberg lab graduate students Pei-Yin Shih (PhD ’19) and James Siho Lee (PhD ’19) thought they might find them in the harsh environment of Mono Lake. The eight species they found are diverse, ranging from benign microbe-grazers to parasites and predators. Importantly, all are resilient to the arsenic-laden conditions in the lake and are thus considered extremophiles—organisms that thrive in conditions unsuitable for most life forms.
Eight different species of nematode found in and around Mono Lake, bringing the lake’s total animal species (not bacteria or algae) count up to 10
The new worm exists in three different sexes: hermaphrodites, females, and males. The hermaphrodites can produce offspring by themselves, but the females and males need to mate in order to produce their young. The females and males are often produced early in the reproductive cycle of the mother, followed by the hermaphrodites.
Mono Lake, Tufa State Natural Reserve, near Lee Vining, California.
Credit: Copyright Michele Hogan
But beyond human health, studying extreme species like the nematodes of Mono Lake contributes to a bigger, global picture of the planet, says Lee.
“It’s tremendously important that we appreciate and develop a curiosity for biodiversity,” he adds, noting that the team had to receive special permits for their field work at the lake. “The next innovation for biotechnology could be out there in the wild. A new biodegradable sunscreen, for example, was discovered from extremophilic bacteria and algae. We have to protect and responsibly utilize wildlife.”
Eight different species of nematode found in and around Mono Lake, bringing the lake’s total animal species (not bacteria or algae) count up to 10.
Credit: Caltech
The paper is titled, “Newly Identified Nematodes from Mono Lake Exhibit Extreme Arsenic Resistance.” Shih and Lee are co-first authors on the study; Shih is now a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and Lee is now a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University. In addition to Shih, Lee, and Sternberg, other co-authors are Ryoji Shinya of Meiji University in Japan, Natsumi Kanzaki of the Kansai Research Center in Japan, Andre Pires da Silva of the University of Warwick in the UK, former Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow student Jean Marie Badroos now of UC Berkeley, and Elizabeth Goetz and Amir Sapir of the University of Haifa in Israel. Funding was provided by the Amgen Scholars Program, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
An odd worm with three sexes (inset) was recently discovered in Mono Lake in California.
Jellyfish are animals that possess the unique ability to regenerate body parts. A team of Japanese scientists has now revealed the cellular mechanisms that give jellyfish these remarkable “superpowers.”
Their findings were published on August 26, 2019 in PeerJ.
“Currently our knowledge of biology is quite limited because most studies have been performed using so-called model animals like mice, flies, worms and fish etc. Given that millions of species exist on the earth, it is important to study various animals and broaden our knowledge,” said Yuichiro Nakajima, Assistant Professor at the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University in Japan, and corresponding author of the study.
“Jellyfish are one of such animals with interesting biological features,” Nakajima said. “For example, they have stinging cells, called cnidocytes, to capture prey.”
Cladonema jellyfish have branched tentacles
Credit: ⒸSosuke Fujita, Tohoku University Cnidarian jellyfish – named for their stinging cells – have existed on the earth for more than 500 million years. They form part of a unique group of animals that are not bilaterally symmetrical and also possess the capacity to regenerate body parts — a trait most of the complex animals, including humans, have lost. These early-diverging primitive animals could play a pivotal role in helping us better understand the evolutionary biology of bilaterally symmetrical animals, like us humans.
For their study, the researchers used Cladonema pacificum — a jellyfish species from the Cnidaria phylum that has branching tentacles — to investigate the spatial pattern of cell proliferation and their roles during jellyfish development and regeneration, aiming to establish the cellular basis of these phenomena. “With easy lab maintenance and a high spawning rate, Cladonema is suitable for studying various aspects of jellyfish biology,” Nakajima explained.
To investigate the role of cell proliferation following food uptake in determining body-size growth, appendage shape, and regeneration in Cladonema jellyfish, the researchers examined the distribution of cells that play a key role in DNA replication through cell division, producing new ‘daughter’ cells that are identical to the original ‘parent’ cell. They found spatially distinct groups of proliferating cells in the medusa (sexual) life-stage, with cell proliferation in the umbrella-shaped portion of their body being uniform, while cell proliferation in the tentacles was clustered.
Cladonema polyp give rise to jellyfish
Credit: ⒸSosuke Fujita, Tohoku University
After withholding food or blocking cell proliferation using a cell-cycle inhibiting agent, the researchers found body size growth was inhibited, and they also observed defects in tentacle branching, differentiation of stem cells into stinging cells, and regeneration. These results suggest that free-swimming adult jellyfish in the sexual stage possess actively proliferating cells that play a key role in controlling body-size, tentacle shape, and regeneration.
Additionally, the researchers found that when food was not available, the jellyfish exhibited a gradual decrease in body size after 24 hours, suggesting they are sensitive to food availability and are able to adapt to metabolic changes in response to environmental conditions.
“We are currently trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of Cladonema development and regeneration,” said Sosuke Fujita, a master student in the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, and the first author of the study. “Based on this research, molecular control of cell proliferation is the key to deciphering jellyfish growth and regeneration.
