Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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30-05-2022
Astronomers discover colossal wave-shaped gaseous structure that is 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide - the largest ever seen in our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers discover colossal wave-shaped gaseous structure that is 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide - the largest ever seen in our Milky Way galaxy
Giant wave changes our 150-long knowledge of interconnected stellar nurseries
Stellar nurseries are star-forming regions of contracting cloud and dust
The 'Radcliffe wave' reaches trillions of miles above and below our galactic disk
The US astronomers used data from European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft
Astronomers have discovered the largest gaseous structure ever observed in our galaxy, transforming human knowledge of the shape of matter in the Milky Way.
The wave-shaped structure is about 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide, stretching 500 light years above and below the mid-plane of our galaxy's disc.
The long and relatively thin thread-like structure is undulating, like 'a ripple in the pond', and contains a huge network of stellar nurseries – star forming regions.
The team from Harvard used new data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft to construct a 3D map of interstellar matter in the galaxy.
This image, taken from the World Wide Telescope, represents the study data overlaid on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way and our sun.
'We don't know what causes this shape but it could be like a ripple in a pond, as if something extraordinarily massive landed in our galaxy,' said João Alves, professor of stellar astrophysics at the University of Vienna and co-author of the study.
'What we do know is that our sun interacts with this structure.
WHAT IS A STELLAR NURSERY?
Stellar nurseries are an area of outer space with a dense nebula – an interstellar cloud – in which gas and dust are contracting.
Dense regions within these clouds eventually contract and collapse to form stars.
They are called nurseries because they are star-forming regions filled with young stars.
This new discovery is one giant undulating wave gaseous clouds and dust – the largest seen in our galaxy.
'It passed by a festival of supernovae as it crossed Orion 13 million years ago, and in another 13 million years it will cross the structure again, sort of like we are "surfing the wave".'
The structure is made up of interconnected stellar nurseries, areas of outer space with dense clouds of gas and dust.
It transforms a 150-year-old vision of the galaxy, which researchers previously believed was made up of nearby stellar nurseries that formed an expanding ring oriented around the sun, known as the Gould Belt.
The Gould's Belt was first described by Benjamin Gould in 1879 as a collection of bright and massive stars that formed a ring in a projection on the sky.
Scientists have dubbed the new wave-like discovery the 'Radcliffe wave' – after the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where the discovery was made.
'No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas – or that it forms the Local Arm of the Milky Way,' said Professor Alyssa Goodman, co-director of the Science Program at the institute.
'The wave's very existence is forcing us to rethink our understanding of the Milky Way's 3D structure.'
Illustration of colourful filaments of dust that form part of the Gould Belt, a collection of bright and massive stars that formed a ring in a projection on the sky, first observed in 1879
The study was made possible by new data from Gaia – the European Space Agency's spacecraft, which was launched in 2013 with the mission of precisely measuring the position, distance and motion of the stars.
The new structure comprises the majority of nearby star-forming regions and contains about three million solar masses of gas – one solar mass is equal to the mass of our sun.
The wave includes many of the stellar nurseries that were previously thought to form part of Gould's Belt.
For a long time, astronomers have been trying to figure out if bright stars forming an arc in the sky actually form a ring in 3D.
'Instead, what we've observed is the largest coherent gas structure we know of in the galaxy, organised not in a ring but in a massive, undulating filament,' said professor Alves.
'The sun lies only 500 light years from the wave at its closest point. It's been right in front of our eyes all the time, but we couldn't see it until now.'
The new, 3D map shows our galactic neighbourhood in a new light, providing a revised view of the Milky Way and potentially opening the door to other major discoveries.
The new discovery is detailed in Nature and viewable as a 3D map on the WorldWide Telescope tour website.
It has been based on two research papers previously published by a team led by Harvard graduate student Catherine Zucker.
These two papers detail distances among stellar nurseries using advanced statistical techniques that map the 3D distribution of dust, using vast surveys of the stars' colours.
Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has enabled measurements of the distances to one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S GAIA PROBE AND WHAT IS DESIGNED TO DO?
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and in the process reveal its composition, formation and evolution.
Gaia has been circling the sun nearly a million miles beyond Earth's orbit since its launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013.
On its journey, the probe has been discreetly snapping pictures of the Milky Way, identifying stars from smaller galaxies long ago swallowed up by our own.
Tens of thousands of previously undetected objects are expected to be discovered by Gaia, including asteroids that may one day threaten Earth, planets circling nearby stars, and exploding supernovas.
Artist's impression of Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way. Gaia maps the position of the Milky Way's stars in a couple of ways. It pinpoints the location of the stars but the probe can also plot their movement, by scanning each star about 70 times
Astrophysicists also hope to learn more about the distribution of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to hold the observable universe together.
They also plan to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity by watching how light is deflected by the sun and its planets.
The satellite's billion-pixel camera, the largest ever in space, is so powerful it would be able to gauge the diameter of a human hair at a distance of 621 miles (1,000 km).
This means nearby stars have been located with unprecedented accuracy.
Gaia maps the position of the Milky Way's stars in a couple of ways.
Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016. Brighter regions indicate denser concentrations of especially bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer bright stars are observed. The colour representation is obtained by combining the total amount of light with the amount of blue and red light recorded by Gaia in each patch of the sky.
It pinpoints the location of the stars but the probe can also plot their movement, by scanning each star about 70 times.
This is what allows scientists to calculate the distance between Earth and each star, which is a crucial measure.
In September 2016, ESA released the first batch of data collected by Gaia, which included information on the brightness and position of over a billion stars.
In April 2018, this was expanded to high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars.
A lot of things viewed as unusual by the people from the present day used to take place in ancient Egypt. While some of these aspects are fascinating, others can be simply regarded as odd. Going beyond this, ancient Egypt has proven to be a fantastic civilization which continues to inspire individuals even today. Out of the countless lesser-known aspects regarding ancient Egypt, some interesting ones are revealed here.
1. World's First Known Female Pharaoh
Ancient Egypt gave the world the first female pharaoh who is still known in the present day. Her name was Merneith. She lived around 5000 years ago, belonging to the First Dynasty. She died around 2950 BC, after ascending to the throne once her husband, Pharaoh Djet, died. The son of the couple, Den, should have become pharaoh, but he was too young. So, around 2990 BC, his mother's reign began. Merneith (who had royal blood, being a descendant of Pharaoh Narmer who had unified Egypt and started the First Dynasty in the past) took care of state matters. Even though not much is really known about her, one thing remains certain: during her administration the ancient Egyptian economy thrived and, later on, thanks to his mother's guidance, Den came to be regarded as the greatest pharaoh of the First Dynasty.
The tomb of the female pharaoh was discovered at Abydos. It was very unusual for the tomb of a woman, being identical to other tombs that had been constructed for great male pharaohs. It included 40 sacrificed servants, many sacrificed animals, and a boat on which the soul of the female pharaoh could sail in the afterlife to meet the Sun god, Ra. In this way, Merneith set the ground for other great female pharaohs who are probably a little more well-known such as Hatshepsut and Cleopatra. However, the reality of female pharaohs is not the only fascinating and lesser-known fact about ancient Egypt. So, let the adventure into the old world of gods and mummies begin!
2. Tutankhamun’s Beard
In ancient Egypt, having hair on one's body was seen as dirty and a sign one was lacking in personal hygiene. Because of this, both men and women shaved off all the hair from their bodies. This included shaving their heads. After doing this, women would wear beautifully adorned wigs with complex designs according to the fashion of the times. In the case of the pharaoh, the beard was a symbol of masculinity and power. But, obviously, the pharaoh could not grow a beard because hair on the body implied uncleanliness. So, an artificial beard would be attached to the pharaoh's face using strings to keep it in place. The funerary gold mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun presents an example of such a beard.
In the case of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, Carter and his team had not been the best archaeologists. Instead, they were much closer to the image of treasure hunters. As a result, while handling the solid gold funerary mask they managed to break off the beard. Unable to use the same method applied by the ancient Egyptians who had crafted the mask, around the year 1944 the beard was fixed back onto the mask using a piece of wood. That was how the relic was displayed until August 2014 when the beard was accidentally broken off again by some Egyptian employees from the museum. Obviously, these museographers realized the gravity of the situation, so they decided to hide their mistake by gluing the beard back on using adhesive. To make it look even better, they removed the visible remains of the adhesive substance by using some metal tools to scrape them off. Ultimately, the mask ended up looking really bad.
To fix the relic, a restoration commission from Germany showed up. They worked for nine weeks just to remove the adhesive substance. They masked the scratches and reattached the beard using beeswax, the exact substance that had originally been used in this regard by the ancient Egyptians. The eight museographers, including the museum's director, were sent to trial and they will have to pay a large fine.
The famous burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt
On the 24th of November 1922, Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. This was thought to have been sealed and untouched, the only tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh that had escaped the action of tomb raiders. Wrong!
Carter understood that others had entered the place before him. Officially, he promised that the tomb would only be unsealed and opened in the presence of Egyptian officials. So, of course, he illegally entered the tomb the night before the grand event. This was no big deal, because others had been there before him, twice actually. The proof of this was a large crack in the exterior door. This had been sealed back up. Also, the pharaoh's belongings from the antechamber were found in disorder, as the tomb raiders had robbed the place in haste. This had happened shortly after the pharaoh's burial. These thieves had been interested in jewelry and precious metal items. Also, they had come for the things which had to be stolen immediately. This refers to perfumes, precious oils, and clothing items. These could not last for years inside the tomb, so if the thieves wanted to sell them for profit, they had to remove them quickly.
Other cracks on the doors of the tomb clearly suggested the second tomb raiding event. The first grave robbers had only broken into the antechamber. The second ones had a larger team and they had been better organized. Their purpose was to access all of the funerary chambers. There was a written inventory detailing everything that had been placed inside the tomb. Carter discovered it. After consulting it, he understood that, in 1922, less than half off all the jewelry and precious metal items originally deposited inside the tomb had remained. This suggests that the tomb raiders had to get out of there quickly, only taking what they could carry.
Not even the seal on the tomb had been the original one. Instead, this had been replaced by the one of Horemheb. This pharaoh had received the throne from Ay (the vizier who had succeeded Pharaoh Tutankhamun). To hide all of this, repairs were made, and the cracks were covered. However, everything had to be done in great haste due to the lack of time, just as the tomb raiders had previously operated. After the second grave robbing event, the tombs of Ramesses II and Ramesses IV were built close to the tomb of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun was thought to lack importance as a pharaoh, so his tomb no longer attracted interest. Also, the entry to the tomb was covered by sand and, in time, the place was forgotten. The grave robbers switched their attention towards the tombs of other more important pharaohs which had more to offer.
A lot has been discussed about the process of mummification and its stages. However, fewer people have knowledge regarding the costs of this process. It is obvious that nobody got mummified for free in ancient Egypt. Also, it must be mentioned that ancient Egyptians did not use money. The first coins from the area were introduced around 360 BC, but, despite this, ancient Egyptian priests were highly aware of the value of luxury goods and precious metals. These priests were actually the inventors of the mummification business. Their purpose was to obtain profit, as every person had to be mummified after death if he or she wanted to even have an afterlife.
According to Herodotus, Egyptian priests had come up with three main types of mummification. The first was meant for the rich who had to pay what would be equal to about 20,000 euros today for a premium mummification process. The brain was taken out through the nose, the corpse was eviscerated, bathed in expensive wines, spices and oils, kept with salt for around 70 days, the eyes were replaced with two onions and the organs were nicely placed in specialized canopic jars. After the corpse dried up, it would be wrapped in expensive cloth along with specific amulets and sealed with wax and resin. The mummy was given to the family who also had to pay for a sarcophagus, a pyramid or a tomb, some slaves to kill for the mummy to have servants in the afterlife and a few mummified animals. With a relatively decent sarcophagus costing around five goats or a slave, this entire luxury mummification package proved to be really costly.
The type of mummification meant for the middle-class cost around half the price of the luxury package. In this case, the body was not eviscerated. It was just injected with a certain cedar oil which had the effect of dissolving the internal organs. Because this could get messy, a stopper was introduced in the anus of the corpse until the liquefaction was complete. After that, the stopper was removed and all the liquid allowed to flow out of the corpse which was afterwards kept with salt for 70 days. The mummy was then given to the living family members who took it to a common cemetery. The last type of mummification was reserved for the poor and it was paid by the state. The guts were removed, the corpse was washed and kept with salt for 70 days. After this, it was taken out to the desert and buried there without any amulets on it.
Criminals in ancient Egypt were always burned at the stake to prevent them from having an afterlife. As for nobles who had committed crimes during life, they were allowed to kill themselves and their corpses underwent a simple mummification procedure. The major blasphemers were mummified in goat skin, so that the gods from the world beyond could know of their actions. As for pets, animal mummification cost between 1000 and 5000 euros in today’s money. Those who wanted to impress others would mummify larger animals such as crocodiles or bulls.
Corruption has always existed, and even ancient Egypt had to confront this reality. Horemheb ruled Egypt as a pharaoh between the years 1319/1306 and 1292 BC. He was the first ancient Egyptian ruler who led a serious fight against corruption. During the reign of Akhenaten and that of his son, Tutankhamun, corruption had increased and gotten out of control. Starting as a commoner, Horemheb managed to become a general and, later on, he sat on the throne as pharaoh.
Tutankhamun had died at the age of 18 in suspicious circumstances. He was succeeded by the vizier Ay who was murdered. Horemheb did not want to share their fate. As a pharaoh, he issued drastic laws and worked hard to eradicate corruption. To be sure he was in control, he personally replaced all judges and state officials. He also made bribery punishable by death. This had never been applied before in this regard, the harshest punishment for bribery until the time of Horemheb was a threat that the god Anubis would be very upset with the individual in the afterlife. As he thought Anubis had more important issues to attend to, Horemheb radically changed the system and dealt with punishments personally.
Death was the sentence given to thieves. Mutilation was inflicted upon those who committed fraud and those who set taxes too high for the population. The mutilation referred to here consisted of cutting off the nose and the ears of the trespasser. The person would then be exiled to Tharu, a region ancient Greeks began to refer to as Rhinocolura, because a lot of people who lived there had no noses.
Detail of a statue of Horemheb, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
To a certain extent, the fight against corruption undergone by Pharaoh Horemheb proved successful for a time. The ancient Egyptian ruler actually died a natural death, but, afterwards, his example was no longer followed.
Top image: Ancient columns at the Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt.
WETENSCHAPPERS METEN BIJ TOEVAL DE HERSENACTIVITEIT VAN EEN STERVENDE MAN EN ZIEN IETS HEEL BIJZONDERS GEBEUREN
WETENSCHAPPERS METEN BIJ TOEVAL DE HERSENACTIVITEIT VAN EEN STERVENDE MAN EN ZIEN IETS HEEL BIJZONDERS GEBEUREN
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zo werden er ook nadat zijn hart gestopt was nog hersengolven gemeten en zou het zomaar kunnen dat stervende mensen de hoogtepunten uit hun leven echt aan zich voorbij zien schieten.
Wanneer neurochirurg Ajmal Zemmar de elektroden op het hoofd van zijn 87-jarige patiënt met epilepsie laat plaatsen, kan hij onmogelijk weten dat deze patiënt postuum een hoofdrol zal gaan spelen in zijn volgende onderzoeksartikel dat zal handelen over de hersenactiviteit in een stervend brein. De hoogbejaarde epilepsiepatiënt in kwestie is na een val in het ziekenhuis opgenomen en Zemmar en zijn team stellen alles in het werk om hem te helpen. Met behulp van de elektroden wordt zijn hersenactiviteit continu gemeten en kunnen epileptische aanvallen gedetecteerd en behandeld worden. Maar ondanks de goede zorgen van de artsen gaat de man zienderogen achteruit om vervolgens – toch nog onverwacht en met de elektroden nog op de schedel – aan een hartaanval te overlijden.
Uniek Het is een tragische gebeurtenis, onder unieke omstandigheden. Want terwijl deze man sterft, wordt zijn hersenactiviteit continu gemeten. En daarmee stelt de onverwachte tragedie de artsen in staat om te bestuderen wat er in een stervend brein gebeurt. Hun bevindingen zijn deze week in het blad Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience verschenen en in meerdere opzichten opmerkelijk.
Het onderzoek In de studie focussen de artsen en onderzoekers zich op de hersenactiviteit die in de laatste 30 seconden voor het stilvallen van het hart en de 30 seconden daarna is gemeten. “Net voor het hart stopte met werken zagen we veranderingen optreden in hersengolven met een specifieke frequentie, de zogenoemde gammagolven,” zo legt hoofdauteur Zemmar aan Scientias.nl uit. “Dit zijn hersengolven met een hoge frequentie die in het dagelijks leven in verband worden gebracht met de hogere cognitieve functies, zoals het ophalen van herinneringen, mediteren en concentreren. Wanneer we met dat soort dingen bezig zijn, zien we de gammagolven toenemen.” En opmerkelijk genoeg zagen de onderzoekers een vergelijkbare toename in gammagolven kort voor het hart van de 87-jarige patiënt stopte met kloppen. “En niet alleen van gammagolven,” benadrukt Zemmar. “Ook van hersengolven met een andere frequentie, zoals delta-, theta-, alpha- en betagolven. Maar de toename van gammagolven sprong wel het meest in het oog.”
Hoewel enige terughoudendheid in de interpretatie van de veranderingen in hersenactiviteit op zijn plaats is, durven Zemmar en collega’s wel enigszins te speculeren over waar het brein zo kort voor het intreden van de dood mee bezig was. “Wat we zien, is dat de gammagolven kort voor- en nadat het hart gestopt is, hetzelfde patroon volgen als in gezonde mensen die herinneringen ophalen of dromen. En hoewel we niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen wat het brein van de stervende patiënt aan het doen was, lijkt het – als we alle data naast elkaar leggen – zeker niet ondenkbaar dat de hersenen de belangrijke en fijne herinneringen nog eens afspeelden en de patiënt zijn leven dus aan zich voorbij zag schieten.”
Toename hersenactiviteit na de dood Wat minstens zo interessant is, is dat de elektroden ook nadat het hart van de patiënt stil was gevallen nog hersengolven detecteerden. “Dat is heel verrassend,” stelt Zemmar. “Want je zou denken dat wanneer het hart stopt met het rondpompen van bloed, ook het brein dood is. Het feit dat er na het stilvallen van het hart nog hersengolven werden gedetecteerd, suggereert voorzichtig dat de hersenactiviteit nadat het hart stopt met kloppen mogelijk nog doorgaat,” aldus Zemmar. Maar het is nog veel te vroeg om op basis van deze observaties conclusies te trekken over waar het brein na het stilvallen van het hart nog toe in staat is. “De data zijn slechts afkomstig van één casus en het is op dit moment niet mogelijk om met zekerheid te zeggen dat de waargenomen hersenactiviteit ook echt bewijst dat het brein nog functioneel actief is, in die zin dat de patiënt nog steeds droomt of flashbacks heeft,” onderstreept Zemmar.
Eén casus Hoewel de observaties bijzonder fascinerend zijn, wil Zemmar graag benadrukken dat de interpretaties ervan vooralsnog echt speculatief zijn. “Daarbij is het belangrijk om nogmaals te vermelden dat het allemaal gebaseerd is op slechts één casus: het brein van één patiënt. En die patiënt had hersenbeschadigingen: bloedingen en zwelling. Die kunnen de hersenactiviteit beïnvloed hebben en dat maakt het interpreteren ervan misschien nog wel lastiger.”
Eerdere dierproeven Met deze ene, bijzondere casus zijn de data als het om de activiteit in stervende menselijke hersenen gaat, dus dun gezaaid. Maar dat er rond het sterven weleens iets bijzonders kan gebeuren in het brein, is eerder ook al gesuggereerd op basis van dierproeven. “In 2013 is er in de VS een experiment uitgevoerd waarbij wetenschappers ervoor zorgden dat gezonde ratten – terwijl de hersenactiviteit van de dieren gemonitord werd – een hartaanval kregen en overleden,” vertelt Zemmar. En opvallend genoeg zagen de wetenschappers in de hersenen van die ratten kort voor het stoppen van het hart dezelfde veranderingen in gammagolven optreden als nu in het brein van de 87-jarige man zijn waargenomen. “Dat is toch wel verrassend,” vindt Zemmar. “Want ratten en mensen staan evolutionair gezien nogal ver van elkaar vandaan.” Het interpreteren van deze opmerkelijke overeenkomst tussen stervende ratten en mensen is opnieuw lastig. “Maar misschien hebben we hier wel te maken met een oude, biologische respons die door de evolutie van soorten heen geconserveerd is.” In dat scenario zou je denken dat de hersenactiviteit op het moment van sterven een belangrijke functie heeft. Maar ook daar kunnen we enkel naar gissen. “Misschien is de biologische respons er wel op gericht om ons – middels het ophalen van fijne herinneringen – te kalmeren voor we sterven,” speculeert Zemmar. “En misschien is het wel gewoon een mechanisme dat in gang wordt gebracht als we gaan sterven en waarvan we de consequenties op dit moment niet begrijpen.”
Vervolgonderzoek Voor nu lijkt de ene casus meer vragen op te roepen dan te beantwoorden. Toch voelden Zemmar en collega’s sterk de behoefte om hun observaties met de wereld te delen. “Allereerst omdat de observaties vragen oproepen die niet alleen interessant zijn vanuit wetenschappelijk oogpunt, maar ook van belang zijn voor de samenleving,” vertelt Zemmar. Hij denkt dan bijvoorbeeld aan de observatie dat de hersenactiviteit enige tijd nadat het hart al is gestopt met kloppen, nog doorgang vindt. “Dat zet je als arts aan het denken: want wat is nu het moment waarop je iemand dood kunt verklaren en bijvoorbeeld orgaandonatie in gang kunt zetten?” Daarnaast hoopt Zemmar dat de publicatie ertoe leidt dat meer van deze (toevallig verzamelde) EEG-scans komen bovendrijven. “Wij presenteren de allereerste observaties van een stervend mensenbrein. Pas als we meer van dit soort observaties hebben, kunnen we bepalen of wat wij hebben zien gebeuren een universeel fenomeen is.”
Dat ook die laatste momenten van het leven het verdienen om nader onderzocht te worden, staat voor Zemmar vast. Dergelijke studies kunnen namelijk belangrijke implicaties hebben voor de omgang met en zorg voor stervende mensen én hun geliefden. “Als neurochirurg heb ik regelmatig met overlijdens te maken. En ik weet hoe moeilijk het is voor familieleden om te zien dat hun familielid, waarmee ze soms niet meer kunnen communiceren, stervende is. Als dokter sta je er dan bij en wens je vurig dat je meer zou kunnen doen. Wat zou het fijn zijn als we de familieleden op zo’n moment meer inzicht kunnen geven in wat er in het brein van hun geliefde gebeurt en hen – op basis van nader wetenschappelijk onderzoek – kunnen vertellen dat hun geliefde op dat moment kalm is, omdat zijn of haar brein de mooiste herinneringen die hij of zij bij leven heeft opgedaan nog eens afspeelt.”
WETENSCHAPPERS METEN BIJ TOEVAL DE HERSENACTIVITEIT VAN EEN STERVENDE MAN EN ZIEN IETS HEEL BIJZONDERS GEBEUREN
WETENSCHAPPERS METEN BIJ TOEVAL DE HERSENACTIVITEIT VAN EEN STERVENDE MAN EN ZIEN IETS HEEL BIJZONDERS GEBEUREN
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zo werden er ook nadat zijn hart gestopt was nog hersengolven gemeten en zou het zomaar kunnen dat stervende mensen de hoogtepunten uit hun leven echt aan zich voorbij zien schieten.
Wanneer neurochirurg Ajmal Zemmar de elektroden op het hoofd van zijn 87-jarige patiënt met epilepsie laat plaatsen, kan hij onmogelijk weten dat deze patiënt postuum een hoofdrol zal gaan spelen in zijn volgende onderzoeksartikel dat zal handelen over de hersenactiviteit in een stervend brein. De hoogbejaarde epilepsiepatiënt in kwestie is na een val in het ziekenhuis opgenomen en Zemmar en zijn team stellen alles in het werk om hem te helpen. Met behulp van de elektroden wordt zijn hersenactiviteit continu gemeten en kunnen epileptische aanvallen gedetecteerd en behandeld worden. Maar ondanks de goede zorgen van de artsen gaat de man zienderogen achteruit om vervolgens – toch nog onverwacht en met de elektroden nog op de schedel – aan een hartaanval te overlijden.
Uniek Het is een tragische gebeurtenis, onder unieke omstandigheden. Want terwijl deze man sterft, wordt zijn hersenactiviteit continu gemeten. En daarmee stelt de onverwachte tragedie de artsen in staat om te bestuderen wat er in een stervend brein gebeurt. Hun bevindingen zijn deze week in het blad Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience verschenen en in meerdere opzichten opmerkelijk.
Het onderzoek In de studie focussen de artsen en onderzoekers zich op de hersenactiviteit die in de laatste 30 seconden voor het stilvallen van het hart en de 30 seconden daarna is gemeten. “Net voor het hart stopte met werken zagen we veranderingen optreden in hersengolven met een specifieke frequentie, de zogenoemde gammagolven,” zo legt hoofdauteur Zemmar aan Scientias.nl uit. “Dit zijn hersengolven met een hoge frequentie die in het dagelijks leven in verband worden gebracht met de hogere cognitieve functies, zoals het ophalen van herinneringen, mediteren en concentreren. Wanneer we met dat soort dingen bezig zijn, zien we de gammagolven toenemen.” En opmerkelijk genoeg zagen de onderzoekers een vergelijkbare toename in gammagolven kort voor het hart van de 87-jarige patiënt stopte met kloppen. “En niet alleen van gammagolven,” benadrukt Zemmar. “Ook van hersengolven met een andere frequentie, zoals delta-, theta-, alpha- en betagolven. Maar de toename van gammagolven sprong wel het meest in het oog.”
Hoewel enige terughoudendheid in de interpretatie van de veranderingen in hersenactiviteit op zijn plaats is, durven Zemmar en collega’s wel enigszins te speculeren over waar het brein zo kort voor het intreden van de dood mee bezig was. “Wat we zien, is dat de gammagolven kort voor- en nadat het hart gestopt is, hetzelfde patroon volgen als in gezonde mensen die herinneringen ophalen of dromen. En hoewel we niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen wat het brein van de stervende patiënt aan het doen was, lijkt het – als we alle data naast elkaar leggen – zeker niet ondenkbaar dat de hersenen de belangrijke en fijne herinneringen nog eens afspeelden en de patiënt zijn leven dus aan zich voorbij zag schieten.”
Toename hersenactiviteit na de dood Wat minstens zo interessant is, is dat de elektroden ook nadat het hart van de patiënt stil was gevallen nog hersengolven detecteerden. “Dat is heel verrassend,” stelt Zemmar. “Want je zou denken dat wanneer het hart stopt met het rondpompen van bloed, ook het brein dood is. Het feit dat er na het stilvallen van het hart nog hersengolven werden gedetecteerd, suggereert voorzichtig dat de hersenactiviteit nadat het hart stopt met kloppen mogelijk nog doorgaat,” aldus Zemmar. Maar het is nog veel te vroeg om op basis van deze observaties conclusies te trekken over waar het brein na het stilvallen van het hart nog toe in staat is. “De data zijn slechts afkomstig van één casus en het is op dit moment niet mogelijk om met zekerheid te zeggen dat de waargenomen hersenactiviteit ook echt bewijst dat het brein nog functioneel actief is, in die zin dat de patiënt nog steeds droomt of flashbacks heeft,” onderstreept Zemmar.
Eén casus Hoewel de observaties bijzonder fascinerend zijn, wil Zemmar graag benadrukken dat de interpretaties ervan vooralsnog echt speculatief zijn. “Daarbij is het belangrijk om nogmaals te vermelden dat het allemaal gebaseerd is op slechts één casus: het brein van één patiënt. En die patiënt had hersenbeschadigingen: bloedingen en zwelling. Die kunnen de hersenactiviteit beïnvloed hebben en dat maakt het interpreteren ervan misschien nog wel lastiger.”
Eerdere dierproeven Met deze ene, bijzondere casus zijn de data als het om de activiteit in stervende menselijke hersenen gaat, dus dun gezaaid. Maar dat er rond het sterven weleens iets bijzonders kan gebeuren in het brein, is eerder ook al gesuggereerd op basis van dierproeven. “In 2013 is er in de VS een experiment uitgevoerd waarbij wetenschappers ervoor zorgden dat gezonde ratten – terwijl de hersenactiviteit van de dieren gemonitord werd – een hartaanval kregen en overleden,” vertelt Zemmar. En opvallend genoeg zagen de wetenschappers in de hersenen van die ratten kort voor het stoppen van het hart dezelfde veranderingen in gammagolven optreden als nu in het brein van de 87-jarige man zijn waargenomen. “Dat is toch wel verrassend,” vindt Zemmar. “Want ratten en mensen staan evolutionair gezien nogal ver van elkaar vandaan.” Het interpreteren van deze opmerkelijke overeenkomst tussen stervende ratten en mensen is opnieuw lastig. “Maar misschien hebben we hier wel te maken met een oude, biologische respons die door de evolutie van soorten heen geconserveerd is.” In dat scenario zou je denken dat de hersenactiviteit op het moment van sterven een belangrijke functie heeft. Maar ook daar kunnen we enkel naar gissen. “Misschien is de biologische respons er wel op gericht om ons – middels het ophalen van fijne herinneringen – te kalmeren voor we sterven,” speculeert Zemmar. “En misschien is het wel gewoon een mechanisme dat in gang wordt gebracht als we gaan sterven en waarvan we de consequenties op dit moment niet begrijpen.”
Vervolgonderzoek Voor nu lijkt de ene casus meer vragen op te roepen dan te beantwoorden. Toch voelden Zemmar en collega’s sterk de behoefte om hun observaties met de wereld te delen. “Allereerst omdat de observaties vragen oproepen die niet alleen interessant zijn vanuit wetenschappelijk oogpunt, maar ook van belang zijn voor de samenleving,” vertelt Zemmar. Hij denkt dan bijvoorbeeld aan de observatie dat de hersenactiviteit enige tijd nadat het hart al is gestopt met kloppen, nog doorgang vindt. “Dat zet je als arts aan het denken: want wat is nu het moment waarop je iemand dood kunt verklaren en bijvoorbeeld orgaandonatie in gang kunt zetten?” Daarnaast hoopt Zemmar dat de publicatie ertoe leidt dat meer van deze (toevallig verzamelde) EEG-scans komen bovendrijven. “Wij presenteren de allereerste observaties van een stervend mensenbrein. Pas als we meer van dit soort observaties hebben, kunnen we bepalen of wat wij hebben zien gebeuren een universeel fenomeen is.”
Dat ook die laatste momenten van het leven het verdienen om nader onderzocht te worden, staat voor Zemmar vast. Dergelijke studies kunnen namelijk belangrijke implicaties hebben voor de omgang met en zorg voor stervende mensen én hun geliefden. “Als neurochirurg heb ik regelmatig met overlijdens te maken. En ik weet hoe moeilijk het is voor familieleden om te zien dat hun familielid, waarmee ze soms niet meer kunnen communiceren, stervende is. Als dokter sta je er dan bij en wens je vurig dat je meer zou kunnen doen. Wat zou het fijn zijn als we de familieleden op zo’n moment meer inzicht kunnen geven in wat er in het brein van hun geliefde gebeurt en hen – op basis van nader wetenschappelijk onderzoek – kunnen vertellen dat hun geliefde op dat moment kalm is, omdat zijn of haar brein de mooiste herinneringen die hij of zij bij leven heeft opgedaan nog eens afspeelt.”
The Origins of the Faeries: Encoded in our Cultures – Part I
The Origins of the Faeries: Encoded in our Cultures – Part I
The faeries appear in folklore from all over the world as metaphysical beings, who, given the right conditions, are able to interact with the physical world. They’re known by many names but there is a conformity to what they represent, and perhaps also to their origins. From the Huldufólk in Iceland to the Tuatha Dé Danannin Ireland, and the Manitou of Native Americans, these are apparently intelligent entities that live unseen beside us, until their occasional manifestations in this world become encoded into our cultures through folktales, anecdotes, and testimonies.
In his 1691 treatise on the faeries of Aberfoyle, Scotland, the Reverend Robert Kirk suggested they represented a Secret Commonwealth , living in a parallel reality to ours, with a civilization and morals of their own, only visible to seers and clairvoyants. His assessment fits well with both folktale motifs, and some modern theories about their ancient origins and how they have permeated the collective human consciousness. So who are the faeries, where do they come from…and what do they want?
Faerie-tales
“Myth is a story that implies a certain way of interpreting consensus reality so to derive meaning and effective charge from its images and interactions. As such, it can take many forms: fables, religion and folklore, but also formal philosophical systems and scientific theories.”
Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On religious myth, truth and belief (2016).
Faerie-tales are a type of mythology; explanations of human and environmental phenomena, usually set at an indeterminate time in the past. Most faerie-tales are never one-offs, but seem to cluster as a single form from many sources, which are dispersed geographically and chronologically. In Europe and America, they were mostly collected by folklorists in the 19th and early-20th centuries, from both oral and written sources, and then disseminated from there. Many were incorporated into the folklorists’ bible, the Aarne-Thompson catalogues of folktale types and motifs, which were first put together in 1910 by the Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne, and completed by Stith Thompson in 1958. They consist of several doorstop volumes, which index every conceivable story type and motif from around the world.
It’s been suggested that the catalogues actually codify every human experience, distilled into story; an index of our collective memory as a species, realized through the medium of mythology. Amidst the catalogues are the story types classed as faerie-tales, each containing hundreds of separate motifs; they are the descriptors of a vast array of myth. These are not simple tales told to pass the long winter nights (although that was always one use for them), but rather, they are sophisticated tools that can be used to interpret human experience and to help understand the reality we find ourselves in.
One common faerie-tale motif, for instance, is the suspension of time when a mortal visits faerieland. A nice example is the Irish story of Oisín, a poet of the Feinn. After falling asleep under an ash tree he awakes to find Niamh, the shape-shifting Queen of Tir na n’Og, the land of perpetual youth, summoning him to join her in her realm as her husband. He agrees and finds himself living in a paradise of perpetual summer, where all good things abound, and where time and death hold no sway.
But soon he breaks a taboo of standing on a broad flat stone, from where he is able to view the Ireland he left behind. It has changed for the worse, and he begs Niamh to give him leave to return. She reluctantly agrees, but asks that he return after only one day with the mortals. She supplies him with a black horse, which he is not to dismount, and ‘gifted him with wisdom and knowledge far surpassing that of men.’
Once back in Ireland he realizes that decades have passed and that he is no longer recognized or known of. Inevitably, he dismounts his horse and immediately his youth is gone and he becomes an enfeebled old man with nothing but his immortal wisdom. There is no returning to the faerieland of the Tir na n’Og. In other variations of the story, the hero turns to dust as soon as his feet touch the ground of consensus reality.
The faeries as elementals.
(Courtesy author)
This important and widespread folktale motif seems to suggest that faerieland is the world of the dead, immune from the passage of time, and that return to the world of the living is not possible as the mortal body has aged and decayed in line with the physical laws of this world. In the Japanese tale of Urashima Taro , the hero, when returning home, is even given a casket by his faerie bride, in which his years are locked. When he opens it, his time is up.
These stories articulate a belief in an otherworld that is never heaven, but is apparently ruled over by a race of immortals who can exert control over the consciousness of an individual, who may believe themselves to still be in human form, but are actually already dead and existing in non-material form. It is ultimately the place where the faeries come from; a place untouched by the passage of time and physical death. It could even represent the collective consciousness of humanity made into an understandable form in the stories, immortal in nature and containing all wisdom and knowledge, as suggested in the Oisín tale.
19th-century woodcut demonstrating the dangers of entering the faerie ring.
This might be explained by seeing folktales of this type as representing a surviving pagan belief system of the afterlife. This afterlife did not follow the strictures of Christianity or other world religions, and provided an alternative view of what happens to consciousness after death. It is a view that was (in the West) superseded by Christian theology, but that may be surfacing in these folktales as remnants of the previous system of belief (a belief system that remained partially intact but operated underground for fear of religious persecution).
The presence of faeries in this otherworld, and their ability to materialize in standard reality, suggests that they were an essential element in pagan ideas about consciousness and that they had a role to play when it came to death. In this theory the characters in the story play the part of messengers, telling us about the true nature of a timeless reality that is distinct and separate from consensus reality, and showing us that human consciousness disassociates from the physical body to exist in a parallel reality such as Tir na n’Og, where the faeries are in charge. This message is encoded in the stories.
However, it’s not possible to reduce the origin of the faeries only to abstract mythological themes. Their appearance in folklore often takes the form of witness testimonies or anecdotes, continuing to the present day. They take a myriad of different forms— leprechauns, sylphs, brownies, pixies, even aliens in a technologically updated version of their form— but they are portrayed as real entities, making appearances in this world from their own.
17th-century English woodcut showing faeries dancing in a ring, with hollow hill, amanita muscaria mushroom and 'spirit face' in the tree.
They lure people into their magical dancing rings, abduct children and adults, play tricks on the unwary, process in faerie funeral corteges, and generally disport themselves with a sense of mischievous, and sometimes malevolent, immorality. There are countless descriptions of their metaphysical presence in our world, throughout time, playing a part in human culture, always liminal, but constantly present as far back as folklore stretches.
Neil Rushton is an archaeologist and freelance writer who has published on a wide variety of topics from castle fortifications to folklore. His first book is Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun .
The Origins of the Faeries: Changes in Conscious Perception – Part II
The Origins of the Faeries: Changes in Conscious Perception – Part II
The faeries appear in folklore from all over the world as metaphysical beings, who, given the right conditions, are able to interact with the physical world. They’re known by many names but there is a conformity to what they represent, and perhaps also to their origins.
In his 2005 book Supernatural, Graham Hancock puts forward the hypothesis that the shamanistic cultures of the Stone Age were also interacting with these beings. Around 40,000 years ago there was an explosion of symbolism in human cultures throughout the world, primarily represented by cave art. This cave art is usually located in hard to access underground spaces that must have had significant meaning for the artists and those who would have been experiencing these strange images by firelight. And strange they are. Much of the cave art represents therianthropic beings, that is half human, half animal shape-shifters.
Cave painting from Altamira, Spain, c.15,000 BCE.