According to Nakajima, the researchers also plan to investigate the differences between the two different adult stages in jellyfish: medusae (sexual) and polyps (asexual). “For these purposes, we will identify gene expression changes associated with different developmental and regeneration contexts and plan to introduce genetic tools for manipulation of genes.”
Contacts and sources:
Yuichiro Nakajima
Tohoku University
Citation:
Cell proliferation controls body size growth, tentacle morphogenesis, and regeneration in hydrozoan jellyfish Cladonema pacificum Sosuke Fujita, Erina Kuranaga, Yu-ichiro Nakajima http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7579
Area 51 raid aftermath: What happened at Area 51? Internet asks 'how many people died?'
Area 51 raid aftermath: What happened at Area 51? Internet asks 'how many people died?'
STORM AREA 51, the most talked-about online prank of the year, was pulled off last week after months of hype – but what happened at Area 51 and did anyone get hurt or die at the Area 51 raid?
More than 2.1 million pledged to storm Area 51to “see them aliens” but only a handful turned up in the Nevada desert on Friday, September 20. The Area 51 raid began as an online Facebook event organised by California-based internet prankster Matty Roberts, 21, on June 27 this year. By July, the event gained traction among online communities and UFO enthusiasts with 2.1 million confirming their attendance and another 1.5 million showing interest. The original “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” event was cancelled and moved to Las Vegas but the move did not deter small groups of people from visiting the US Air Force base.
Despite warnings from the US military about approaching the “open training range” up to 100 people congregated outside the gates to Area 51.
About 2,000 would-be Area 51 raiders also paid visits to the nearby towns of Rachel and Hiko, where they held impromptu parties, campsites in the desert and an alien-themed festival over the weekend.
People showed up wearing fancy costumes, carrying placards and inflatable aliens.
One UFO enthusiast was seen holding a sign calling on the US Government to release the friendly alien ET.
Another woman held a sign that read: “Jesus was an alien.”
Area 51 raid: The US Air Force is a classified military base in the Nevada desert (Image: NC)
One Twitter user also said: "Gotta be honest, I'm pretty disappointed in the death count from the raid on Area 51. I expected more from you guys."
And Caylie Smith tweeted: "So when are people gonna storm Area 51? I’ve been waiting. I can’t even imagine what would happen.
"Probably lots of death but hopefully someone snags an alien and gets out safely."
Thankfully, no has died or been injured at the events outside the US army base.
In total, six arrests were made, including one for public urination and five counts of trespassing.
Area 51 raid: There were no major incidents and people had safe fun outside Area 51
(Image: REUTERS)
Area 51 raid: No more than 200 people showed up outside the US Air Force base
(Image: REUTERS)
According to Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee, the crowds were “very manageable for emergency services”.
He said: “They did threaten that they were going to storm.
“Once officers warned them about the consequences for storming the base, they did have second thoughts.”
The sheriff added: “The crowd has been very good. Officers have been mingling with the crowds and the crowds have been positive and so far it's been really well.”
Nevada Highway Police also responded to a driver hitting a cow.
How did people react to the Area 51 raid event?
The Area 51 raid was met with a wide range of reactions from those who were directly involved in the festivities and those who observed online.
One Twitter user suggested people commemorate the event every year by meeting on September 20 to start an internet tradition.
Another Twitter user suggested people export the event to Europe in a bid to “storm the Vatican”.
Some were, however, disappointed in the low turnout.
Twitter user Yves Jean said: “Raid on Area 51 was a complete bust. About one million people said they would attend and only 50 people showed up.
“Now the whole world knows what it’s like to be a local musician, inviting friends to your next gig.”
Elon Musk claims that alien life doesn't exists in the entire galaxy
Elon Musk claims that alien life doesn't exists in the entire galaxy
Elon Musk says that he doesn’t believe alien life exists, not on Earth and even not in the entire galaxy. He made the bold claim on stage on Saturday night while unveiling his Starship rocket prototype Mark-1 in Texas.
SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle is a fully, rapidly reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and anywhere else in the solar system.
“Man, I’m pretty sure I’d know if there were aliens. I’ve not seen any signs of aliens but there might be other life, but we’ve seen no signs of it and as far as we know, we are the only consciousness or the only life that’s out there", Musk said.
Many people did not believe his statement that extraterrestrial life would not exist throughout the galaxy and branded him a "liar" for his dismissal, reports RT.
Elon Musk starts talking about extrateerestrial life at the 37,28 mark in the next video.
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that I don’t spend a lot of time on anything do to with the world of UFOs, alien conspiracies, or other dubious propositions about how the world works. I have plenty of my own borderline outrageous scientific extrapolations and hypotheses, but these are all (I hope) grounded in some element of reality as the majority of humans understand it. That other stuff, little grey aliens and so on? Let’s just say I’d rather spend more time on deciding what to have for lunch.
But that’s me: While a significant portion of humanity voiced demands this week for real changes in how we humans go about our lives – in order to try to avoid the absolute worst-case scenarios of near-future climate change – there was also a cohort whose attention was focused on a bit of arid terrain some eighty miles north of Las Vegas. Here, at the edge of the Groom Lake salt flats in Nevada, is a US Air Force facility known as either Groom Lake, Homey Airport, or Area 51, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Long a subject of just about every ‘theory’ about government conspiracies and extraterrestrial shenanigans since the 1940s, Area 51 still holds a powerful allure. So much so that some two million people responded to a (presumably satirical) proposal on Facebook in June 2019 to ‘storm’ Area 51 on September 20th 2019 and find out once and for all what it’s hiding. In the end about 40 people are reported to have shown up. Naturally the US military did not let anyone near the actual facility.
There’s plenty of readily available material to peruse on what probably takes place at Area 51 – mostly highly classified aeronautical research for military purposes, such as technologies for stealth aircraft. And, ironically, there are suggestions that people’s focus on wild alien conspiracies at this locale have been quite helpful in distracting from the real work at the base.
That distraction is actually worth considering. As a species we’re all pretty good at getting distracted. It doesn’t have to be with intricate conspiracies about other life in the cosmos, it can be about celebrities, gossip, or online videos on how to make turnip desserts (I don’t know, but that probably exists somewhere). Almost anything but the inconvenient truths about the nature of our existence. We are born, some things are okay, we suffer a bit, and we drop dead.
No wonder we have a hard time facing up to our complicity, no matter how modest, in a civilization-spanning set of behaviors that are unhealthy for us and the biosphere that supports us. Of course, we’re not all quite as bad as each other. The vast numbers of humans who still live moment-to-moment, struggling for food, clean water, and education, are hardly as culpable as someone like me, sitting here with my ridiculously environmentally unsound laptop and effectively limitless electrical power. But that doesn’t matter, to get out of this mess every person will end up having to behave differently, it’s simply a matter of degree.
The one thing genuinely interesting about Area 51 is how it reflects on our inability to snap out of a world of fanciful thinking and fanciful hopes. Maybe there’s a lesson somewhere in there; we don’t need to give up our love of the impossible, but we definitely need to do better at differentiating between fantasy and reality.
In fact, if you want to believe that Area 51 hides wonderous extraterrestrial technology secrets you should ask what another sentient species from across the galaxy did to get itself to such a point of sophistication. The answer, I suspect, would be to first figure out how to sustain its homeworld and itself in a way that enabled a glorious future of buzzing unsuspecting bipeds in the deserts of a distant planet.
‘Alien’ Worm With Three Sexes Discovered in Hostile California Lake
This newly discovered species of nematode is considered an extremophile--it thrives under high-salt, high-pH, arsenic-rich conditions that are otherwise hostile to life. But it is surprisingly versatile because it can also live in "normal" conditions in the laboratory.
Credit: Caltech
‘Alien’ Worm With Three Sexes Discovered in Hostile California Lake
Before you start screaming, “How do you known it’s an alien?”, tell me what other Earth species has three sexes? And can survive 500 times the lethal human does of arsenic? And can live in a lake with only two other species in water three times as salty as the ocean? And gives birth to its young like a kangaroo? Go ahead … google away. I’ll wait.
Finished? Find anything? Then it’s an alien, right? Or at least an “alien.”
“Arsenic resistance is something we can study in the lab, but maybe that’s not the most interesting part of the story. The most important thing is that there’s this diversity of life in extreme environments that we just haven’t appreciated before.”
Paul Sternberg, Bren Professor of Biology at CalTech, is so respected in the field of nemotodes that he has a lab named after him, and that’s where he led a team of researchers in a search for any type of weird tiny worms that could live in the harsh waters of California’s Mono Lake — a salty, alkaline, arsenic-rich body of water known to be home to just two species: brine shrimp and diving alkali flies.
Mono Lake
Mono Lake has the world’s highest concentration of alkali flies – another strange species that takes its head off to emerge from its pupal stage and then puts it back on to become a fly. This didn’t bother the native Kutzadika’a people whose name means “fly eater” and … you can figure the rest of it out.
Back to the aliens. Researchers at the Sternberg lab like to look for extremophiles — organisms that live and thrive in conditions unsuitable for most other life forms. Since nemotodes (roundworms) are the most abundant creatures on Earth, and since those are their specialty, that’s what Paul Sternberg and his lab assistants looked for in Mono Lake. While they expected they might find one, they were surprised to find eight different species of nemotodes. And they were shocked at the unique characteristics of one of them.
“One species, Auanema sp., is new, culturable, and survives 500 times the human lethal dose of arsenic.”
As the study, published in Current Biology and described in a CalTech press release, points out, Auanema sp. has three sexes – male, female and hermaphrodite – and gives birth to its young live instead of in eggs. It’s now the most dominant species in a lake so hostile, it only has two others.
So, is it an alien?
“Understanding biodiversity is important for so many reasons: many organisms can act like canaries in a coal mine, alerting us to danger. Others can teach us how to thrive under what seem to be harsh conditions: chemicals, temperature, acidity or alkalinity, salt, radiation, you name it. Also, there are so many mysteries about life: each species has an interesting story to tell us.”
Sternberg hints that we don’t yet know the whole story about Auanema sp. It sounds like the kind of tough survivor like tardigrades that can survive in outer space – making it a prime candidate for panspermia … traveling to Earth from another planet.