(Public Domain)
There are also many beings that seem to be distorted humans, often similar to the faeries of folklore. And this gets to the core of the subject. Hancock makes the convincing argument that these cave paintings were produced to represent reality as perceived in an altered state of consciousness. Twenty years ago this idea was anathema to anthropologists, but since the work of the anthropologists David Lewis-Williams, Thomas Dowson and many others, the theory has tipped over to become an accepted orthodoxy. There are motifs by the hundred in the cave paintings that correlate with the visionary states of people in an altered state of consciousness, brought about most especially by the ingestion of a psychotropic substance.
The basic premise is that the shamans of these stone age cultures transported themselves into altered states of consciousness and then painted the results of their experiences — experiences that frequently included the therianthropic beings they encountered. These works of art are manifest throughout the world over a vast prehistoric time period and demonstrate a universality of experience, from the entoptic images (dots, spirals and geometric patterns) frequently caused by psychotropic drugs, through to the imagery of time-lapse perception, often called tracers. It is convincing evidence that our prehistoric ancestors were dabbling with psychotropic plants and mushrooms in order to gain a state of consciousness that was fundamentally important to them. The cave paintings could be seen as the earliest folklore, told in pictures.
Cave paintings at the Laas Geel complex in northern Somalia.
Further investigation into the cultures of modern indigenous tribes confirms the importance of induced changes in conscious perception, to what are still shamanistic peoples. The best example is the extensive use of the substance Ayahausca by Amazonian tribes. This is a brew that reveals a reality that includes many non-human intelligences (usually called simply ‘spirits’ by the shamans), that can be interacted with directly. There is usually a highly-charged feminine element to the Ayahausca experience, but reports will also consistently describe therianthropic beings, reptiles, the ability to fly, and humanoid entities. This brings us back to the source of all these experiences. If shaman spirits and faeries are part of the same phenomenon, what is that phenomenon? The evidence from modern and archaic shamanistic cultures confirms that an altered state of consciousness was/is required to access the places where the ‘spirits’ resided. It’s more difficult to prove that faerie-tales were generated from information gathered in an altered state, but there is a predominance of mushroom imagery historically associated with the faeries, most especially the highly psychedelic red and white Amanita Muscaria (fly agaric) mushroom, and the psilocybin mushroom, both prevalent in Europe and Asia.
These may have been responsible for purposeful or accidental psychedelic trips, but there are a range of other triggers for altering states of consciousness (such as sleep deprivation, trauma, illness etc.) that may also have contributed to people travelling to faerieland and bringing back the experiences as faerie-tales. Many faerie-tales contain dream-like situations, where the laws of physics are suspended and the experienced reality is different than the usual five-sense reality. It’s no accident that the tales are often described as trippy. They can be seen as basically describing events from a participatory altered state of consciousness, that have then gestated and formed into oral faerie-tales, before being fossilized into literature by folklorists at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Diversity of Faerie Origins
The origins of the faeries in folklore and worldwide culture are diverse and complex. Although mythological storytelling and shamanistic altered states of consciousness may account for the phenomenon on many levels, the faeries cannot be pigeonholed quite this simply. There is, for example, a cohesive hypothesis that the faeries are nature spirits ; an invisible life-force responsible for the propagation of vegetation and even the earth’s biosphere itself.
The Austrian spiritual philosopher Rudolf Steiner (d.1924) proposed this inter-penetrating of the physical world with the spiritual world, and points towards a deeper, cosmic understanding of the nuts and bolts of how the world really works. He terms consensus reality as the sense world , and the spiritual realm as the supersensible world. For Steiner, the supersensible world exists as a field of energy devoid of matter, but which constantly interacts with the physical sense world. What exists in the supersensible world is in effect a fifth dimension of reality upon which our own four dimensions rely, and which is essential to the well-being of all life, but can only be perceived by clairvoyance. It is this special faculty that allows people to recognize how the worlds of matter and spirit intertwine, and to recognize the faeries in action.
It is a theory that has been updated recently by the biochemist Rupert Sheldrake, who proposes that morphogenetic fields are the formative causation allowing life on earth. Sheldrake’s description of this organizing principle behind the natural world is issued in the language of biochemistry, but in effect, what he postulates is the same as Steiner’s vision of nature spirits in action. There are invisible forces that are essential in ordering life on earth, something that conventional science accepts in the case of gravitational waves or magnetism, but has a hard time with when it comes to life itself. Steiner’s thesis is that the nature spirits are anthropogenic representations of these morphogenetic fields, imposed upon them through the thought forms of the observer, who perceives them clairvoyantly. The faeries are, essentially, the memory of nature.
Architectural fragment figure, likely a yakshi or female nature spirit, c. 2nd century (Kushan).
Whatever the origins of the faeries are, they have been ever-present in worldwide folklore, and have loomed large in our cultural mythology, which attempts to explain the cosmic order. They reside in the collective human consciousness, and seem to have been there for thousands of years. Perhaps the biggest question is how they seem to be able to transcend non-material consciousness, and to make appearances within our material reality. Their metaphysical nature is a secret, and is perhaps meant to remain so.
Neil Rushton is an archaeologist and freelance writer who has published on a wide variety of topics from castle fortifications to folklore. His first book is Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun .
5 Must See Megaliths of the Mysterious Nuragic People
5 Must See Megaliths of the Mysterious Nuragic People
All over the Mediterranean island of Sardinia exist megalithic marvels that date from almost 4000 years ago. These mostly limestone structures are believed to have belonged to a civilization now known as the Nuragic people. Called ‘nuraghe’, they are a wonder to visit and immerse oneself in the ancient civilization that, for some reason - be it perhaps internal struggles, external invasion or some other reason entirely - had reason to construct thousands of these highly defensive edifices. Here we explore several of the best-preserved sites.
Mysterious Civilization Enduring Through the Ages
Before Sardinia was occupied by the more modern civilizations of the Spaniards, Byzantines, Romans and Carthaginians, a mysterious civilization flourished on the island from the 18th century to the 3rd century BC.
Very little is known about this ancient civilization as they left very little written evidence and very few items providing evidence of how they lived. Even their name, Nuragic, is a term used based on the description of the fortress-like structures that they once built, called Nuraghe. These towering, sturdy architectural feats were constructed during the Bronze Age and are dispersed throughout Sardinia, with there being around 7000 known to exist, but far more thought to have been built.
Here we explore several of the best-preserved sites.
1. Su Nuraxi of Barumini
The Su Nuraxi site is found in the central region of the island, at Barumini, with the clue to its importance being in its very name. ‘Su Nuraxi’ means not a nuraghe, but the nuraghe. It is the most famous nuraghe in Sardinia and is the only designated UNESCO site on the island. The extensive site is one of the best preserved of the 30 Barumesi sites of the area and certainly the best complex as a whole. It was the first site to be explored by archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu and which led to his definition and ‘discovery’ of the Nuragic civilization.
17th century Nuraghe Su Nuraxi, in the south central Barumini region of Sardinia
It includes a complex nuraghe as well a substantial village of huts. It seems this was an important center of power and commerce in prehistoric times.
The structures are made from volcanic basalt stone sourced nearby and was active over 2000 years from 16th century BC to the 7th century AD. The complex includes the tower (or keep) with a bastion at each of its four corners. A village of 50 huts sprawls out surrounding this central structure.
This tower was once 18.5 meters (60 ft) tall and was erected in the Middle Bronze Age (16-14th century BC). It contained 3 rooms over 3 levels, and was topped with a tholos or false dome, a wooden roof which also was used for the other buildings in the village.
2. The Nuraghe Palmavera
The Nuraghe Palmavera is similar to all the nuraghe structures and is one of the largest and most important examples, after the Barumini complex. It is located on the Palmera headland, overlooking a bay the Romans romantically called the ‘Harbor of the Nymphs’ near the modern beachfront resort town of Alghero.
It is believed that Nuraghe Palmavera was built in phases starting in the 15th century BC with a main tower that stands almost 8 meters (26 feet) high and 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter, including the beehive shaped roofs. It is estimated that a village of up to 150-200 huts surrounded the tower, with only 50 existing today. A new phase of development was completed in the 9th century BC with the addition of an exterior wall and additional huts. Although built using limestone blocks and sand, the Nuraghe Palmavera was destroyed by fire in the 8th century AD, but parts of the structure remain intact.
Today, this Nuraghe complex is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Sardinia, along with the Nuragic complex of Barumini, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site in 1997.
3. Nuraghe of Santu Antine
This naraghe is a giant amongst giants, with the central tower now reported as being 16.5 meters (54.13 ft.) but once standing at a dizzying 23 to 24 meters (75-78 ft). It is currently the tallest naraghe of all, but it is thought that even higher towers existed in the past.
Santu Antine is located in the northwestern Sardinian province of Sassari, close to the town of Torralba, and is known by local people as Sa Domu de su Re or The House of the King in English. The building is made of basalt and The central tower is composed of three smaller towers that were stacked one on top of the other. Only two of these towers have survived till today. The rooms of these two towers may be reached by climbing up a helicoidal staircase that was incorporated into the structure’s thick walls.
It is surrounded by a small collection of 14 huts that have been identified, which were part of what would have been a much larger settlement. These dwellings have been dated to the 13 th century BC, and articfacts dating to the Roman period have been found in them, showing they were used after long after the Nuralgic civilization had ended. Some huts contained features, such as seats, hearths, and niches that aid in our understanding of their function. One near the entrance had a seat and a hearth, and archaeologists have proposed it would have been used for gatherings or meetings.
The site Nuraghe La Prisgiona is extensive at around 5 hectares and includes 90 Bronze Age buildings that have been excavated so far and those around the main building are very well preserved. It is a real chance to get a feeling of the past as you weave around the enclosures, with the size of the preserved settlement making it one of the most complex sites of its type. The main building is the classic three tower nuraghe but it also features an enclosed courtyard which includes a stone well that reaches a depth of 7 meters (23 feet). The well has yielded several well crafted jugs from the Nuralgic era.
One of the huts includes a long cresent shaped stone seat, long enough to accomodate over a dozen people, and an ornate jug was found here, perhaps for religious use.
The site is located in Arzachena, near Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) in the northeast of Sardinia.
5. Nuraghe Losa
Nuraghe Losa is a distinctive and well-preserved nuraghe that is located near the village of Abbasanta, in the central-western region of Sardinia. It is named ‘nuraghe of the tombs’ which refers to the Roman cinerary urns carved into the rocks nearby, as during the Roman era it was used for funerary purposes.
The giant and imposing structure is reminiscent of a ship’s bow.
It is most remarkable for the shape which is triangular and can be compared to the bow of a ship and it is obvious that the masonry techniques were reaching some refinement by this point, the 14th-15th century BC.
There is a main entrance raised above ground level through which a corridor leads to three of the internal towers. A fourth tower is accessed through a separate entrance. These towers are not obvious from the outside as the whole edifice appears as a solid mass of rock. Just why such a fortification was thought required remains a mystery, but this would surely have been virtually impenetrable.
As well as the three rooms, the main keep tower has a small spiral ramp leading to an upper chamber. There are also 3 wells for storage and a cistern in the western tower.
Arial view of Nuraghe Losa showing it’s triangular shape with 4 towers.
Only a small part of the surrounding settlement has been excavated but includes buildings from the late Punic, Roman Republican and Imperial, Late Roman and Byzantine periods.
There is also a Giant’s tomb, another interesting megalithic feature of the island.
A Nuragic Civilization Legacy
While the Nuragic civilization may be extinct and stories of their history now the stuff that legends, the magnificent stone structures that they left behind provide testament to a mighty society with a penchant for extreme defense. This is just a small taste of some of the best of the many sites it is possible to visit from this fascinating if enigmatic era.
Top image: A view of a reconstructed hut at the Nuraghe Antine site at night.
Unknown Space Object Bombarded Earth With Strong Radio Wave
Unknown Space Object Bombarded Earth With Strong Radio Wave
Astronomers were both puzzled and delighted to discover a mysterious deep space object that had been sending out powerful radio waves that were detectable on Earth. Designated with the catchy title of GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3, this spinning radio source suddenly appeared in the Southern Hemisphere sky in January 2018, before disappearing just as mysteriously two months later.
The pulsing activity of this unusual, one-of-a-kind object was picked up by the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in the remote western Outback of Australia. Data analysis only revealed its existence in 2020, after which astronomers launched a comprehensive investigation to identify all of its unique and interesting properties.
That study was led by Curtin University (Australia) astrophysicist Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker, working under the auspices of the university’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research ( ICRAR).
“We find that the source pulses every 18.18 min, an unusual periodicity that has, to our knowledge, not been observed previously,” Dr. Hurley-Walker and her team wrote, in a new article introducing their discovery in the journal Nature. “The emission is highly linearly polarized, bright, persists for 30–60 seconds on each occurrence, and is visible across a broad frequency range.”
Located just 4,000 light-years away from Earth (a stone’s throw in galactic terms), GLEAM-X was one of the brightest radio wave sources in our sky at the time it was active. This type of object is referred to by astronomers as a transient, signifying something that pops into existence out of nowhere, before disappearing in the same way.
This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient.
Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team. ( ICRAR)
Even during its brief trip through Earth’s deep-space sightline, GLEAM-X seemed to blip in and out of existence randomly, adding another element to its mysterious aura.
“This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations,” Dr. Hurley-Walker told the Independent . “That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that.”
Has the Ultra-Long Period Magnetar Finally Been Found?
The astronomers involved in the new study have tentatively identified the radio wave emitter as a long-sought-after transient object known as an ultra-long period magnetar.
A magnetar is “a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” Dr. Hurley-Walker explained. “But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright. Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”
The object is incredibly dense and highly magnetic, which are common characteristics of neutron stars of all types. The magnetar gets its name from the fact that its magnetic field is much stronger than that generated by the typical neutron star, and if GLEAM-X is a magnetar that would explain why its radio pulses are so bright and why those pulses are highly polarized (meaning its electromagnetic waves vibrate in rigid and heavily magnetized patterns).
An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emission. Known magnetars rotate every few seconds, but theoretically, “ultra-long period magnetars” could rotate much more slowly.
GLEAM-X displayed a curious middle-ground periodicity (the length of time between radio wave pulses). In contrast to GLEAM-X, a fast-moving transient known as a pulsar can blink on and off in milliseconds, while a huge object like a supernova can produce radio wave pulses that last for days. This transient object fell between this range, with a periodicity of 18 minutes. This would be consistent with a neutron star spinning at a much slower rate than normal, as a magnetar theoretically would.
Even though some of its values were different than the existing model, the overall profile of GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 strongly suggests it is the first ultra-long period magnetar observed by human astronomers anywhere in the universe.
The Life and Death of Stars: Secrets Revealed
As an object of scientific study, astronomical bodies like this one offer fascinating details about the life-and-death cycles of stars.
“When studying transients, you're watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind,” said ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist and study co-author Dr. Gemma Anderson.
Neutron stars of all types are the left-over cores of stars that have completely burned out. Once a star begins to run out of fuel its core will collapse in on itself, crunched to an incredible density by the runaway force of gravity. A rapidly-spinning neutron star giving off little light but still reaching temperatures as high as one million degrees will then be left behind, emitting radio waves as its immense magnetic field is spun violently through space.
A typical neutron star contains approximately 500,000 times the mass of the Earth, but condensed down into a space that is only 12 miles (20 kilometers) across. The exact parameters of GLEAM-X are not known, but it has enough unusual characteristics to prove it varies from the typical neutron star in important ways.
As of now, the astronomers who’ve studied this enigmatic transient object aren’t sure if it will reappear, or if it is gone for good. The movements of transient objects are inherently unpredictable, and there is no guarantee GLEAM-X will ever be seen again.
Nevertheless, they are busy scanning the Southern Hemisphere skies, hoping to detect its telltale radio wave emissions one more time. They are also pouring through archived data at the Murchison Widefield Array, looking for any signs of past magnetars that might have been missed.
“More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event, or a vast new population we'd never noticed before,” Dr. Hurley-Walker said.
Either way, this anomalous object is truly a remarkable discovery.
Top image: Tile 107, or “the Outlier” as it is known, is one of 256 tiles of the Murchison Widefield Array observatory located 1.5km from the core of the telescope that detected the radio wave.
ZORGEN OVER VOYAGER 1: 45 JAAR OUDE RUIMTESONDE SCHOTELT AMERIKAANSE RUIMTEVAARTORGANISATIE EEN FLINK MYSTERIE VOOR
ZORGEN OVER VOYAGER 1: 45 JAAR OUDE RUIMTESONDE SCHOTELT AMERIKAANSE RUIMTEVAARTORGANISATIE EEN FLINK MYSTERIE VOOR
Vivian Lammerse
De sonde, die zich momenteel in de interstellaire ruimte bevindt, kampt met een technische storing.
Al 45 jaar raast Voyager 1, samen met zijn broer Voyager 2, door het heelal. Het is een bijzondere missie. Want beide ruimtevaartuigen verkennen omgevingen waar nog geen enkele door mensen gebouwde sonde ooit eerder geweest is. Sterker nog, ze zijn zelfs al de interstellaire ruimte binnengedrongen. Toch begint Voyager 1 na al die tijd wat gebreken te vertonen. Want de sonde stuurt gegevens terug naar de aarde waar het missieteam geen touw aan vast kan knopen.
Meer over de Voyager-missie Ruimtesonde Voyager 2 werd in 1977 gelanceerd, een paar weekjes eerder dan zijn broer Voyager 1. Beide sondes zijn nu al bijna 45 jaar actief. Daarmee zijn het niet alleen de langst werkende ruimtesondes ooit, ze breken bovendien alle records als het gaat om de afstand die ze tot op heden hebben afgelegd. Zeker nu met zekerheid gesteld kan worden dat beide vaartuigen de interstellaire ruimte zijn binnengedrongen. Geen enkel ruimtevaartuig heeft het tot nu toe zo ver geschopt. En ze zullen nog wel even doorgaan. Beide sondes bewegen met een onvoorstelbare snelheid van zo’n 48.280 kilometer per uur voort en verkennen nieuwe regionen van het heelal waar we nog veel over kunnen leren.
De sonde schotelt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie een flink mysterie voor. Want hoewel Voyager 1 ogenschijnlijk naar behoren lijkt te functioneren, klopt er toch iets niet met de gegevens die hij naar de aarde stuurt. De storing zit waarschijnlijk in het attitude-articulatie- en controlesysteem (AACS). Dit instrument regelt de oriëntatie van het 45 jaar oude ruimtevaartuig en zorgt ervoor dat de krachtige antenne van Voyager 1 altijd naar de aarde gericht is, waardoor het gegevens naar huis kan sturen.
Probleempje Toch is er iets vreemds aan de hand. Het lijkt er namelijk op dat de AACS nog gewoon werkt; het ruimtevaartuig ontvangt opdrachten, voert ze uit en stuurt wetenschappelijke gegevens terug naar de aarde. Het signaal van Voyager 1 is ook niet verzwakt, wat suggereert dat de AACS nog altijd naar de aarde wijst. Maar uitlezingen van de telemetriegegevens komen niet overeen met wat Voyager 1 feitelijk aan het doen is. Het missieteam ontvangt gegevens die willekeurig lijken te zijn gegenereerd. Kortom, er klopt iets niet. Gek genoeg heeft de storing er nog niet toe geleid dat de sonde in veilige modus is gegaan; een toestand waarin alle niet-essentiële systemen worden uitgeschakeld, wat ingenieurs de tijd geeft om een probleem op te sporen en op te lossen.
Mysterie Dat Voyager 1 na 45 jaar gebreken begint te vertonen, verrast het missieteam overigens niet. “Een mysterie als deze hoort bij dit stadium van de Voyager-missie,” zegt teamlid Suzanne Dodd. “Het ruimtevaartuig is bijna 45 jaar oud, wat betekent dat de sonde al veel langer functioneert dan de missieplanners hadden verwacht. We bevinden ons ook nog eens in de interstellaire ruimte – een omgeving met veel straling waar nog nooit eerder een ruimtevaartuig is geweest. Er bestaan dus enkele grote uitdagingen. Maar ik denk dat als er een manier is om dit probleem met de AACS op te lossen, ons team het zal vinden.”
Op zoek Het team is van plan Voyager 1 nauwgezet in de gaten te blijven houden. Daarbij hopen ze te bepalen of de ongeldige gegevens die de sonde terugstuurt inderdaad rechtstreeks afkomstig zijn van de AACS of dat er toch een ander systeem dat betrokken is bij het produceren en verzenden van telemetriegegevens iets mankeert. Als ze erin slagen het probleem te achterhalen, kan een software-update mogelijk uitkomst bieden.
Ingenieurs zullen de komende tijd blijven werken aan het mysterie dat Voyager 1 hen heeft voorgeschoteld. Ondertussen zullen wetenschappers het meeste uit de gegevens blijven halen die vanuit het unieke uitkijkpunt van het ruimtevaartuig zijn verzameld. Voyager 1 is inmiddels al 23,3 miljard kilometer van de aarde verwijderd en haast zich door relatief lege ruimte; geen van beide sondes zal overigens de komende 40.000 jaar nog in de buurt van een ster komen. Voyager 2 bevindt zich momenteel op 19,5 miljard kilometer afstand en lijkt vooralsnog zonder problemen zijn verkenningsmissie te kunnen voortzetten.
DAT WE GEEN ALIENS KUNNEN VINDEN, LIGT MOGELIJK NIET AAN ONS, MAAR AAN HEN!
DAT WE GEEN ALIENS KUNNEN VINDEN, LIGT MOGELIJK NIET AAN ONS, MAAR AAN HEN!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
We hebben nog geen aliens gevonden. En dat heeft mogelijk een macabere reden; de aliens zijn (nog voor we ze kunnen waarnemen) gedoemd om hun beschaving te vernietigen of – in het gunstigste geval – hun expansiedrift op een lager pitje te zetten.
Met die hypothese komen onderzoekers op de proppen in het Journal of the Royal Society Interface. De hypothese is losjes gebaseerd op wat we hier op aarde in steden zien gebeuren. “Andere wetenschappers hebben al vastgesteld dat steden groeien op een manier die op de lange termijn onhoudbaar is,” zo legt onderzoeker Michael Wong aan Scientias.nl uit. “En wel omdat de consumptie van hulpbronnen terwijl de steden groeien, onevenredig toeneemt.” En dat is vanzelfsprekend een probleem. Want het betekent dat er een moment komt dat steden bijvoorbeeld meer energie nodig hebben dan voorhanden is. “Het resulteert in crises die we ‘singulariteiten’ noemen en waarbij de populatie en energievraag in een eindige tijdsperiode eindeloos toeneemt.” In zo’n scenario is de beschaving gedoemd om tegen tekorten aan te lopen, waardoor – zonder ingrijpen – het complete systeem ineenstort.
Innovatie De enige manier om zo’n crisis af te wenden of in ieder geval voor ons uit te schuiven, is door met innovaties op de proppen te komen. Maar doordat de populatie en energievraag in een groeiende stad exponentieel toeneemt, zullen die innovaties elkaar ook steeds sneller op moeten volgen, willen we een crisis kunnen voorkomen. En daar zit ‘m de uitdaging. Niet alleen voor ons. Maar mogelijk ook, zo betogen de onderzoekers in hun onderzoeksartikel, voor aliens. “Wij hypothetiseren dat planetaire beschavingen zich net zo gedragen als steden,” stelt Wong. “En als dat het geval is, lopen ze vroeg of laat tegen een grens aan die hun groei beperkt. Die grens noemen wij ‘asymptotische burnout’: een ultieme crisis waarin de tijd die tussen singulariteiten (oftewel crises, red.) verstrijkt, korter is dan de tijd tussen innovaties.” In andere woorden: de aliens innoveren te langzaam om aan hun eigenhandig gecreëerde noodlot te ontsnappen.
Ondergang of andere prioriteiten Wanneer zo’n asymptotische burnout dreigt, zijn er eigenlijk twee opties, zo stellen Wong en collega Stuart Bartlett. Eén: de buitenaardse beschaving is zich nergens bewust van of steekt de kop in het zand en stort volledig in. Of, twee: de aliens worden zich bewust van het feit dat ze op hun ondergang afstevenen en veranderen van koers. “Ze geven prioriteit aan homeostasis: een staat waarin kosmische expansie niet langer een doel is.” In beide scenario’s wordt het lastig, zoniet onmogelijk om de aliens van een flinke afstand te detecteren. Want in het eerste scenario zijn zij, of in ieder geval de geavanceerde en daardoor detecteerbare beschaving die ze ooit vormden, er niet meer. En in het tweede scenario zijn ze niet (langer) gericht op het verkennen van de ruimte of het vergroten en verkondigen van hun aanwezigheid, maar ligt de focus op het in stand houden van wat ze hebben. “Ongebreidelde groei en productiviteit maakt dan plaats voor een focus op gezondheid, balans en een maximale levensduur,” stelt Wong.
Fermi Paradox De hypothese kan zomaar het antwoord zijn op de beruchte Fermi Paradox. Volgens deze paradox is het statistisch gezien zeer waarschijnlijk dat er elders in de ruimte leven te vinden is. Maar paradoxaal genoeg hebben we daar nog geen spoor van kunnen vinden. Een sluitende verklaring is daar (nog) niet voor. Maar het idee dat buitenaardse beschavingen zichzelf vernietigen of hun thuis in ieder geval zodanig uitputten dat hun expansiedrift nog voor die goed en wel van de grond is gekomen, alweer op een lager pitje moet worden gezet, kan helpen verklaren waarom we hier op aarde of in de nabije ruimte nog niet op aliens zijn gestuit.
Hypothese Of de verklaring ook klopt, is een tweede. “Het is een hypothese,” zo benadrukt Wong. “Net zoals met veel andere zaken binnen de astrobiologie is er geen sluitend bewijs dat het ook klopt. Ik hoop dan ook dat mensen het onderzoeksartikel zorgvuldig lezen en voor zichzelf beslissen of dit een goed idee is of niet.”
Het nut Het lijkt misschien niet zo zinvol om allerlei wilde, lastig te toetsen, ideeën te bedenken om de Fermi Paradox te verklaren. Maar Wong ziet dat anders. “Hoe meer we leren over het universum, hoe sterker ook het verlangen wordt om vast te stellen wat onze plaats daarin is. Zijn we alleen en uniek? Zijn we de enige levensvormen en enige vorm van bewustzijn? Of zijn we slechts het zoveelste voorbeeld van een veelvoorkomend planetair fenomeen? Ik wil daar echt het antwoord op weten, maar de zoektocht is nog maar net gestart. Op dit moment is het voor ons heel belangrijk om met ideeën op de proppen te komen die – afgaand op wat we weten – logisch zijn en op een dag misschien wel getoetst kunnen worden. Veel van die ideeën zullen uiteindelijk niet blijken te kloppen, maar als we creatief, dapper en slim genoeg zijn, zal een aantal ervan het toch bij het juiste eind hebben.”
Er is nog hoop Of de nieuwste hypothese van Wong daarbij zal horen, is nog onduidelijk. En ergens zou je bijna hopen van niet, want in dat scenario wordt het wel erg lastig om aliens te ontdekken. Lastig, maar niet onmogelijk, zo benadrukken Wong en Bartlett echter in hun studie. Zo zou het – zelfs als buitenaardse beschavingen uiteindelijk gedoemd zijn om ineen te storten of een stapje terug te doen – mogelijk moeten zijn om ze te ontdekken, en wel kort voor die singulariteit of crisis of burnout zich aandient. Als dat – de alien die met de dood voor ogen energie blijft slurpen – inderdaad de doelgroep is van astrobiologen, dan weten we nu in ieder geval al wel een beetje met wat voor types we te maken gaan krijgen. “Het is mogelijk dat een groot deel van onze detecties van buitenaards leven dan intelligente, maar niet heel verstandige, levensvormen betreft.”
Het is altijd fascinerend om na te denken over de eigenschappen van eventuele aliens en hoe dat ons al dan niet helpt om ze te vinden. Maar als het aan Wong en Bartlett ligt, denken we naar aanleiding van dit onderzoeksartikel niet alleen na over buitenaardse groei en de grenzen die daar wellicht aan gesteld worden. Het is daarnaast namelijk ook belangrijk om naar onszelf te kijken: de beschaving waarop het idee van een asymptotische burnout losjes gebaseerd is. “Het is belangrijk om te achterhalen of onze wereldwijde activiteiten ons op een koers richting burnout zetten. En als dat zo is, dan moeten we proberen om te begrijpen hoe we aan dat noodlot kunnen ontsnappen. Het is belangrijk dat we ons realiseren dat we over de cognitieve capaciteiten beschikken die nodig zijn om ons bewust te worden van wat we met onze planeet doen. Geen enkele andere ons bekende soort kan dat en we bevinden ons dan ook op een uniek moment in de geschiedenis. Zullen we onze cognitieve vaardigheden gebruiken om onszelf op lange termijn te helpen of zullen we ze gebruiken om onszelf te vernietigen? De keuze is, zoals ze altijd zeggen, aan ons.”
Gravity Industries, a leading British jet suit company, is out to give superhuman abilities to emergency services for search and rescue missions in remote regions in the north of England.
And it can prove it.
The company's 3D-printed suit has two small turbines attached to each arm and a bigger one installed on the back, and it can achieve speeds of more than 80 mph (roughly 130 km/h). One of their most recent demonstration videos is part of a series of paramedic response exercises to prove the product's capability. And while also training real paramedics, the team demonstrated that the jet suit can scale a mountain in low visibility, which is something that a helicopter would be unable to do in a rescue situation. And typically, the mountain rescue on-foot response time exceeds 70 minutes.
In contrast, the record-breaking ascent to the top of a 3,100-foot (945-meter) mountain was achieved in just three minutes and thirty seconds! "This system, akin to the rapid response of a Paramedic on a motorbike in an urban environment, will be the difference between life and death for many critical cases," Gravity Industries noted in the video's description. If you want to see the demonstration, make sure you watch the video embedded above, and as always, enjoy.
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In a declassified Australian UFO report, ‘Cat-Faced’ and ‘Dwarf Aliens’ are mentioned
In a declassified Australian UFO report, ‘Cat-Faced’ and ‘Dwarf Aliens’ are mentioned
According to Tweaktown.com, the 58-page document covers a wide range of issues linked to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), including past reports that are still relevant today and the US role in the inquiry. A list of three “weapon systems” was generated from data analysis of 1,000 accounts of UFO landings or near-UFO landings on page 24, according to the introduction.
The beings or things described in the incidents had “a gadget to interfere with electrical circuits,” “a device to produce paralysis,” and a “heat ray,” according to the report.
On page 27, under the heading “Stopped Engines,” it says that a vehicle stalled near a translucent mushroom-shaped object with individuals inside who had “cat-like” faces.
On page 32, you will find Case 144, France, in which two people came into touch with two “dwarfs” who used an item to immobilize one of the people. Until the light was turned off, the paralyzed person was unable to move or speak.
To put it gently, several of the report’s passages are “out there.”
For example, in case 848, the following is an excerpt:
“Vehicles came to a halt near a bright, translucent mushroom-shaped object with cat-like inhabitants. Underneath, there’s a quadrangular protuberance.”
Another, which originates in France, is more stranger:
“A bright orange light was released from an item on train lines around 20′ away when Dewilde attempted to intercept two dwarfs. Dewilde lost his ability to speak and move his legs until the light was turned off.”
These are some extremely near encounters, to say the least.
NASA researchers discovered "something weird" in the universe that's possibly too complex for modern science.NASA, ESA
There’s a disturbance in the force.
During a recent study on the universe’s expansion rate, NASA researchers discovered “something weird” transpiring in the cosmos that might not be able to be explained by modern science.
The discovery supports “the idea that something weird is going on, possibly involving brand new physics,” per a press release by NASA.
The interstellar anomaly comes on the heels of recent breakthroughs regarding “dark energy,” a mysterious repulsive force that sped up the universe’s expansion, according to the study. With the help of the Hubble telescope and other cutting-edge instruments, astronomers had managed to gather the most accurate data yet regarding this intergalactic augmentation metric.
Over the past three decades, Hubble has calibrated more than 40 “milepost markers,” essentially measuring sticks in the space-time continuum that can be used to track the universe’s expansion.NASA, ESA, and H. Feng (Tsinghu
“You are getting the most precise measure of the expansion rate for the universe,” said Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
However, the increased precision has paradoxically led to increased ambiguity: scientists discovered a discrepancy between the “expansion rate as measured in the local universe compared to independent observations from right after the big bang, which predict a different expansion value,” according to the release.
Scientists are unable to explain the paradigm-shifting phenomenon. However, the discrepancy suggests that there is something fishy transpiring in the universe whose answer might involve “additional physics of the universe.”
“You are getting the most precise measure of the expansion rate for the universe,” said Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute.NASA
This finding might make astronomers have to rethink current data gleaned from the Hubble. This states that the universe is expanding at a rate of 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec — far faster than the astronomers’ predictions of 67.5.
And while there is only a one in a million chance that the Hubble made a mistake, this finding is “untangling what was becoming a nice and tidy picture of the universe’s dynamical evolution,” per the study.
Despite the potential black hole in the scholarship, the Hubble’s progress has been nothing short of stellar. Over the past three decades, the space telescope has calibrated more than 40 “milepost markers,” essentially measuring sticks in the space-time continuum that can be used to track the universe’s expansion.
While there is only a one in a million chance that the Hubble made a mistake, this finding is “untangling what was becoming a nice and tidy picture of the universe’s dynamical evolution,” per the study.NASA
“This is likely Hubble’s magnum opus, because it would take another 30 years of Hubble’s life to even double this sample size,” said Reiss.
Fortunately, said breakthrough could be on the horizon. NASA’s new Webb Space Telescope, which just launched into space and will be sending back its data soon, can hopefully expand upon “Hubble’s work by showing these cosmic milepost markers at greater distances or sharper resolution than what Hubble can see.”
Atlantis found? Diver made 'extraordinary' discovery of huge 'man-made' structure
Atlantis found? Diver made 'extraordinary' discovery of huge 'man-made' structure
ATLANTIS was tipped to have been uncovered after a diver made the "extraordinary" discovery of a mysterious formation "the size of five football fields".
The mythical island, which was said to be a strong naval power that besieged Ancient Athens, was first described by theGreek writer Plato in his texts 'Timaeus' and 'Critias'. In the story, Athens repelled the Atlantean attack unlike any other nation of the known world, supposedly giving testament to the superiority of ancient Greece. The legend concluded with Atlantis falling out of favour with the deities and submerging below the Atlantic Ocean, never to be seen again.
But National Geographic’s ‘Legend of Atlantis’ documentary revealed how a diver stumbled across what was tipped to be a man-made structure, sparking interest in the lost city again.
The narrator said: “Using science and not science fiction, draining the oceans exposes new evidence about Atlantis and other stories of great sunken cities around the world.
“As the waters recede from around the remote Japanese island of Yonaguni, a mysterious formation begins to appear.
“Could it be the creation of an advanced, ancient people?
A diver stumbled across a huge structure underwater
(Image: NAT GEO/GETTY)
The discovery was made in the waters around the Japanese island of Yonaguni
(Image: NAT GEO)
“Yonaguni lies in the East China Sea, the waters here are perilous.”
Kihachiro Aratake, the diver who battled sharks, powerful currents and treacherous weather conditions to explore the site, revealed what he first saw.
He said: "The water was crystal clear.
“I felt as though I was looking down from the seabed from the sky.
“I saw a step-like formation, like terraced fields.
“It can't be formed naturally, without human involvement, so what could it be?”
Professor of Basic Structures of Human Societies Hironobu Kan completed a sonar scan of the area to build a better picture.
The series continued last week: “Using this data, it's possible, for the very first time to drain the water and reveal what lies beneath in exact detail.
“The summit of the mysterious structure begins to appear.
“Water pours off its smooth terraced layers, exposing them once again to the sky.
“And with the monument left high and dry, its true scale becomes clear.”
Known as the Yonaguni Monument, the submerged rock formation is located off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan, placing it on the other side of the globe to where Plato said Atlantis submerged.
Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura previously claimed that the formation is man-made stepped monoliths, but that has been described as "pseudo archaeology" by other experts.
Neither the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs nor the government of Okinawa Prefecture, in the East China Sea, recognises the features as important cultural artefacts and neither government agency has carried out research or preservation work on the site.
While present-day philologists and classicists agree on Atlantis' fictional character, there is still debate on what served as its inspiration.
Plato is known to have freely borrowed some of his allegories and metaphors from older traditions.
This led a number of scholars to investigate possible inspiration of Atlantis from Egyptian records of the Thera eruption, the Sea Peoples invasion, or the Trojan War.
Others have rejected this chain of tradition as implausible and insist that Plato created an entirely fictional account.
“Observed Bright light making unusual directional changes” over Mooloolaba, Australia
“Observed Bright light making unusual directional changes” over Mooloolaba, Australia
This strange UFO sighting was filmed back on 19th December 2021 over Mooloolaba, a coastal suburb of Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
Witness report:
I initially observed a bright light travelling south down the Sunshine Coast area near Mooloolaba. I initially thought it might be a helicopter with a search or spot light. However I was sure I noticed it suddenly reversing direction and making sudden downward and upward movements. I grabbed my S21 Samsung phone and recorded approx 30 seconds of footage until I was about to loose site behind a tree. I immediately went onto flight radar and there was nothing in the area. I then tried to get another visual but it was unable to find the object. When I zoom in on my recording you can clearly see the unusual movements.
What Are These Blue Objects? Three UFO Orbs Filmed Flying Around Apartments over São Paulo in Brazil
What Are These Blue Objects? Three UFO Orbs Filmed Flying Around Apartments over São Paulo in Brazil
In this footage: Three UFO orbs filmed on November 2, 2021 over São Paulo in Brazil. These objects were spinning in circular formation around these apartment buildings. At one point one orb seems to be releasing/dropping another object. ➨
Unidentified Flying Objects – The Reality, the Cover-Up and the Truth
Unidentified Flying Objects – The Reality, the Cover-Up and the Truth
Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs as they are commonly known, have been witnessed by millions of people all over the world and have been recorded in history books, myths, legends and traditions for thousands of years. However, many accounts that are recorded in ancient texts are dismissed as mere myths and legends, while UFO sightings that have taken place in the last few centuries have been classified as misinterpretations of natural phenomena, illusions, or conspiracy theories.
The Reality Within the Mythology of Unidentified Flying Objects
History has shown us time and again that a plethora so-called myths have their basis in reality. It is possible, and indeed likely, that stories and legends were a way for people to explain real—and perhaps perplexing—events using the knowledge and beliefs of their time.