Tardigrade
Did they? Who knows? In the meantime, the researchers at Sternberg lab will certainly be watching them to see how the three sexes have sex, not to mention trying to figure out how they survive. And we should be watching them too because … if something starts killing off the toughest creatures on Earth who can have sex three ways, what does the future hold for us?
NASA Detects Mysterious Green Light that Disappeared Days Later
NASA Detects Mysterious Green Light that Disappeared Days Later
As if the universe did not tire of surprising the specialists, now NASA detected a mysterious green light in the Fireworks galaxy that disappeared days later .
The experts of the space agency were surprised that the phenomenon appreciated suddenly disappeared, as Hannah Earnshaw, lead author of the investigation, revealed that this huge green light spot took her team’s dream away:
“Ten days is a really short time for such a bright object to appear. It was an exciting experience.”
As the Actualidad RT portal reported, NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory caught a burst of blue and green X-ray light that illuminated a part of the Fireworks galaxy.
The light spots, which disappeared within a few days of being detected, found an explanation this week in a statement from the agency based on a recent study.
At first the researchers did not know what the phenomenon was and rejected the theory that it was a supernova. In addition, the flashes suddenly disappeared ten days after the first observation.
The team of specialists named this phenomenon ULX-4, as they concluded that it was a source of ultra-bright X-rays (ULX). This space event is the fourth that is identified in this galaxy, but what intrigued the experts was the brevity of its appearance.
Around this mysterious green light a theory was created that indicated that the illumination could come from a black hole that consumed a star, since it is known that the gravity of this star separates any object that gets too close.
However, the time when black holes ‘eat’ dense space objects like stars usually has a long duration, so this brief appearance could be something else. The specialists suggested that the hole probably destroyed the star.
Other theories indicate that the ULX-4 was generated by a neutron star that acts just like black holes, feeding on cosmic material and ‘forming a disk of debris around it that moves quickly.’
Many conspiracy users claim that these lights are proof that aliens are manifesting now because they know the next prophecy of the End of the World, which will take place on September 23, 2019, would you like to know more about this theory?
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Smile for the flash
An abrupt and rare energetic event from the aptly named Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) was captured by NuSTAR: https://go.nasa.gov/2NPmZhH
Boules orange au-dessus de l’A23 le samedi 14: les avez-vous vues?
Boules orange au-dessus de l’A23 le samedi 14: les avez-vous vues?
Samedi 14 septembre, aux alentours de 22 h 40, cinq boules orange ont été aperçues par Julien (1) alors qu’il roulait sur l’A23 à hauteur de Rosult. Afin d’identifier ces boules, la MUFON, réseau d’enquêteurs et chercheurs sur les OVNI, lance un appel à témoignages.
Par Angèle Bayeul
Julien n’a pu filmer le phénomène que quelques secondes.
« J’étais sur la route pour aller à Lille avec mon épouse, quand nous avons aperçu dans le ciel cinq boules orange avec un point noir au milieu, au-dessus de l’A23. Elles se déplaçaient, stagnaient, puis repartaient. Il était environ 22 h 40. »
Mais qu’a vu Julien (1) ce samedi 14 septembre au soir dans le ciel ? Événement paranormal ? Arrivée discrète des extraterrestres ? Le quadra lillois serait plutôt du genre terre à terre mais confie avoir emprunté la première sortie d’autoroute pour mieux observer l’étrange phénomène qui se déroulait sous ses yeux. Sa route le mènera à Rosult près de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux.
« Je ne pense pas qu’elles dépendaient du vent, puisqu’elles allaient dans un sens et retournaient dans l’autre »
« Quand nous sommes arrivés à Rosult, il n’y en avait plus que trois boules. Je ne pense pas qu’elles dépendaient du vent, puisqu’elles allaient dans un sens et retournaient dans l’autre » analyse Julien, ce qui élimine, pour lui, la possibilité d’un vol de lanternes thaïlandaises. «L’une des boules s’est arrêtée au niveau d’une maison où se tenait une fête, comme si elle observait ce qu’il se passait, et quand j’ai voulu zoomer et en illuminer une avec mon téléphone, elle est partie. J’ai cru à des drones. » Mais qui pourrait bien espionner ces joyeux fêtards ?
Pour éclaircir ses eaux troubles, Julien a contacté le Mufon (Mutual UFO network), réseau de 14 enquêteurs et de chercheurs pour identifier les objets volants non identifiés (OVNI) « tout à fait respectable » selon le Geipan, organe officiel équivalent. Pascal Fechner, le directeur national, affirme que son travail est de récolter des témoignages et essayer de reconnaître les objets non identifiés de manière « rationnelle » et « factuelle ». « Le plus souvent, les phénomènes observés sont des lâchers de lanternes thaïlandaises, des astres, des planètes, des météorites et des drones. » Pas de Jupitériens à l’horizon, donc.
Appel à témoins
Pour permettre à l’enquête d’expliquer l’origine de ces boules orange vues dans la nuit du 14 septembre, le Mufon lance un appel à témoins avec, si possible, vidéos à l’appui.
PUBLIC INVITED TO VIEW A 100-DRONE AERIAL LIGHT SHOW
PUBLIC INVITED TO VIEW A 100-DRONE AERIAL LIGHT SHOW
A musically choreographed flock of 100 drones will take to
the sky on Friday, September 20, at approximately 9 p.m. just east of the iHotel and Conference Center in Champaign. The special aerial performance is in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Photo provided by Firefly Drone Shows
“When the department was founded in 1944, unmanned aerial vehicles—drones, were the stuff of science fiction. Today, they’re used in all sorts of applications and represent one of the cutting-edge technologies our researchers and students are working on in the department,” said Professor and Interim Head of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Greg Elliott. “As we kick off a year-long celebration of aerospace at Illinois, we are particularly excited to be able to share this professional drone show with the community.”
The show is produced by Firefly Drone Shows and will be customized with a nod to the department's 75th anniversary.
The show soundtrack will be simulcast on WPGU radio at 107.1 FM. Audio can also be heard through WPGU app or TuneIn Radio, both of which are available on the App Store or Google Play.
If it rains on the evening of Sept. 20, the drone show will be reschedule
Elliott mentioned another public event scheduled for April 11 as part of the 75th anniversary year. The department will co-host a showing of the movie Apollo 13 at the Virginia Theatre with a panel of aerospace experts following the film.
Riverbanks Center Marikina successfully pulled a first in the metro to do a fully automated light drones show in public. Enjoy the show! Kaway-Kaway fellow Marikenos! Kakaiba din eh..
A fleet of 1,180 unmanned drones put on a show like no others in south China's Guangzhou. The drones altogether weigh over one tonne. But they are controlled by just one engineer with one computer.
Intel dazzled its Folsom audience on July 15, 2018 with a spectacular light show designed to feature 1,500 drones, in an effort to outdo its previous world record of 1,218 Intel Shooting Star drones. The performance displayed multicolored choreography including bright, fireworks-like orbs.
Avengers Endgame Malaysia drone show with 300 drone by marvel studio and drone programmed by Intel. Avengers drone show location was 300M around Kuala Lumpur tower.
What were the mystery fireballs of Devon? Police launch urgent search after 'two fireballs tear through sky' sparking 999 calls over fears of a plane crash
What were the mystery fireballs of Devon? Police launch urgent search after 'two fireballs tear through sky' sparking 999 calls over fears of a plane crash
Two bright lights spotted over south coast of England early this morning
Sparked several 999 calls from witnesses concerned it was a plane crash
Devon and Cornwall police have searched the area and are 'satisfied' it was not a plane crash but more likely an asteroid
Police in Devon are investigating a mysterious bright object spotted falling across the night sky over the south coast.
Two 'fireballs' sparked several 999 calls, with witnesses suspecting there could have been a plane crash.
Plymouth police reached out to the public to try and establish the cause, questioning whether it might have been asteroids breaking up in the atmosphere.
'Did anybody else see two glowing objects falling southwesterly direction out towards Plymouth sound? I know I have been up all night, but that was odd. Asteroid?' the force tweeted.
Plymouth police reached out to the public to attempt to identify a mysterious bright object spotted falling across the night sky over the south coast, questioning whether it might have been asteroids breaking up in the atmosphere
Another officer responded with a picture they managed to take of the bright light at around 5.52am this morning.
The Force Incident Manager for Devon and Cornwall Police said: 'We have had further reports of seeing an object in the sky from some distance away with a trajectory towards the ground, with an item falling off it at some point.
'There have been reports it broke into two and this has come from numerous people.
'We’ve got two aircrafts in the air looking and doing aerial searches of the area. At the moment we are saying it is the Yelverton/Tavistock/Prince Town area.'
Sightings were also reported across the South Coast of England, London and Wales in the minutes before 6am.
In a further update, officers in Devon have ruled out the possibility of a plane crash due to a lack of debris, suggesting it was more likely a meteor shower.
Insp John Shuttleworth said: 'We are as satisfied as we can be that this has not been a light aircraft crash and no persons have been injured.
'The expert opinion of trained search officers is that if there had been an aircraft crash, assets in the air would have seen some debris.
'There have also been a couple of reports from the Cardiff and Dorset areas of people watching meteor showers across the South West.'
Thanks to 2019’s record drought in Europe, a 7,000-year-old circle of 150 upright stones is back on dry land in western Spain, after 50 years underwater.
This image shows the remains of the standing stones in July 28, 2019, after having been submerged since the 1960s.
After 50 years underwater, Spain’s Dolmen of Guadalperal— a 7,000-year-old circle of 150 upright stones — is back on dry land, thanks to record heat and drought in Europe this summer.
The megalithic monuments – known as the Spanish Stonehenge, located several miles from the town Peraleda de la Mata – have been underwater since the 1963 construction of the Valdecañas Dam flooded this region of western Spain. In the summer of 2019, several areas of Europe experienced drought conditions, including Spain, which had its third-driest June of the century, along with above-average temperatures in July and August. The drought conditions were enough to expose the Dolmen of Guadalperal, so that some residents of the nearby town of Peraleda de la Mata were able to see it for the first time. Angel Castaño is president of Raíces de Peralêda, a local cultural association dedicated to preserving the monument. He told AtlasObscura.com:
All my life, people had told me about the dolmen. I had seen parts of it peeking out from the water before, but this is the first time I’ve seen it in full. It’s spectacular because you can appreciate the entire complex for the first time in decades.