In support of this theory, a number of events described in mythology, which were once considered mere fairy tales, have now been proven through archaeology to have existed. A famous example is the city Troy, which is central to Homer’s The Iliad . Long considered to be a city of myth, Heinrich Schliemann’s discovery of the actual site in 1868 elevated it to a place in history.
Nevertheless, the remainder of The Iliad is still viewed as a myth and fantasy without any serious attempts being made to investigate whether or not there may be more truth behind the tale. The same goes for many accounts of flying machines and unidentified flying objects , which we find reference to in countless mythologies from numerous different cultures around the world.
It is common to see people selectively decide what is real and what is not based on the unsubstantiated assumption that ancient people were primitive and had little to no knowledge compared to us today. On the contrary, many ancient civilizations, like the Sumerians, Indus Valley, and Egyptians existed with complex social structures, legal systems, art, astronomy, mathematics, and technology, some of which is still not fully understood today. The Antikythera Mechanism , for example, is a 2,200-year-old mechanical device that is still not completely understood despite decades of research by top scientists around the world.
Many cultures contain pictorial and written records of flying machines or unidentified flying objects, yet these are usually dismissed as myth and legend . ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
Ancient Astronaut Theory and Unidentified Flying Objects
The topic of flying objects and supernatural beings from beyond our world is one in which we find multiple references in mythology. All of these myths and legends, along with archaeological evidence such as rock art depictions, have created a wave of theories that gave birth to the aptly named ancient astronaut perspective. This theory links all of these ancient references and depictions to UFOs, and posits that extraterrestrials visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistory, influencing the development of human cultures, technologies, and religions.
Unfortunately, there are numerous charlatans who have tried to cash in on this movement for profit or publicity, or who have diminished it with caricatures of little green men, resulting in the ancient astronaut perspective being widely criticized and attacked for its lack of credibility. Consequently, what is in fact a plausible and possible explanation for what we see in ancient art and texts, is now rarely examined by scholars, who fear being ridiculed or having their professional career seriously undermined.
UFO Sightings in Recent History
But let’s leave the ancient past for a while and examine just the last 80 years of human history. Millions of people all over the globe have witnessed unidentified flying objects . Many have been recorded in detailed reports witnessed by police, pilots, astronauts, government officials, pilots, military personnel and, of course, ordinary citizens.
Some of the more well-known cases were witnessed by thousands of people at one time. Historical records make it evident that UFO appearances magnified during and after World War II, including the example of the famous Foo Fighters.
While most sightings can be explained either by celestial phenomena, airplanes, planets, weather phenomena, military exercises, or in some cases drug use or mental instability, there still exists a small percentage that cannot be accounted for by any of these explanations. This is what makes the phenomena important, particularly considering that sightings are frequently reported around military bases and airfields and are therefore, at the very least, a matter of both national security and air safety.
It is an undeniable fact that there are cases of unidentified objects in our skies. It has been acknowledged by the major governments from all over the world simply through the very fact that official research has been conducted on the matter in the US, UK, Russia, Europe, China, South America, and many others. All of this research, in every single case, concluded that there is a percentage of phenomena that cannot be explained.
In recent history, many countries have declassified their UFO research files, releasing thousands of documents through the Freedom of Information Act and making numerous UFO cases available in the public domain. One recently released document from the UFO files in Britain, revealed how Churchill, concerned about the UFO issue, ordered a shutdown of information for at least 50 years to prevent mass panic and the potential to undermine religious beliefs. The document in question was published on the BBC news site in 2010.
By doing careful research on the topic, passing over obvious scam and fake stories, it is clear to see that unidentified flying objects do exist. So the question is not whether they exist or not, but rather, what are they? Are they of terrestrial or extraterrestrial origin? And what is their purpose?
UFOs in art: The Baptism of Christ by Arent de Gelder. ( Public domain )
Unidentified Flying Objects and the Limits of Science
Many prominent scientists have already stated that other civilizations must exist in the Universe, and that it would be statistically impossible for this not to be the case. However, with our knowledge of science and technology today, we cannot yet support the means for interstellar travel. Since we have not discovered intelligent life in our solar system, the assumption is made that there must be no way that extraterrestrials could have travelled to Earth.
However, this argument is of course flawed because it is based within the framework of our own understanding of the universe, and does not take into account the capabilities of civilizations that may be millions of years ahead of our own. It also hinges on the following assumptions:
We know everything about physics and reality and therefore there is no way that such distant travel can be achieved.
We are using our means to try to contact other civilizations (e.g. SETI’s attempts to pick up radio or communication signals) and since we don’t perceive any signals of OUR type, nothing must exist.
We are looking for organic forms of life exactly like us and for planets with the exact same conditions as ours.
It is clear that these arguments show the arrogance of mankind, a mankind that may just be an infant in the Universe. And this is not new. During the history of humanity, in every single period of time, we believed that we knew the truth, only to have it replaced later on by new knowledge.
“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”
(Lord Kelvin, 1901, physicist)
Quantum physics , still a relatively new and unexplored field in Science, has shown that reality could be completely different to what we believe it to be. Powerful telescopes have shown distant planets in solar systems that could possibly sustain life. Theories of wormholes and warp drives have shown that at a theoretical level we could achieve interstellar travel. Yes, we would require incredible amounts of energy to even think of trying to achieve something like this, so according to our standards today it is impossible to achieve, but in theory it can be achieved.
“It now seems quite clear that Earth is not the only inhabited planet. There is evidence that the bulk of the stars in the sky have planetary systems. Recent research concerning the origin of life on Earth suggests that the physical and chemical processes leading to the origin of life occur rapidly in the early history of the majority of planets within our Milky Way galaxy–perhaps as many as a million–are inhabited by technical civilizations in advance of our own. Interstellar space flight is far beyond our present technical capabilities, but there seems to be no fundamental physical objections to preclude, from our own vantage point, the possibility of its development by other civilizations.”
Carl Sagan, Ph.D. (Late Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University)
Reluctance to Engage with Unidentified Flying Objects
The reason that the scientific community is not dealing seriously with UFOs is because the topic has been extensively ridiculed both by the media and in academic circles, with false information spread everywhere. For similar reasons, military personnel, astronauts, pilots, and other categories of professionals do not want to talk because, either they have been forced to sign confidentiality agreements, or because of fear that their careers would be destroyed. This is why we have seen many examples of death bed confessions.
One such case was with astronaut Gordon Cooper, who told the world about his experience encountering a UFO during his flight in the Mercury capsule in 1963. Before he died he stated: “For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.”
While great efforts have been made to ridicule and disparage anyone who lends support to the existence of UFOs, the fact remains that there are numerous high-profile cases of unidentified flying objects that are supported by solid evidence, and which should not be dismissed.
Recorded UFO Sightings with Extensive Witness Support
Below I present a very limited list constituting strong evidence for the existence of unidentified flying objects in the last 60 years.
It all happened in the early hours of February 25 in 1942. An aircraft flew over LA County that sparked an air raid alert (it was in the midst of WWII). Searchlights and guns were locked onto the aircraft for about an hour. The picture below appeared in the LA Times in a story about the Battle of LA. It clearly shows a night time defensive response to an air raid. The aircraft was not hostile and obviously was not damaged by the attack. The Government stated that the craft they were shooting at was an unidentified flying object.
The Battle of Los Angeles unidentified flying objects incident . (Author provided)
This incident involved a group of American servicemen stationed at a military base in Suffolk that contained a storage center with nuclear weapons. There had been three consecutive nights of sighting objects in the sky over the base, in some cases shining a light down upon the nuclear weapons storage.
On the third night, approximately two dozen servicemen were sent into the forest to investigate one set of mysterious lights. The men reported seeing a spacecraft on the ground in close proximity to them and three extraterrestrial beings. One serviceman claimed to have touched the craft.
The whole incident was filmed and photographed by one of the servicemen, but all photos and videos were removed by the US military. When the British Government released the UFO files, the Rendlesham incident papers were missing – as reported by the BBC News .
In November, 1986, a Japanese crew of a jumbo freighter aircraft witnessed three enormous unidentified objects while flying over Alaska, USA. This sighting gained international attention when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was going to officially investigate this sighting because the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska, had reported that the UFO had been detected on radar. The unidentified flying objects in this case were tracked on both ground and airborne radar, witnessed by experienced airline pilots, and confirmed by a FAA Division Chief.
Illustration of the object, with the Boeing 747 airplane on the right. Credits: UFO Reporter
The Belgium UFO wave began in November 1989. The events of 29 November would be documented by no less than thirty different groups of witnesses, and three separate groups of police officers. All of the reports related to a large object flying at low altitude.
The craft itself was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath. This giant craft did not make a sound as it slowly moved across the landscape of Belgium. The Belgium UFO wave peaked with events on the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night, unknown objects were tracked on radar, chased by two Belgian Air Force F16s, photographed, and were sighted by an estimated 13,500 people on the ground – 2,600 of whom filed written statements describing in detail what they had seen. Following the incident, the Belgian air force released a report detailing the events of that night.
Belgium UFO wave, Petit Rechain Belgium. (Author provided)
The Phoenix Lights (also identified as "Lights over Phoenix") was a UFO sighting which occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997. Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson.
Witnesses claim to have observed a huge square-shaped UFO, containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington, the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident; he later called the unidentified flying object as "otherworldly."
On the night of August 30, a cluster of multi-colored lights was seen floating in the sky above Osaka. Several people reported to Twitter that they saw a group of lights forming a triangular shape and flashing green, red and white in the night sky above Izumi city in Osaka Prefecture. The sightings caused a commotion on Twitter after one user wrote: “Everyone in Osaka, go outside! There’s a UFO!” prompting others to grab their cameras and snap up photos of mysterious, luminous and unidentified flying object.
At approximately 16:15 CST on Tuesday November 7, 2006, federal authorities at Chicago O'Hare International Airport received a report that a group of twelve airport employees were witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17.
The object was first spotted by a ramp employee who was pushing back United Airlines Flight 446, which was departing Chicago for Charlotte, North Carolina. The employee apprised Flight 446's crew of the object above their aircraft. It is believed that both the pilot and co-pilot also witnessed the object.
Several independent witnesses outside of the airport also saw the object. According to the Chicago Tribune 's Jon Hilkevitch, “the disc was visible for approximately two minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it.”
O-Hare Airport UFO Incident, USA . (Author provided)
The incident took place on May 2007 at 14.00 local time in Lima, Peru. A series of moving lights resembling an armada of flying objects appeared in the skies. The story was reported on the news and was seen by thousands of people.
An unidentified flying object that disrupted air traffic in Hangzhou for an hour on Wednesday, 10th of July 2010. A flight crew preparing for descent first detected the object around 8:40 p.m. and notified the air traffic control department. Aviation authorities responded within minutes, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi. Eighteen flights were affected.
A spokesman from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) confirmed to ABC News that the matter is under investigation. He declined to disclose further details. A day after the sighting, however, an anonymous source told China Daily that authorities already discovered the identity of the UFO after an investigation but could not publically disclose the information because “there was a military connection.”
Xiaoshan Airport UFO Incident, China . (Author provided)
Implications of Disclosing Information about Unidentified Flying Objects
Many would say that the above examples constitute irrefutable proof that extraterrestrial UFOs exist. So why isn’t the public told about it? Imagine the implications that disclosure would have and what it would mean. Acknowledgment of extra-terrestrial civilizations having visited Earth would mean that many of the myths and legends of the past are in fact based on reality.
Disclosure would suggest that humanity has been influenced for millennia by other-worldly beings, beings that in the past were considered gods. Disclosure would entirely topple the status quo and the balance of powers in society, and turn upside down what we know about the history of mankind.
The acknowledgement of the UFO phenomena is an event with the power to bring a global revolution in every sector of our lives today – technology and energy supply, communication and environmental concerns, society and religion. Is this what governments and corporations are afraid of – a shift in balance and their loss of their positions of power and control? Or is it that the powers that be are afraid of re-writing our human history?
“When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum leap.”
(Dr J. Allen Hynek, Scientific Advisor to the U.S. Air Force)
Top image: Composite image of unidentified flying objects. Source: Author provided.
ASTRONOMEN SPOTTEN ZEER MYSTERIEUS, NOG NIET EERDER WAARGENOMEN OBJECT IN ONZE GALACTISCHE ACHTERTUIN
ASTRONOMEN SPOTTEN ZEER MYSTERIEUS, NOG NIET EERDER WAARGENOMEN OBJECT IN ONZE GALACTISCHE ACHTERTUIN
Vivian Lammerse
Het raadselachtige object, dat drie keer per uur een gigantische uitbarsting van energie vrijgeeft, is anders dan astronomen ooit eerder hebben gezien.
Australische wetenschappers hebben aan de nachtelijke hemel een heel ongewoon object gespot. Het gaat om een mysterieus object dat in 2018 drie keer per uur een gigantische uitbarsting van energie produceerde. Terwijl het vreemde object door het heelal tolde, zond het een stralingsbundel uit die precies onze gezichtslijn kruiste. Vervolgens was het gedurende één minuut één van de helderste radiobronnen aan de hemel.
Transiënten Het object werd ontdekt met behulp van de Murchison Widefield Array (MWA)-telescoop, te vinden in de outback van West-Australië. En het lijkt erop dat het object net als een stoplicht ‘aan’ en weer ‘uit’ ging. Dergelijke objecten zijn overigens geen zeldzaamheid; astronomen noemen ze ‘transiënten’. En deze komen voor in allerlei vormen en maten. Langzame transiënten, zoals supernova’s, kunnen bijvoorbeeld in de loop van een paar dagen verschijnen, om vervolgens na een paar maanden weer te verdwijnen. Daarnaast bestaan er ook snelle transiënten, zoals een neutronenster, die gedurende enkele milliseconden tot seconden flitst.
Eigenaardig Wat het nu ontdekte object echter zo eigenaardig maakt, is dat het telkens één minuut acte de présence gaf. “Dit object verscheen en verdween gedurende een paar uur tijdens onze waarnemingen,” vertelt onderzoeksleider Natasha Hurley-Walker. “Dat kwam totaal onverwacht. Het was zelfs een beetje griezelig, omdat er niets aan de nachtelijke hemel bekend is dat hetzelfde doet.” Daarnaast bevindt het mysterieuze object zich vrij dicht bij ons, op slechts 4000 lichtjaar afstand. “Het is in onze eigen galactische achtertuin,” aldus Hurley-Walker.
Wat kan het zijn? De onderzoekers hebben zich het hoofd gebroken over wat het mysterieuze object zou kunnen zijn. Wat we weten, is dat het ronddraaiende object ongelofelijk helder en een stukje kleiner is dan onze zon. Daarnaast zendt het sterk gepolariseerde radiogolven uit. Dit betekent dat het een extreem sterk magnetisch veld heeft.
Unieke magnetar Het leidt tot een spannende theorie. Want de onderzoekers vermoeden dat het raadselachtige object mogelijk een unieke magnetar is. Magnetars zijn ongelooflijk magnetische neutronensterren, waarvan sommige soms radio-emissie produceren. Bekende magnetars roteren om de paar seconden, maar theoretisch zouden ze ook veel langzamer kunnen draaien. “De waarnemingen komen overeen met een dergelijk voorspeld astrofysisch object,” vertelt Hurley-Walker. “Het is een soort langzaam draaiende neutronenster waarvan theoretisch is voorspeld dat het bestaat. Niemand had echter gedacht dat ie rechtstreeks waarneembaar zou zijn. Op de een of andere manier zet het magnetische energie veel effectiever om in radiogolven dan alles wat we eerder hebben gezien.”
Een artistieke impressie van hoe het object eruit zou kunnen zien als het een magnetar is.
Afbeelding: ICRAR
De onderzoekers zijn van plan de nachtelijke hemel met behulp van de MWA-telescoop scherp in de gaten te blijven houden. Hoewel het raadselachtige object al een tijd niet meer is gezien, zou het zomaar nog eens van zich kunnen laten horen. “Als dat zo is, kunnen we er meer telescopen op richten,” zegt Hurley-Walker.
Daarnaast is de onderzoeker van plan om door eerder verzamelde gegevens van de MWA-telescoop te spitten, om meer soortgelijke ongewone objecten aan het licht te brengen. “Dit zou ons kunnen vertellen of dit een zeldzame, eenmalige gebeurtenis was of dat het gaat om een enorme nieuwe populatie die we nog niet eerder hebben opgemerkt,” besluit Hurley-Walker.
As you already know, I love to go through NASA photos and catch the things that they missed. Here are two interesting things that both scream out the existence of life. First is a pyramid shaped structure about one meter tall. It has a white door. Which tells me something is inside right now, and that doorway is to protect it from the elements and any other creatures. The second object is an ancient jar on its side. A small animal like a white slug found it and made it its home. You can easily make out the white slug creature peeking out of the hole in the top of the jar. Both these discoveries are proof of life, however they are only about ten meters apart, which says one may be a coincidence, but two is a confirmation of life.
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U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter encountered three UFOs during a training flight in Arizona
U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter encountered three UFOs during a training flight in Arizona
November 6, 2018, pilots of a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter encountered three unidentified aerial phenomena during a training flight in Arizona.
The video shows three unknown aircraft initially appearing to be flying in a loose triangular formation. The three unknown objects suddenly appear to rotate around each other, as if revolving around an unseen axis, all while maintaining a steady eastward trajectory.
Former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter pilot Chris Lehto analyzed the footage and concluded, “it is without a doubt anomalous.” According to Lehto, “The tracking rate is exceptionally fast. Even if they are only a mile away, I calculate they go approximately 1.28M. Well past the speed of sound.”
“The circle-dance maneuver is just not possible,” added Lehto. “They do a full 360-degree turn in less than 3 seconds!”
In Lehto’s opinion, no F-16—nor any drone or other aircraft in the current known inventory of the United States military—is capable of what the objects are seen doing in the video. He judges that they display “a turn rate that is an order of magnitude faster than one of the fastest turning fighters on earth,” which he estimates to be above 70 Gs.
The CIA Doesn’t Want Anyone To Know That It’s Interested In UFOs
The CIA Doesn’t Want Anyone To Know That It’s Interested In UFOs
After a Japanese plane spots a UFO right next to it as it’s flying in Alaskan airspace, and multiple sightings of a large oval-shaped disk are seen above Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, journalists and investigators ask why the authorities arent taking sightings seriously.
Wow! Signal: Origin of possible alien signal narrowed down - study
Wow! Signal: Origin of possible alien signal narrowed down - study
Detected in 1977, the Wow! Signal is the strongest candidate for a genuine alien transmission, but where did it come from? This study may have the answer.
Radio telescopes, which are used to find radio broadcasts from space (Illustrative).
(photo credit: PIXABAY)
A scientist may have pinpointed the origin of the Wow! Signal, the most famous alien radio broadcast in history, making it an ideal candidate for future research and observations in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
The study, which was published in the peer-reviewed academic periodical The International Journal of Astrobiology, suggests that the famous signal could very well have come from a star located in the Sagittarius constellation that is similar to our own Sun.
What is the Wow! Signal?
The Wow! Signal is easily the most famous and enduring extraterrestrial radio transmission to Earth in history and to this day is the strongest candidate for a genuine radio transmission from an intelligent source.
The signal itself is a strong narrowband radio signal and was recorded on August 15, 1977 at the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University.
A general map of the location where the Wow! signal supposedly originated.
(credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The signal, which was detected over a period of 72 seconds (that was as long as the telescope was capable of observing, and it likely lasted longer), was then noticed by astronomer Jerry R. Ehman who, when looking over the printout of the data, circled the signal, noted by the sequence 6EQUJ5 and famously wrote "Wow!" next to it.
The sequence in question does not refer to any message broadcast in the signal, but merely referred to the intensity variation.
However, the signal, or any other like it, has yet to be detected again.
Many experts have put forth hypotheses that could explain where it came from, most of which tried to ascribe a mundane origin to them.
Famously, one theory proposed in 2017 suggested it could have been produced by a hydrogen cloud surrounding two comets in the area, but this was disproven for a number of reasons such as comets not emitting these strong radio signals at these frequencies and the location not being a fit.
Could it be aliens?
This is one commonly-cited possibility, though far from confirmed. It is still technically possible that it was broadcast from Earth and simply was reflected back by a piece of space debris, though this is still unlikely as the frequency is part of the protected spectrum where Earth-born transmissions are banned.
But if it was made by aliens, why has it only been sent once?
That is still possible. As noted in this new study, humanity has sent only a few radio signals with the goal of reaching an advanced alien civilization. As such, it is possible that another intelligent race could have done something similar and only sent a few signals.
The study
One of the big questions surrounding the Wow! Signal has always been where it came from. It was long thought that it originated from somewhere in the Sagittarius constellation, but efforts to narrow it down any further than two specific regions of space proved fruitless.
But what this study did was operate under the assumption that, if it was indeed made by an advanced and intelligent alien civilization, then they must live somewhere. Likely, they would live on an exoplanet similar to Earth.
To narrow it down, the researcher behind it made use of the European Space Agency's Gaia Archive, which contains data on the deduced positions, motions, brightness and more of objects in the Milky Way galaxy and beyond.
Here, they made use of the original estimates that narrowed down the origin of the signal to two regions and added a number of parameters and variables. Specifically, it came with the goal of narrowing it down to a certain kind of star that is the same type as the Sun, as the Sun is the only star confirmed to be able to support life.
With all these parameters, the researcher was able to narrow it down to 38 candidate stars. Then, when specifying it for Sun-like stars, it was narrowed down to just one star, designated 2MASS 19281982-2640123.
In other words, out of all the many stars in these regions of space where the Wow! Signal likely originated from, this was the sole star that was confirmed to be similar to the Sun. If there is an exoplanet capable of supporting an intelligent civilization, there is a possibility it could be here.
There were a couple of other possible candidates, too, but they were less likely due to lack of data. So it is unclear if they properly fit the model.
So in other words, this could be a potential target for further study, or even sending signals.
But there is a problem: Distance.
2MASS 19281982-2640123 is located some 1,800 light years away from Earth. In other words, sending a reply message of sorts is impossible - it's just too far away.
But it is an ideal candidate for observations.
Reactions
Understandably, this is an exciting discovery in the field of SETI, as this is the strongest candidate for a genuine alien transmission.
One person who commented on this was Russian-Israeli scientist and philanthropist Yuri Milner, founder of the Breakthrough Initiatives, which seeks to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life.
On Twitter, Milner noted that it was "intriguing that there’s a Sun-like star in the right place to be its source," though he did still take a more cautious approach and noted that it may well be just an artifact.
Also weighing in was Israeli-American astronomer Prof. Avi Loeb of Harvard University, one of the world's leading voices in SETI, and he too took a cautious approach.
"Science is about reproducibility of results," he explained in an email.
"The Wow! Signal did not repeat and hence it is difficult to infer its origin. There are suggestions that it was human made. We need to find more signals of this type before associating likely explanations."
He further gave the example of a recent radio signal detected coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our Solar System, which is known to have two exoplanets that could possibly be habitable. However, further study indicated that these signals were likely of human origin.
"The Wow! Signal is interesting but like other detections... it is most likely human-generated radio interference," he said in an email.
However, Worden also noted an issue about the focus of the study itself: That other types of stars could also possibly host life, as there is no reason to assume that life can't or doesn't exist in environments that drastically differ from that of Earth's surrounding our Sun.
"Many experts believe life can and does exist under ice crusts in our own outer solar system. Some measurements suggest life exists in the hostile upper atmosphere of Venus," Worden explained. "The truth is we don’t know much about how life forms or where it can develop."
NASA, Boeing Complete Starliner Uncrewed Flight Test to Space Station
NASA, Boeing Complete Starliner Uncrewed Flight Test to Space Station
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA and Boeing safely landed the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft Wednesday in the desert of the western United States, completing the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station to help prove the system is ready to fly astronauts.
About four hours after departing the space station, Starliner touched down onto its airbags at 4:49 p.m. MDT, wrapping up the six-day flight, which tested the end-to-end capabilities of the crew-capable spacecraft. The landing followed a deorbit burn at 4:05 p.m., separation of the spacecraft’s service module, and successful deployment of its three main parachutes and six airbags.
“NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and our industry partner, Boeing, today took a major and successful step on the journey to enabling more human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station on American spacecraft from American soil,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “The OFT-2 mission represents the power of collaboration, which allows us to innovate for the benefit of humanity and inspire the world through discovery. This golden era of spaceflight wouldn’t be possible without the thousands of individuals who persevered and poured their passion into this great achievement.”
As part of the flight test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Boeing accomplished planned test objectives, including:
Starliner launch and normal trajectory to orbital insertion
Launch of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V and dual-engine Centaur second stage
Ascent abort emergency detection system validation
Starliner separation from the Atlas V rocket
Approach, rendezvous, and docking with International Space Station
Starliner hatch opening and closing, astronaut ingress, and quiescent mode
Crew habitability and internal interface evaluation
Starliner undocking and departure from space station
Starliner deorbit, and crew module separation from service module
Starliner descent and atmospheric entry with aero-deceleration system
Precision targeted landing and recovery
“I am incredibly proud of the dedication and perseverance shown by the NASA, Boeing and ULA team culminating in the successful completion of Starliner’s second Orbital Flight Test from start to finish,” said Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. “Throughout this process, Starliner has provided a tremendous amount of valuable data, which we’re continuing to assess in our effort to bring the spacecraft online and fully operational for crew flights to the space station as soon as it is safe to do so.”
The flight test began Thursday, May 19, when Starliner launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Following liftoff, Starliner successfully entered Earth’s orbit, performed a series of demonstrations of its capabilities, and docked with the orbital outpost 26 hours after launch. The Expedition 67 crew aboard the station opened hatches and entered the capsule for the first time, inspecting the spacecraft and verifying integration with power and communications station systems for longer stays in the future. The station crew also unloaded 500 pounds of cargo delivered by Starliner and sent 600 pounds of cargo back to Earth.
“Congratulations to the NASA and Boeing teams,” said Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program. “I am excited to see the completion of a critical step in bringing another system online to transport long-duration crew members to and from the International Space Station. Soon, we hope to see crews arrive to the space station on Starliner to continue the important microgravity scientific research and discovery made possible by the orbiting laboratory.”
A critical step in validating the performance of Boeing’s systems, OFT-2 brings the nation a significant step closer to having two unique human transportation systems to carry astronauts to and from the space station from U.S. soil.
“We have had an excellent flight test of a complex system that we expected to learn from along the way and we have,” said Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program. “With the completion of OFT-2, we will incorporate lessons learned and continue working to prepare for the crewed flight test and NASA certification. Thank you to the NASA and Boeing teammates who have put so much of themselves into Starliner.”
Starliner carried a “passenger” on this flight test – a lifelike test device named Rosie.
During OFT-1, Rosie was outfitted with 15 sensors to collect data on what astronauts will experience during flights on Starliner. For OFT-2, spacecraft data capture ports previously connected to Rosie’s 15 sensors were used to collect data from sensors placed along the seat pallet, which is the infrastructure that holds all the crew seats in place. Among the cargo returned were three Nitrogen Oxygen Recharge System reusable tanks that provide breathable air to station crew members. The tanks will be refurbished on Earth and sent back to station on a future flight.
Boeing retrieved the spacecraft from the desert and will transport it back to the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for processing.
After NASA and Boeing review processes data from this test flight, teams will continue plans for Starliner and its next mission, the Crew Flight Test to the space station.
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Newly released video and direct testimony from a former Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent reveal that, much like U.S. Navy pilots who say they have regularly encountered unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), law enforcement officials defending America’s borders are also encountering unusual aerial objects with surprising frequency.
According to sources The Debrief has interviewed, these incidents include encounters with aerial objects that appear to perform maneuvers well beyond the capabilities of conventional aircraft. Some of these events, which were also captured on video, have left a number of veteran pilots and other personnel questioning the nature and origin of these objects.
Now in an exclusive to The Debrief, a former CBP agent is breaking his silence, offering significant details about his own experience with UAPs while patrolling the Mexican-American border. This, along with experiences and videos shared with him by fellow CBP and Department of Homeland Security officials, and his efforts to set up a process within the CBP for pilots and agents to report their sightings.
For much of the last century, people have reported seeing strange objects in America’s skies. Sometimes appearing to maneuver at considerable speeds and without discernible means of propulsion, these unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, have remained an enduring mystery; one that ignores cultural and ideological boundaries with the same disregard they appear to show for territorial borders.
In recent years, the dialogue surrounding this long-taboo topic has been significantly elevated, particularly among lawmakers and defense officials in Washington. Several incidents, a majority of them reported in recent years by U.S. Navy personnel, have prompted questions about whether drones and sophisticated surveillance platforms operated by foreign adversaries–or perhaps something else entirely–could be involved in these aerial incursions into U.S. airspace.
Yet people from virtually all walks of life have claimed to have bewildering sightings of these aerial interlopers. And as some former government officials have recently told The Debrief, when it comes to U.S. government and UAP, the Department of Defense is hardly the only show in town.
“It’s not just the DoD encountering this stuff,” says Robert “Bob” Thompson, a recently retired Department of Homeland Security Agent.
In an interview with The Debrief, Thompson recounted how one of the roles he took on as a federal agent with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector Special Operations Group involved establishing the reporting requirements for Unexplained Aerial Phenomena within the Tucson Sector.
According to Thompson, just like the military, a number of these bizarre incidents involving UAP have been captured on sophisticated government systems, normally tasked with catching drug smugglers or staving off the flow of illegal immigration.
“We have guys out there 24/7 with their eyes to the sky looking for smuggling, but they see other stuff,” said Thompson. “I talked to dozens and dozens of agents that all had similar stories of seeing bizarre stuff, of having encounters with UAP.”
View of the Milky Way over Cathedral Rock, seen from the Cathedral Rock Trailhead on Back O’ Beyond Road, Sedona, Arizona. (Image Source: Deborah Lee Soltesz/ U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest)
After servingfor 11 years with the U.S. military and a stint with a Tucson area Fire Department as a Paramedic and Hazmat Technician, Thompson began his career with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency in January 2008.
As a federal law enforcement agent, Thompson would go on to spend the next 14 years guarding America’s southern borders, ultimately earning a spot on the Tucson Sectors Special Operations Detachment Mobile Response Team (MRT.)
“I gravitated, you know, almost right off the bat to the special operations side,” Thompson told The Debrief.
“As always, you just want to surround yourself with the best,” he said. “100% out for excellence all the time. I got on to what they call our mobile Response Team, which is one of the three tiers that make up the Border Patrol Special Operations Detachment.”
Within the Special Operations Detachment the primary focus was counter terrorism, counter weapons of mass destruction proliferation, and drug interdiction.
From 2020 to 2021, Thompson worked in the newly created Arizona Air Coordination Center, which was to become the brain for Air Operations within the Tucson Sector. While tasked in the center, Thompson worked on other projects including helping redesign the sector’s antiquated 911 system and redesigning reporting requirements for regular tracking of statistics for air support operations.
“Flying was kind of my forte. My responsibility was mainly helicopters, and some of the other aerial platforms that we work with and other partner agencies that we work with,” said Thompson in a phone call with The Debrief. “I was also a paramedic too. In fact, I was the senior paramedic, for all of the Border Patrol. I’d get pinged a lot as a subject matter expert when it comes to emergency management and preparation, emergency medicine, and counterterrorism.”
However, along with his official duties with the DHS, Thompson began investigating UAP sightings he learned about from within the agency, even collecting videos and images of bizarre encounters captured by sophisticated government systems.
“There’s other people that have concerns about [these objects] as well. You know, like it may be a foreign adversary,” said Thompson, describing them as “genuine objects that I couldn’t explain.”
Although Thompson admits to having a long-time interest in UFOs, it was only after the 2017 revelations of a quasi-secret Pentagon program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), that he said he realized the DHS could provide equally valuable information in the organized study of UAP. Thompson said he began producing an “Issue Paper” in an effort to improve reporting and guidance for agents encountering UAP along the southwest border.
“Tucson Sector Border Patrol (TCA) in conjunction with the Tucson Air and Marine Branch needs to develop a program to be able to Report, Identify, Catalog, and if needed; Interdict Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that are encountered along the Southwest Border,” Thompson wrote in the document, a copy of which was obtained by The Debrief.
“Whether or not some of these objects pose a threat to American Interests is not clearly understood and by establishing reporting requirements, it may serve as an early warning system for emerging threats when combined with technology assets already in place by DHS.”
A February 9, 2021 encounter by the Tucson Police Department Air Support unit with an object that “defied known drone/SUAS characteristics,” was highlighted in the document. The craft, described as a “highly modified drone,” was able to outmaneuver helicopters operated by both the Tucson Police Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Cockpit view from within a Tucson Police Department Air Support Bell 206B-3 patrol helicopter (Image Source: Tucson Police Department).
“This thing went on for 45 minutes over the city of Tucson,” Bob told The Debrief. “It was doing circles around (the police helicopters) then went up to 14,000 (ft).”
“Could [it] be something Raytheon related?” Thompson asked. “Absolutely. Could it be, you know, a Chinese drone doing some scouting? Absolutely.”
While trying to convince senior leadership to take the issue seriously, Thompson put the word out to the DHS aviation community that he was interested in any UAP encounters they might have had.
Continuing to carry out his full time duties at a DHS air coordination fusion center, it wasn’t long before Thompson says a stream of DHS and National Guard pilots started sharing accounts of encounters with aerial objects they could not identify. In some instances, the objects were also recorded on video by aircraft equipped with advanced imaging systems.
One striking example, made public now for the first time, depicts three fast-moving unidentified aircraft captured by the sophisticated targeting/imaging system of an Army AH-64 attack helicopter.
Captured by oneof the U.S. military’s flagship attack helicopters close to midnight on November 6, 2018, roughly 40 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, the video appears to show several unidentifiable objects maneuvering unlike any known aircraft.
“Wow! Are those three really fast moving jets up there?” exclaims the Apache helicopter’s co-pilot and gunner as three objects suddenly appear, dashing across the sky as the aircraft prepares to take-off.
“Probably. Probably some A10’s or some F-16s,” the Apache’s pilot replies, before admitting, “but, I’m not looking up there.”
Although difficult to discern from the video alone, the three unknown aircraft initially appear to be flying in a loose triangular formation.
The co-pilot continues to follow the three objects with the aircraft’s multi-sensor imaging system, the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS).
“The M-TADS/PNVS’s advanced FLIR sensors enable Army Aviation Warfighters to see first, understand first, act first and finish decisively on the tactical battlefield,” reads a fact sheet provided by the system’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin. The sophisticated Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet (AAIH) worn by the aircrew allows the nose mounted IR imaging sensor to follow a pilot’s head movements.
As they approach the foothills of nearby Picacho Peak, the three unknown objects suddenly appear to rotate around each other, as if revolving around an unseen axis, all while maintaining a steady eastward trajectory.
After several rotations, the objects then resume an obtuse triangular formation before speeding out of sight as the Apache begins to take off.
An Apache helicopter participates in training exercises over the Arizona desert (Image Source: Graeme Main/OGL License).
Although the encounter only lasted a few seconds, the unusual maneuvers conveyed in the video suggests it could represent the first publicly available imagery of UAP displaying highly-unconventional flight characteristics, captured by military sensor systems.
To verify the video’s authenticity, The Debrief was able to obtain a complete, unedited copy of the imagery captured by the Apache’s gun camera during the entirety of its flight.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), unless there is a known air safety accident or incident, radar tracking information, air traffic control tape recordings, and data communications are only retained for 45 days.
Because the incident is more than three-years old, The Debrief was likewise unable to obtain any automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) transponder data from commercial aircraft tracking sources, capable of revealing any information on other aircraft that were operating within the vicinity at the time of the sighting.
It was noted that in the video the Apache pilot can be heard interacting with air traffic control and requesting permission to take off. There is no mention by air controllers to the pilots of any other aircraft operating in the area.
A check with aeronautical charts of the area using SkyVector.com also failed to provide any obvious clues, such as designated flight paths, low-level air-traffic lanes, or military operational areas that might help account for the objects.
In a video call with The Debrief, former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Chris Lehto said the objects certainly have the appearance of being anomalous.
“It looks like three definite objects, but at a distance. The first thing that stands out to me is the rate of acceleration,” said Lehto, who spent 20-years in the Air Force flying F-16s and holds a Masters degree in aeronautical science.
Chris Lehto (above) seated in an F-16 Fighting Falcon prior to take-off on Feb. 5, 2009 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska (Image Source: USAF/Public Domain).
“If you see an airline out a distance, you’re just expecting it to move a certain amount of distance in a certain amount of time. Especially as a pilot, you just, you build that out more and you’re used to looking at planes and assessing how far away they are. And looking at objects, your brain just gets more and more attuned to that,” Lehto explained.
“And when I looked at this, the rate of acceleration just doesn’t make sense for any objects… I’ve seen in my life, as a pilot.”
Lehto says the objects appear to be moving faster than what he would expect to see even from high-performance aircraft, such as an F-16 or F/A-18 fighter jet.
“Without a doubt. I mean things do move that fast, but they’re constant because when they’re moving that fast they have a very large radius of curvature when they turn just based on centripetal force acceleration to be going that fast,” said Lehto.
When it comes to the bizarre sudden rotations, Lehto said, “How they fly, it doesn’t feel mechanical to me. They’re changing altitudes and headings, or it just doesn’t feel like how we would fly, how I would fly a plane. Basically, at a certain altitude maybe you’re descending, but you’re descending to go somewhere.”
“It’s just kind of willy nilly flying around,” said Lehto. “It just kind of gives me more of an organic rather than mechanical feeling.” 7
Estimated Ground Track of three UAP depicted in the “Longbow 288” footage (Image Source: Chris Lehto/Google).
After completing his own analysis of the footage, Lehto provided The Debrief with several additional details that stood out to him, which have led him to conclude the objects display characteristics that appear to defy explanation.
“The tracking rate is exceptionally fast,” Lehto told The Debrief. “Even if they are only a mile away, I calculate they go approximately 1.28M. Well past the speed of sound.”
And according to Lehto, the unusual circular flight path the objects demonstrate near the end of the footage is the strangest aspect of the film.
“The circle-dance maneuver is just not possible,” Lehto said. “They do a full 360-degree turn in less than 3 seconds!”
Estimated flight path of three UAP at 2 NM (Image Source: Chris Lehto/Google)
The former fighter pilot expressed confidence that an F-16 is indeed capable of turning at incredible speeds. According to Lehto, “in a level turn, at Mach 0.8, 7 Gs, and 14 deg/sec, the F-16 could turn 360 degrees in about 26 [seconds].”