When we saw it, we were completely thrilled. It felt like we had discovered a megalithic monument ourselves.
NASA Earth Observatory also reported on the reappearance of the Dolmen of Guadalperal, showing two different satellite images of it, captured in July 2013 and July 2019, by NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Note the changing water levels and the widening of the tan ring around the along the reservoir’s shoreline in the second image. These lighter colored sediments are the recently exposed lake bottom. A circle marks the Dolmen of Guadalperal.
The Dolmen of Guadalperal was found in 1926, part of a research and excavation campaign led by the German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier. Scientists believe it could have been a solar temple, as well as a burial enclave. Roman remains have been found there, including a coin, ceramic fragments and a grinding stone. Axes, ceramics, flint knives and a copper punch were found in a nearby dump. According to the Spanish media outlet Repelando, a settlement was also found nearby, thought to date back to the time of the monument’s construction. There were homes, charcoal and ash stains, lots of pottery, mills and stones to sharpen axes, among other objects, .
Since the 1960s, tips of the tallest megaliths have peaked out of the lake as water levels fluctuated. The monument consists of 150 granite stones or orthostates, placed in vertical arrangement that make up a circular chamber about 15 feet (five meters) in diameter, preceded by an access corridor about 70 feet (21 meters) long.
At the end of the hall, just at the entrance of the chamber, there is a menhir or standing stone, about 6 feet (2 meters) high, that contains the image of a snake. Research suggests this image represents the Tagus River – longest river in the Iberian peninsula – which passes through the area.
The Dolmen of Guadalperal are located in the town of Peraleda de la Mata in Spain.
Archeologists believe the Dolmen of Guadalperal was originally constructed as an enclosed space — a large stone house with a cap. The dolmen could have served as a tomb, a site for religious rituals, or a trading hub since it was relatively easy to cross the river at this location.
The most recent recorded exploration and excavation of the site was by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier in the 1920s. By the time Obermaier’s findings were published in the 1960s though, Valdecañas Reservoir was filled with water.
The Dolmen de Guadalperal was excavated and studied in the 1920s, drowned in the 1960s, and dry again in 2019.
Image via 1080 Wildlife Productions/ AtlasObscura.
Bottom line: The Dolmen of Guadalperal – aka the Spanish Stonehenge, submerged for 50 years – is back on dry land, thanks to the hot and dry 2019 summer.
US MILITARY THREATENED TO BOMB “MILLENNIALS” STORMING AREA 51
US MILITARY THREATENED TO BOMB “MILLENNIALS” STORMING AREA 51
U.S. AIR FORCE/VICTOR TANGERMANN
KRISTIN HOUSER
Joke Bombed
On Friday, approximately 75 alien-enthusiasts gathered in the Nevada desert for Storm Area 51, a jokey Facebook event that went viral back in June.
But just before those folks met up for what ended up being afar smaller event than expected, a public relations unit within the U.S. military took to Twitter to share a “joke” of its own — threatening to kill attendees with a stealth bomber.
And I Oops
On Friday, Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) tweeted a photo of a B-2 stealth bomber along with the caption “the last thing #Millennials will see if they attempt the #area51raid today.”
The unit later deleted the tweet and apologized for posting it in the first place.
“Last night a DVIDSHUB employee posted a Tweet that in NO WAY supports the stance of the Department of Defense,” DVIDS tweeted on Saturday. “It was inappropriate and we apologize for this mistake.”
Come In Peace
The tweet was clearly in very poor taste, but had anyone actually attempted to raid Area 51, the military would have legally been allowed to use deadly force against them.
Thankfully, it didn’t come to that. In fact, the whole event seems to have gone peacefully. Law enforcement arrested just one person, and even that attendee didn’t attempt to breach Area 51’s gates — they just got caught urinating near them.
Area 51 bestormen? Ans Hoornweg 'weet' al lang wat er daar gebeurt
Area 51 bestormen? Ans Hoornweg 'weet' al lang wat er daar gebeurt
Wat gebeurt er precies in het geheimzinnige ‘Area 51’? Twee Nederlandse Youtubers reisden er speciaal voor af naar Amerika en werden opgepakt. Niet nodig, want Ans Hoornweg heeft het allemaal al gehoord van de aliens zelf.
Over Ans later meer, maar eerst: waar komt die plotse aandacht voor Area 51 nu eigenlijk vandaan?
Is er een ufo neergestort?
Rond de streng verboden en zwaarbeveiligde militaire basis in Nevada hangt al decennia een hardnekkige zweem van geheimzinnigheid. Wat er zich binnen de hekken van het afgeschermde terrein afspeelt, houdt mensen al generaties bezig.
Zo wordt er gefluisterd dat in 1947 een vliegende schotel zou zijn neergestort. Ook zouden er illegale experimenten worden uitgevoerd op buitenaardse wezens.
Om voor eens en voor altijd te weten wat er in Area 51 gebeurt, willen mensen het gebied vrijdag bestormen. Een oproep daartoe gaat viraal op Facebook en wordt overspoeld met reacties.