But in Lehto’s opinion, no F-16—nor any drone or other aircraft in the current known inventory of the United States military—is capable of what the objects are seen doing in the video. He judges that they display “a turn rate that is an order of magnitude faster than one of the fastest turning fighters on earth,” which he estimates to be above 70 Gs.
“I’ve analyzed the video,” Lehto told The Debrief, concluding “it is without a doubt anomalous.”
In a phone call, Graves said that at times the unknown objects pilots were encountering off America’s east coast during training exercises at the time would engage in similar bizarre, “non-mechanical” maneuvers.
“It’s hard to describe exactly, but sometimes they would appear to behave erratically. Like group together or change positions while in formation in ways that you wouldn’t see aircraft behave,” said Graves.
“This was in three-dimensional space too. Not just their vector, but sometimes they would also abruptly change altitude.”
To reinforce the need for a UAP task force within DHS, Thompson provided a copy of another 40-minute long UAP video to the nonprofit Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), an organization comprised mainly of scientists from various fields who are engaged in the study of aerial phenomena.
Popularly referred to as the “Rubber Duck,” the video taken from a DHS surveillance aircraft shows a misshapen object steadingly flying along near America’s southern border with Mexico.
Records reviewed by The Debrief verified Thompson had made supervisors at DHS aware of his UAP related side-project, as well as the fact that he had provided the purported UAP footage to the SCU for analysis.
“I’ve seen things,” Thompson said. I’ve seen things myself, but unfortunately, I’ve never been able to hit the record button, or have something that was just going to be mind blowing for people.”
“But this one, the ‘rubber duck video’ I thought displayed some really unique characteristics that I couldn’t explain. To me, it didn’t resemble a balloon [and] it didn’t resemble a drone.”
Skeptic Mick West has expressed the view that the object in the “Rubber Duck” video might nonetheless be a drone or runaway mylar balloon, although he acknowledges that conclusive identification based on information in the video alone would be difficult.
“We really don’t know what it is and we probably won’t ever know what it is,” West said in a video on his YouTube channel.
The Debrief reached out to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies for comment about the footage, and although the video was pending analysis by an SCU team member, the results of that study had not been completed and made publicly available at the time of publication.
Previously, the SCU conducted an analysis of a separate video originating from within the DHS, filmed over the Rafael Hernandez airport at Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on April 25, 2013, and obtained by the group later that year.
According to the official who provided the footage to the SCU, who chose to remain anonymous, but whose background information was vetted prior to the analysis, the object appearing in the video produced no squawking transponder signal which would have alerted air traffic control nearby about its presence over the airport.
“Fortunately an airborne U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft captured the object on infrared video,” a portion of an extensive report on SCU’s findings states.
Rich Hoffman, an executive board member of SCU who has worked professionally as a defense contractor for more than two decades, says that analysis revealed characteristics about the object that weren’t easily explained.
“It doesn’t have any kind of thermal signature that you would expect,” Hoffman says, who noted that the characteristics displayed by the object in the footage are not consistent with how a balloon or bird would normally appear through thermal imaging systems.
“We got its flight path nailed down,” Hoffman says, adding that SCU “deduced that the speed varied… from about 80 to 85 miles per hour.” Hoffman also notes that the SCU had to account for the parallax effect regarding the object’s movement, which can give the appearance of a faster-moving object due to its relationship with the background based on the camera angle.
“It was a relatively small object,” Hoffman adds, noting that SCU’s analysis determined it had likely been between two and three feet in diameter. The SCU’s complete analysis can be read online at its website.
Thanks in part to the Department of Defense and Congress’s continued interest in collecting data on UAP, things seemed to be progressing–albeit at a snail’s pace typical of government bureaucracy–in Thompson’s attempt to establish similar efforts within the DHS.
However, following unforeseen medical circumstances, Thompson suddenly found himself facing early retirement from his more than 20 years of combined federal service.
Fearing his efforts to have a formal process within DHS to collect and investigate UAP incidents might see additional setbacks, Thompson took action similar to others who have faced such obstacles related to the often taboo topic: he chose to publicly release some of the videos he had obtained showing DHS or military encounters with UAP.
“The videos aren’t classified and they don’t have any nexus to anything related to smuggling,” Thompson emphasized. “So they fit in this weird gray area that Border Patrol really didn’t care about.”
“When I got the very first video, the rubber duck video, I asked him (my boss) directly, ‘is there any reason why I can’t share this with anyone?’ Thompson told The Debrief. And he told me point blank, ‘No.’”
After obtaining permission to share the videos, to raise public awareness Thompson reached out to Andy Marcial, who runs a UAP-related Instagram account called NY UAP Discussions.
“I’ve always helped out the little guy, that’s always been something that’s been instilled in me from an early age,” said Thompson. “And, you know, I looked at Andy as a little guy, you know, when it came to the UFO community. That was why, you know, I reached out to Andy to see if he wanted to get these videos out.”
Marcial told The Debrief that he had been surprised when Thompson reached out to him with the footage.
“At first I was reluctant to believe it. Of all the people, why me?” Marcial said in a call with The Debrief, chuckling as he described the first time Thompson reached out to him. “After seeing the videos though, I realized that this was something very important. That people needed to see it.”
Marcial, choosing to release three of the DHS videos he received, gave them the titles “Rubber Duck,” “A-10,” and “La Bruja.”
What the objects depicted in the videos actually represent remains a matter of debate. What can be verified is that each was captured using sophisticated aircraft imaging systems, and that the pilots or aircrews had no explanation at the time for what was seen. Categorically, the objects in the videos simply remain unidentified.
The videos were among the first to be made publicly available showing purported UAP encounters captured by government systems since three similar videos, obtained by U.S. Navy personnel, were released in late 2017.
To his surprise, Marcial also found himself a target of criticism, on account of both the interpretation by some that the videos might convey balloons or other prosaic objects, as well as apparent suspicions over Marcial’s relatively recent entry into the online “UFO community.”
“It was a massive disappointment,” Marcial said. “It was really hard to try and do the right thing and get this stuff out there, then have people act like they were upset or start criticizing me.”
Marcial says he doesn’t ultimately know what UAP represents, but that the implications could be seismic; so long as the potential remains for exotic possibilities.
“There is too much negativity in the world, too much hate, too much fighting, too much bickering, and way too little love, empathy, and unity,” Marcial says. “Maybe if we found out we aren’t alone in the universe it would change perspectives and views so that the next generation will usher in a new era for mankind.”
Undeterred, Marcial hopes that further releases like the Apache video and further inquiries by lawmakers and government officials will motivate others to take the subject of UAP seriously.
“I would like for academics, scientists, and the general public to not only take the subject seriously, but also understand that there could be more to reality than what we currently comprehend,” Marcial says.
“We need to study and investigate this phenomena to not only understand UAP, but also reality as a whole.”
More than any personal interesthe had in UAP, Thompson says what drove him to begin collecting information about what his fellow DHS employees were seeing had been a lack of any formal reporting structure for such sightings.
“Guys are seeing stuff and they didn’t have a means to report it,” he says. “And that’s what brought me more into this than anything.”
Thompson hopes that exposing UAP encounters, like the one recorded by Apache helicopter pilots showing airborne objects performing unlike any known aircraft, may further encourage government officials to take UAP incidents seriously.
“It’s been such a taboo subject for so long, especially in the law enforcement community, especially in the military community,” Thompson says. “I don’t care if it’s a UFO or a Chinese drone, it should get reported to the correct authorities.”
Speaking on background, three separate U.S. defense officials familiar with the government’s current UAP investigations said the encounter by the Apache pilots in 2018 was not reported to either the UAP Task Force, or its sucessor program, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG).
Defense officials The Debrief spoke with said the lack of knowledge was likely due to the fact that new UAP reporting procedures were still being formalized in 2018. Likewise, the officials said the incident highlights how problems still exist in trying to coordinate centralized UAP reporting practices amongst all government agencies.
“It definitely appears to be anomalous,” said one senior defense official who viewed the Apache video and was familiar with the work of the UAP Task Force. “If it had been reported right after it occurred the task force could have likely been able to obtain significantly more data,” the source told The Debrief.
When provided with the analysis by former F-16 pilot Chris Lehto of the Apache incident, the same defense official said they considered it a “great analysis.”
A recently retired senior U.S. Air Force officer agreed to examine the Apache video, under the condition of anonymity.
The Air Force officer, a former pilot that has held various command and staff positions throughout their career, said the objects seen in the video “did not seem to comport with the flight characteristics of any known aircraft platform, although more analysis is needed to confirm this.”
“I’m not going to get into specifics, but unequivocally, I know for a fact that the government has some extremely compelling evidence on UAP. Much more significant than what has been released so far, including the examples provided during the recent public Congressional hearing,” the former Air Force Officer also said.
“This Apache video appears to show UAP behaving in ways that suggest non-mechanical flight. It would be interesting to know if there is other evidence that demonstrates UAP behaving in ways that are inconsistent with mechanical flight.”
The Department of Defense has consistently declined to discuss any details about specific UAP incidents. The Customs and Border Patrol Public Affairs Office did not respond to several requests by The Debrief for comment.
As for the videos, Thompson says they are just a small sample of the types of “unidentified” things National Guard pilots, CBP agents and other DHS personnel regularly encounter during the course of their duties.
Despite the wide range of expertise he and his fellow agents develop during the extended hours they spend using the most state-of-the-art equipment available to them, Thompson says they still cannot determine what they are seeing in these videos.
“Our guys are out there every day for, you know, 12 hour shifts, staring at that screen, trying to scrutinize a cow from a jackrabbit to a person walking to a bird flying in the sky, to a ultralight, to a helicopter, to the A-10s,” says Thompson.
“I personally have 1000s of hours behind the screens,” Thompson says. “So, if I see something and I don’t know what it is?”
He pauses, weighing his words with a care and discernment evident of man with Thompson’s many years in official service.
“I’m telling you,” he finally says, “it’s got me stumped.”
Footage discussed in this article will be featured publicly in a science-based panel discussion at the forthcoming UFO Disclosure Symposium in Vernal, Utah. The Debrief will be participating as a media sponsor for this event.
Tim McMillan is a retired law enforcement executive, investigative reporter and co-founder of The Debrief. His writing covers defense, national security, and the Intelligence Community. You can follow Tim on Twitter:@LtTimMcMillan. Tim can also be reached by email: tim@thedebrief.org or through encrypted email:LtTimMcMillan@protonmail.com.
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'DEUR' OP MARS BLIJKT EEN STUK KLEINER TE ZIJN DAN GEDACHT
'DEUR' OP MARS BLIJKT EEN STUK KLEINER TE ZIJN DAN GEDACHT
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het is eerder een hondenluik, zo grapt NASA.
De foto zorgde de afgelopen weken voor behoorlijk wat vermaak én een groot aantal wilde verhalen. We hebben het natuurlijk over de foto die Marsrover Curiosity begin deze maand maakte van een heuveltje dat gerekend kan worden tot Mount Sharp; een 5,5 kilometer hoge berg in het hart van de Gale-krater op Mars. In dat heuveltje bleek zich een breuk te vinden die wel heel sterk op een ‘deur’ leek.
Speculatie De foto ging viraal en was de aanleiding voor tal van speculaties. Sommigen vroegen zich af of dit dan de plek was waar de Marsmannetjes zich schuilhielden. Anderen speculeerden druk over de vraag waar de deuropening naartoe leidde; was het misschien een portal naar New York of Narnia?
Meer informatie En zo gebeurde wat zo vaak gebeurt als we iets geks op buitenaardse foto’s zien; onze verbeeldingskracht sloeg op hol. Dat is ook NASA niet onopgemerkt gebleven, want enkele dagen later voelde de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie – eigenaar van fotograaf Curiosity – zich gedwongen om toch nog eens wat achtergrondinformatie bij de foto te verstrekken.
Hondenluik Zo heeft NASA bijvoorbeeld bekend gemaakt hoe groot de deur is. En dat blijkt toch een beetje tegen te vallen. Zo is de deur volgens NASA slechts 30 centimeter hoog en 40 centimeter breed. “Qua grootte vergelijkbaar met een hondenluik.”
Natuurlijke oorsprong Eventuele nieuwe speculaties over Marskabouters worden overigens door NASA ook direct de kop ingedrukt. Zo benadrukt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie dat we hier te maken hebben met een natuurlijke breuk. “Dit soort open breuken komt zowel op aarde als op Mars veelvuldig voor,” aldus de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie.
Nieuwe beelden Daarnaast heeft NASA ook een aantal nieuwe (3D-)beelden van ‘het hondenluik’ vrijgegeven.
Enkele nieuwe beelden van de heuvel waarin een deur-achtige breuk is gespot.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Hoewel het idee dat Marsmannetjes de ‘deur’ zorgvuldig in de heuvel hebben uitgehouwen nu dus dnitief de prullenbak in kan, wil dat zeker niet zeggen dat we het hele idee van leven op Mars overboord kunnen gooien. Sterker nog: zelfs NASA acht het zeer waarschijnlijk dat er in ieder geval ooit leven op de rode planeet is geweest. Waar Mars tegenwoordig droog en koud is, zou de planeet in het verleden nat en warm – en dus een stuk aantrekkelijker voor leven – zijn geweest. Marsrover Curiosity onderzoekt in de Gale-krater – die in warmere en vochtigere tijden een compleet meer moet hebben geherbergd – naar meer informatie over die overgang van nat naar droog. En elders op Mars wordt met het Marswagentje Perseverance zelfs specifiek gezocht naar sporen van (vergaan) Martiaans leven. Vooralsnog zonder resultaat, maar zo blijft de spreekwoordelijke deur – als het om leven op Mars gaat – voorlopig toch op een kier staan.
“Wind-Ruffled Waves, Foam and Wave Shadows, Above Natural Blue Seawater.” This is how we’ll Spot Exoplanets With Oceans
“Wind-Ruffled Waves, Foam and Wave Shadows, Above Natural Blue Seawater.” This is how we’ll Spot Exoplanets With Oceans
Our planet’s oceans generate tell-tale light signatures when sunlight reflects off them. Exoplanets with significant ocean coverage may do the same. Can we use the Earth’s reflectance signatures to identify other Earth-like worlds with large oceans?
We should be able to, eventually.
A new study examined light signatures reflecting off of Earth’s oceans and explored their flux and polarization. The researchers modelled two Earths: a dry planet and a wet planet with Earth-like clouds and atmosphere. Then they simulated how light would reflect from those planets in different conditions. They found that only an ocean can cause the polarization of light to dip in specific ways.
The study is titled “Ocean signatures in the total flux and polarization spectra of Earth-like exoplanets.” The journal Astronomy and Astrophysics will publish it, but it’s currently available online at the pre-press site arxiv.org. The authors are V.J.H. Trees and D.M. Stam. Trees is from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, and Stam is from the Delft University of Technology.
Scientists have found water vapour on exoplanets, but it’s detected spectroscopically when the planet is in front of its star and the starlight passes through the atmosphere. Those observations revealed the molecular signature of water, but there’s currently no way of knowing if there’s an ocean. “… actual observations of liquid water oceans are only possible using a direct detection of the starlight that is reflected by the planet,” the paper states.
Some scientific estimates show that up to one-quarter of known exoplanets have oceans, though much of that water may be in subsurface oceans. In our Solar System, only planet Earth has surface oceans. Multiple moons in the Solar System have subsurface oceans, and some of the dwarf planets probably do too.
An artist’s view of countless exoplanets. Some of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered should have oceans. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We’re not close to detecting subsurface oceans on exomoons, but as telescope technology advances, we may be able to detect oceans on planets similar to Earth. As the authors of this paper write, “Numerical simulations of starlight that is reflected by Earth-like exoplanets predict habitability signatures that can be searched for with future telescopes.”
The researchers computed three things in their numerical exoplanet simulations: total flux (F), polarized flux (Q) and degree of polarization (Ps). They modelled the oceans in a particular way. “The oceans consist of Fresnel reflecting surfaces with wind-ruffled waves, foam and wave shadows, above natural blue seawater,” they explain. Fresnel reflecting is when the reflected light is in the same plane as the incident light. It’s also called parallel polarization, named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel. He invented a lens used in lighthouses that focuses light into a narrower beam.
Measuring the polarization of light from oceans is important because starlight isn’t expected to be polarized. Also, while light signals degrade with distance, the degree of polarization doesn’t. Unfortunately, astronomers can’t measure ocean-reflected polarization yet. “Current ground-based and space-based telescopes are not capable of measuring the polarized light that is reflected by Earth-like exoplanets,” the authors explain.
But that will change.
The upcoming European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), and the Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), a space telescope concept being developed by NASA, will both be able to measure polarized light. Numerical models like the ones in this study will be used to design the instruments and observation procedures needed to sense the polarization of light reflected by exo-oceans.
One of the main takeaways from this work concerns the degree of polarization or Ps. The image below compares the Ps for cloud-free dry planets vs cloud-free ocean planets.
This figure from the study compares the degree of polarization of reflected starlight from cloud-free dry planets vs. cloud-free ocean planets. In the left column, as is surface albedo, where 0.0 and 0.1 are dark surfaces and 0.8 is a bright surface. In the right column, v is wind speed. 13 m/s is about 47 km/h, and 1 m/s is about 3.6 km/h. Each separately coloured line is a different phase angle. Image Credit: Trees and Stam, 2022.
The main takeaway is that Ps only dips in certain circumstances, which can be measured. As the authors point out, “Dips in Ps are only observed for ocean planets and only when the glint is cloud-free.” That’s a simplified summary of their results, but it shows that they’re onto something.
If—or hopefully when—we discover an exoplanet with an ocean, it’ll be a landmark event. The space science community is pretty confident they’re out there and hold a strong possibility of supporting life. Hints of exo-oceans turn up when scientists measure an exoplanet’s density vs its size. But as it stands, there’s no way of knowing for sure if we’re detecting a surface ocean.
These researchers have been working on the problem of detecting exo-oceans for a while now and have published other papers tackling the issue. If their simulations are correct, we may be developing a reliable way of detecting ocean worlds at great distances. The E-ELT is due to see first light around 2027 and it will be capable of detecting polarized starlight reflected from oceans.
Maybe we’ll have our first confirmed ocean exoplanet not too long after.
New Linda Moulton Howe: UFO Disclosure Intel! What Was 1949 Project Aquarius's Mission with 'Alien Creatures'?
New Linda Moulton Howe: UFO Disclosure Intel! What Was 1949 Project Aquarius's Mission with 'Alien Creatures'?
Topics: What was 1949 Project Aquarius’s mission with ‘Alien creatures’? Nature article: “New Targets in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Planets of Binary Stars As Homes for Alien Life” – “Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars.
This points to new targets in the search for extraterrestrial life forms.” Binary stars mentioned by Betty and Barney Hill TOP SECRET – Project Aquarius documents – project initiated by Eisenhower & MJ-12 – pilot flying over the Cascade Mountains spots 9 UFOs
- “extraterrestrial craft crashed in the desert of New Mexico…4 non-humans recovered” – “another crash in 1949..partially recovered by military” – “alien from planet in Zeta Reticuli system” – “project code named Grudge, Sign & Blue Book”
- “mysterious craft at Hill AFB in Utah..inside were what looked like hockey pucks levitating.” – ”aircraft was a technological marvel” – “MJ-12 decided Air Force should end their investigation” – “we must continue to track and observer the aliens” – sub-projects under project Aquarius: Bando, Sigma, Snowbird,
Guy catches huge structure in crater on Moon by accident, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Guy catches huge structure in crater on Moon by accident, Video,UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 23, 2022
Location of sighting: Earths moon
Here is an awesome shot of the moon using a telescope. The youtuber Video Adventures was recording a casual video of the moon, but at the 55 second mark a crater appears with a triangle structure at its center. You would think that enough, but its not, as I looked closer, I noticed there is a shadow below the triangle. The object is about 200-400 meters above the floor of the crater! Absolutly awesome raw footage of a UFO in a crater.
UAP Seen Over Chicago, Illinois O'hare Airport On May 26, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UAP Seen Over Chicago, Illinois O'hare Airport On May 26, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 26, 2022
Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA
The eyewitness said he looked up and saw this white object moving across the sky coming from the O'Hare Airport in the evening. When I looked closely at his video, I saw other white objects in it, so this looks like a whole fleet. This one white UAP is closer than the others. Its white, oval and cloud like because white is the color that the semi cloaked craft take on when in the sky, so they are easily seen when the sky is blue in a sky with few clouds.
'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon video of unidentified object, May 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon video of unidentified object, May 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of Meeting:May 26, 2022 Location of announcement: US Pentagon
Date of UFO video being seen: Jan 2021
Now I have reported again and again these metallic spheres on my website. I would estimate over 400 reports of such objects, one of which was recent where I reported half a dozen metallic spheres over California on Google Earth map...yet the video I made goes ignored by the press. Each time I report a sphere UFO, regardless of its source, quality of video or evidence...it goes ignored by world news. For some unknown reason, a sphere UFO has no appeal to the press. Thats fine. I even stood two meters from a sphere UFO on the 8th floor roof of my apartments in Taipei a few years ago. Even if the press ignores such UFOs, I sure as hell wont and the public still takes them very seriously. Sphere UFOs are being considered by the US House Subcommittee and therefore are 100% proof that such UFOs not only exist, but are seen as a threat to US national security. I will put a video of similar UFOs I found on Google Earth and kept for over ten years before I released the info this year to the public.
Now the Pentagon is being pushed by some US gov officials to come clean about the existence of UFOs and intelligent alien species. This will never happen. Why? There are rules in place that will protect the government from such leaks. Anything that is the smallest little threat to National Security...is kept secret forever! Thus, the Pentagon tries to go through the motions (acting) like they want transparency, however they do not. They are only drip feeding you bits of nothing, which the public laps up and shows excitement for...so you think you have something big, but it's only a crumb of info from the whole pie they hide from you.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
News states:
'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon official shows video of unidentified object Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified video of an unidentified object during a House subcommittee hearing on "unidentified aerial phenomena," popularly known as UFOs.
Swarm reveals mysterious magnetic waves across Earth’s outer core
Swarm reveals mysterious magnetic waves across Earth’s outer core
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years.
This fascinating finding opens a new window into a world we can never see. This mysterious wave oscillates every seven years and propagates westward at up to 1500 kilometers a year.
Magnetic waves are likely to be triggered by disturbances deep within the Earth's fluid core, possibly related to buoyancy plumes. Each wave is specified by its period and typical length-scale, and the period depends on characteristics of the forces at play. For magneto-Coriolis waves, the period is indicative of the intensity of the magnetic field within the core.
The research team suggests that other such waves are likely to exist, probably with longer periods – but their discovery relies on more research.
Former Area 51 engineer reveals, “In terms of technology, we are working with an alien race.”
Former Area 51 engineer reveals, “In terms of technology, we are working with an alien race.”
A 71-year-old retired engineer has indicated on several occasions throughout his career that he formerly worked for Area 51. In recent interviews, he has revealed that he was there when an extraterrestrial who was being held there was really brought up.
Bill Uhouse was the engineer described before, and as you can see straight away, he knows a lot about what goes on behind the closed doors of Area 51.
He spoke out on several occasions about the extraterrestrial housed there known as “JRod,” but he never received the respect he earnt, and when he passed back in 2009, this planet lost one of the biggest whistleblowers of all time.
A vast subterranean system consisting of extraterrestrial technology can be seen in this image he posted. Area 51 engineers labor diligently to reverse engineer any piece of alien technology they can get their hands on.
The aliens are identified as EBEs, or Extraterrestrial Biological Entities, according to Bill, and a huge percent of them are not humanoid.
The Greys, Tall Northern aliens, and Reptilians are the ones we know about. The Greys are also divided into three groups based on their size: tall Greys, little Greys, and medium Greys.
Bill mentioned in his most recent interview that we had a peace pact between the United States and the United Nations that’s been signed during President Eisenhower’s presidency, which is why we keep them hidden while acquiring more sophisticated technology on a regular basis.
Researchers uncovered ancient urban centres on forested mounds in the Bolivian Amazon Basin.
Credit: Roland Seitre/Nature Picture Library
Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have discovered. Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from the air, they found that, starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres, featuring 22-metre-tall earthen pyramids, that were encircled by kilometres of elevated roadways.
The complexity of these settlements is “mind blowing”, says team member Heiko Prümers, an archaeologist at the German Archaeological Institute headquartered in Berlin.
“This is the first clear evidence that there were urban societies in this part of the Amazon Basin,” says Jonas Gregorio de Souza, an archaeologist at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. The study adds to a growing body of research indicating that the Amazon — long thought to have been pristine wilderness before the arrival of Europeans — was home to advanced societies well before that. The discovery was published on 25 May in Nature1.
A shift in thinking
Humans have lived in the Amazon Basin — a vast river-drainage system roughly the size of the continental United States — for around 10,000 years . Researchers thought that before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, all Amazonians lived in small, nomadic tribes that had little impact on the world around them. And although early European visitors described a landscape filled with towns and villages, later explorers were unable to find these sites.
Source: Ref. 1
By the twentieth century, archaeologists had yet to confirm the rumours, and argued that the Amazon’s nutrient-poor soil was unable to support large-scale agriculture, and that it would have prevented tropical civilizations — similar to those found in central America and southeast Asia — from arising in the Amazon. By the 2000s, however, archaeological opinion was beginning to shift. Some researchers suggested2 that unusually high concentrations of domesticated plants, along with patches of unusually nutrient-rich soil that could have been created by people, might indicate that ancient Amazonians had indeed shaped their environment.
The hypothesis gained steam when, in 2018, archaeologists reported3 hundreds of large, geometric mounds that had been uncovered because of deforestation in the southern Amazon rainforest. These structures hinted at ancient organized societies capable of thriving in one location for years — but direct evidence of settlements was lacking.
In 1999, Prümers began studying a set of mounds in the Bolivian part of the Amazon Basin, outside the thick rainforest. There, a multitude of tree-covered mounds rise above a lowland area that floods during the rainy season.
Previous digs had revealed that these ‘forest islands’ contained traces of human habitation, including the remains of the mysterious Casarabe culture, which appeared around AD 500. During one excavation, Prümers and his colleagues realized that they had found what looked like a wall, indicating that a permanent settlement had once occupied the area. The researchers also found graves, platforms and other indications of a complex society. But dense vegetation made it difficult for them to use conventional methods to survey the site.
What lies beneath
By the 2010s, a technique called lidar — a remote-sensing technology that uses lasers to generate a 3D image of the ground below — had come into vogue with archaeologists. In 2012, a lidar survey of a valley in Honduras helped lead to the rediscovery of an ancient pre-Columbian city rumoured to exist in the area. The jungle had completely overtaken the settlement since it was abandoned in the fifteenth century, making it all but impossible to see from the air without lidar.
Prümers and his colleagues took advantage of lidar in 2019, when they flew a helicopter equipped with the technology over six areas near sites confirmed to have been occupied by the Casarabe people. The team got more than it bargained for, with lidar revealing the size and shape of 26 settlements, including 11 the researchers hadn’t been looking for — a monumental task that would have taken 400 years to survey by conventional means, Prümers says.
Two of the urban centres each covered an area of more than 100 hectares — three times the size of Vatican City. The lidar images revealed walled compounds with broad terraces rising 6 metres above the ground. Conical pyramids made of earth towered above one end of the terraces (see ‘The settlement beneath’). People probably lived in the areas around the terraces and travelled along the causeways that connected the sites to one another.
“We have this image of Amazonia as a green desert — devoid of any type of culture,” Prümers says. But given that civilizations rose and thrived in other tropical areas, he notes, “Why shouldn’t something like that exist here?”
Mysteries remain
Why these settlements were abandoned after 900 years is still a mystery. Radiocarbon dating has revealed that the Casarabe disappeared around 1400.
Prümers points out that lidar images revealed reservoirs in the settlements, perhaps indicating that this part of the world wasn’t always wet — an environmental shift that might have driven people away. However, consistent pollen records reveal4 that maize (corn) was grown in the area continuously for thousands of years, indicating sustainable agricultural practices.
At the very least, the discovery of long-lost Amazonian societies “changes the general perspective people have of Amazonian archaeology”, says Eduardo Neves, an archaeologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Present-day logging and farming in the Amazon Basin are almost certainly destroying important archaeological sites that have yet to be discovered, he says, but a growing interest in Amazonian archaeology could lead to the protection of vulnerable places.
These discoveries also counter the narrative that Indigenous peoples were passive inhabitants of the Amazon Basin before the arrival of Europeans. “The people who lived there changed the landscape forever,” Neves says.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01458-9
UPDATES & CORRECTIONS
Correction 26 May 2022: An earlier version of this story said that there are hundreds of tree-covered mounds rising above a lowland area in the Bolivian Amazon. Some estimates suggest there are many more than that.
References
Prümers, H., Betancourt, C. J., Iriarte, J., Robinson, M. & Schaich, M. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04780-4 (2022).
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
Did this grow from the merger of little black holes to a giant supermassive object called Sagittarius A*? The network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.
We all know that a humongous black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. It’s called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) and it has the mass of 4 million suns. We’ve got to see a radio image of it a few weeks back, showing its accretion disk. So, we know it’s there. Astronomers can chart its actions as it gobbles up matter occasionally and they can see how it affects nearby stars. What astronomers are still trying to understand is how Sgr A* formed.
The answer looks like it involves smaller black holes, especially ones from so-called dwarf galaxies. According to a paper published this past week in The Astrophysical Journal by astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, there’s a whole treasury of them out there. These things are sitting inside many dwarfs and may provide a missing link to the growth of supermassive black holes in larger galaxies.
Massive (and Supermassive) Black Holes and their Lairs
So, let’s dig into this a big more, starting with supermassive black holes. They lurk in the hearts of many, many galaxies. These monsters have millions or billions of solar masses. How did they get to be so big? The answer involves a topic that we see across astronomy and planetary science: hierarchical models. That’s a fancy way of saying that big things are created from smaller things. For example, planets get started as dust grains that stick together to make rocks that slam together to make asteroids that collide to create planetesimals that glom onto each other to make planets.
Galaxy formation has its own hierarchical model, too. What creates one of those stellar cities? Galaxies like the Milky Way started out as a collection of gas in the early Universe. That gas formed stars, which evolved, died, and spread their materials out to help create new generations of stars (and their planets). In many senses, dwarf galaxies are more like the primordial galaxies than they are the evolved spirals and ellipticals. Okay, so we simplified things here to give a look at a complex topic that takes up entire textbooks. And, that’s even before we get to galaxy mergers.
Growing a Big Galaxy from Little Ones
Let’s look at the Milky Way’s past more closely. It has an extensive merger history, going back billions of years. It started as an infant (maybe it was a dwarf) some 14 billion years ago. Other little ones merged with it. Eventually, we got the home galaxy we all know and love today. (And let’s not forget that it will, in fact, merge with the Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years.)
So, those little guys that merged to make the current Milky Way; chances are good some were dwarfs. They’re the little cousins of the big spirals and ellipticals. A typical one has maybe a thousand to a billion stars and sports an irregular shape. Their stars are what astronomers call “metal-poor” (meaning they’re mostly hydrogen and helium). And, these weird little galaxies swarm around some larger ones like fireflies. Sometimes they even get caught and swallowed up.
The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in Gaia’s all-sky view. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The Milky Way has about 20 or so of them orbiting around it. One—the Sagittarius Dwarf—is getting interacting and getting cannibalized as you read this. It’s made the trip through our galaxy numerous times. It seems that dwarf galaxies like this one could have what’s called “growing black holes” as part of their structures. How do we know this? Astronomers found ways to survey the nearby Universe to look for candidate dwarf galaxies with such growing black holes.
Finding Black Holes in All the Small Places
The North Carolina team actually found a number of such dwarfs. It all began when they posed the question: where do supermassive black holes come from? The answer seems to be they grow by collisions with other black holes. That makes sense in a hierarchical model way.
Small stellar-mass black holes could collide, particularly in crowded environments (like a dwarf galaxy or a thickly settled cluster). Eventually, they form more-massive ones. Such “growing black holes” are seen in big, bright galaxies, but what about the dwarfs? Could they have them? If they do, how abundant are they in such small galaxies? And, could they be key to understanding the growth of supermassive black holes?
To get answers to all those questions, a team led by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members Sheila Kannappan and Mugdha Polimera got to work. They analyzed galaxy data from several surveys to hunt for evidence of growing black holes. The team looked for bright emissions like those you’d see indicating star formation or around black hole accretion disks.
Their data came from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, plus the REsolved Spectroscopy of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) and Environmental COntext Catalog (ECO). They found evidence of growing black holes in a significant percentage of dwarf galaxies. These galaxies sometimes get “tossed out” of surveys of brighter, bigger galaxies because their emissions aren’t (or weren’t) well-understood. It turns out, they are a treasure trove for black hole research.
Bright Emissions Reveal Black Holes
The clue was in the strong emissions the regions around those black holes give off. Kannappan compared this black hole discovery to a familiar source of light here in some places on Earth. “Just like fireflies, we see black holes only when they’re lit up—when they’re growing—and the lit-up ones give us a clue to how many we can’t see,” she said. Essentially, Kannapan and the team are talking about dwarf galaxies with active black holes at their hearts (in other words, active galactic nuclei).
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. (Original image by NASA & ESA/Hubble, artistic conception of a black hole with jet by M. Polimera.)
Of course, there are other reasons why a dwarf galaxy could have strong emissions. For example, the dwarfs could have massive spurts of star formation going on. That activity causes bright spectral emissions, too. “We all got nervous,” Polimera said. “The first question to my mind was: Have we missed a way in which extreme star formation alone could explain these galaxies?”
Polimera spent years researching any alternative explanations for these dwarf galaxy AGNs. After excluding all the other possibilities, growing black holes fit the data the best.
Implications for Growing Black Hole Monsters
The discovery of growing black holes in dwarf galaxies brings us back to the Milky Way and its central black hole. Based on the implications of the North Carolina research, Sgr A* very likely grew as our galaxy did. Not only did its past mergers mingle stars, but each dwarf could also have brought along its own growing black hole. They had to go somewhere, right? So, why wouldn’t they gravitate (excuse the pun) to each other to add to the greatness of Sgr A*?
“The black holes we’ve found are the basic building blocks of supermassive black holes like the one in our own Milky Way,” Kannappan said. “There’s so much we want to learn about them.”
UFO Witnessed And REC By Three Different People Miles Apart In the State Of Missouri
Cylinder or Cigar shaped UFO witnessed and recorded by three different people miles apart in the state of Missouri
Cigar Shaped UFO Seen On The TV Show Catfish & Cylindrical Object Sighted Over Massachusetts
Clip one comes from the MTV show Catfish and this black cylindrical shaped UFO was spotted in an insert of season 8, episode 49. This is timelapped footage but i felt that we should take a look at it as it doesn't seem to be a blimp or balloon and i wonder if the people at Catfish spotted this?
To view the original clip: This was in season 8, episode 49 at the 21:08 mark. Thanks to MTV & The guys at Catfish.
Thanks to Victor Escobedo for spotting this...
Clip two was sighted over Norwood in Massachusetts on May 20, 2022 and the witness stated the following " I recorded it during my lunch break last Friday and the clouds weren’t anything special at all when I recorded this actually. I’m that weirdo who is just always randomly filming the sky no matter how uninteresting it may look. Lol. But yesterday I kept getting weather alerts and was so badly hoping for something exciting to happen but the storms didn’t hit where I was. There was a tornado warning for somewhere in Maine all day yesterday, thought that was interesting. I took this video of the clouds then messed w/ the exposure. I don’t know how to circle the spot I’m trying to show you on a video… but it’s on the right hand side of the screen, down by where the tree is, in between two branches."
Thanks to Jillian for allowing me the use of her footage and to view the original:
Hey, I found this is an old NASA index and its a photo taken from the Shuttle Endeavour from the STS113 mission. That was a mission to take support replacement crew to the space station and bring some important parts of the station up. The mission didn't mention any satellites at all, so i know its not a satellite. This object is very strange looking and seems to be following and observing the space shuttle.
Its funny isn't it? How so much evidence exists about UFOs existing, even in the NASA index itself and yet, so much of the public is still wears a blindfold when it comes to the subject and the US gov is the one still holding it there. Trust me, the best is yet to come.
UFO In Thunderstorm, Julbach, Germany May 20, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO In Thunderstorm, Julbach, Germany May 20, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 20, 2022
Location of sighting: Julbach, Germany
Now its not the first time I have ever seen such entities. These kind of entities are energy entities. They don't need a ship to travel it and are only visible at night. Usually they travel in groups, but sometimes they read a persons thoughts who see them and they will travel over the person for a while before leaving. This one is very energized from the static electricity in the air from the storm. It seems to feed on it, returning to the storm to get some more, then leave, and repeating.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I witnessed strange balls or beams of light during a ride back home. i stopped my motorbike to, turned off the lights and it was almost completely dark. a thunderstorm was coming and i thought, it might have been some reflections from somewhere, but even with a strong torch, i should have seen some beam from the ground.
A Lost Primeval World Has Been Found in a Giant South China Sinkhole!
A Lost Primeval World Has Been Found in a Giant South China Sinkhole!
Chinese explorers have discovered a lost world in an exceptionally deep and large sinkhole in south China. And in this ancient subterranean space they expect to find flora and fauna unknown to science.
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, caused by bedrock collapsing in karst terrain that exposes groundwater channels. When we read the word cenote it's normally followed up with a story about Aztec or Maya bodies and artifacts. This is because Mexico and Central America virtually float on underground rivers with thousands of cenotes peppering the landscape. However, this sinkhole story is from China, where an enormous karst sinkhole has recently been discovered containing its own untouched primeval ecosystem.
The 630-foot-deep sinkhole in China with primeval forest in its depths.
Karst terrain describes a landscape where the surface can be dissolved by groundwater circulating through soluble salt beds and carbonate rocks like gypsum and limestone. In China, cenotes are called tiankeng (heavenly pit), and a lost world has been found in a hitherto unknown sink hole near Ping'e village in the county of Leye, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Central China, according to LiveScience.
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region borders Vietnam and is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site . The area is known for its stalactites and stalagmite riddled caves, charging rivers, and towering tooth-like karst formations, and countless sinkholes. According to the Xinhua news agency the latest south China sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep and the interior measures 1,004 feet (306 meters) long and 492 feet (150 meters) wide. This is about half the depth of the deepest water-filled sinkhole on the planet, the El Zacatón sinkhole in northeast Mexico , which is 335 meters (1099 feet) deep.