De lokale autoriteiten maken zich ernstig zorgen over het aanstaande ‘evenement’ en waarschuwen iedereen om niet in de buurt van het geheime terrein te komen. De Amerikaanse overheid doet de geruchten steevast af als onzin.
‘Mijn alienvriend zit in Area 51’
Daar gelooft de 77-jarige Ans Hoornweg dus helemaal niets van. Sterker nog, ze weet dat het niet waar is. Man bijt hond sprak de vrouw, die al van kinds af aan ‘contact’ heeft met ruimtewezens. “Ik ben zelf een alien geweest”, verklaart ze.
Ans is namelijk ‘geïncarneerd’ vanaf een andere planeet en heeft sinds haar kindertijd goed contact met een speciale vriend, die toevallig in Area 51 gevangen wordt gehouden. “Dat wezen is daar binnen.”
En zoals mensen met elkaar praten, laten buitenaardse wezens elkaar dingen weten via beelden. Zo heeft Ans als kind al ‘gezien’ wat er zich in het complex afspeelt. “Ik ben er niet naartoe gevlogen. Nee, ik heb mijn zesde zintuig.”
Wat kan haar vriend vertellen over de geruchten over ruimteschepen en aliens? “Wat ik kan zien is dat ze daar gecrashte ufo’s hebben. Ook hebben ze buitenaards wezens in hun bezit die ze gevangen houden.”
Tekst loopt verder onder de foto
Feestje voor de bestorming
Ans vindt het verschrikkelijk wat haar vriend moet doorstaan, maar voelt zich machteloos. “Wat kan ik doen?” Buitenaardse beschavingen zijn volgens haar dan ook blij met de aandacht, zodat ‘alles’ naar buiten kan komen.
Inmiddels zijn de eerste bestormers gezien in het afgelegen gebied op zo’n 130 kilometer van gokstad Las Vegas. Mensen zijn met campers gekomen omdat er in de wijde omtrek geen hotels zijn.
Ze houden feestjes bij de geheime militaire basis. De politie houdt er rekening mee dat er weleens 30.000 mensen zouden kunnen komen.
Youtubers Govert Sweep (21) en Ties Granzier (20) besloten vorige week al een kijkje te nemen en moesten dat bekopen met een paar dagen cel en een boete van 4500 dollar. Ze vlogen vrijdag terug naar Brussel.
Ans is vol lof over de Nederlanders. “De jongens die het op de kaart gezet hebben, ja geweldig. Dat vind ik echt fantastisch. Die jongelui hebben we nodig.”
Het hele verhaal van Ans kun je bovenaan dit artikel bekijken. Het begint na vijftien seconden.
Ancient ET Base Found In Antartica! UFO Sighting News.
Ancient ET Base Found In Antartica! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Sept 23, 2019 Location of discovery: Antartica Google Coordinates: 74° 3'44.57"S 103°16'4.79"W I was looking at Google Earth in the Antartica region and found four underground base facilities located within 1km of each other. Each building sits on the ocean floor and barely breaks the surface of the top of the ocean. Each buildings between 2km and 2.8km across according to google ruler. Watch the video to learn and see more photos of them. This is 100% proof that alien bases exist in Antartica. Scott C. Waring
What started off as a joke had about 2 million people pledging to “Storm Area 51” this weekend, and even after the event was cancelled, authorities were still worried that tens of thousands of people may still show up at the gates of the highly guarded Area 51 Air Force base. In total, approximately 3,000 people showed up to the several alien-themed events that took place in the desert region, not far from the base.
With the “storm” weekend finally finished, a surprisingly low amount of visitors gathered at the gate to the base in the early morning hours of September 20th. Law enforcement officers blocked the road around a mile away from the gate and approximately 150 people walked the remainder of the way up to the back gate of Area 51. Around a dozen officers were present at the gate, as well as an officer with a police dog just in case anyone attempted to get a closer look at the base. At one point, around 20 people in the crowd acted as if they were going to “storm” the gates while the song “Final Countdown” played in the background, but everyone started laughing and nobody ended up “storming”.
A total of five people were arrested – three people (two males and one female) were arrested for trespassing; one person was arrested for indecent exposure for urinating near the gate to Area 51; and one was taken into custody for an alcohol-related incident.
As for the festivities, one event was a lot more successful than the other. “Storm Area 51 Basecamp”, which took place at the Alien Research Center in Hiko, was cancelled after just 500 people showed up on the first day. Keith Wright, who organised the event, said that they had expected 5,000 people to show up. “We put on a safe event for people that showed up,” he said, adding that they had to cancel it because “it costs tens of thousands of dollars to staff each day.”
“Alienstock” seemed to have been a much bigger success. Connie West, who runs the Little A’Le’Inn motel in Rachel, said that “This is the most fabulous time,” and “I’m just so grateful that people came.” The several thousand travelers who were camping on the grounds of the motel and in surrounding areas, were apparently really enjoying all of the musical talent West had brought in for the festivities.
In other news, the US military has issued an apology after posting a tweet that suggested that UFO enthusiasts should be worried that a B-2 nuclear-capable bomber was ready to protect the secrets of Area 51. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (or DVIDS) tweeted a photo of a B-2 stealth bomber with a very stern warning that read, “The last thing #Millennials will see if they attempt the #area51raid today.”