Exploring Worlds Lost In Time
According to Newsweek this is the 30th sinkhole discovered in this area of China. George Veni, the US executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI), told Live Science the discovery “is no surprise.” Southern China is “karst topography,” said the cave specialist, and he added that the entire region is a “landscape prone to dramatic sinkholes and otherworldly caves.”
Veni explained that rainwater is slightly acidic and that it picks up carbon dioxide as it runs through the soil, becoming even more acidic. It permeates cracks in the bedrock and wears away tunnels which over time create chambers. When these spaces get big enough they collapse and create sinkholes, like the one recently discovered in China. However, where most of the Mexican sinkholes are full of water, the Chinese speleologists and spelunkers discovered ancient trees measuring 131 feet (40 meters) tall in the latest China sinkhole.
People walk across a bridge in the man-made woods in Kashgar, China, which are said to increase drought when non-indigenous trees are used.
Expedition leader, Chen Lixin, told Xinhua that the dense undergrowth on the sinkhole floor was as high as a person's shoulders. And so bizarre was this lost space that Lixin added that he wouldn't be surprised to learn “there are species found in these caves that have never been reported or described by science.” Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology, said the bottom of the sinkhole “seemed like another world.”
Botanists around the world will be waiting with bated breath for news of new tree species, and any such discoveries will perhaps shift focus from China's current íssues with trees. The Gobi Desert and other arid regions in China are expanding because of overgrazing that has depleted border vegetation allowing wind and gravity to erode soils. In response, China has planted 66 billion trees in the past four decades as part of its fight against expanding deserts. Covering an area the size of Ireland every year, these new trees have successfully slowed down China′s deserts.
Notwithstanding, Troy Sternberg, a geographer at the University of Oxford, UK, says “it’s kind of foolish to plant trees in a desert” and that this will worsen water scarcity . A 2019 Nature article explains that most of the billions of trees planted in China “are not native to the regions where they have been planted and they use a lot of water.” This in effect compounds the negative effects of global warming by reducing the available water for human consumption.
Top image: An aerial photo of the giant China sinkhole or tiankeng at Leye-Fengshan Global Geopark, in south China's Guangxi Province, which was huge and is home to an amazing primeval forest. Source: Zhou Hua / Xinhua
70-YEAR-OLD ASTRONOMY PHOTOS MAY BE CLUES TO ALIEN VISITORS — STUDY
70-YEAR-OLD ASTRONOMY PHOTOS MAY BE CLUES TO ALIEN VISITORS — STUDY
The plates, taken prior to the launch of Sputnik, show satellite-like objects near Earth.
ON A SERIES of 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they’ve found something weird: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.
“We found one image where nine stars were out there, and they vanished. And they are not there half an hour earlier, and they are not there six days later,” says Beatriz Villarroel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. “And you wonder, ‘Is this real?’”
There isn’t any readily available astronomical explanation for what these vanishing points of light, which the researchers call transients, might be. The dots might be defects in the photographic emulsions or image artifacts from when astronomers first scanned the plates. But in a series of recent papers, Villarroel and a small team of astronomers have been more seriously probing the possibility that the flashes might be something more exciting — extraterrestrial objects.
A shiny, spinning object passing by Earth would leave a line of dots in a long-exposure image of the night sky. Asteroids or meteors aren’t likely to look like that — most asteroids are dark, and meteors are moving so fast they’d look like streaks. And, most intriguingly for the researchers, there weren’t any satellites in the night sky when the images were taken, as all the plates were before the launch of Sputnik.
Still, Villarroel and colleagues haven’t ruled out Earthly explanations for these tantalizing dots. And there’s a long history of events associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) fizzling out under closer scrutiny.
WHAT THEY FOUND — The disappearing dots that got Villarroel so excited first showed up as part of a search for more mundane astronomical phenomena. There are a number of things in the universe that will shine brightly for a short period and disappear again, like supernovae, actively feeding black holes, flaring stars, and more. But searching for these transient objects is nearly impossible today because of the thousands of satellites and millions of pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth, many of which appear as momentary flashes of light in photos of the night sky.
“The whole sky is filled with multiple transients today from all the space debris,” Villarroel says.
So she and other astronomers turned to photos of the night sky taken before the satellite era. Beginning in the late 19th century, astronomers have undertaken surveys of the night sky, using telescopes and photographic plates to take images of large swaths of the cosmos as seen from Earth. Villarroel used a series of plates from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, which ran from 1949 to 1958 and covered much of the sky as seen from the northern hemisphere, on the hunt for transients.
One of several plates with disappearing point sources. Villarroel et al
Her research is part of the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, which, along with an associated citizen science project, is searching for transient light sources in the night sky. But after looking at the plates carefully, Villarroel and her colleagues noticed something odd: Nine dots of light, all in a line, appeared in just one plate from April 12, 1950. It didn’t look anything like the supernovas and quasars they’d normally find, which appear just as single points.
In a paper published in Scientific Reports in 2021, the scientists take a closer look at the nine transients to see if they could find a more ordinary explanation for them. They ruled out astrophysical explanations, passing airplanes, asteroids, and other known light sources. The dots could have come from contamination caused by nuclear fallout, they say — it was the era of nuclear experimentation, after all. But no known tests happened in 1950. Villarroel and her colleagues hint that that leaves the door open to other explanations. Like, say, extraterrestrial spacecraft.
A second plate with “missing” transients. Villarroel et al
WANTING TO BELIEVE — In two subsequent papers, the researchers take that idea more seriously. In a paper in Acta Astronautica published in 2022, they explore ways to find similar instances of transients in other images, laying the groundwork for future research. And in a paper published in 2022 to the pre-print server the arXiv (meaning it hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet), the researchers detail other instances of transient flashes of light that seem to line up.
Villarroel isn’t saying it’s aliens, of course. “We are very careful when we write our papers, because we are not sure if they are real or not,” she says. “We need to always assume that it is the most boring explanation.”
There are some good reasons to suspect the explanation is indeed more boring, says Paul Horowitz, an emeritus professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard and a member of the ET-hunting PANOSETI project, who was not involved in the study.
He used the Palomar plates earlier in his career, he says, and the presence of odd flashes of light doesn’t surprise him.
“There would be these things that we’d call Kodak stars, which were basically blemishes in the emulsion,” Horowitz says. “Film is full of that kind of stuff. If you look at enough of these, and there’s a lot of them, you’re going to find artifacts.”
He also points out that the object, if there was one, needn’t be in geosynchronous orbit, as Villarroel and her coauthors suggest. Depending on how often it flashes and how long the flashes are, an object could appear as a series of dots in a long exposure at a range of distances, from within Earth’s atmosphere to far beyond our planet. That could mean whatever’s on the plates could also be something launched from Earth.
Animation to show the difference between plates. Villarroel et al
An earthly object might be the best explanation for the flashing lights, Eliot Gillum, the director of optical SETI at the SETI Institute, tells Inverse. While there weren’t any satellites in 1950, the U.S. government had begun testing rockets several years earlier, relying on expertise from ex-Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. after the Second World War. There are several military bases near the Palomar Observatory, Gillum points out, any of which could have been launching rockets by 1950. He says the glints could come from a maneuver known as a roll program or from debris that broke off after launch.
There’s also ample precedent for seemingly wild observations turning out to be far more prosaic. In 1962, two French astronomers were stunned to discover that the stars they were observing were giving off massive flares of potassium, something astronomers had never seen a star do before. But on closer inspection, the “potassium flare stars” were just match heads, which had potassium in them, being lit by astronomers taking a smoke break at the observatory. And more recently, scientists studying Fast Radio Bursts were excited by what appeared to be strange new signals coming from near Earth — only to discover later they were from a microwave warming up the astronomers’ lunches.
Even if the mysterious flashes of light aren’t extraterrestrials, that doesn’t mean we haven’t learned anything, Gillum says. “One of the things that I think is truly great about SETI is that it says, ‘OK, I think I understand all of the science of the things out there, [so] what is on the edge, what is outside of what I understand?’” he says.
Exploring the edges of science could bring new insights — or, sometimes, simple explanations like dust grains that landed on photographic plates seventy years ago. But Villarroel says that if their research rules out an actual object, it suggests an upper limit on the number of extraterrestrial objects that could be near Earth. At one-billionth for every square kilometer of space, the number is tiny — not a great sign for people hoping to find extraterrestrials visiting our solar system.
Villarroel says she hopes to be able to study the Palomar plates themselves — her team had been using scanned images of them — to study the images with a microscope for a better look at the transients. And she’d like to look at images from other sky surveys to see if similar transients appear. It may be that there was indeed something out there on April 12, 1950. But what it was is still a mystery.
Het nieuwe exemplaar van het oude vliegende reptiel, pterosauriër genoemd, was zo’n negen meter lang — ongeveer net zo lang als een schoolbus. Daarmee is het wezen de grootste pterosauriër die ooit in Zuid-Amerika is gevonden. Volgens onderzoekers is het reptiel ouder dan vogels en dus een van de eerste wezens op aarde die zijn vleugels gebruikte om op zijn prooi te jagen.
Paleontologen ontdekten de fossielen van de Thanatosdrakon amaru (letterlijke vertaling: draak des doods) in het Andesgebergte in de westelijke provincie Mendoza in Argentinië. Ze ontdekten dat de rotsen waarin de fossielen van het reptiel zaten zo'n 86 miljoen jaar terug de tijd in gaan. Dat is 20 miljoen jaar voordat een inslag van een asteroïde driekwart van het leven op aarde wegvaagde.
Leonardo Ortiz, projectleider van de zoektocht naar het fossiel, zei dat de nooit eerder vertoonde kenmerken van het fossiel een nieuwe geslachts- en soortnaam vereisten. Daarbij woorden de oude Griekse woorden voor dood (thanatos) en draak (drakon) gebruikt. “Het leek gepast om het zo te noemen”, aldus Ortiz. “Het wezen zag er angstaanjagend uit.”
Vietnam Vet Has Tall White Aliens Contact Experiences via Charles Hall
Vietnam Vet Has Tall White Aliens Contact Experiences via Charles Hall
Charles Hall, a former US Air Force serviceman claims that the U.S. military have had contact with – and worked alongside – the Tall Whites since the Fifties.
In the Sixties, he claims that the ‘shocking’ aliens liked to unwind by donning disguises, including sunglasses, and hitting casinos such as the Stardust, surrounded by CIA handlers.
The Vietnam veteran first published his detailed accounts of his meetings with the Tall Whites as a series of four sci-fi novels, Millennial Hospitality – but then ‘revealed’ that they were true.
He claims that the U.S. military used technologies they traded with the aliens – but did not tell the public as they felt they were not ‘emotionally ready’ for the encounter.
‘In 1964, when I was a weather observer at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, I witnessed interactions between the military and a group of mysterious tall, white, human-like extra-terrestrials,’ he said. ‘Their craft are capable of traveling faster than the speed of light because Einstein was wrong about relativity.’
Hall worked at a former military site near Las Vegas, where he claimed that many of the personnel had met and dealt with Tall Whites – but which has since been disused.
Craft Seen Over Mathews, Alabama On May 24, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Craft Seen Over Mathews, Alabama On May 24, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 24, 2022
Location of sighting: Mathews, Alabama, USA
This is a very exciting white orb moving across the sky in Alabama this week. The object is semi-transparent and seems to be hovering over the area, however fast moving clouds soon hide it. UFOs often mimic the colors around them, for instance, the white clouds are the closest thing to the UFO, thus the white appearance. This has all the signs of a genuine UFO.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
1500 local time, partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Temp 91F. No haze. Observation took place for at least 1 and a half hours by 4 other family members. We all observed the object through binoculars and then through a spotting scope. I tried to see it through my IR binoculars, but with no luck. I am a 49yr old aviation maintenance representative and former U.S Army aviation mechanic/ crew chief.
NASA controllers and astronauts have a conversation about UFOs they witness then NASA cut feed
NASA controllers and astronauts have a conversation about UFOs they witness then NASA cut feed
This older recording not only proves that NASA astronauts do encounter UFOs, but it shows how NASA controls the narrative about UFOs during the STS missions and other space missions.
Normally NASA astronauts follow a "script" and they know exactly what and when to say. These astronaut however were too shocked by something they had never seen before. They forget their "lines" and no longer follows the script, instead a not planned discussion and conversation starts on which one NASA controller tries to save the situation and cut the live feed in an attempt to hide the truth that these astronauts had a couple "visitors" passing by.
Conversation between the astronauts and NASA's control Houston
What a flash...?
What'd say Mark?
I saw alight flash...(unintelligible)...there it is again.
I thought it must have been me...
I said I thought it was my imagination...
I saw it too so it's not...
There's two of them.
There's another one...
What are they?
I think I saw lights flickering in here...
Who'd be taking pictures?
What is this?
It's just gone past in front of us...
Further lights...
Which ones?
I lost surveillance for a second...
but had veillance the whole time...(unintelligible)
Admiral Byrd, Operation High Jump, and a Strange Battle With An Ancient Aliens Race
Admiral Byrd, Operation High Jump, and a Strange Battle With An Ancient Aliens Race
Admiral Byrd’s version and the secret truth of Operation HighJump are told here. A maneuver that concluded in a full-fledged fight with aliens from the Arctic Shelf.
Admiral Richard Byrd, the iconic pilot, headed the project, which was formally designated the United States Navy Antarctic Development Program, that happened between year 1946 and 1947.
Admiral Byrd was famed for going to the North and South Poles and obtaining the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In his writings, which were published at a Nat Geo Convention honoring Byrd, we learn that he was discovered beaten with his teeth pulled out in a warehouse.
Researchers recovered Byrd’s first map of Hollow Earth, which he drew in his notebook during Operation HighJump. This journal, which had been lost for years, contained a detailed description of their Antarctic adventures.
That Journal even claimed to have seen a ship that we able to fly from one pole to the other one in seconds. They were clueless about what they would be in for when they left in August of 1946.
As Byrd’s 13-ship naval squadron, 33 aircraft, and over 5000 soldiers reached Antarctica. A radioman aboard the USS Bronson said he and his shipmates observed for many minutes some bright lights that plummeted approximately 45 degrees into the sky very swiftly while standing on the pilothouse port side, and they couldn’t see the lights since their equipment only ran 250 miles of a straight line.
These have been just the first of Bird’s warnings. Things were going to get a lot worse, and it was coming much too soon.
The objects came up out of the water with amazing velocity, almost as if they were being followed by the devil himself, according to Lieutenant Pilot John Sarson.
He said that everyone was astonished for a second as the creature sat and floated in front of them, beckoning them to make the first move.
That’s when Byrd said it wasn’t on his orders. However, one of the ships opened fire on the UFO. This led to complete chaos, and both sides began trading fire.
It wasn’t long until the losses were too much to bear. Admiral Byrd had lost after a minor fight with the Arctic aliens. Two ships vanished totally, along with a small number of planes and a few unlucky troops.
Admiral Byrd heard a voice in his thoughts after the conflict and everything had calmed down.
This voice was the driving force behind the fleet’s visit to Antarctica.
Admiral Byrd heard voices in his brain six months before the voyage was ever planned, according to the original records.
They sent him a telegram soon after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He took a flight through one of the crevices after hearing the stories again.
This was when he encountered entities he referred to as the Masters or Earth Keepers. They told General Byrd, “You are a man of height.”
They have also added that among his people, he is a hero. They believe what he says. As a result, they’ve sent him a note. Byrd doesn’t realize how powerful the explosives he set off are.
And if they continue along this route, they will have a bleak future. These were some of the things the Masters said.
Byrd, who delivered the message 10 years later, died.
About a century ago, an amazing find was made. A cave under the earth’s surface stored several ancient giants, apparently alive, in some kind of resuscitation capsules.
The history of humanity is extremely complex . They have made us believe that the only possible canon is the one they teach us . However, it is already impossible to deny the existence of giant beings in ancient times.
Sleeping giants in resuscitation pods
Whistleblower Corey Goode claims to have spent decades in different US government secret space operations and programs.
In that time, he witnessed a lot of strange happenings, visited places that he didn’t know existed, which were inaccessible to ordinary people.
According to his account, there are sleeping giants inside underground chambers , in a state of stasis, hidden throughout the world .
He stated that during his downtime in the secret space program tasks, from 1987 to 2007, he constantly checked the information on the “intelligent glass pads” .
This was a Wikipedia type system, to which the personnel of the Solar Warden and other secret space programs had access. There was information about Earth, including ancient finds, extraterrestrial life, and advanced technologies .
Goode claimed to read information about giants that lived on Earth in the remote past. But they are currently “asleep” in capsules, as if hibernating .
One of the most important places related to this is an ancient underground chamber where the Anunnaki were kept in a state of suspended animation.
The popularizer commented that the chamber was built by an “ancient race of builders.” Being the giants that are hibernating the last of their kind .
The veracity of Goode’s claims
Are you waiting for the ideal moment to wake up?
At the time of its disappearance, this civilization had technology that was capable of altering the flow of time . Thousands of years could pass, but for the occupant of the capsules, it would only be minutes.
Many question these statements as Goode did not provide any evidence , beyond his story.
According to him, the smart glass pads also revealed that Abraham Lincoln witnessed one of these hibernating giants. This happened in the ancient mounds that were found in the United States.
This is not entirely wrong. In fact, Lincoln gave a speech in 1848 , at Niagara Falls, where he mentions the giants:
“The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed upon Niagara, as ours do now.”
Obviously, the technology with which these capsules were manufactured is light years away from ours. Therefore, no one has managed to replicate it, despite the fact that it has been present on Earth for thousands of years .
As to the “why” of his hibernation, Goode isn’t entirely sure. However, he believes the answer could lie in the cosmic energies that the solar system is increasingly generating. This is something he says space systems have been keeping a very close eye on.
It is normal to have a certain degree of skepticism in the face of these types of complaints. However, giants are present in our earliest cultures. Our ancestors even reported how they fought against them. Is it possible that some of these specimens are hibernating to wake up at the right time?
In a partial response to a report alleging evidence of several significant anomalies during a recent private astronaut launch that could affect a crew of NASA astronauts launched last month, the space agency has issued a statement denying those claims. However, the same statement simultaneously revealed that SpaceX recently discovered a different problem with a different Crew Dragon spacecraft component during ground testing.
On May 23rd, Space Explored published a report alleging that a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft experienced major issues during Axiom-1, the company’s first all-private astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS). According to sourced info and a possible internal SpaceX memo, some of Dragon’s toxic propellant leaked during the 17-day flight, damaged or weakened parts of its heat shield, and “[caused] dangerously excessive wear upon reentry.” In general, the report appeared to be well-sourced and even alleged that NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) had opened an investigation. Additionally, when approached for comment, neither NASA nor SpaceX were initially willing to speak on the record, which also meant that neither denied the accusations.
A day later, NASA provided an official statement to Space Explored explicitly denying that there has been any propellant leak, heat shield contamination, or excessive heat shield wear on any of “Dragon’s recent crew reentries.”
NASA also dismissed concerns about the reuse of a previously-flown Cargo Dragon 2 heat shield structure on Crew-4, which launched just two days after Axiom-1’s recovery and is scheduled to spend four to five more months in orbit. It also noted that the reuse of Dragon’s heat shield tiles – the structures that take the brunt of most reentry heating and are immersed in salt water after every mission – is extremely limited and has only been attempted on occasional Cargo Dragon missions.
Simultaneously, NASA revealed that “a new heat shield composite structure intended for flight on Crew-5 did not pass an acceptance test” at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California Dragon factory. The unrelated test failure was blamed on a manufacturing defect and NASA betrayed no sign of serious concern in its statement, suggesting that the problem may be less serious than it sounds. In response, NASA says SpaceX will simply use a different heat shield composite structure for Crew-5, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than (NET) September 2022.
The data associated with Dragon’s recent crew reentries was normal – the system performed as designed without dispute. There has not been a hypergol leak during the return of a crewed Dragon mission nor any contamination with the heat shield causing excessive wear. SpaceX and NASA perform a full engineering review of the heat shield’s thermal protection system following each return, including prior to the launch of the Crew-4 mission currently at the International Space Station. The heat shield composite structure (structure below the tile) was re-flown per normal planning and refurbishment processes. The thermal protection system on the primary heat shield for Crew-4 was new, as it has been for all human spaceflight missions. SpaceX has only demonstrated reuse of selected PICA (Phenolic-Impregnated Carbon Ablator) tiles, which is a lightweight material designed to withstand high temperatures, as part of the heat shield on cargo flights.
NASA and SpaceX are currently in the process of determining hardware allocation for the agency’s upcoming SpaceX Crew-5 mission, including the Dragon heat shield. SpaceX has a rigorous testing process to put every component and system through its paces to ensure safety and reliability. In early May, a new heat shield composite structure intended for flight on Crew-5 did not pass an acceptance test. The test did its job and found a manufacturing defect. NASA and SpaceX will use another heat shield for the flight that will undergo the same rigorous testing prior to flight.
Crew safety remains the top priority for both NASA and SpaceX and we continue to target September 2022 for launch of Crew-5.
ome oddities do remain. While NASA’s explicit refutation should be taken as the definitive final word on the matter, it’s still very unusual that NASA and SpaceX refused or were unable to quickly and publicly deny the claims within a few hours of being asked. That could simply be a consequence of NASA and SpaceX’s poor internal and external communication or both parties’ love for withholding information from taxpayers about systems and technologies that those same taxpayers have paid for.
Axiom-1 was recovered without (reported) issue on April 25th.
(Axiom Space)
Less than two weeks later, after greenlighting SpaceX’s Crew-4 NASA astronaut launch two days after Axiom-1’s recovery, NASA allowed SpaceX to return four Crew-3 astronauts to Earth with a third Crew Dragon. (SpaceX)
On the opposite hand, after Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 run-in with greater-than-expected heat shield wear in 2020, it’s almost impossible to imagine that NASA and SpaceX would have proceeded with Crew-4’s launch two days after Axiom-1’s recovery without confidently verifying that heat shield erosion was within normal bounds. SpaceX’s upgraded Phenolic-Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA-X) Dragon heat shield tiles are reportedly designed to erode [PDF] less than a centimeter of their circa-2017 ~7.5 cm (3 in) thickness after each reentry. Musk has gone even further, stating in 2012 that “[PICA-X] can potentially be used hundreds of times for Earth orbit re-entry with only minor degradation each time.” If true, it would be extremely difficult for even a brisk post-flight inspection of Axiom-1’s Dragon capsule to miss what Space Explored described as “dangerously excessive wear.”
In theory, during recovery, even a minute propellant leak should have also been immediately detected by SpaceX’s recovery team, as the very first part of the hands-on process involves a small team with gas masks and detectors approaching the floating capsule to ensure that it’s safe for others to approach. Crew Dragon’s liquid monomethylhydrazine (MMH) fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide (NTO) oxidizer are highly toxic in small quantities and MMH is a known carcinogen.
All told, news of a potential propellant leak and anomalous heat shield performance appears to have been a false alarm, although – coincidentally or not – a seemingly minor anomaly with an unflown Crew Dragon heat shield structure did occur earlier this month. Despite that anomaly, Crew-4 and Crew-5 are otherwise proceeding nominally and NASA appears to be content with Crew Dragon’s performance during several recent launches and recoveries.
Authentic 1948 film of pilot Captain Mantell crash while chasing a UFO
Authentic 1948 film of pilot Captain Mantell crash while chasing a UFO
On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of his P-51 Mustang fighter plane near Franklin, Kentucky, United States, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object (UFO). The event was among the most publicized early UFO incidents.
Later investigation by the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell may have died chasing a Skyhook balloon, which in 1948 was a top-secret project that he would not have known about.
Mantell pursued the object in a steep climb and disregarded suggestions to level his altitude. At high altitude he blacked out from a lack of oxygen; his plane went into a downward spiral and crashed.
In 1956, Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (the first head of Project Blue Book) wrote that the Mantell crash was one of three "classic" UFO cases in 1948 that would help to define the UFO phenomenon in the public mind, and would help convince some Air Force intelligence specialists that UFOs were a "real" physical phenomenon.
Image left: A skyhook balloon from 1957 - Image right: The alleged UFO 'which does not resemble a skyhook balloon.'
Somewhere in the archives of the Air Force or the Navy there are records that will show whether or not a balloon was launched from Clinton County AFB, Ohio, on January 7, 1948. Captain Edward J. Ruppelt never could find these records.
People who were working with the early skyhook projects "remember" operating out of Clinton County AFB in 1947 but refuse to be pinned down to a January 7 flight.
Video Displays how USAF Has Been Testing Extraterrestrial Technology
Video Displays how USAF Has Been Testing Extraterrestrial Technology
A new video has just gone viral, showing UFO hunters peering down on Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and their endeavor to test out what seems to be alien technology.
This isn’t the first time something like this has been discovered at Nellis AFB since UFO researchers have suspected the base for quite some time.
The following video was posted by UFO investigator Steven Barrone and shows what’s been described above, as the USAF looks to have already had accessibility to alien technology because they are openly trying it out in front of everyone.
The footage was taken around a month ago, and it appears to show that the US Air Force is testing night vision gadgets and UFOs and many could spot these all over their base. The footage itself does not appear to have been tampered with, since the vast majority of UFO aficionados believe it to be authentic and unedited.
To put it lightly, the Nellis Air Force Base is vast, with over 5,000 miles of remote desert area enabling them to experiment with their new technology without fear of prying eyes.
Some say the US military is in collaboration with the Tall Whites and has had a contract with them for half a century, which is why they constantly try to discredit any conspiracy theorist’s belief in these aliens. Charles Hall, a retired USAF pilot and nuclear physicist who sacrificed his entire career in the 1960s to report on his sightings, revealed the existence of the Tall Whites.
Researchers hope to leverage instruments like Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory, pictured in September 2019, to study unidentified aerial phenomena.
Wil O'Mullane/Wikimedia Commons
Congress held a public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena, better known as UFOs, for the first time in 50 years.
Some researchers say scientific instruments — not just the intelligence community — should study these objects.
A growing number of private research groups are focused on detecting unidentified flying objects.
Congress held an open congressional hearing on Tuesday on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known as unidentified flying objects — for the first time in five decades.
The hearing, held before a US House Intelligence subcommittee, included testimony from defense officials following a nine-page report released last year, which investigated more than 140 instances of strange sightings by fighter aircraft instruments and pilots. Officials were only able to explain one of the incidents — a large, deflated balloon.
Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana and chairman of the subcommittee, said at the start of the hearing that UAPs "are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated that way."
US Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of an unidentified aerial phenomena, as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol, on May 17, 2022, in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Unexplained objects have fascinated and puzzled people for decades, but studying them has often been dismissed as pseudoscience or tabloid fodder. As these mystery sightings reenter the mainstream, however, some researchers say they need to be investigated by scientists, not just the intelligence community, in order to find answers.
Beyond tin foil hats
Last year's report confirmed the existence of unexplained aerial phenomenon, but prompted more questions than answers, Jacob Haqq-Misra, a research scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a non-profit that promotes space exploration, told Insider.
Some science experts theorize that these mystery objects could be anything from drones to weather-related phenomena to artifacts to sensor glitches — or even the handiwork of aliens. But the report did not include enough data to conclusively make that determination.
Since UAPs have long inspired conspiracy theories, researchers like Haqq-Misra believe the government should give scientists more access to data and allow inquiries to happen in the open, rather than behind closed doors.
Tuesday's public hearing was followed by a closed session, which scientists like Haqq-Misra expect will have the information they really want: "We really need transparency and new data if we want to solve this problem," he said.
The report included first-person accounts, which have the potential for human error. Haqq-Misra said UAPs should be studied with satellites, fast-tracking cameras, or audio sensors at locations where the unusual signals have been spotted: "What we need is to collect data in a systematic way — stare at this whole sky in many locations for long periods of time, and with many different instruments, and see how many things, if any, show up that you can't identify."
For decades, it's also been a taboo subject for scientists and dismissed as pseudoscience. Government officials even rebranded UFOs as unidentified aerial phenomena, in part, to avoid the stigma attached to claims of alien visitors. Researchers hope a scientific pursuit for answers, and more transparency, could help overcome that stigma, according to Ravi Kopparapu, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
"There is a process to understand unknown phenomena," Kopparapu told Insider. "We should not jump to conclusions one way or another, about either dismissal or jumping to some exotic explanation."
From the fringes to serious science
Pilots EJ Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E. Stevens look at a photo of an unidentified flying object, which they sighted while en route to Seattle, Washington, in 1947. Bettmann/Getty Images
Kopparapu said that there are a growing number of privately funded research groups focused on the systematic study of unidentified aerial phenomena, such as Harvard's Galileo Project and UAPx, a research non-profit. (The Galileo Project is helmed by Avi Loeb, a prominent and controversial astronomy professor, who has beencriticized for including outspoken UFO proponents, without science backgrounds, on the project.)
"I think this is a great opportunity for scientists to show the public how a scientific investigation can be done of something that is unknown," Kopparapu told Insider.
NASA does not actively search for UAPs, according to the agency's website. "If we learn of UAPs, it would open up the door to new science questions to explore," according to NASA. "Atmospheric scientists, aerospace experts, and other scientists could all contribute to understanding the nature of the phenomenon. Exploring the unknown in space is at the heart of who we are."
In the meantime, the Galileo Project is designing software to screen data coming from large telescopes for interstellar objects, and developing a network of sky cameras searching for signs of alien life. This spring, the team plans to install the first of hundreds of cameras — which capture both infrared and visible light — and audio sensors on the roof of Harvard College Observatory, to record everything that moves through the sky, 24 hours a day.
"We are moving away from a time where we were just thinking about them as some sort of tabloid news," Kopparapu said, adding, "These objects exist. And if we want to understand them, we need to use the same technologies and scientific instruments that we use to study our everyday world around us."
Sightings of unexplained objects in the sky have long captured human imagination and raised questions about national security and even potential alien life. But these questions will remain unanswered if they're not subjected to rigorous scientific inquiry, researchers say.
"I think it's significant that branches of the military are acknowledging that there's a thing that's supposed to be in their jurisdiction that they don't understand," Haqq-Misra told Insider. "If they're willing to do that, I think then it really, truly is a puzzle and we've got to figure out what this is."
Kopparapu seemed to agree: "Science should be the forefront in understanding this unknown phenomena," he said, adding, "I hope there is more interest from scientists and I'm eager to see what's going to happen in the next couple of weeks with all this news."
Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified footage during his opening remarks at a historic open House hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena.
The Pentagon acknowledged Tuesday that while U.S. assets have never collided with anything the military categorizes as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), this has almost happened on nearly a dozen occasions.
Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray revealed this at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on UFOs, when asked by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., to confirm that there have never been any crashes.
"We have not had a collision. We've had at least 11 near misses, though," Bray said.
Pentagon hearing shows UFOs spotted using both human and two technical sensors, May 17, 2022
(FOX News)
Krishnamoorthi then asked if the U.S. has ever detected communication signals of any kind from these objects, and Bray said they had not. Bray also confirmed, however, that the U.S. has never tried to communicate with them.
"So we don't even put out an alert saying, you know, U.S., identify yourself. You know, you're in our flight path or something like that?" Krishnamoorthi asked.
"We've not put out anything like that," Bray said, adding that these objects, such as one that officials showed House members earlier in the hearing, appeared to be unmanned objects "that may or may not be in controlled flight."
Bray also confirmed that the U.S. has never fired upon any of the objects.
An image of a UFO shown at a House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee Hearing on March 17, 2022. DOD officials said they do not have an explanation for what the object is.
(Tyler Olson/Fox News)
The congressman then asked about whether the U.S. has ever found wreckage that they could not identify. Bray said the UAP Task Force "doesn't have any wreckage that isn't explainable" or "consistent with being of terrestrial origin."
Bray later noted that some UAPs are not necessarily "physical objects," but could be sensor anomalies or meteorological phenomena. He did say, however, that he knows "with certainty" that "a number of these are physical objects.
The hearing was the first public one of its kind in 50 years. Officials released declassified photos and videos of UFOs, including a brief and shaky video where a small object appeared to zip past a military pilot, and a separate video where glowing triangles are seen in the night sky.
GIGANTISCHE RUIMTESTEEN ZOEFT LATER DEZE WEEK LANGS DE AARDE
GIGANTISCHE RUIMTESTEEN ZOEFT LATER DEZE WEEK LANGS DE AARDE
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ruimtesteen – die een diameter van zo’n 1000 meter heeft – passeert onze planeet op een afstand van ‘slechts’ iets meer dan 4 miljoen kilometer.
De planetoïde in kwestie draagt de naam 7335 1989JA. En komende woensdag om 16.26 uur zal de afstand tussen de ruimtesteen en onze planeet het kleinst zijn en 4.02 miljoen kilometer bedragen. Daarmee is de afstand tussen onze planeet en de ruimtesteen ongeveer 10 keer groter dan de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan.
Geen paniek We hebben dan ook niets van deze ruimtesteen te vrezen, zo benadrukt NASA. Toch is het wel een bijzondere scheervlucht. Want met een omvang van 1036 meter is 7335 1989JA tamelijk uniek. Van de bijna 29.000 aardscheerders – planetoïden die zich in de nabijheid van onze planeet wagen – die tot op heden zijn ontdekt, zijn er slechts 878 groter dan 1000 meter.
Het komt dan ook niet zo heel vaak voor dat zo’n grote planetoïde zich in de buurt van de aarde waagt. Sterker nog; 7335 1989JA is de grootste planetoïde die dit jaar op relatief kleine afstand langs de aarde scheert.
Meer scheervluchten Dat ruimtestenen langs onze planeet scheren is op zichzelf natuurlijk niet heel bijzonder. Volgens NASA zijn er elke maand zelfs tientallen ruimtestenen die binnen een afstand van 0,05 AU (oftewel 0,05 keer de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon, oftewel bijna 7,5 miljoen kilometer) langs de aarde zoeven. Sommigen daarvan kennen we al jaren. Maar het komt ook regelmatig voor dat een planetoïde pas kort voor dat deze zich in de nabijheid van onze planeet waagt, wordt ontdekt.
Geen gevaar Hoewel de meeste aardscheerders vrij klein zijn en dus geen enorme bedreiging voor de aarde vormen, zijn er natuurlijk ook exemplaren bij die qua grootte angst inboezemen. Op dit moment zijn onderzoekers echter geen grote planetoïden bekend die op korte termijn (in de komende 100 jaar ) een significante bedreiging voor de aarde vormen.
Potentieel gevaarlijk Wel is er een lijst met potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden. Op deze lijst vinden we meer dan 2000 planetoïden die zich zo af en toe binnen 7,5 miljoen kilometer afstand van de aarde wagen en/of groter zijn dan 140 meter. Ook 7335 1989JA kan op basis van die definitie tot de potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden worden gerekend. Dat wil zeker niet zeggen dat deze gedoemd is om in de toekomst een gevaar voor de aarde te gaan vormen. Het geeft alleen maar aan dat we hier te maken hebben met een planetoïde die zich relatief dicht in de buurt van de aarde waagt én een zodanige omvang heeft dat een botsing met de aarde catastrofale gevolgen zou hebben. Of zo’n botsing ook plaats gaat vinden, is een ander verhaal; dat is sterk afhankelijk van de baan van de ruimtesteen. Zodra nieuwe aardscheerders worden ontdekt, proberen astronomen dan ook zoveel mogelijk waarnemingen te doen om de baan ervan zo nauwkeurig mogelijk vast te stellen. Want als je weet welke baan een planetoïde volgt, kun je gaan voorspellen waar deze zich in de toekomst bevindt en nagaan of deze in die toekomst gevaarlijk dicht bij de aarde in de buurt komt. En nogmaals; voor de ons bekende potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden geldt dus dat er geen één is die op korte termijn – dus in de komende 100 jaar – een significante kans heeft om op de aarde te slaan.
Toekomstige scheervluchten Ook 7335 1989JA dus niet. Van de baan van deze planetoïde hebben astronomen inmiddels ook een vrij goed beeld. Zo weten ze bijvoorbeeld dat deze in juni 2055 opnieuw langs de aarde zal scheren. En ook in mei 2081 en mei 2114 komt de planetoïde weer even langs. Tijdens geen van deze scheervluchten komt de planetoïde echter zo dichtbij als komende woensdag het geval is.
Hoewel ons op dit moment geen planetoïden bekend zijn die een gevaar voor de aarde vormen, weten we dat onze planeet niet altijd de dans kan ontspringen. Zo zijn op het aardoppervlak zijn verschillende kraters te vinden die getuigen van eerdere inslagen. Sommige daarvan – zoals de inslag zo’n 66 miljoen jaar geleden in wat nu Mexico is – hadden een enorme impact op onze planeet. Mocht er in de toekomst toch onverhoopt een forse planetoïde op ramkoers met de aarde komen te liggen dan hopen onderzoekers een vergelijkbaar doemscenario af te kunnen wenden. En wel door de baan van de planetoïde te wijzigen. Daar zal binnenkort al een beetje mee geoefend gaan worden, tijdens de DART-missie. Deze missie voert naar de planetoïde Didymos waar een klein maantje – Dimorphos genaamd – omheen cirkelt. Tijdens de missie zal het DART-ruimtevaartuig zichzelf opzettelijk tegen het kleine maantje te pletter vliegen, met als doel de baan ervan te veranderen. Het experiment moet uitwijzen of de methode geschikt is om in de toekomst gevaarlijke planetoïden af te buigen.
French Soldier Fights in Space using USA Top Secret Technologies |Life, War and Friendship with ETs
French Soldier Fights in Space using USA Top Secret Technologies |Life, War and Friendship with ETs
Here's a succinct 20 min video interview of Jean Charles Moyen & his service in a joint US French SSP. He is a presenter at a Sept 2022 SSP conference in Silicon Valley to discuss tech applications:"French Soldier Fights in Space using USA Top Secret Tech"
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@MichaelSalla
Join the First Silicon Valley Secret Space Technologies Business Applications Conference. Tickets and info available here: https://go.innodemia.com/ssp-conference.
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William Shatner On Looking For Ancient Aliens
William Shatner On Looking For Ancient Aliens
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William Shatner discusses The UnXplained’s major crossover event with Ancient Aliens, and what Gene Rodenberry knew about extraterrestrial life.
Willam Shatner’s The UnXlplained and Ancient Aliens are combining forces to figure out the mysteries of the universe. Typically, Friday nights on the History Channel include Ancient Aliens, then an episode of The UnXplained. This Friday, however, History will join the shows together in a two-hour special. Shatner is joining Giorgio Tsoukalos and the Ancient Alienscrew for a special called “William Shatner Meets Ancient Aliens.”