All in all, it was a pretty quiet weekend considering that just a few weeks ago, the event was still scheduled to happen with around two million people pledging to storm the base. You can see some pictures here from the “storm” weekend.
An attendee is detained after briefly physically crossing a security line, as people gathered to “storm” Area 51.
Attendee Daniel Rodriguez wears at tinfoil hat as he and other Alien hunters gathered to “storm” Area 51 at an entrance near Rachel, Nevada.
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Attendees depart after gathering to “storm” Area 51 at an entrance to the military facility.
Attendee Ellie Urquhart walks past a security line as people gather to “storm” Area 51.
Members of law enforcement stand near barb wire, as people gathered to “storm” Area 51, at an entrance to the military facility near Rachel, Nevada on September 20, 2019.
Attendees discuss with guards as they gather to “storm” Area 51.
Aliens of all stripes are zeroing in on the secretive Area 51 this weekend.
Area 51 is the hush-hush U.S. Air Force military installation located at Groom Lake in southern Nevada.
The installation has been the focus of numerous conspiracies involving the base's extraterrestrial connection — a locale for captured flying saucers and surely an alien holding site.
The town of Rachel is an unincorporated portion of Lincoln County, Nevada. As the closest habitation to the Nellis Air Force Range and Area 51, the area has become a Mecca for inquisitive UFO believers.
The town is roughly three hours drive north of Las Vegas along Nevada Highway 375, also called the "Extraterrestrial Highway." Rachel is home base for Little A'Le'Inn that has been selling tickets for "ALIENSTOCK."
Be forewarned: There is no gas available in Rachel. Incoming alien hunters are urged to fill their tank in Alamo/Ash Springs from the east or Tonopah from the west.
Meanwhile, instead of storming a secretive government base, the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center is partnering with Collective Zoo and Bud Light to host an evening of top-secret entertainment on Thursday, September 19 with the Area 51 Celebration.
"The time has come to sit back, share a beer, and talk all things aliens," exclaims the associated website. "Come in peace, we have everything you need to make this celebration a blowout, including a classified lineup of music artists specially curated by Collective Zoo."
Matty Roberts, the man behind the virtual "Storm Area 51" movement has been abducted to host the alien-themed event in downtown Las Vegas.
Gate-crashing no-no
Overall, there's no telling how many are truly expected to populate the Area 51 festivities. As of this posting, it remains unclear what events may have been cancelled or are still planned in light of an alien free-for-all, even legal fights over events.
In the meantime, for those wishing to storm a highly-classified military base, UFO devotees are being warned that any gate-crashing is a no-no and will be deterred.
Leonard David is author of the recently released book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Live Stream! Area 51 Raid! The Event Begins in Nevada
Live Stream! Area 51 Raid! The Event Begins in Nevada
Area 51 Raid Live Stream
The Event begins in Nevada. What was once a Hoax has now become reality. lol Pretty foolish but fun to watch I’m sure. I doubt anyone will be raiding Area 51 today.
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range. Officially, the facility is called Homey Airport or Groom Lake, named after the salt flat situated next to its airfield.
Cosmic Disaster, Solar Micronova, Superflare, Magnetic Reversal, Crustal Displacement, Ice Age, Tsunamis, Volcanoes… it’s all here, it’s all been done before and it’s all coming again soon.
Science tells us these magnetic events come on a cycle, we are due up again now, and shocker… the magnetic field is shifting and accelerating. This is not a coincidence.
The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis suggests that there have been geologically rapid shifts in the relative positions of the modern-day geographic locations of the poles and the axis of rotation of the Earth, creating calamities such as floods and tectonic events.
Researchers Looking For Dark Matter Fail And Find Gold Instead
Researchers Looking For Dark Matter Fail And Find Gold Instead
Over the past recent years, scientists have devised several methods to detect the mysterious dark matter particles, but no one has been successful in doing so.
Any signal from dark matter is incredibly small. A research team from Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Australia thus attempted to detect dark matter, deep in the core of a mine in Stawell, Victoria. However, they failed in their task.
Even though the researchers carried out the experiments, almost a kilometer down the mineshaft using a highly sensitive sensor device, the rock above them could not shield the cosmic radiations, called Muon particles, which ruined the measurements. However, there was a silver lining. The scientists ended up detecting gold in the process!
Now, muons are similar to electrons but are said to be 200 times heavier. As high atomic numbers preferentially scatter muons, heavy metal deposits like gold create shadows like bones in a medical X-Ray. Thus, researchers designed a portable muon detector, the size of a paperweight equipped with a sensor that runs our smartphones. Given its portability, it can be used to explore lower mineral boreholes.
Gold formed on quartz in a hydrothermal vein. Unspecified mine at or near Grass Valley, Nevada County. Image credits James St. John / Flickr
“The first one we built was a cylindrical piece of scintillating plastic in a paint tin. You’ve never seen anything that looked so rough and ready, but it just gave the most beautiful detections,” said Alan Duffy, an Associate Professor at Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, as reported by ZME Science.
The team looks forward to reconstructing a picture of the minerals from the data in a few short weeks. The researchers also ideally want a new company to be built around the sensor after it develops the device to be sturdy enough for use in real mines.
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