Den of Geek’s was able to catch up with Shatner and get some insight into what to expect on Friday’s crossover event and his thoughts on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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Bruce Fenton: Alien Hybrid Humans
Bruce Fenton: Alien Hybrid Humans
Bruce Fenton: Alien Hybrid Humans
What if the current prominent human body configuration is the abomination, demon spawn, hybrids, the contamination and that is why we had to be isolated/excommunicated with short life spans. The true human could be light beings. cgrainw
In today’s video, secureteam10 analyze some of the clearest new video footage of these mysterious, silent, and potentially alien-operated triangle UFOs that have been seen all over the world. secureteam10analyze some of the clearest new video footage of these mysterious, silent, and potentially alien-operated triangle UFOs that have been seen all over the world.
UFO Seen Over Seattle, Washington On May 14, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Over Seattle, Washington On May 14, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 14, 2022
Location of sighting: Seattle, Washington, USA
Source: MUFON
Take a look at this video that just came into MUFON. The eyewitnesses were enjoying the night video on the 40th floor sundeck when one of them noticed a strange craft flying past. Now the video is a bit unfocused so its hard to make it out, but it looks like a disk shaped craft moving across the sky. Seattle is right next to the ocean and that gives the UFO lots of space to hide under water. Which leads me to believe there may be an alien base along the Washington coastline.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
On a Saturday night, a friend and myself were hanging out on the 40th floor Sundeck apartment building when I seen what looked like a flocked of birds or a white cloud. It was about 280 feet away when I first saw it but I was too gazed to capture it at that distance up close but I got out my phone as quickly as possible and started shooting. The object seemed to be slowly picking up speed. It made no sound. It also appeared to shape shift and then lights appeared on it. I've never seen a flock of birds at that altitude fly in formation in downtown Seattle, not have I seen a drone in the city. I own a drone and it makes a lot of noise when flying. This was silent. The video I shared has a small bit of language.
Ancient Alien City Found! 2,000 Year Old City At Center Of Ocean! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Alien City Found! 2,000 Year Old City At Center Of Ocean! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 10, 2022
Location of discovery: 16°37'27.65"S 143°35'47.39"W
Guys, I was looking over the islands and found an ancient alien city from about 2,000-3,000 years ago. This city is under the ocean and covers a distance of .5 miles by .25 wide.
Someone asked me on my video comments, what makes you think this is alien? Humans had compares back then. True, the compass was invited about 2,000 years ago, but this has nothing to do with compasses. It has everything to do with structure design, and stone block transportation to the center of the ocean. Look closely at the nearest house...its very conservative and simple. Now look at the stone structure under the ocean near it. They are 1-2 meters thick stone blocks! How many ships 2,000-3,000 years ago could carry even one half ton block of stone to the center of the ocean? How many ships could carry the tens of thousands of stone blocks to the center of the ocean? I rest my case. A UFO clearly could do such things with ease. The stone structures are so elaborate, thick, huge and complex that there is no way this was a human city. 100% proof that ancient alien cities exist. This...could be part of Atlantis, the legendary city of Mu.
Adrone owner filmed in the port of San Clemente del Tuyú, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina a so-called high speed UFO Fastwalker.
If we zoom in we see that the Fastwalker, which has no wings or visible propulsion, looks like something made up of a construction of tubes attached to the main body.
Aliens and UFOs were spotted in the UK over 250 times in the previous year
Aliens and UFOs were spotted in the UK over 250 times in the previous year
According to reports, Extraterrestrials were seen over 250 times in the United Kingdom last year.
Abductions, and sightings of small green guys, and spacecraft were some of the things people claimed to have seen.
Those who claim to have had near experiences with ET were provided therapy to aid them with the trauma they suffered.
259 extraterrestrial sightings allegedly happened in 2021, as reported by the British UFO Research Association.
Only 5 percents of all reported encounters are real, though.
However, it stated that, while 2021 was an “intriguing year,” extraterrestrial and UFO reports were down from prior years.
According to a spokeswoman, the decline was caused when the public realized that the Starlink Satellites which were launched by Space X were not unidentified flying object.
According to him the launching of the Starlink Satellites, which unexpectedly caused a large number of reports to BUFORA as many of these satellites passed over the sky, was one of the key causes for many sightings in 2019.
As people grew more familiar with the Starlink Satellites, the frequency of reported sightings declined in 2020, with documented sightings nearly halving from 2019.
Chris Bonham of St Albans, Herts, claimed he was “desperate” to meet an extraterrestrial because he always thought there is life on other worlds and he wants to meet an alien. The encounters appear to be dropping, but he is still remains hopeful.
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Hunter Captures Crazy UFO Flying Saucer In The Crosshairs!! Whoa! Major Media Cover Up!
Hunter Captures Crazy UFO Flying Saucer In The Crosshairs!! Whoa! Major Media Cover Up!
Hunter Captures Crazy UFO Flying Saucer In The Crosshairs!! Whoa! Major Media Cover Up!
I’ve been capturing an orange orb often here in Central Florida for days now. It’s too low to be a satellite, no sound or blinking lights. Maybe it is a drone that the military hasn’t disclosed to us yet??✌️ Great job guys JM
Disk Recorded Over Cairo, Egypt on May 10, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
Disk Recorded Over Cairo, Egypt on May 10, 2022, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 10, 2022
Location of sighting: Cairo, Egypt Source: MUFON
Guys, this is awesome, MUFON is back up and showing reports today! This video is just in. The eyewitness says he didn't see the UFO, but only saw it on the camera screen. They were driving along during a thunderstorm, when a flash of lighting happened and a disk began to materialize in the sky in front of them. The disk becomes clearer with every passing second. Then the video ends. Now there are some similarities to a possible reflection off the front windshield causing this, but I just don't think so. Cairo, home of the ancient aliens who made the great pyramids compounded with the thunderstorm, which revealed the cloaked craft above them. This is also proof that there is an alien base deep below the great pyramids. Those pyramids draw in the lightning storing the energy like a battery for the city below.
Voyager 1 Probe Is Sending Mysterious Data From Interstellar Space
Voyager 1 Probe Is Sending Mysterious Data From Interstellar Space
NASA's Voyager 1 is sending mysterious data from beyond our solar system. Scientists are unsure what it means. The Voyager 1 probe is still exploring interstellar space 45 years after launching, but it has encountered an issue that mystifies the spacecraft's team on Earth.
Voyager 1 continues to operate well, despite its advanced age and 14.5 billion-mile distance (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth. And it can receive and execute commands sent from NASA, as well as gather and send back science data.
But the readouts from the attitude articulation and control system, which control the spacecraft's orientation in space, don't match up with what Voyager is actually doing.
The attitude articulation and control system, or AACS, ensures that the probe's high-gain antenna remains pointed at Earth so Voyager can send data back to NASA.
Due to Voyager's interstellar location, it takes light 20 hours and 33 minutes to travel one way, so the call and response of one message between NASA and Voyager takes two days.
A guy from Yorkshire claims he has been abducted by aliens ‘at least 60 times’
A guy from Yorkshire claims he has been abducted by aliens ‘at least 60 times’
Russ Kellet
A Yorkshire man has spoken out about his decades-long contacts with ‘alien’ creatures.
Russ Kellett, 58, a from Bradford who now resides in Filey, located in North Yorkshire, has chronicled multiple occurrences over the years during which he claims an extraterrestrial species abducted him to participate in a galactic battle.
He claims to have seen alien aliens and even saw pop sensation Robbie Williams on an alien spaceship. According to the Daily Star, Mr. Kellett claims he underwent surgical treatments performed by these very high invaders.
Drawing of extraterrestrial being seen by Russ Kellett
He admitted to being kidnapped around 60 times, initially this happened when he was only 16 and riding his motorcycle home. During that near encounter, he claims to have gone down a tunnel and finished up in a place that looked like a dental operation, complete with 15-foot-tall extraterrestrials. He explains they look like Dracula but without the fangs.
He also claimed to have had a tube inserted down his neck, and that whatever substance they injected into him transformed him into one of their super troops.
For the last 30 years, he has served in their army, going against their aggressors, the ‘Dragos,’ who are towering and scaly with dragon heads. He stated he’s been gone for a long time, and no one realizes it since 4 hours here equals 4 years on one of the worlds he’s visited.”
Drawing of extraterrestrials seen by Russ Kellett
Mr. Kellett claims to have engaged in conflicts in South America, the United Kingdom, and Europe, as well as battles for “intergalactic territories.” He’s drawn some pictures of some of the extraterrestrials he has met.
He claims he has told his story to other people who have been abducted, who have informed him the very same thing occurred to them. He told YorkshireLive about his first experience when he was just four years old and living in Girlington, Bradford. He claims to have seen a man in a ‘helmet and a space suit’ in the back garden of the family’s Kensington Street house.
He said he couldn’t believe that the alien was going through his yard. He waved, and the alien raised his hand. There was a silvery item that he mistook for a trash can. He was walking behind it when it shook and rose.
At that time, this Yorkshire man didn’t reveal to anyone what he witnessed, but he has now exposed everything in his new book, ‘Russell Kellett is E.T. Rider.’
The book, he claims, is about his meetings with “alien ships” and alien abductions throughout his life.
He claims that when he was approximately 12 years old, he ‘lost’ many hours while playing by himself near a wooded area off Fairbank Road in Bradford. After seeing a ‘light in the sky,’ everything went dark as powerful gusts began to shake the trees.
He said that the experience was quite strange and somewhat terrifying.
He thinks the lights he saw were from a ‘spacecraft.’
Russ Kellett claims he was abducted by aliens while riding his motorbike near Bingley, West Yorkshire
He claims that he was taken by extraterrestrials while going on his motorcycle some years later. He believes he was taken by aliens to become a fighter in a conflict involving many extraterrestrial species.
Mr. Kellett made news in 2020 after claiming to have seen musician Robbie Williams onboard a spacecraft in 1999. Mr. Kellett claimed that Robbie W. was a member of his “military force.”
Later on, Daily Star reported that Robbie did not dispute the claim, but instead stated, “No comment.”
Mr. Kellett says that his journeys resemble the narrative of a science fiction film.
He admits that the plot sounds like a sci-fi film, and some journalists assume that the entire story is based on a film. Mr. Kellett described his situation as a living nightmare.
Mr. Kellett alleged that some members in the unidentified flying object world were merely interested in making money. But he preferred the truth to the falsehoods that others were saying.
“A man’s story of many near encounters with extraterrestrial spaceships and kidnappings by an alien species,” according to the book’s blurb. Taken into a military unit by a group of aliens and educated to battle as a super-soldier against their adversaries on our planet and many others in our cosmos. Coming to deal with flashbacks of an alien world, as well as fighting other alien races and human races on Earth.”
Mr. Kellett’s second book, The Berwyn Mountains UFO Cover-Up – Alien Invasion Wales, examines the events of January 23, 1974.
Russ Kellett’s book about his encounters with aliens and alien craft. Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3wCFrjW
According to Mr. Kellett, five guys came across a landing craft and aliens. The troops who had surrounded them had forced them forward.
Mr. Kellett claimed to have worked on the matter for many years and to have access to a number of government logs. Eyewitnesses of the Welsh Roswell event reported hearing a loud smashing sound and running outside to see dazzling lights in the sky.
The 1974 episode was explained by a powerful earth tremor that corresponded with a meteor burning up in the atmosphere, according to National Archives papers from 2010. The official response did not satisfy many individuals. One person noted in the files, “That ’something’ got down in the Berwyn Mountains that evening, I am certain.”
Metallic Tic Tac UFO with a sharp abrupt change in direction over Lake Elsinore, CA 16-May-2022
Metallic Tic Tac UFO with a sharp abrupt change in direction over Lake Elsinore, CA 16-May-2022
This UFO activity with a really strange movements was seen and filmed in the daytime sky above Lake Elsinore, a city in western Riverside County, California on 16th May 2022.
Witness report:
Tic tac object first was observing the orb to the northeast hovering for several minutes, looks like a metallic orb. Suddenly this larger tic tac object appears, starts flying southeast then makes an abrupt change in direction and elevation almost to a certain degree robotic, fast, abrupt and keep flying straight.
NASA's Voyager 1 stuurt mysterieuze gegevens terug van buiten ons zonnestelsel
Ruimtesonde Voyager 1 heeft vreemde gegevens teruggestuurd, die de ingenieurs bij NASA voor een raadsel stellen. Het ruimtevaartuig werd 45 jaar geleden gelanceerd en bevindt zich al een tijd buiten de grenzen van ons zonnestelsel.
De NASA zei woensdag dat de ruimtesonde nog steeds naar behoren werkt, maar dat de gegevens van het standbepalings- en controlesysteem (AACS) niet overeen lijken te komen met de bewegingen en de oriëntatie van het ruimtevaartuig. Dat zou erop wijzen dat het vaartuig in de war is over zijn locatie in de ruimte.
Het AACS is essentieel voor de Voyager om gegevens over de interstellaire omgeving te kunnen sturen naar NASA. Dit systeem zorgt ervoor dat de antenne van het ruimtevaartuig recht op onze planeet gericht blijft.
“Een mysterie als dit is in deze fase van de Voyager-missie min of meer vanzelfsprekend”, zei Suzanne Dodd, projectmanager voor Voyager 1 en 2 bij het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van de NASA. “De ruimtevaartuigen zijn allebei bijna 45 jaar oud, ze werken al veel langer dan de missieplanners hadden verwacht.”
NASA zegt dat de AACS van de Voyager 1, voor zover de technici kunnen nagaan, willekeurig gegenereerde gegevens verstuurt die niet “weergeven wat er werkelijk aan boord gebeurt”.
Grote uitdagingen
Maar ook al suggereren de systeemgegevens iets anders, de antenne van het ruimtevaartuig lijkt goed uitgelijnd te zijn. Het ontvangt en voert opdrachten van NASA uit en stuurt gegevens terug naar de aarde. De NASA zei dat het systeemprobleem er nog niet toe heeft geleid dat het verouderde ruimtevaartuig in de veilige modus is terechtgekomen, waarin het alleen nog essentiële handelingen uitvoert.
“Tot de aard van het probleem beter bekend is, kan het team niet voorspellen of dit van invloed kan zijn op hoelang het ruimtevaartuig wetenschappelijke gegevens kan verzamelen en verzenden”, aldus NASA. Dodd en haar team hopen erachter te komen wat de robotafgezant van de aarde ertoe aanzet om de vreemde gegevens te verzenden.
“Er zijn een aantal grote uitdagingen voor het technische team”, zei Dodd. “Het grootste probleem is dat het licht er 20 uur en 33 minuten over doet om op de huidige interstellaire locatie van de Voyager te komen. Een retourbericht tussen het ruimteagentschap en de Voyager duurt dus twee dagen.”
Maar Dodd heeft goede hoop: “Ik denk dat als er een manier is om dit probleem met de AACS op te lossen, ons team die zal vinden.”
Bright UFO goes across sky, stops for plane then proceeds on – Yelm, WA – 18-May-2022
Bright UFO goes across sky, stops for plane then proceeds on – Yelm, WA – 18-May-2022
Here’s one latest UFO sighting from Yelm, Washington that happened on 18th May 2022. This bright light or orb was flying across the sky.
Witness report:
A bright single non flashing light, goes over my head, flies into plath above an airplane, where it stops and left the airplane pass, then proceeded on its path.
The collapse of a mine in Jixi, China, on February 28, 2003, generated great controversy due to the disappearance of 14 miners. However, 5 years later, the world learned of the existence of the Ctones, an intraterrestrial tribe that saved 2 of the disappeared.
The efforts of the authorities rescued only 12 bodies of the 14 miners . The remains of Lao Pen and Wan Hu were not found. But in 2008, Wan Hu returned, telling a story about the Ctones and a tribe that lived in the depths of the Earth.
Ctones An intraterrestrial tribe?
When Wan Hu returned, he found that his wife was already married, so he bought a new house and took up gardening.
Within weeks, the authorities learned of his return, as his family had received compensation. They quickly went to review the situation; if Wan Hu was alive, his family should not have received anything from the government.
They questioned the man and his family and he claimed that they had not taken advantage of the situation. They obviously asked him what had happened ; He replied that he had lived with the Ctones, a powerful civilization from the bottom of the Earth.
This attracted powerful attention, they even hospitalized him, doubting his mental capacity. But medical tests showed that he was perfectly healthy.
The doctors could not explain how he did not have any signs of anthracosis or any illness resulting from the inhalation of coal dust. Something that Wan Hu suffered from since he worked in the mine. For some reason, he had been cured in his stay with the so-called Ctones.
perfect health
Another strange analysis was that he had his 32 teeth, when the medical record showed that he only had 25 . His health looked like that of a twentysomething, even though he was already 39 years old.
Also, Wan Hu had 40,000 yuan in his bank account. When the government traced his movements, it found that he had an additional 10,000 yuan in cash and uncut diamonds valued at 300,000 yuan.
The authorities quickly suspected that it was not really the miner, but a foreign spy .
Hu explained that he got the money by selling the diamonds to a jeweler in Shanghai. When questioned about the provenance of these, he said that they had been given to him by the Ctones .
Wan Hu and Lao Pen found themselves separated from the other miners. They waited 3 days for the rescue, since they had enough water for it, but they did not have any food .
When they noticed that there was no sign of their search, they began to explore the mine , hoping to find a way to the surface.
Unfortunately, the only thing they managed to do was get lost in the maze of tunnels , until something strange happened. They were attacked by some strange short humans who captured them and led them even deeper.
an unknown kingdom
What they believed would be his death led to the arrival of an impressive kingdom . This was illuminated by a system of crystals, to the point that it could be read.
At the end of the tunnels, there were large caves inhabited by thousands of Ctones. The men lived for 5 years with these creatures. They learned their language and realized that they were not captives, as they believed.
In fact, these beings believed that they were rescuing them from the terror of the surface. The Ctones had the idea that life outside their caves was an ordeal , where hunger and disease killed thousands of people.
The Ctones ate from a fungus that abounded in the caves. This one tasted fresh, delicious and was very healthy. Thanks to this, his teeth regenerated and his illnesses disappeared.
These creatures even had a developed writing system , they knew paper and metallurgy. Although they rarely used iron, they focused more on gold, silver, and bronze.
These beings saw the miners as their equals, so they had all the facilities that the rest of the Ctones. However, Wan Hu wanted to return to his family and the sunlight once more.
Although they tried to convince him, he had already made up his mind, so he was guided to the surface. Lao Pen decided to live the rest of her life with these fascinating creatures.
Wan Hu was declared mentally unstable , he was even sent to a military base and his family never heard from him again.
This is one of the hundreds of strange cases of intraterrestrial civilizations that have fascinated the world. However, many people still doubt its veracity. Is there really a world below the surface totally alien to ours?
EXCLUSIVE: Former Minuteman commander slams Pentagon officials for saying they knew nothing about UFO incident that shutdown nuclear missiles at US airbase in 1967 because he reported it to DoD LAST YEAR
EXCLUSIVE: Former Minuteman commander slams Pentagon officials for saying they knew nothing about UFO incident that shutdown nuclear missiles at US airbase in 1967 because he reported it to DoD LAST YEAR
Robert Salas has claimed Pentagon officials lied about not having information about a mysterious UFO incident that deactivated US nuclear missiles in 1967
Intelligence officials Scott Bray and Ronald Moultrie were grilled by a House sub-committee Tuesday in the first public UFO hearing in more than 50 years
Asked about the incident, Bray said: 'That data is not within the holdings of the UAP task force… I have heard stories, I have not seen the official data on that'
But Salas told DailyMail.com he reported the event at the time, has spoken about it repeatedly, and reported it to the government's UFO task force in 2021
'The response I got was: "We already know your story so unless you've got something new, we don't need to hear what you've got to say",' he said
The former Air Force captain was on duty at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base in March 1967 when a mysterious red orb flew over
Security guards witnessed a glowing red, saucer-shaped orb and seconds later, klaxons and warning lights went off warning that the nukes had become inactive
'Within the next few seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a 'No-Go' [inoperable] condition,' Salas said
A former Minuteman commander at a secret nuclear silo has slammed Pentagon officials for telling Congress they had no information about UFOs shutting down intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at a military base in 1967 – even after he reported the incident to the UFO task force last year.
Robert Salas was on-duty commander of the underground launch facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in March 1967 when a mysterious red orb allegedly flew over and all ten of their nuclear missiles inexplicably shut down for several hours.
He reported the shocking incident to his superiors at the time, has told his story repeatedly over the past two decades, and reported the incident to the government's UFO task force in 2021.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the ex Air Force captain said task force officials told him last summer they already knew about the incident and didn't need to speak to him.
Robert Salas (right as a young airman) has claimed Pentagon officials lied about not having information about a mysterious UFO incident that deactivated US nuclear missiles in 1967 during a congressional hearing Tuesday
Salas was on-duty commander of the underground launch facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in March 1967 when a mysterious red orb allegedly flew over and all ten of their nuclear missiles inexplicably shut down for several hours
But when asked about the case in an historic congressional hearing Tuesday, Pentagon chiefs said they had no data on it – leaving Salas, 81, 'disappointed and shocked.'
Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie were grilled by the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday in the first public hearing on UFOs in over 50 years.
When asked about the Malmstrom incident, Bray told lawmakers: 'That data is not within the holdings of the UAP [unidentified aerial phenomena] task force… I have heard stories, I have not seen the official data on that.'
Salas held a press conference in Washington DC last October to raise awareness of the incident and other UFO-related shutdowns of nuclear missiles.
He told DailyMail.com that before the event he sent his evidence to the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General who was reviewing the work of the government's UFO unit.
'I sent the Inspector General my information, documents, my story in some detail, and of course invited them specifically to attend my press conference in DC,' Salas said.
'After the conference, I contacted somebody who was in touch with the UAP Task Force. The response I got was: "We already know your story so unless you've got something new, we don't need to hear what you've got to say".'
'That's why it shocked me that Mr. Moultrie didn't seem to know anything about it – or if he did, he was wanting to avoid the topic.
A Strategic Air Command document released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) says 'all ten missiles in echo flight at Malmstrom lost strat alert within ten seconds of each other' and notes a 'grave concern' about the case
Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray (left) and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie were grilled by the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday in the first public hearing on UFOs in over 50 years
Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray plays a video of an 'unidentified aerial phenomena', commonly referred to as UFOs, during Tuesday's UFO hearing
'The shutting down of nuclear missiles, obviously, is a national security concern that they should have considered.
'Because Congressman [Mike] Gallagher pushed it, finally Moultrie agreed to take a look at these incidents. So I'm looking forward to briefing him once I get the call.
'I've been just waiting to hear from them. I offered to even go there on my own expense. I would be happy to fully brief any congressman, or anybody from DoD.'
Salas, who lives in California, said the ICBM shutdown he witnessed was on March 24, 1967 at the Oscar Flight Launch Control Center near Roy, Montana.
He said one of the airmen standing watch above the 60ft-deep bunker saw 'a star begin to zig-zag across the sky', zip closer, then 'hover outside the front gate'.
Security guards described it as glowing red and saucer-shaped. Salas said one who came close to the object was injured.
Seconds later, klaxons and warning lights underground went off warning that the nukes had become inactive.
'Within the next few seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a 'No-Go' [inoperable] condition,' Salas said.
The incident was preceded by a similar event just eight days earlier, on March 16, 1967, at another nearby nuclear base, Echo-Flight Launch Control Center, about 15 miles north of Lewistown, Montana.
Photo of Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana in 2009
One clip shown at Tuesday's Congressional hearing was taken from a Navy cockpit in a training area and shows a spherical object floating by the aircraft
This file video grab image obtained April 28, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
A Strategic Air Command document released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) says 'all ten missiles in echo flight at Malmstrom lost strat alert within ten seconds of each other' and notes a 'grave concern' about the case.
At his DC press conference last October, Salas presented a recording of a phone call between himself and the Echo Flight Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander Colonel Walter Figel where Figel recounted also receiving reports from his security guards of 'a UFO hovering over the site.'
The FOIA documents describe the results of an official investigation into the incident, which concluded it 'could not discover the cause' and chalked it up as a 'freak incident'.
'We've got documents to support these. We've got witness testimonies,' Salas said.
'Their ability to disable all 10 intercontinental ballistic missiles within seconds, I think was a message regarding our folly in having nuclear weapons in the first place, and we ought to get rid of them.'
Pentagon erroneously claims that it has no data on UFOs disabling nukes
Pentagon erroneously claims that it has no data on UFOs disabling nukes
The main entrance to Malmstrom Air Force Base.
Image Credit: USGOV-PD
Former Minuteman commander Robert Salas maintains that he reported the incident to the UFO task force last year.
Salas, who has long been attempting to raise awareness about his experiences, was the on-duty commander at the underground launch facility of the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana back in March 1967 when a mysterious object appeared and disabled several of the ICBMs.
An airman who had been standing watch at the time had observed an object in the sky which had started to zig-zag around before hovering outside the front gate of the facility.
Security guards described it as red, glowing and saucer-shaped.
Within seconds, the ICBMs stationed at the base had begun to report inexplicable failures.
"Within the next few seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a 'No-Go' condition," said Salas.
According to a Freedom Of Information Act Request (FOIA), "all ten missiles in echo flight at Malmstrom lost strat alert within ten seconds of each other."
A very similar incident had occurred just one week prior at another base north of Lewistown, Montana.
When Salas reported the incident to the Pentagon's UFO task force last year, he was told that officials were already aware of it and that he did not need to submit any additional information.
He was particularly surprised, therefore, when officials at the UFO congressional hearing on Tuesday claimed that they did not have any data on the incident and were unable to comment.
"The shutting down of nuclear missiles, obviously, is a national security concern that they should have considered," said Salas.
"Because Congressman [Mike] Gallagher pushed it, finally Moultrie agreed to take a look at these incidents. So I'm looking forward to briefing him once I get the call. "
"I've been just waiting to hear from them. I offered to even go there on my own expense. I would be happy to fully brief any congressman, or anybody from DoD."
NASA rover begint met zijn “belangrijkste onderzoek” om leven op mars te vinden
NASA’s rover Perseverance begint met zijn belangrijkste deel van zijn missie op Mars. Dinsdag zal de zeswielige robot beginnen aan de beklimming van een oude delta in de krater waar hij is geland. Hij zal bergopwaarts rollen, en zo nu en dan stoppen om rotsen te onderzoeken die de beste kans lijken te hebben om bewijs van vroeger leven op de planeet te ontdekken.
“De delta in de Jezero krater is het belangrijkste doel van Perseverance,” zegt plaatsvervangend projectverantwoordelijke doctor Katie Stack Morgan. “Dit zijn de rotsen waarvan we denken dat ze het grootste potentieel hebben om tekenen van oud leven te bevatten. Daarnaast kunnen ze ons ook iets vertellen over het klimaat van Mars en hoe dit zich in de loop van de tijd heeft ontwikkeld,” vertelde Stack aan BBC News.
De rover maakte op 18 februari vorig jaar zijn spectaculaire landing in het midden van de 45 km brede Jezero-krater op Mars. Sindsdien heeft hij zijn instrumenten getest, met een experimentele mini-helikopter gevlogen en een algemene indruk van zijn omgeving gekregen.
Maar het hoofddoel van de robot is altijd geweest om de enorme berg sedimenten in het westen van Jezero te bestuderen. Men vermoedde al lang dat het een delta was, gebaseerd op satellietbeelden, maar de eerste waarnemingen van Perseverance op de grond hebben deze beoordeling nu bevestigd.
Een delta is een structuur van aftakkingen van een rivier voordat die in zee of in een groot meer of woestijn uitmondt. In het geval van Jezero was het waarschijnlijk een kratervormig meer dat miljarden jaren geleden bestond.
Missie in 2030
“De rover heeft een verbazingwekkend instrumentarium dat ons iets kan vertellen over de chemie, mineralogie en structuur van de delta. Dit zal hij doen door de sedimenten tot op de schaal van een zoutkorrel te onderzoeken,” aldus missiewetenschapper professor Briony Horgan van de Purdue Universiteit in Indiana. “We zullen meer te weten komen over de chemie van dit oude meer, of het water zuur of neutraal was, of het een bewoonbare omgeving was en wat voor leven er mogelijk in voorkwam”.
Voor alle duidelijkheid: niemand weet of er ooit leven op Mars is ontstaan. Maar als dat zo is, kunnen de drie of vier gesteenten die de Perseverance op zijn terugweg opboort meer duidelijkheid brengen.
De rover zelf zal naar alle waarschijnlijkheid niet eigenhandig leven kunnen vaststellen volgens de wetenschappers, dus zal hij de opgegraven stenen achter laten op een centrale plek in de krater. In 2030 zal NASA een missie sturen om de stenen naar de aarde te brengen voor verder onderzoek.
Liefst 1.700 nieuwe asteroïden ontdekt op beelden van wel 20 jaar oud
Astronomen hebben meer dan 1.700 nieuwe asteroïden ontdekt. Hoe ze deze gevonden hebben? Door foto’s tot wel twintig jaar oud van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop te (her)bekijken. De nieuwe asteroïden zouden alweer waardevolle aanwijzingen kunnen bevatten over de geschiedenis van ons zonnestelsel.
“Het afval van de ene, kan een schat voor de andere zijn”, aldus hoofdauteur en astronoom Sandor Kruk (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics). Kruk ging immers aan de slag met beelden die al twintig jaar oud waren en deed alsnog een nieuwe ontdekking.
Hoe het komt dat deze asteroïden nu pas ontdekt werden? Er zijn steeds meer telescopen, steeds meer waarnemingen en eveneens steeds meer onontdekte ontdekkingen. “De hoeveelheid gegevens in astronomische archieven neemt exponentieel toe en we wilden deze graag gebruiken”, legt Kruk uit. Vaak kan een nieuw hulpmiddel om gegevens te analyseren daar voor een doorbraak zorgen.
Zo onderzochten Kruk en zijn team maar liefst 37.000 samengestelde beelden van Hubble. Deze beelden werden gemaakt tussen 30 april 2002 en 14 maart 2021. Uiteindelijk ontdekten de astronomen iets wat nooit eerder werd opgemerkt: op de beelden stonden enkele moeilijk te detecteren strepen.
11.482 vrijwilligers
“Door de baan waarin Hubble zich begeeft en de beweging van de telescoop zelf, lijken de strepen gebogen te zijn. Op die manier is het moeilijk om de sporen als asteroïden te classificeren. Althans voor computers.” Dit keer werden er maar liefst 11.482 vrijwilligers ingeschakeld die vervolgens algoritmes hebben aangeleerd om de asteroïden beter te herkennen.
Uiteindelijk werden er maar liefst 1.316 beelden onder de loep genomen waarop 2.487 potentiële asteroïden werden aangeduid. Daarvan zijn er 1.701 daadwerkelijk zodanig geclassificeerd.
Liefst 1.700 nieuwe asteroïden ontdekt op beelden van wel 20 jaar oud
Astronomen hebben meer dan 1.700 nieuwe asteroïden ontdekt. Hoe ze deze gevonden hebben? Door foto’s tot wel twintig jaar oud van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop te (her)bekijken. De nieuwe asteroïden zouden alweer waardevolle aanwijzingen kunnen bevatten over de geschiedenis van ons zonnestelsel.
“Het afval van de ene, kan een schat voor de andere zijn”, aldus hoofdauteur en astronoom Sandor Kruk (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics). Kruk ging immers aan de slag met beelden die al twintig jaar oud waren en deed alsnog een nieuwe ontdekking.
Hoe het komt dat deze asteroïden nu pas ontdekt werden? Er zijn steeds meer telescopen, steeds meer waarnemingen en eveneens steeds meer onontdekte ontdekkingen. “De hoeveelheid gegevens in astronomische archieven neemt exponentieel toe en we wilden deze graag gebruiken”, legt Kruk uit. Vaak kan een nieuw hulpmiddel om gegevens te analyseren daar voor een doorbraak zorgen.
Zo onderzochten Kruk en zijn team maar liefst 37.000 samengestelde beelden van Hubble. Deze beelden werden gemaakt tussen 30 april 2002 en 14 maart 2021. Uiteindelijk ontdekten de astronomen iets wat nooit eerder werd opgemerkt: op de beelden stonden enkele moeilijk te detecteren strepen.
11.482 vrijwilligers
“Door de baan waarin Hubble zich begeeft en de beweging van de telescoop zelf, lijken de strepen gebogen te zijn. Op die manier is het moeilijk om de sporen als asteroïden te classificeren. Althans voor computers.” Dit keer werden er maar liefst 11.482 vrijwilligers ingeschakeld die vervolgens algoritmes hebben aangeleerd om de asteroïden beter te herkennen.
Uiteindelijk werden er maar liefst 1.316 beelden onder de loep genomen waarop 2.487 potentiële asteroïden werden aangeduid. Daarvan zijn er 1.701 daadwerkelijk zodanig geclassificeerd.
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The Lunar Eclipse, Seen From the International Space Station
The Lunar Eclipse, Seen From the International Space Station
If you were able to witness the lunar eclipse on May 15-16, 2022, the view of the dark red Moon was stunning. But what would such an eclipse look like from space?
Wonder no longer. ESA/Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured a series of photos of the lunar eclipse from her unique vantage point aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
ESA posted the photos on Flickr, and Cristoforetti tweeted the images out after the eclipse.
An image of a lunar eclipse as seen from the International Space Station. Credit: ESA-S.Cristoforetti
“A partially eclipsed Moon playing hide-and-seek with our solar panel,” she wrote.
A partially eclipsed Moon playing hide and seek with the solar panel of the International Space Station. Credit: ESA-S.Cristoforetti
Veteran astronaut Cristoforetti has now served on ISS twice. In 2014-2015 she set a record for the longest space mission by a female astronaut, at 200 days, which has since been ‘eclipsed,’ twice. In 2017, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson was on the ISS for 289 days, and then NASA’s Christina Koch (USA) spent 328 days on the space station in 2019-2022.
I Found A Face Looking At Taiwan On Weather Map, May 19, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
I Found A Face Looking At Taiwan On Weather Map, May 19, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 19, 2022
Location of discovery: Taiwan
Hey all I was looking at a weather map for anomalies and found a big one. I found a face, a human-like angelic face looking down at Taiwan as if assuring it that Taiwan is being looked after by angelic beings. Now last month we had 50 confirmed covid cases per day, today we had 90,000 confirmed cases. Also the threat of China taking over Taiwan is a daily threat over here. But the face, has a look of confidence and happiness as if everything is being dealt with by them. Angels or aliens...its clear that they are a far superior species who are very large, but care about little us. Also did you notice how the air is being exhaled out of the nose of the person and spread across Taiwan? A cleansing, to rid us of covid.
A Youtuber Stole A Video And My Words To Call His Own, UFO Sighting News.
A Youtuber Stole A Video And My Words To Call His Own, UFO Sighting News.
OMG this youtuber going by the name UFOvni2012 has been horrible to me for many years. He did it again yesterday. He stole the whole video that was sent to me. Then he stole me text I wrote about it from my blog post here, word for word, as if he wrote it. I make so many discoveries, but this guy not only bought 140,000 subscribers two months ago, but he steals all his material to make money.
Guys this really makes me want to stop all this altogether. I feel like I've been attacked, like I have been assaulted. This is a horrible feeling.
If you could tell him under his video to stop steal from Scott Waring I would appreciate it.
Guys I was looking over this gigipan Mars photo when I noticed that not only was there one doorway in it, but there are more than six doorways all around it, and all about the same hight and width. That simple fact makes this a mountain of proof about a small alien species existing about 6 inches tall. There is also a bull sphinx in the far left of the photo. The bull has wings folded up. There is also a long object which has colors like a coral snake. Very odd day indeed. Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
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UFO hearing: Pentagon Insists That All Further Talks Are Behind Closed Doors (No Public Allowed) UFO Sightings Daily.
UFO hearing: Pentagon Insists That All Further Talks Are Behind Closed Doors (No Public Allowed) UFO Sightings Daily.
As I have said before, no matter how many hearings the public demands of the US gov, the Pentagon will never allow the truth to get into the hands of the public. Watch this video, and she states exactly the same thing I have said a thousand times before to other on this site and in my videos...UFO tech and alien intelligence is a matter of US national security. What I mean is these things can make a tiny nation like Taiwan suddenly become world dominate over all other countries if we in Taiwan had a trade agreement with alines or had crashed UFOs or aliens working with us. Its a huge security risk to military worldwide, but to the normal people...its just a an excuse to avoid telling the truth for a few more decades.
Five Glowing Lights Over Norman, Oklahoma May 12, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Five Glowing Lights Over Norman, Oklahoma May 12, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 12, 2022
Location of sighting: Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Email report
Guys, this is awesome! This raw footage just came and and it shows five glowing objects passing over an eyewitnesses yard. He said the objects move away and then suddenly disappear in the distance. These objects are allowing him to see them. The UFOs want to be seen! They are very close to the power lines and may be trying to tap into our communication networks to learn more about humanity.
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Eyewitness states:
My wife and I saw an orange in color object flying from the south and disappeared as it traveled north. I have four different videos of four different objects. I was not able to get the first one on video since I did not have my phone. We chalked it up to a shooting star until another one appreard follow by three more objects. It made not sound at all.
James Webb telescope captured a ring shaped object in the large Magellanic Cloud
James Webb telescope captured a ring shaped object in the large Magellanic Cloud
Here in this video we have compared Webb's image with an similar image of Hubble telescope.
Images captured by Webb telescope shows most distant stars and galaxies in the large Magellanic Cloud. In the image below we can see a ring shaped object in the stars forming region of large Magellanic Cloud.
Previously one such object was seen by the Hubble Telescope and when zooming into a rich star-birth region of the large Magellanic Cloud, we can see in the image below a similar ring shaped object which is the remnant of a supernova named Supernova 1987A captured by Hubble.
May be the ring shaped object seen in the Webb's image would be something else.
Extraterrestrial discoveries were scarce at a US Congress briefing on UFOs
Extraterrestrial discoveries were scarce at a US Congress briefing on UFOs
Scott Bray, deputy director of Navy intelligence plays a video of a UFO
On Tuesday, the Congress from the US had its first open meeting regarding UFOs after about 50 years, but those who were looking for answers to the frequent sightings from the military of strange objects were disappointed because the defense officials opted to reserve their most juicy material for closed-door sessions.
The leak of 2 new recordings depicting unusual aircraft phenomena was the highlight of the 90-minute briefing in Washington, though one of those recordings was quickly discredited by, the deputy director of navy intelligence, Scott Bray.
The meeting (the previous similar meeting was held back in 1966) comes on the heels of a banner time for UFO believers. The US intelligence issued a seminal study in 2021, that discovered 144 instances of unusual airborne phenomena, just one of those can be clarified.
The story came after US naval pilots openly discussed the encounters, they had with UAPs when one lieutenant, who was now retired, was claiming to have seen unidentified objects every single day for a couple of years above the east coast’s sky.
Bray attempted to explain the government’s probe of UAPs on that Tuesday, following criticism that the Pentagon isn’t treating the matter with enough seriousness, but he also provided the members of an intelligence subcommittee videos of aerial objects.
On one of those videos, shot during the day, there was an object flying by a military plane. The object’s brief presence — it flashed on the screen for a split of a second – confirmed the difficulties in obtaining information on some UAPs, according to Bray.
Another video shot at night from a military jet in 2019, shows triangular forms hovering in the sky. Bray then showed another video displaying the same phenomenon, but with a more conventional explanation that those objects were actually drones, with a triangular shape and otherworldly in motion due to a flaw in the way video was acquired using equipment for night-vision.
The refutation did nothing to dispel claims – including one imposed by committee head Andre Carson – that the Pentagon is uninterested in examining the unexplainable.
Carson, a Democrat from Indiana said that one of Congress’s worries is that the administration, the executive branch, and the two parties have swept fears about UAPs under the brush by concentrating on occurrences that can be clarified and disregarding those that cannot.
He asked Congress what will they say to reassure the US people that they are not just focused on matters that are not complicated and have simple explanations. Although the Pentagon has created a UAP unit – the bureaucratically named Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group – explore in this sector is yet far from a high priority.
Bray said that the intelligence community simply had to be less open with information at times, and added that they don’t want probable enemies to know precisely what they are able to observe or comprehend or how we get to that conclusion.
The response displayed an arrogance that has irritated for long time those wanting greater transparency – and has sparked a slew of conspiracy theories concerning what the administration may be covering.
Once asked if the Pentagon had any underwater sensors to spot on submerged UAPs – whatever that is in the seas or the oceans, Bray and Ronald Moultrie, the military undersecretary for intelligence and security, showed that resistance to sharing mentioned above.
Moultrie believes it would be better handled in a secret session.
UAP videos shown during 2022 UFO hearing
Although new info remained annoyingly rare, Bray disclosed that the intelligence community has noticed an increase in the number of unregistered and/or unidentifiable aircraft or objects, which he attributes to the de-stigmatization of military encounter reporting and the usage of new systems for detection.
The assessment from 2021 recognized observations of UAPs that seemed to remain motionless in winds above, move counter to the wind, do sudden maneuvers, or travel at high speed, without obvious methods of propulsion, and Bray ruled out a foreign enemy with such technology on that same Tuesday.
Several politicians have publicly voiced displeasure with the novel UAP office’s progress – which has yet to name a director just under a month after its formation — with Kirsten Gillibrand’s assistance. The US senator in NY, told Politico back in May that senator Gillibrand trusts that the department of defense must take this subject a lot more seriousness and get it moving.
The discontent contrasts sharply with the euphoria that greeted the government’s report in 2021. At the period, amateur UAP associations thought that the Pentagon may be more willing to provide its own information and more eager to evaluate amateur investigators’ films and photographs.
However, Moultrie had made it obvious that this would not be the case after he stated that certain people are putting out material that may be regarded as rather egotistic.
As the session came to a conclusion, Carson told his Republican and Democratic colleagues that the issue of UAPs and UFOs is an occasion when they can display some level of cooperation.
For the audience, it was evident that the meeting had created more queries and fury rather than answers. Humans are still far from discovering whether extraterrestrial life exists.
“The hearing was essentially a pleasant chat about how awesome AIMSOG will be one day,” tweeted Alejandro Rojas, a researcher at Enigma Labs, an analytics and community platform for UFOs, and a board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. The public got some answers, but Rojas is not as confident in AIMSOG now as he was before that meeting happened.
'Time traveller' warns new creatures will emerge when ground opens and millions vanish
'Time traveller' warns new creatures will emerge when ground opens and millions vanish
A new species called 'stalkers' will supposedly be discovered this year as a so-called time traveller has warned the ground will split open in the US and millions of people around the world will vanish
A TikToker who claims to have 'leaked' information from a self-proclaimed time traveller has issued a chilling warning for apocalyptic events that are set to begin this summer.
Kawhi Leonard, also known as 'thehiddengod1', claims in his video taht the ground across the US will split just months before a deadly new species are discovered and millions of people are declared missing.
The terrifying prophecies are said to take place on specific dates between July and October, which TikTok users have been urged to remember.
The clip, which has received over 450,000 likes said: "WARNING: A leaked document from a time traveller has warned us to remember these dates for 2022.
"July 14th 2022 - 'The great split' America's biggest earthquake.
"August 9th 2022 - Over 2 million people around the world mysteriously disappear.
"October 3rd 2022 - Creatures known as stalkers will appear around the globe."
It is unclear whether the spine-chilling warnings are linked but some of Leonard's fans wasted no time, leaving prayers of hope for the future of humanity in the comments.
One wrote: "Only Allah knows what will happen please protect us."
Another commented: "The comment section is now a church."
"God will make sure we're safe," a third replied.
Millions of people will go missing in August, according to the claims(Image: richardtilsed / TikTok)
However, other TikTok users didn't seem convinced as they claimed the user had been watching Marvel's Infinity War too much and others said they would only believe it if it was seen on an episode of The Simpsons.
One user said: "Me not believing it. *Writes it down just in case*."
Another wrote: "Bro after watching infinity war."
A third added: "The Simpsons will tell us."
The news comes after another so-called time traveller "from the year 2236" told their followers a dead celebrity who "faked his death" is going to return in September 2022.
The new creatures will be 'called stalkers', the supposed prophecies state(Image: richardtilsed / TikTok)
In the clip, watched more than 14 million times since it was uploaded on March 10, the person claims they are going to "prove" their powers with another prediction.
They write: "Some people don't believe I'm a real-time traveller so here are some pretty big events that will happen in 2022."
The TikToker made several claims but added that on "September 16th a very popular musician will come out and admit he faked his own death".
Navy pilot who witnessed infamous declassified 'UFO' sighting said the Tic Tac-shaped phenomena committed an 'act of war' by jamming their radars when they tried to track it
Navy pilot who witnessed infamous declassified 'UFO' sighting said the Tic Tac-shaped phenomena committed an 'act of war' by jamming their radars when they tried to track it
Former US Navy pilot Commander David Fravor along with three others reported a potential UFO sighting off the coast of California in 2004
They saw a Tic Tac-shaped object flying in the sky, hurtle down to hover over the Pacific ocean then zoom back into the sky
He along with others were sent out to track the object, but when they neared it it accelerated and disappeared in 'less than a second'
Fravor said the object committed an 'act of war' by jamming Navy radars when they tried to track the object
A former US Navy pilot is opening up about his infamous alleged ufosighting off the coast of Californiain 2004.
Commander David Fravor said he witnessed a Tic Tac-shaped object in the sky in November 10, 2004 performing extraordinary aerial maneuvers that he said no modern human technology was capable of.
'This is not like we saw it and it was gone or I saw lights in the sky and it's gone – we watched this thing on a crystal clear day with four trained observers,' Fravor said in a sit-down interview with Russian-American YouTuber and MIT researcher Lex Fridman on September 8.
He said the phenomena committed an 'act of war' by jamming the military's radar when they tried to trace it.
Former US Navy pilot Commander David Fravor along with three others reported a potential UFO sighting off the coast of California in 2004. He said on the sighting: 'I don't like to get into little green men but I don't think we've developed it ... I think you can hide things for a while. This is a giant leap in technology'
Video of what the Navy was able to trace of the object was leaked in 2017 and the case was declassified by the Pentagon earlier this year
Electronic jamming is a form of electronic warfare and is illegal in all 50 states. While it’s not always considered an act of war, it is interpreted as hostile.
Video of what the Navy was able to trace of the object was leaked in 2017 and the case was declassified by the Pentagon earlier this year.
Fravor and others were conducting a routine training mission when the radio operator asked them to check out a mysterious aircraft they had been tracking for two weeks.
The operator said the object would suddenly appear at 80,000 feet, hurtle toward the sea, hover at about 20,000 feet, then shoot back up into the sky.
Fravor and Commander Jim Slaight and two others were sent out in fighter jets to observe the shape.
'We see this little white Tic Tac because we’re about 20 feet above it and its going north, south, north, south, and it's abrupt,' he said.
He explained that it didn’t move like helicopters or other aircraft he was familiar with.
The operator said the object would suddenly appear at 80,000 feet, hurtle towards the sea, hover at about 20,000 feet, then shoot back up into the sky
'By this time we’re driving around and we’re just watching this thing and I go, "hey I’m gonna check it out,"' Fravor recalled.
'It’s aware of us and it goes bloop and start coming up, so it knows that we’re there. This is like five minutes,' he added.
'I’m going to meet it and I’m probably a half mile away and it’s coming across my nose …and it just accelerates and disappears at about 12,000 feet in less than a half second and it’s gone,' Fravor said.
'I remember telling the guy in my back sat, "Dude, I dunno about you but I’m pretty weirded out,"' he said in the interview.
Fravor said he and the other jets went down towards the water to see what the object was potentially hovering around as they noticed white water when the object was over it, but it was 'clear blue' when they reached it.
Fravor said the object committed an 'act of war' by jamming Navy radars when they tried to track the object. The 18-year Navy pilot pictured above
After landing Fravor mentioned the UFO to colleague Chad Underwood who successfully located the unidentified object to get video on his radar. But when he attempted to trace the shape, the flying object jammed the radar.
'When he first sees [the object] he gets an energy lock on it. When he goes to lock it up, now he’s putting a bunch of energy on it. He’s telling the radar, "Stare down the line of sight, whatever is there I want you to grab it and build a trace file on it," which will tell you where it is, how fast it is and the direction that it’s going,' Fravor said.
'The radar is smart enough that when the signal comes back if it's been messed with, it will tell you - it will give you indications that it's being jammed .... It's being jammed into about every mode you can see ... You can tell it's being jammed.
'When you actively jam another platform, yes it’s technically an act of war,' he added.
When asked if he believes that Tic Tac shape could've been from another planet, Fravor said it could be possible.
'I don't like to get into little green men but I don't think we've developed it ... I think you can hide things for a while. This is a giant leap in technology,' he said.
In 2004, Navy personnel off the coast of Southern California became witnesses to an incident involving an aircraft of unknown origins operating during peacetime within U.S. airspace. The incident, which involved Carrier Strike Group 11 in service with the USS Nimitz, has since managed to play a significant role in reinvigorating the modern UFO debate.
However, the famous Nimitz incident appears not to have been the only UFO incident involving Navy personnel during the late months of 2004. New information has come to light that involves the testimony of several Navy personnel aboard the USS Ronald Reagan who similarly tell of an encounter with the uncanny that occurred the same year.
According to filmmaker Dave Beaty, who tracked down and interviewed several witnesses to the events in question, the story first surfaced in a blog post by one of the crewmembers aboard the Reagan at the time of the incident.
“I got a message from another researcher named Keith Basterfield, and he had come across this article that someone wrote. And it turned out to be one of the witnesses that has his own website, and he was writing about the USS Ronald Reagan sighting that he had.”
Beaty says the man, Karol Olesiak, now retired from the Navy, has become a poet and peace activist. However, Olesiak tells a remarkable story of seeing a strange object following the Reagan for a period of time one evening in late 2004 while sailing off the east coast of the United States.
According to Olesiak, “I saw an orange orb as big as a jet fighter keeping speed with us flawlessly as if it wasn’t moving at all.” He says he remembers the object remaining throughout the duration of his watch on the night in question, “which was four hours.”
“I wasn’t freaking out because the Officer of the Deck wasn’t freaking out,” Olesiak wrote at his blog. “Why general quarters wasn’t called I don’t know.
Olesiak also describes that “The calm on the bridge was uncanny,” and that conditions at the time of the incident seemed as if most of the Navy personnel aboard the Reagan had been aware, but essentially chose to ignore the object and simply go about their duties.
According to Olesiak and other witnesses who have since come forward, the object appeared to be a large, orange orb of light, although some descriptions describe the surface or other aspects of its appearance with minor variances.
But why come forward with such a story almost two decades after it occurred? For Olesiak, it had been because of the recent release of videos and testimony “of various UAP encounters coming out dubiously during a pandemic,” along with the fact that “my shipmates have wanted me to write about this,” but that Olesiak had worried about ridicule.
“I just didn’t see the good in making myself ridiculous,” Olesiak wrote, adding that what he and others saw “looks nothing like the things being recorded by pilots on gun cameras,” referring to three now-famous U.S. Navy videos depicting unidentified objects. One of these videos, filmed by pilot Chad Underwood and depicting the now-famous “Tic Tac” seen during the USS Nimitz incident, occurred just months before Olesiak and his shipmates had their encounter.
For Olesiak, reflecting on the strange incident after all these years raises more questions than it does answers, and even causes him to wonder about how things like this could relate to reality itself.
“Coming back to this incident 15 years later,” Olesiak wrote in his original post detailing the encounter, “I think it speaks more to the nature of reality than alien life visiting to bring us gifts.”
“Nick Bostrom’s assertion that we might be living in a simulated universe holds more credence when you experience something like this,” Olesiak adds.
Olesiak’s encounter became the focus of an investigative effort by filmmaker Dave Beaty, which he has recently brought attention to in a feature article with detailed accounts provided by several witnesses and video interviews with some of the main participants.
“The USS Ronald Reagan encounter of 2004 is both profound, and also perplexing,” Beaty says. “UAP cases are often criticized based on the lack of physical evidence, and this case is no exception.”
However, Beaty also sees the USS Ronald Reagan incident as slightly different from other high-profile military UFO encounters being discussed today.
“What sets this encounter apart, however, is the sheer number–and quality–of the witnesses. Among their qualifications, most had received training as lookouts to spot known aircraft.”
Speaking with Beaty recently, he said that the new revelations about another case which, by now, is almost two decades old, only shows how often these multiple witness encounters really take place. And in the future, he hopes more of them come to light.
“I’m really looking forward to what happens in the future with this topic,” Beaty says.
Long UFO Observing Nasa Rover May 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Long UFO Observing Nasa Rover May 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighitng: May 2022
Location of sighting: Mars
Now this is a head scratcher. This long arm like UFO was seen in the most recent Mars rover photos. I opened an email and someone had found this unique craft. At first I mistakenly thought it might be the rover drone, but on closer inspection I realized it was nothing like it. Similar long arm UFOs have been seen around the world, one was even said have been seen by Buzz Aldrin himself who said he saw a long white arm like object flying past him in space. 100% proof that UFOs are watching the Mars rover.
Five White Orbs Over Bronx, New York May 10, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Five White Orbs Over Bronx, New York May 10, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 10, 2022
Location of sighting: Bronx, New York, USA
Email report: scwaring@yahoo.com
Hey this raw footage is mind blowing. An eyewitness on May 10th caught sight of five glowing orbs for a few minutes and sent in some footage to me today. These objects are visible for a little bit, but then fade off and disappear at different times. For a sighting like this to happen I would think a lot more videos of this would be appearing on the Internet, but this seems to be the first of them. Hopefully, more will follow. There are 1.47 million people living in the Bronx, so there has to be more footage on the way. If so, then this is 100% proof that aliens are trying to wake the world up to their existence.
Hey guys, I like to search over Mars photos and this is one of the most recent ones that came out just a few days ago. This Mars rover photo has an object which is a sculpture of a face. Archeologists in Egypt live to find a sculpture of a face, because it tells them what that person looked like, who they were, the status of the individual in the society and so much more. This face here also tells me a lot. The face is that of a reptilian. The reptilian more closely resembles the face of a frog than a lizard. Most people assume reptilian species will always be lizard-like, but this is proof that other reptilian species exist too.
I have a masters degree in counseling education, I understand that many people try to claim seeing a face is pareidolia. I have to say that the CIA has been spreading that word for decades to try to hide the truth from the public. Also the word pareidolia allows a person to feel secure, like a blanket to hold onto. This is not imagination, it is solid fact. If you can't believe your own eyes, then you can't believe yourself...due to lack of self confidence.
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Navy 2021 Flyby UAP Video - Officially Released by the DoD 5/17/2022
Navy 2021 Flyby UAP Video - Officially Released by the DoD 5/17/2022
In a an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee on May 17, 2022, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared this video of a US. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object (UAP) in a fleeting pass.
This video, captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet, demonstrates the typical speed at which military aircraft may approach an unknown object.
Furthermore, for those interested in Congress' big hearing on UFOs regarding the open portion of the hearing, see the video link below, which by the way is not interesting at all, since the real deal on the UFO/UAP phenomenon is kept secret from the public as the subcommittee will hold a closed, classified briefing on this issue.
On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman André Carson (D-Ind.) will hold an open hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena.
Video link - Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Daytime UFO filmed over Maiden, North Carolina 14-May-2022
Daytime UFO filmed over Maiden, North Carolina 14-May-2022
This strange UFO or some kind of an orb was filmed hovering in the daytime sky above Maiden in North Carolina on 14th May 2022.
Witness report:
This object was very distant, but it seemed to hover and shapeshift. I thought a weather balloon at first until I noticed the morphing activity. Zoom in on the videos.
Long UFO Over Venice Beach Florida, May 7, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Long UFO Over Venice Beach Florida, May 7, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 7, 2022
Location of sighting: Venice Beach, Florida, USA
Email Report
Now I use to work on B1 Lancer Bombers, B-1 and KC-135s back in the Air Force, I know I've been out of the military for 25 years, but I have never seen such a craft as this one here. This is in the same location where Dr Steven Greer saw several glowing orange UFOs over the ocean about 5 years ago. Strange also, a military plane passed incredibly close to this craft, and as it did, the UFO moved into a small cloud for cover. Absolute fantastic catch. 100% proof that aliens are over Florida.
Congress will hold its first public UFO hearing in 50 YEARS today: Two top intelligence officials will testify on 'unidentified aerial phenomena' and their potential national security risks
Congress will hold its first public UFO hearing in 50 YEARS today: Two top intelligence officials will testify on 'unidentified aerial phenomena' and their potential national security risks
On May 17 at 10 a.m., a House subcommittee will hear from two top defense officials on reports of 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
Last June, Congress requested a report on 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' and DNI offered an assessment focusing on 144 incidents dating back to 2004
The report said data was 'largely inconclusive' but most of the incidents definitely involved 'physical objects'
In 18 of the incidents, spotters 'reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics'
A House subcommittee is prepping to hold its first hearing open to the public on UFOs in more than 50 years on Tuesday, with two top intelligence officials set to testify.
On Tuesday at 9 a.m. the House Intelligence Committee's Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee will delve into details on reports of 'unidentified aerial phenomena.' Such high-level conversations have for the past half century been reserved for closed-door meetings among high-ranking military officials.
'The American people expect and deserve their leaders in government and intelligence to seriously evaluate and respond to any potential national security risks — especially those we do not fully understand,' the panel chair, Rep. André Carson, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ronald Moultrie, the Pentagon's top intelligence official, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence, will testify before the panel.
Last June, Congress requested a report on 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' another term for UFO, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) offered a preliminary assessment focusing on 144 incidents dating back to 2004. DNI was only able to explain one.
The report said data was 'largely inconclusive' but most of the incidents definitely involved 'physical objects.' Many of the sightings were reported by military pilots.
'The American people expect and deserve their leaders in government and intelligence to seriously evaluate and respond to any potential national security risks — especially those we do not fully understand,' the panel chair, Rep. André Carson, said in a statement
In 18 of the incidents, spotters 'reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics,' including objects that seemed to be flying 'without discernible means of propulsion.'
'Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion,' the report said. 'In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency energy associated with UAP sightings.'
After the woefully insufficient report, the Pentagon created a new office to study such incidents - the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG).
While such unidentified objects could be foreign military aircraft or possibly secret domestic aircraft, today's hearing suggests that the phenomena has become so big that U.S. defense officials can no longer keep it from the public.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby, asked about the hearing last week, said: 'We are absolutely committed to being as transparent as we can with the American people and with members of Congress about our perspectives on this and what we're going to try to do to make sure we have a better process for identifying these phenomena, analyzing that information in a more proactive, coordinated way than it's been done in the past, and that we also are doing what we need to do to mitigate any safety issues as many of these phenomena have been sighted in training ranges and in training environments.'
Asked if there was any concern the UAPs could be foreign adversaries, he said: 'We don't have a view on that,' but added that the Pentagon was working to form a more organized reporting system.
'It's been sort of ad hoc in the past, in terms of a pilot here and a pilot there seeing something and the reporting procedures haven't been consistent,' he added.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said the purpose of the hearing was to shed light on 'one of the great mysteries of our time and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency.'
This file video grab image obtained April 28, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with 'unidentified aerial phenomena'.
In 2017, Lue Elizondo, a senior staffer at the Pentagon, rose to fame after he helped leak to the New York Times extraordinary videos from US fighter jets of tic tac-shaped UFOs moving with incredible speed and agility near aircraft carriers off the East and West coasts in 2004 and 2015
The last time Congress had such a hearing was in 1970, when the Air Force closed down Project Blue Book, a public investigation into UFOs spearheaded by then-House Republican minority leader Gerald Ford.
In 2017, Lue Elizondo, a senior staffer at the Pentagon, rose to fame after he helped leak to the New York Times extraordinary videos from US fighter jets of tic tac-shaped UFOs moving with incredible speed and agility near aircraft carriers off the East and West coasts in 2004 and 2015.
Elizondo ran a secret government UFO monitoring program in Reid's department until 2017, but left the $22million government program after what he has termed excessive secrecy and internal opposition to the project.
Elizondo, a former UFO secret program chief in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD), has said he quit the Pentagon and helped leak the 'tic tac' videos because his military bosses refused to acknowledge his severe security concerns over these powerful 'craft' violating US airspace.
Elizondo said last June when the report detailing 144 incidents was released to Congress that it was just the tip of the iceberg, that it was important to consider all possibilities, including extraterrestrial or trans-dimensional origin.
'This is something that could involve outer space, interspace, or the space in between, and that's why we've always said keep all options on the table,' he said on Fox News last June.
'The more we learn about this remarkable universe we live in, the more we realize our current understanding of the construct of the cosmos is constantly changing and evolving with new information and new knowledge that we get,' added Elizondo.
'People jump to speculation that it's from the Pleiades or something like that, when in fact one of the hypothesis when I was in AATIP was this could be as natural to Earth as we are, but we are just at a point where technologically we aren't advanced enough we can collect information on it and begin to try to figure out what it is,' he said.
'There's been another hypothesis that these things are possibly from underwater and as outlandish as it may seem, there is some anecdotal evidence that supports all of these observations, so what we want to do is try to get as much data on the table as we can before we start eliminating,' said Elizondo.
The truth could be revealed at Congress' first public hearing on UFOs in 54 years
The truth could be revealed at Congress' first public hearing on UFOs in 54 years
Concerns that UFOs have never-before-seen capabilities that can outmaneuver and outperform the US's most advanced military technology prompted Congress to call a historic UFO hearing, reports TheSun.
The House Intelligence Subcommittee will host the first congressional hearings on UFOs in more than 50 years Tuesday., May 17, 2022, Chaired by Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), the hearing will include testimony from top U.S. intelligence and defense officials and follows last year's key government report on unidentified aerial phenomena.
Jeremy Corbell says Tuesday's congressional hearing on UFOs could confirm decades-old theories on mysterious sightings.
Ben Hansen, host of "UFO Witness" on Discovery + and UFO expert Nick Pope believe the US government knows more than it is letting on, and the truth could be revealed at Tuesday's congressional hearing.
A man who was a Navy Astronaut and the Sixth Man on the Moon suspected extraterrestrial intervention.
A man who was a Navy Astronaut and the Sixth Man on the Moon suspected extraterrestrial intervention.
There are just 12 individuals who had the privilege to see how the Earth looks right from the moon’s surface. However, just one of those individuals has stated that aliens prevented a war that would employ nuclear weapons between the Soviet Union and the US in order to protect mankind from extinguishing themselves.
Edgar Mitchell is most remembered for punching in a code that had 80 lines during the Apollo 14 mission’s descent to the moon in the year 1971. He further claimed that high military authorities had suppressed evidence of unidentified flying objects, presumably alien spaceships, which were especially fond of flying above New Mexico’s White Sands Testing Range. Living in New Mexico had offered him a distinct perspective on the state.
The alien beings were interested in White Sands because it was the area where atomic bombs were being tested. They were curious about American military capabilities. Speaking with individuals has revealed to him that ETs have been trying to keep mankind from starting a war and to assist build peace on our planet.
Mitchell has further informed the Mirror that other soldiers had told him that extraterrestrial spacecraft had disabled nuclear missiles and took them down over the Pacific Coast.
Just 2 years after landing on the moon, he unexpectedly quit NASA, divorced his wife, and created the Institute for Noetic Sciences, he began openly discussing his less popular ideas. He utilized it as a platform to talk about discovering new worlds in ways that aren’t related to recognized science or religion. He grew persuaded that alien life had visited Earth and was assisting mankind is moving toward a more spiritual path.
Mitchelle developed his metaphysical and alien views while training as a pilot, although he wasn’t recognized as a weirdo or for making outlandish claims. He was among the most capable and smart pilots in the United States military. NASA would notice this potential as well, providing Mitchell with the opportunity to realize a dream he’d had since President John F. Kennedy asked the US to put a man on the moon.
Mitchell was set to launch when Kennedy revealed the Space Program’s aim of reaching the moon in 1961.
He stated that it was what he always desired. He’d been committed to this adventure, knowledge, and discovery since his childhood, and it’s what motivates him throughout life.
The United States Navy was where Mitchell spent most of his adult life. Before the Navy’s postgraduate school, he was a Naval Aviator. He went on to become a Navy research pilot before earning a Ph.D. in astronautics and aeronautics. He eventually enrolled in the US Air Force Research Pilot School to be a test pilot. He was educating astronauts in mathematics and navigation while striving to finish first in his class as a test pilot.
He became an astronaut at NASA in 1966, barely 13 years after enrolling. Mitchell was scheduled to fly on Apollo’s missions 9 and 10, as well as the ill-fated Apollo 13. But it wasn’t until Apollo 14 that Edgar Mitchell touched foot on the moon’s surface.
He finally got a chance to soak in the scenery as he returned to Earth. Seeing Earth from the outside transformed his perspective on himself and humanity. He described it as a “strong… overall impact” in an interview with VICE back in 2016.
Looking at Earth from orbit, he says, one wonders, “Who are we, how did we get here, and where are we going?” And that is an old, old question that people have been asking for a long time. His experience taught him that our science may be incorrect in resolving these concerns and that our religious cosmologies may be antiquated and erroneous. And now since we are an alien civilization, we must re-ask these questions and put forth a lot more effort to find solutions.
The former sailor who became the sixth human to set foot on the moon died at the age of 85, in 2016.
Astronomers Find a Star That Contains 65 Different Elements
Astronomers Find a Star That Contains 65 Different Elements
Have you ever held a chunk of gold in your hand? Not a little piece of jewelry, but an ounce or more? If you have, you can almost immediately understand what drives humans to want to possess it and know where it comes from.
We know that gold comes from stars. All stars are comprised primarily of hydrogen and helium. But they contain other elements, which astrophysicists refer to as a star’s metallicity. Our Sun has a high metallicity and contains 67 different elements, including about 2.5 trillion tons of gold.
Now astronomers have found a distant star that contains 65 elements, the most ever detected in another star. Gold is among them.
There’s a fairly bright star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way named HD 222925. It’s close to the southern sky’s Tucana (Toucan) constellation. Astronomers are calling it the “gold standard” star because it’s their best opportunity to study how stars create some of the heavy elements in the Universe. That process is called the r-process, or rapid neutron capture process.
HD 222295 is an r-process enhanced but metal-poor star. It has high metallicity, meaning it contains many elements other than hydrogen and helium, but not much of those elements by mass. It’s not the first one discovered. That distinction belongs to CS 22892–052, also known as Sneden’s star, after the scientist who first identified 53 chemical elements in it. But HD 222295 is much brighter in UV than Sneden’s star, making it much easier to observe spectroscopically. That’s how the researchers were able to identify 65 different elements.
“To the best of my knowledge, that’s a record for any object beyond our Solar System. And what makes this star so unique is that it has a very high relative proportion of the elements listed along the bottom two-thirds of the periodic table. We even detected gold,” Roederer said in a press release. “These elements were made by the rapid neutron capture process. That’s really the thing we’re trying to study: the physics in understanding how, where and when those elements were made.”
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Astronomers detected 65 different chemical elements in the star, the most detected in a star other than the Sun, containing 67 different elements. Image Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
There are two types of neutron capture: the slow neutron capture process, or s-process, and the r-process. The s-process is reasonably well-understood, but scientists still have significant questions about the r-process. Astrophysicists have a good theoretical understanding of the r-process, but it wasn’t observed directly until 2019 when observers saw strontium in the wreckage of a kilonova explosion.
Rapid neutron capture allows an atomic nucleus to capture neutrons quicker than the neutrons can decay, creating heavy elements. The r-process begins with elements lighter than iron. In an environment with lots of neutrons and lots of energy, these lighter elements can capture neutrons since they’re neutral and have no charge. When an atom captures a neutron, it emits an electron, converting the neutron into another proton. That raises the atomic number, and the lighter element becomes a heavier element.
These heavier elements—including precious gold—are rarely detected in stars because the astrophysical sites that foster the r-process are rare. “You need lots of neutrons that are free and a very high energy set of conditions to liberate them and add them to the nuclei of atoms,” Roederer said. “There aren’t very many environments in which that can happen—two, maybe.”
This rarity makes the r-process challenging to study, and also what makes the heavier elements, like gold, rare. It’s what makes HD 222295 the gold standard.
This periodic table from the study shows the elements examined in HD 222925. Elements with no long-lived isotopes are indicated using a light gray font. Helium was previously detected in near-infrared spectra. Image Credit: Roederer et al. 2022.
Neutron star mergers and the resulting kilonova explosions are one of the environments that foster the r-process. Supernovae explosions of massive stars are the other. Nailing down the astrophysical environments that allow the r-process is critical in understanding the r-process. Now astrophysicists want to study the process in more detail.
“That’s an important step forward: recognizing where the r-process can occur. But it’s a much bigger step to say, ‘What did that event actually do? What was produced there?’” Roederer said. “That’s where our study comes in.”
HD 222295 didn’t produce the heavy elements it contains. They were produced earlier in the Universe and then spread into space by either supernovae or kilonovae. Then they were taken up in another generation of star formation, in this case by HD 222295.
“We now know the detailed element-by-element output of some r-process event that happened early in the universe,” said study co-author Anna Frebel. Frebel is a physics professor at MIT. “Any model that tries to understand what’s going on with the r-process has to be able to reproduce that,” she said.
Scientists know that the r-process is one of the main ways stars and their remnants produce heavier elements with atomic numbers greater than 30. Recent observations confirmed that the r-process occurs in neutron star mergers and the resulting kilonova explosions. But there are still some open questions that have persisted for a long time, like which elements it produces and in what abundances?
In 2019, European researchers found signatures of strontium formed in a neutron-star merger. This artist’s impression shows two tiny but dense neutron stars when they merge and explode as a kilonova. In the foreground, we see a representation of freshly created strontium. Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
Those questions led to the creation of the R-Process Alliance, a group of scientists trying to find answers. Some of the authors of this new study are members of the Alliance. This is the second paper published by members of the Alliance that focuses on HD 222295. The researchers think that HD 222295 is one of a group of stars that formed in an environment enriched by the r-process. The star’s metallicity is higher than most known stars enriched by the r-process. That suggests that multiple supernovae enriched it. HD 222295 likely didn’t form as part of the Milky Way but was captured by our galaxy at some point in the past.
“HD 222925 exhibits no remarkable characteristics in its chemical abundance pattern, other than the overall enhancement of r-process elements,” the authors write. “Thus, it may be considered as reflecting the yields of the dominant r-process source(s) in the early universe.”
Now that astrophysicists have identified a bright star containing elements from the r-process, it can act as a proxy for what supernovae and kilonovae produce. As researchers create models of the r-process inside these events that creates the heavy elements, those models must have the same signature as HD 222295. Hence, it’s the gold standard.
Gold has always held a certain mystique for humanity. It’s unique among the elements and made regular appearances in the world’s myths. In ancient Greece, the Gods dressed in gold and golden apples conferred mortality on those who ate them if they could get past the dragon that guarded them. In Hindu mythology, gold is the source of power and can transmit divine consciousness. It’s also the soul of the world itself.
The ancients treasured gold, but they couldn’t have guessed at its origins. These are images of King Tut’s mask (l) and his inner coffin (r). The inner coffin is solid gold and weighs almost 243 pounds. Image Credits: Mask: By Roland Unger – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48168958. Inner Coffin: Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Those beliefs are wiped away now, lost to time. But the science that replaces them is even more fascinating. The ancients could never have imagined that their myths would be replaced by science and that stars could explode and create gold and other elements. They could never have envisioned gigantic mountain-top telescopes that peer vast distances into space. They could never have imagined that we could cut up a star’s light and determine that the star holds gold.
And they could never have guessed that our own Sun contains 2.5 trillion tons of gold.
Scouring Through old Hubble Images Turned up 1,000 new Asteroids
Scouring Through old Hubble Images Turned up 1,000 new Asteroids
Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the asteroids are previously known, more than 1,000 are not. What good are another 1,000 asteroids? Like all asteroids, they could hold valuable clues to the Solar System’s history.
As time passes and more and more telescopes perform more and more observations, their combined archival data keeps growing. Sometimes discoveries lurk in that data that await new analytical tools or renewed efforts from scientists before they’re revealed. That’s what happened in an effort called the Hubble Asteroid Hunter.
In 2019 a group of astronomers launched the Hubble Asteroid Hunter. It’s a citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform. Their goal was to comb through Hubble data to find new asteroids.
“The amount of data in astronomy archives increases exponentially and we wanted to make use of this amazing data.”
Sandor Kruk, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.
“One astronomer’s trash can be another astronomer’s treasure,” Kruk said in a press release. The data they searched for was largely discarded from other observational efforts not focused on asteroids. In many cases, the data would have appeared as “noise” and was removed to make different elements stand out. But all of this secondary, unexamined data is still archived and available. “The amount of data in astronomy archives increases exponentially, and we wanted to make use of this amazing data,” said Kruk.
The project examined more than 37,000 composite Hubble images. They were taken between 30 April 2002 and 14 March 2021 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Most images are 30-minute long exposures, so asteroid trails appear as curved streaks.
In this Hubble observation taken on 5 December 2005, the Main Belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passes in front of the Crab Nebula. Image Credit: NASA/ESA HST, Image processing: Melina Thévenot.
The streaks go to the heart of the problem: computers struggle to detect them. That’s where the Zooniverse platform and citizen scientists come in.
“Due to the orbit and motion of Hubble itself, the streaks appear curved in the images, which makes it difficult to classify asteroid trails – or rather it is difficult to tell a computer how to automatically detect them,” explained Sandor Kruk. “Therefore, we needed volunteers to do an initial classification, which we then used to train a machine-learning algorithm.”
The volunteers delivered. 11,482 citizen scientists took part in classifying the images. The Hubble Asteroid Hunter page at Zooniverse had over 2 million clicks, and the volunteers provided 1488 positive classifications in about 1 % of the images.
This image shows the Hubble Asteroid Hunter interface as used on Zooniverse. Citizen Scientists were asked to mark the beginning and end of asteroid trails in Hubble images. Image Credit: Zooniverse/Hubble Asteroid Hunter.
The work of the citizens who took part trained a machine-learning algorithm to search the rest of the images quickly and accurately. The algorithm exists in the Google Cloud, and once it was trained, it contributed another 900 detections for a total of 2487 potential asteroid trails in the Hubble data.
Then the professional scientists played their role. Three of the paper’s authors, including lead author Sandor Kruk, went over the results. They excluded things like cosmic rays and other objects, which resulted in 1701 trails found in 1316 Hubble images. About one-third of them were known asteroids, leaving 1031 unidentified asteroid trails.
This mosaic consists of 16 different data sets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope studied as part of the Asteroid Hunter citizen science project. Each of these datasets was colour-assigned based on the time sequence of exposures, whereby the blue tones represent the first exposure that the asteroid was captured in and the red tones represent the last. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kruk (ESA/ESTEC), Hubble Asteroid Hunter citizen science team, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)
Follow-up observations will confirm how many of them are newly-discovered asteroids and determine their orbits. Some of 1031 will likely not be confirmed, but the rest will help flesh out our understanding of our Solar System’s asteroid population.
These asteroids have escaped detection because they’re fainter and likely much smaller than most asteroids detected from the ground. This paper is the first one released as part of the Hubble Asteroid Hunter project. In subsequent papers, the authors will use the curved shape of the asteroid trails to determine their orbits and their distances.
This image from the paper shows two asteroids found in Hubble images by the team’s machine learning tool, called Auto ML. The red numbers in the upper right corners are Auto ML’s confidence classifications for each image. Image Credit: Hubble Asteroid Hunter
All asteroids are remnants from the Solar System’s early days, mostly from before the planets formed. They’re like nature’s time capsules, and they preserve the conditions in the early system. That’s why astronomers are so interested in them and why we’ve sent spacecraft to collect samples from asteroids like Bennu and Ryugu.
“The asteroids are remnants from the formation of our Solar System, which means that we can learn more about the conditions when our planets were born,” Kruk explained.
This image from the study is a sky-map of the Solar System Objects (SSOs) identified in the Hubble archived images. The blue stars show the identified, known asteroids. The orange circles show the location of objects for which the team did not find any associations with SSOs. The ecliptic is shown in red. The two gaps in this plot correspond to the Galactic plane, which HST did not observe. Image Credit: Hubble Asteroid Hunter
More and more researchers are making use of archival data like this. It’s economical to scour existing images for new discoveries, and it bears fruit. “The use of archival data produced by imaging campaigns whose primary science goals lie outside the Solar System is common practice in asteroid science. Several groups have used various image archives to find and characterize SSOs.” For example, in 2019, researchers used archival images from exoplanet surveys to identify over 1800 asteroids, with 182 potential new discoveries.
Astronomers want a complete understanding of the Solar System’s asteroid population because it helps clarify the Solar System’s history. “A detailed description of the small bodies in the Solar System puts constraints on the different Solar System formation scenarios, which make concrete predictions on the size and orbit distribution of objects as a function of time,” the authors explain. “In particular, both the giant planets’ migrations and collisional cascades have effects on the asteroids’ size and orbital distributions that could be detectable with specially purposed observational surveys.”
But specially purposed surveys are expensive and time-consuming. Observing proposals also face stiff competition from other researchers with other foci. “We instead decided to produce such a survey from a large archival dataset,” the authors write.
Kruk hinted at things in the data other than asteroids. “But there were other serendipitous finds in the archival images as well, which we are currently following up.” He also said that their approach is a game-changer, and they intend to use it again. “Using such a combination of human and artificial intelligence to scour vast amounts of data is a big game-changer, and we will also use these techniques for other upcoming surveys, such as with the Euclid telescope.”
As far as the “… other serendipitous finds…” in the images, Kruk declined to share what those other finds might be. He told Universe Today that the findings are “… not related to unusual asteroids but to other findings in the data. We will report them in follow-up publications and announcements soon, so stay tuned!”
Engineers Design an Electrical Microgrid for a Lunar Base
Engineers Design an Electrical Microgrid for a Lunar Base
For seventy years, Albuquerque-based Sandia National Laboratories has been developing electrical microgrids that increase community resilience and ensure energy security. Applications include the Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security(SPIDERS), designed to support military bases abroad, and independent power systems for hospitals and regions where electrical grids are at risk of being compromised by natural disasters (like hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes).
In the coming years, Artemis Program, NASA will be sending astronauts back to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era and establish a “sustained program of lunar exploration.” To ensure that astronauts have the necessary power to maintain their habitats and support operations on the surface, NASA has partnered with Sandia to develop microgrids for the Moon! This technology could also support future endeavors, like mining, fuel processing, and other activities on the Moon.
One of the main objectives of the Artemis Program is the creation of lunar infrastructure that will allow for long-duration surface operations and eventual missions to Mars. To ensure that rotating crews can explore and conduct science experiments on the surface, NASA will establish the Lunar Gateway (by 2024) and the Artemis Base Camp before this decade is over. This concept will serve as a technology demonstration that will validate design elements and systems for an eventual Martian habitat, allowing for short stays with the eventual goal of staying up to two months.
An illustration of the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element and Habitation and Logistics Outpost in orbit around the Moon. Credits: NASA
The Base Camp concept consists of a habitation unit capable of accomodating up to four astronauts as well as a mining and processing facility that will use local resources (lunar regolith and water ice) to fashion rocket fuel, water, oxygen gas, and building materials – a process known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). This will extend the duration and range of surface exploration while reducing dependence on resupply missions from Earth. This facility and its microgrid will be located far from the base camp to avoid disrupting other science and technology activities.
But to ensure resiliency and robustness, the electrical grids for both units will be connected during emergencies. While NASA is designing the electrical system controller for the habitation unit, which will be very similar to the International Space Station’s (ISS) direct-current (DC) system, Sandia’s engineers are developing the system that will connect the two microgrids and studying the power flow and operation between them. Said Jack Flicker, a Sandia electrical engineer, in a Sandia LabNews statement:
“There are some very important differences between something like an ISS-type microgrid to something that has the extent of a moon base. One of those differences is the geographic size, which can be problematic, especially when running at low DC voltages.
“Another is that when you start to extend these systems, there will be a lot more power electronics as well as a lot more distributed energy resources that will exist throughout the base. Sandia has been looking at microgrids with a lot of distributed energy resources for quite a long time.”
Microgrids are part of a larger field of technology that includes distributed energy resources (smaller sources of electricity like solar panels and wind turbines) and power electronics – devices that keep electrical systems operating within specifications (like converters). Since 2021, electrical engineer Lee Rashkin and control engineer Dave Wilson have been designing the software to regulate the electrical system controller for the mining and processing center’s microgrid.
The Artemis Base Camp. Credit: NASA
This controller needs to maintain an even voltage over different timescales ranging from milliseconds and minutes to entire lunar nights (28 days). In many respects, said Dave, this controller is similar to a vehicle’s cruise control system in that it maintains an even level of voltage on the grid amid changing external situations:
“Our goal is to come up with a lunar energy power management system that can efficiently maintain a level system on all those timescales. We’ve got a specializedSecure Scalable Microgrid [SSM] facility and control-system-design methodology that analyzes this. The facility also has specialized energy storage emulators that can help us determine the specifications for how much energy storage the base needs and their requirements.”
The SSM testbed is a unique Sandia research facility with a scaled and simplified version of the DC lunar microgrid. The testbed consists of three interconnected DC microgrids with custom-built electronics that can mimic different power-production systems and devices (like diesel generators, photovoltaic arrays, energy storage emulators, and power converters). A computer can control each emulator, and the microgrids can be configured to test various scenarios.
This platform provides an excellent means for conducting experiments with slightly-adjusted control software to compare how the system responds. The team will use the SSM to fine-tune their control system and study questions about power system controllers, including the interactions between distributed energy resources, energy storage, and power electronics. Said Wilson:
“The goal here is top-down engineering: We’re trying to determine the control design first, come up with the specifications for the energy storage, and then NASA could use those specifications to get the flight-ready components that meet those specs,” Dave said. “A lot of the time people will do the reverse; they’ll bring you a battery and say, ‘make it work,’ which may degrade the microgrid performance.”
Artist’s illustration of the new spacesuit NASA is designing for Artemis astronauts. It’s called the xEMU, or Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit.
Credit: NASA
The Sandia researchers’ second focus is to develop the system that will connect the mining facility and habitation module microgrids to ensure resiliency in emergencies. One way to do this is to develop a system that can reroute power to where it’s needed with flexibility. Another is to scale up the system, so there’s enough power if multiple parts fail. Said Jack:
“Usually, we have some combination of those two, where it’s oversized to some extent, but you are also able to flexibly route power how you need to within a microgrid or between independent, yet cooperative microgrids like we’re exploring for the moon. In a contingency event such as an energy storage system failing during an eclipse, we want to be able to port the power at the mining facility over to the base camp to keep astronauts safe.”
Additional considerations include the impact the distance between the microgrids will have on the efficiency and stability of both. The team is also investigating the optimal voltage the connection should operate at and whether NASA should stick with a DC system or develop something that uses alternating current (AC) for the mining unit, then switches DC once it reaches the habitation unit. To explore these questions and investigate contingency scenarios, the Sandia team is using two research facilities.
The first is Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technologies Laboratory (DETL), a multipurpose research facility designed to integrate new energy technologies with new and existing electrical infrastructure. This lab is equipped with the tools to conduct hardware-in-the-loop experiments, where hardware is subjected to various simulated scenarios, including catastrophic blackouts and weather conditions. These experiments, said Sandia engineer Rachid Darbali-Zamora, are a crucial step between lab simulation and actual field tests:
“With this DC power-hardware-in-the-loop setup that we’re building in the lab, we can test power converters, the impedance of electrical lines between lunar facilities, we could also test actual energy generation and storage devices. Basically, we can use it to study a variety of situations so we can design a system that is self-sustaining and can continue operating even if a solar panel array goes down.”
Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon.
Credits: NASA
The team will also use the Emera DC microgrid on Kirtland Air Force Base to see how their power system operates and distributes power in low-energy contingency scenarios. In addition, the teams will be working closely together and using toolboxes from NASA and the SSM Testbed in their connection simulations – and eventually plan to test Dave’s controller in these simulations as well. As Rachid indicated, this research will also have applications here on Earth.
“Even though this work is for a microgrid on the Moon, the research is also relevant to creating resiliency for communities on Earth,” he said. “I’m originally from a small town in Puerto Rico. I hope that some of the lessons that come out of this project in terms of resilience, are lessons I can implement back home.”
This project is being funded by the DOE’s Office of Electricity as part of a DOE-NASA partnership to develop the necessary systems for future lunar missions.
Black Object Over Erie, Pennsylvania May 15, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black Object Over Erie, Pennsylvania May 15, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 15, 2022
Location of sighting: Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Email report
This UFO has me stumped. It looks like a person in a black ironman suit or something. I have not clue what to think about this one. Its recorded in broad daylight in downtown Erie. Great catch and I really hope to get more video or photos of this object. If you live there please hit that area and if you see something like this, post it to my twitter feed at @scottcwaring thanks so much! Not sure about this one, but really sparked my interest. Almost looks like a flying panda bear, yeah I know, but it looks like it.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
If you want to report a UFO or alien encounter, please email it to scwaring@yahoo.com and I will check out each and every one. It may even make it to my website or channel.
Eyewitness states:
My girlfriend and I had just checked out of our hotel room at the solstice hotel just off Route 19 by splash lagoon. I looked up into the sky since it was considerably nicer than the day before at this time. And I noticed a black dot in the sky at first. I pointed it out to my gf because it was large enough or close enough to be distinguishable as something but I couldn’t quite tell what it was.
Ancient Annunaki Aliens Visited Earth to Extract Gold
Ancient Annunaki Aliens Visited Earth to Extract Gold
It is interesting to think about the origins of humanity, and how it all started. Scientists believe that life has evolved in the oceans for millions of years and that humans are just the consequence of that evolution. For example, ancient astronaut concepts take a different perspective to the beginnings of humanity. They believe that in the distant past, ancient gods (Annunaki) landed on earth and created humanity. Regardless of the fact that this concept has long been disproved, various ancient texts confirm their descent from heaven.
An author named Zecharia Sitchin once claimed that ancient astronauts, an alien species, had interfered with human biology. He said that the Annunaki were extraterrestrials who came to Earth in search of wealth from Nibiru, a mythic planet beyond Neptune.
Sitchin claims that the Annunaki were able to change primordial humans’ DNA 450,000 years ago by fusing their DNA with theirs and sending them to work mining Earth’s natural resources such as gold. Nibiru, he claims, has a lengthy elliptical orbit and passes near the Earth every 3,600 years. Sitchin also said that this planet was home to highly evolved human-like beings that were taller compared to humans. They were drawn to Southeast Africa’s gold richness some 450,000 years ago.
Sitchin is the author of over 13 novels, which sold millions of copies over many countries. Sitchin’s works have been translated into over twenty-five various languages. Scientists, archaeologists, and historians dubbed him “silly” due to his opposing views on ancient history, civilization, and gods. Nonetheless, Sitchin was able to carry on his analysis.
Aside from Sitchin’s works, there is a ton of research in ancient writings from many cultures about gods that came from above. Stories about visits from the sky also occur among the Dogon, Hopi, and Anasazi peoples, among others. He said that when these intergalactic invaders arrived on our planet, they discovered primitive humanity. The Annunaki God Enki, also known as God of knowledge, interfered in these humans’ genes, genetically modifying them, and forced that primitive people to work for him as miners.
The gods’ cities were destroyed by the big flood that happened 30,000 years ago, compelling them to pass on their knowledge to humanity. The Annunaki gods, according to Sitchin, got back to their planet on a spaceship roughly 2569 years ago. El Dorado is frequently connected with gold rites done by the Muisca civilization close Lake Guatavita in Columbia. According to mythology, the Muisca tribe poured a large volume of gold into the lake. This holy spot continues to draw gold prospectors.
Researchers think that evidence of alien life visiting Earth in quest of gold can be discovered at the bottom of a lake. What did the gold serve for the extraterrestrials? Some ancient theorists that studies alien activity, believed that extraterrestrials might have used gold to deflect sun rays from their sky and that way they were able to save their planets. Gold is essential in space travel and astronomy.
According to Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, gold is an inert substance that does not react with anything. He also mentioned that it’s an exceptional electrical conductor and an excellent infrared reflector. Gold blankets might shield spacecraft from the extreme heat coming from some star or some other source of heat.
A large golden sun disc sat at the Qorikancha sun temple in Cusco, in Peru. Many researchers believe that the object was a sign of a UFO which was gold-plated and which had appeared in front of the king of the Incas called Atahualpa. This king was known for having connection with these gods that came from the sky.
Mysteries associated with lightnings, ball lightnings and the electrosphere of Earth
Mysteries associated with lightnings, ball lightnings and the electrosphere of Earth
Lightning and ball lightning are electrospheric phenomena involving several poorly understood aspects. Also the origin of the electrosphere of Earth is still a mystery. In the TGD framework it is possible to deduce information about magnetic and electric bodies of Earth (briefly MB and EB) by using empirical inputs and these phenomena.
Ball lightings are known to be real are not understood. Ball lightning-like phenomena can be created also artificially in microwave ovens using match. Matches contain organic material and this serves as a good hint.
There is a New Scientist article, which gives a popular representation of ball lightings (see this). The theory of Cameron (see this) is mentioned in the article. The theory assumes that lightnings are essentially phenomena associated with the electromagnetic radiation field alone and neglects the fact that plasma is very probably involved. The theory relies on exact solutions of Maxwell’s equations and proposes that ball lightnings involve monochromatic electromagnetic fields which are knotted and linked making the field configurations topologically nontrivial. Both magnetic and electric field lines can be knotted. This does not however imply topological stability since the linearity of Maxwell’s equations implies that these field configurations are unstable. The finding that lifetime is long enough for microwave lengths does not conform with the fact that visible light is involved. Another theory mentioned in the article is by Boerner and proposes that lightning comes from another dimension. What this could actually mean, is of course a highly non-trivial question.
The basic mystery is how ball lightning can survive for so long a time. An ordinary plasma ball is not expected to do so. This suggests that ball lightning obeys non-linear dynamics and is some kind of topological entity robust by their topological non-triviality.
A very natural expectation is that ball lightning is a self-organizing system consisting of plasma which radiates. Self-organization requires energy feed. It could come as a Coulombic energy from the electric field of Earth through which part of the plasma of ball lightning has arrived. Here one encounters a problem. The electric resistance of the atmosphere causes a dissipation of the energy so that the charged particles cannot accelerate to high energies. How could lightning avoid this?
Two problems are always better than one. The second puzzle is that ordinary lightnings involve relativistic electrons and gamma rays. This is impossible in standard physics due to the already mentioned electric resistance of the atmosphere. Could ball lightning involve a new phase of matter, for which the dissipation is very small. Perhaps because it interacts very weakly with the ordinary matter of the atmosphere?
The third mystery is that the surface of Earth carries a negative charge, which creates an electric field. This field is essential for the generation of lightning. The origin of this field is however not understood.
There is also a fourth problem. Dark matter exists but there is no generally accepted theory of dark matter. All experiments trying to detect proposed candidates for dark matter particles (the particle physicist’s way to solve a problem is to propose a new particle) have failed. There is of course also the mystery of life but it is better to stop here.
In the sequel a TGD based model for electrosphere is deduced by using various empirical inputs and the TGD based view about dark matter and the model of quantum biology inspired by it. A model, which allows us to understand these phenomena in the TGD framework, is developed. The model relies on the TGD based model of dark matter residing at the flux tubes of the magnetic body. The gravitational magnetic bodies of both Earth and Sun are important.The notion of the electric body of Earth as an analog of the cell membrane acting as a generalized Josephson junction is developed. Lightning and ball lightning would be associated with the analog of action potential.
Lights In Sky Over All Wisconsin, May 14, 2022, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Lights In Sky Over All Wisconsin, May 14, 2022, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 14, 2022
Location of sighting: Wisconsin, USA
Source email reports: Send to scwaring@yahoo.com
Guys this is very fascinating. This long line of glowing objects was seen clear across Wisconsin last night. It coincides with a SpaceX launch earlier that day. Three reports, three videos and three different descriptions. If this is Star-link then the world is getting really creepy. What I mean is...as of May 2022 there are 2,200 Star-link satellites currently in orbit. This sounds really extreme to me. Do you remember Skynet from Terminator? Whats going to happen if AI gets control of those satellites, the same satellites used to help Ukraine in the war against Russia? It could be an extinction level event. Or if the satellites are there to carry out Project Blue Beam, a top secret project leaked by 3 reporters who by the way were murdered soon after leaking it to the public. Blue Beam is suppose to make holographic blue disks appear over major cities around the world, in order to unite the countries to form one county. What ever is going on in the sky over Wisconsin...its going to be bad somewhere down the road.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness one in the city of Superior, Wisconsin states:
We observed a long bright band of light in the sky which we thought to be a comet, but as the object came into focus it seemed to be a long, bright, cigar shaped ship, traveling fairly quickly across the sky. The object seemed to have many windows and was lit from the inside. As it passed in front of us the "windows" seemed to "close" and the band of light became brighter and as if it was spinning. When it became brighter the band of light seemed to illuminate a dull, black disc shaped ship. The object continued along the shore, completely silent. The band of light seemed to get shorter as it angled away from us, before suddenly disappearing completely.
Second wintess in Luck, Wisconsin states:
Large cigar shaped object witnessed in Luck, WI at 10:05 pm with husband. The object had no sound and continued on a path east. Eventually Hubert’s and then shot up to the sky with no sound. It seemed dull in color and lights seem to moved on object at fast speed, as well. It left my husband and I speechless this evening.
Third eyewitness in Fredric, Wisconsin states:
Looked like a comet but many times faster than an airplane at cruising altitude traversing the sky. It appeared long as what caught my eye at first as the trail yo be it’s entirety.
Mysterious Craft Over Thermal, California May 14, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News
Mysterious Craft Over Thermal, California May 14, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting:May 14, 2022
Location of sighting: Thermal, California, USA
Email report: Sent to scwaring@yahoo.com
Hey just woke up and checked my email, got a few reports and this one blew my mind. A woman was looking out her window at Thermal, California and noticed this huge cigar craft flying over the mountains. The direction its heading to is Area 51 and the area is also famous for the Extraterrestrial highway...a highway famous for its UFO sightings. Guys, this takes the cake. Its not a plane, no wings, no tail no propellers or jets. Not a blimp, no propellers, no carriage to hold people no windows, no lights...truly an alien craft. I am so grateful to this person for sending it into me.
Email reports with photos or video to me at scwaring@yahoo.com
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Saw a very large cigar shape object hovering floating in the sky over the mountain. Airplane flew towards the object but as it got closer the airplane disappeared because of the distance but the cigar shape was huge so I could easily see it.
Guy Summons UFO With Meditation, Camden, Maine, May 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Guy Summons UFO With Meditation, Camden, Maine, May 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 12, 2022 Location of sighting:Camden, Maine, USA
Source: Email (send all reports to scwaring@yahoo.com)
Hey check this out. A reader on my website sent in a video today that started with him trying to intimidate a meditative contact with a UFO. To use meditation to call it to come closer. This has been a thing since the old Fox News Las Vegas video in 2010 of a man calling UFOs on TV news! Anyways, it works, I've done it myself, stay calm, focus the thoughts on a mental sentence and project it out into the sky. Make sure to be outside, rooftop, park open area works. Just say in your mind with kindness and love in your heart (they can sense your feelings)..."Hello my brothers and sisters from far away, we are one, please come to me." And it will work, like it did the first time I ever used it. Just as this eyewitness in the video used a similar technique to mentally call them.
Scott C. Waring - Tiawan
Eyewitness states:
I used meditation after watching a documentary and The UFO appeared. After completing my daily walk from Camden harbor to Rockport harbor had previously witnessed a UFO. Upon watching a documentary that afternoon about how to meditate to summon UFOs I perform the act at the Camden library Park in Camden Maine. I looked up I said a few people visiting and Saw a hovering tic tac shaped craft that I proceeded to follow and film.
A newly released infrared image showed a 'swarm' of three 'Tic-Tac shaped'UFOs chase four U.S. Navy destroyers off the coast of California.
The grainy image has been released by the Navy and shows what appears to be three small dots, representing unmanned aerial systems (UAS), hovering near the USS Paul Hamilton. It was one of the many occurrences Naval ships saw over the course of weeks, as many destroyers spotted these contraptions in July 2019.
These three UAS appeared near the ship around 8pm on July 17 shortly after the USS Paul Hamilton cut location broadcasting via the Automatic Identification System (AIS). Ships are not required to broadcast their location 24/7 and usually disable the transponder in situations that call for heightened security.
This decision was not reflected on the ship's deck log, but earlier in the month, logs indicate that other ships in the area also turned of AIS during UAS activity.
Additionally, the USS Paul Hamilton's log did indicate that the UAS appeared shortly after it had turned its navigation lights on.
Shortly before 8pm, one UAS was spotted one nautical mile away. Twenty minutes later, the timeline indicates that two more were seen, with one falling into the water, The Drive reported after viewing documents it received through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The ship reported seeing red, flashing lights.
Roughly 30 minutes later, the USS Paul Hamilton reported a 'UAS swarm' and by 9:11 p.m., one UAS was directly above at 2,000 feet. By 9:15, the UAS moved away from the ship at almost 70mph before returning less than 10 minutes later.
The USS Hamilton reported that the 'swarm' lasted almost three hours from 7:56 p.m. to 10:39 p.m.
An infrared image showed the three UAS off of the USS Paul Hamilton on July 17th, 2019. A 'swarm' of them hovered near the ship for several hours, in just one of the many occurrences Naval ships saw over the course of weeks
USS destroyers on patrol in July 2019 were suddenly swarmed by flashing, tic-toc shaped drones, which were able to travel long distance at high speeds
The USS Paul Hamilton (pictured) reported a 'swarm' of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) hovering near the ship on July 17th, in a series of several occurrence across many ships off the coast of California throughout the month of July 2019
The total number of UAS spotted by the Navy destroyer is unknown, due to abbreviated briefing slides, which were viewed by The Drive.
Three days earlier, the USS John Finn also spotted 'red flashing lights' off the starboard side of the ship and indicated that they had turned off their AIS system. The ship spotted two UAS at elevations of 1,000 and 1,500 feet.
One of the ships involved, the USS Omaha, released incomplete ship logs, The Drive reported.
According to The Drive, the Navy did conduct countermeasure drills later in the week and the Navy may have introduced portable counter-drone devices.
In April 2021, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday said the military had not been able to identify the aircrafts and the Department of Defense has since decline an answer thus far.
The drama began on the night of July 14, 2019. Deck logs from the USS Kidd show that just before 10pm that night, two drones were spotted.
An onboard intelligence crew responsible for documenting and investigating contact with unknown vessels - known as the Ship Nautical Or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Exploitation team, or SNOOPIE - was engaged to figure out who, or what, the mystery flying objects were.
The Navy unclassified documents, releasing to The Drive via FIOA request, the UAS movements off the USS Paul Hamilton
Within a few minutes of the sighting, reports show the USS Kidd moved into quiet mode, minimizing communications as it sought to work what the threat level was.
It contacted a nearby warship also on patrol, the USS Rafael Peralta, who also engaged their onboard photo intelligence team, or SNOOPIE.
Several other US Navy destroyers on patrol nearby began noticing strange lights.
The USS John Finn also reported UAV activity, and noticed a 'red flashing light' at 10.03pm, according to its logbook.
Just over an hour later at 11.23pm, the USS Rafael Peralta spotted a white light hovering over the flight deck.
The drone was able to remain hovering above the destroyer's helicopter landing pad while traveling at speeds of 16 knots and in low visibility.
The nearly 90-minute encounter was well beyond the capability of commercially-available drones.
The next night, the drones returned, this time as the warships were patrolling closer to the Californian mainland.
They were first spotted by the USS Rafael Peralta and the ship's SNOOPIE team was engaged at 8:39pm.
The Paul Hamilton's ship logs on July 16 do not indicate any activity from UAS
The USS John Finn noted a few days earlier that it noticed two UAS 1,000 feet and 1,500 feet above the ship that were equipped with 'red flashing lights'
At 8:56pm, logs show the USS Kidd had also come into contact with drones.
'The drones seem to have pursued the ships, even as they continued to maneuver throughout the incident,' The Drive reported.
Logbooks onboard the USS Russell show drones were swarming all over it, dipping in elevation from 1000 to 700 feet and seemingly able to move in any direction.
The USS Russell had separate contact with drones nine occasions in less than an hour.
Then at 9.20pm that night, the USS Kidd noticed 'multiple UAVs' around the ship.
The USS Rafael Peralta was also swarmed by as many as four drones. It was contacted by a passing cruise ship, the Carnival Imagination, to say they too had spotted up to six drones.
The three-hour frenzy of activity continued until close to midnight, with none of the warships able to say with certainty where the drones had come from.
The Navy's top commanders including the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and commander of the Pacific Fleet were notified.
The Los Angeles bureau of the FBI was also brought in to look at the incident.
The subsequent investigation found that just a handful of civilian ships were in the area at the time that could have been used as landing pads for the drones.
Investigators suspected the drones may have been launched from the ORV Alguita, a catamaran in the area.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday (pictured) said in April 2021 that the Navy has not been able to identify the UAS. Since then, the Department of Defense has declined to comment
And while the Alguita did have drones onboard, it was soon established its aircraft were not capable of such aeronautical feats.
Naval intelligence was brought in on the investigation and it was soon turning its glare inwards.
The area is home to a large US Naval Base on Sam Clemente Island, where sensitive training operations are often undertaken.
Witness describes the huge glowing object that hovered above the flight deck of USS Ronald Reagan
Witness describes the huge glowing object that hovered above the flight deck of USS Ronald Reagan
In 2004, sailors aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) say they encountered a mysterious, orb-shaped flying object off the eastern coast of the United States, that nearly two decades later, still defies explanation.
According to witnesses who were on the nuclear-powered Nimitz-class supercarrier that fateful night, a roughly 20 to 40-foot wide, luminous round object suddenly showed up and began to hover over the ship’s flight deck.
Karol Olesiak who was a 3rd class petty officer and Quartermaster on the Ronald Reagan at the time of the incident told The Debrief that when he arrived to relieve the previous watch that evening, the outgoing Quartermaster of the Watch indicated something was already going on at that time, though the individual offered no additional information. However, it soon became apparent to Olesiak that something was happening outside above the flight deck.
“I’m pretty sure ‘it’ was there,” Olesiak said. “And they were like, ‘I don’t know what that is. I don’t care.’ You know what I mean? Like they had an attitude like ‘I’m going to my rack. I don’t care. … don’t even bother me about this shit’… So this ‘thing’ is there, the entirety of my watch and because the officers are ignoring it, I’m forced to ignore it.”
Olesiak said he saw a large round and orange-colored glowing object with a fiery surface hovering about 100 feet above the flight deck.
He said he viewed this object directly through the windows on the bridge at eye level. Olesiak says the surface of the object reminded him of biblical descriptions of the “burning bush”.
Huge cigar-shaped UFO over Frederic & Luck, Wisconsin 14-May-2022
Huge cigar-shaped UFO over Frederic & Luck, Wisconsin 14-May-2022
This huge cigar-shaped UFO was filmed in the sky above Frederic and Luck in Wisconsin on 14th May 2022.
Witness report:
Saw a very large cigar shape object hovering floating in the sky over the mountain. Airplane flew towards the object but as it got clasper the airplane disappeared because of the distance but the cigar shape was huge so I could easily see it
There are many assumptions about the number of extraterrestrial species in the universe. Many UFOlogists, abductees, and even people in authorities claim to have seen the so-called intelligent beings from outer space. Alex Collier is the only contactee who provided in-depth information about the beings from Andromeda. In his interviews, he discussed the influence of various alien species on the human race.
Many well-known UFO enthusiasts considered Collier to be credible, at least in the sense that he tries to convey as fully as possible the information received from his contacts with the Andromedans. He first began to experience extraterrestrial contact during his childhood up to his mid-teens. After the experiences stopped over a period of several years, which included military service as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army, the contact resumed in 1985.
He met with two Andromedans who became his mentors and took him on board their space vehicles including a large extraterrestrial mother ship where he was exposed to the teachings of the Andromedans over a three-month period. The Andromedans gave him information about cosmic spirituality, life in the universe, and Earth’s galactic history.
Collier claimed that humans are composite of 22 different ETs races that arrived on Earth at different times
The Andromedans are “one of the thousands of extraterrestrial races in existence.” They are human and some have bluish skin, measuring more than 2 meters tall. According to Collier, the author of the book “Defending Sacred Ground: The Andromedan Compendium,” all human life forms originated in the Lyra Constellation. However, a war caused their stars to explode, making humanity spread to different places in the galaxy to survive.
Collier explains that the different skin tones are due to different DNAs and exposure to different stars. The Andromeda Beings are one of the oldest civilizations living in the Andromeda constellation.
This civilization, no matter where in the constellation it lives, has a single government and is spiritually 4,700 more advanced than us, as well as 5,000 years technologically. However, they maintain a balance of the spiritual and technological. In fact, they use technology to be able to evolve spiritually.
This is because there are different dimensional levels. We are currently in the Third dimension. We still haven’t reached the Fourth, much less the Fifth. What differentiates the Third from the Fourth dimension, is the conscience.
In the fourth dimension, there is a collective consciousness, because everyone is telepathic and can read the mind of the rest. This leads to each person being authentic, transparent, and without ulterior motives. Upon entering this dimension, the being becomes clairvoyant since, in this state of consciousness, energy systems and fields can be seen.
However, there are still dualities and the judgment systems are modified since the judiciary will be able to take decisions according to the energy fields. The beings of Andromeda have not lived in a society as manipulated as ours. They are telepathic and clairvoyant because they have studied all the sciences.
All souls know who they are, they all know about their past lives, and every time they incarnate, they are aware and know where they are going. In addition, they can see their evolution in the afterlife.
According to various interviews by Collier, he stated that Earth is under the control of “regressive” extra-terrestrial beings. Those aliens came to Earth from the star system known as Alpha Draconis. He said that humans are separated by two different philosophical belief systems. One of them spreads love & free will, while the other one shows control and resource consumption. He said humans are behind the Andromedans because of the manipulations in our DNA. The intense manipulation of Earth dated back 5,700 years. However, this has an origin 14,000 years ago, when the aliens from Orion began to manipulate our DNA structure.
In his last lecture before he retired from the UFO lecture circuit in 2002, Collier said that the ancient alien race known as the “Founders” are responsible for building planets’ environments and making them suitable for life. The Andromedans and the Pleiadians believed that this ancient alien race is called the “Paa Tal.”
He even said that those aliens are capable of removing moons to alter the planet’s position from its sun to control the amount of radiation. The Andromedans could reportedly create a solar system.
Collier noted that the Andromedans are about 4,300 to 4,500 years ahead of us in technology. They do not count years in 365 days as we do on Earth. According to different extraterrestrials, one year is a time when every cell in their body duplicates itself, and it takes around 34 years.
According to Collier, humans consist of 22 extraterrestrial races. He claimed that there are about 135 billion people living on the planets in the eight closest galaxies to us. He even said that when he visited one of those habitable planets, those people got scared of seeing an earthling because of our bad reputation. In the whole universe, only humans could make their own people slaves and kill them for their own benefits.
There are accounts of astronauts seeing anomalies while being in the International Space Station (ISS). Sometimes they have been spotted during the live broadcast but the space agencies ignore them, claiming space debris, dirt in the camera’s lenses, or light effect. However, the case of two anomalies and Samantha Cristoforetti’s scream in fear, Italy’s first female astronaut onboard the Soyuz spacecraft during docking with the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014 is still unexplainable.
Samantha Cristoforetti was born in Milan, Italy, on April 26, 1977. Between November 2014 and June 2015, she spent 200 days in space on her Futura mission to the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer for Expeditions 42 and 43. Samantha was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. She joined ESA in September 2009 and completed her basic astronaut training in November 2010. She’s completely fluent in Italian, English, German, French, and Russian.
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti floating sideways with her colleagues, NASA astronaut Terry Virts (left) and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov in the International Space Station. They are dressed in the Sokol suits they wear in the Soyuz spacecraft that takes them to the Space Station and back. Image credit: NASA
On November 23, 2014, the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft was planning to drop its Russian robot, Skybot F-850 to dock at the International Space Station. Cristoforetti was onboard Soyuz TMA-14 along with Roscosmos astronaut Anton Shkaplerov, and NASA astronaut Terry Virts at that time.
As the spacecraft approached the ISS and docking was in process, Cristoforetti saw what appeared to be two huge, glowing orbs zooming toward each other. The orb can be seen moving from top to bottom in the center of the screen at approximately the 1:20 mark.
What appeared on the screen, shocked Cristoforetti so much that she screamed in fear, and immediately her colleague Anton Shkaplerov can be heard saying her to calm down. The video quickly went viral and in no time, it was all over social media.
After the noticeable excitement on the video, many were wondering what Cristoforetti actually saw that caused such a response so she took to Google+ to give an explanation for the shout. Cristoforetti explains she “wasn’t prepared in the least for what I saw when we were at about 30-40 meters [from the Space Station].”
“I had released my shoulder straps quite a bit at that point, so I was floating over my seat. As I turned to look outside, at first I looked back and saw one of our Soyuz solar panels, which I had seen before of course. Then my eyes caught something in the peripheral view. And as I slowly turned my gaze and when I realized what I was seeing, I was overcome by pure amazement and joy: the Space Station was there, but not just any view. The huge solar panels were flooded in a blaze of orange light, vivid, warm almost alien. I couldn’t help exclaiming something aloud, which you can probably hear in the recordings of our docking, since at that point we were “hot mic” with Mission Control. Anton reminded me of that and so I tried to contain my amazement and return to the docking monitoring. When I peaked again later, the orange glow was gone.
Butch told me later that he had heard my amazement on com when “the Station had turned orange.” I didn’t know, but apparently there’s only a few seconds during day-night transition that the Station is lit by that amazing orange glow. And it happened to be exactly when I peaked outside! I feel very fortunate that I had such a unique first glimpse of our human outpost in space: such a great welcome!”
The ISS live stream spotted two anomalies in 2014 while Soyuz spacecraft docking with the International Space Station (ISS)
In fact, former US Department of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope stated that this was not only an unprecedented occurrence but also one of the greatest proofs of extraterrestrial life, not only in space but in our Solar System and very close to us.”
In her Wiki, her NASA.gov profile, and interview with Financial Times there’s no mention of the scream incident. The reporter gets closest to the mystery when asking, “Did you suffer from any unexpected/unpleasant experiences while in space?” She never mentions the scream (which seems odd considering the question) but answers in the affirmative because she “didn’t fall into the 50% who suffer space sickness.” In her latest video by NASA, she mentioned no scream incident as well.
It is unprecedented that even after everything was recorded on live footage, she never spoke about it. However, there are other outer space incidents that happened with astronauts who publicly admitted experiencing strangeness in space.
–Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin claimed to have seen what appeared to be an “organic, alien-like creature” in the space shuttle payload bay and even reported the sighting to ground control.
–During his time in space, former NASA astronaut Jerry M. Linenger saw some anomalies that were not space debris. He shared his sightings in a live interview with Bild in 2018.
–On May 5, 1981, retired Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok saw something remarkable from the porthole of Salyut 6. According to Kovalyonok, at around 6 p.m., when the spacecraft was flying over South Africa moving towards the Indian ocean, he saw an elliptical-shaped object that was flying along with the spacecraft.
Former NASA astronaut Franklin Story Musgrave said about his experience in space would shock anyone. He claimed to have seen an 8-foot-long snake, white in color, floating through space. It is hard to explain how a snake could reach space, but Musgrave has never denied it. (Click here to read the full story)
The most typical alien appearance that is discussed in the majority of the encounter cases is “Grey.” Also referred to as Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys, or Gray, they are purported extraterrestrial beings. After the 1947 crash in Nevada, Greys became a worldwide sensation. They are grey-skinned, unusually small humanoid beings that lack external human body parts such as noses, ears, or reproductive organs.
There are many theories regarding the existence of Greys, and some people claim that they are future humans who lost their ability to procreate which is why they need humans for breeding. This bizarre theory is supported by Dr. David Jacobs. According to him, grey aliens were created using abducted humans due to them having a slit for a mouth which “doesn’t make sense.
Dr. David Jacobs, an American historian and retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University shed light on the Greys biological structure and claimed that they were created using human DNA. After highlighting the similarities in appearance between grey aliens and humans, the professor is convinced they were created from the DNA of people that had been abducted.
Dr. David Jacobs, American historian and retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University
Dr. Jacobs is extremely passionate about ufology and regularly tells the press about his hunches and thoughts. He previously talked about the fact that aliens have been walking on Earth among people for a long time, and also that they are planning a full-scale invasion.
During an interview with Richard Dolan in 2018, Dr. Jacobs casts some light on the alien abduction phenomenon. According to Dr. Jacobs, the Greys have barely visible earholes, nose holes, and tiny little mouths. But these parts do not seem to play an important role in their physiology, because the Greys communicate telepathically with the abducted and no one has ever noticed that they were breathing.
“The question is, why do they have a slit for a mouth? They do not breathe, there’s no evidence for them breathing, and they get very very close to people, sometimes even touching foreheads,” he continued.
“I’ve asked people, ‘do you feel their breath on your face?’ The answer is always no. They don’t have lungs, they have very thin little bodies, there’s no back and forth of the lungs expanding and contracting.”
“They don’t talk, everything is telepathic. They don’t eat in the normal way that we eat. So why is that slit for a mouth there? The point is that there’s probably human DNA in those grey aliens… which allowed for the growth of grey aliens.”
“I don’t know but that’s my best guess, and it all boils down to the slit for a mouth, which they should not have. This comes as an ex-NASA scientist recently claimed that humans will make contact with aliens within the “next handful of years.”
Abduction To Invade Earth
Alien abductions have been going on for decades. It is even believed that the biblical rapture is about the mass abduction of people. Dr. Jacobs adds that the reason behind the abductions is to prepare for the invasion.
The professor revealed several of his findings in the new documentary “Extraordinary: The Revelations.” For Dr. Jacobs, the conclusion he reached after studying alien abductions is chilling; an alien species is preparing the ground to invade Earth.
“We have spread around the world and conquered as much as we can…we don’t know whether this is true of other beings or not, but it certainly is true of what humans have done. My best guess – and this is a guess – is that yeah, they’re doing the same thing,” he said.
He stated that he spoke to a large number of abductees who said that in the future, they would have a “job to do.” He suggested that many of the abductees recall receiving such “crowd control” instructions.
Dr. Jacobs also suggests that abductee testimony began to change over time. The subjects claimed to have seen human-like aliens in the UFOs. In the Corina Saebels Encounter case, he said: “A person is taken out of their normal environment, they’re then placed on this table and they have an examination of sorts and I say of sorts because it’s not a normal kind of examination routinely sperm is taken and eggs are harvested.” (Click here to read the full article)
In 2014, NASA published a book that considers extraterrestrial interference in human history. It considers the possibility that some rock art depictions on Earth may be of alien origin. Moreover, in 2009 scientists found a naturally impossible mineral in Siberia that arrived on Earth 4.5 billion years ago when the Solar system just formed.
This rare yet shocking piece of material was found in a box obtained from the Italian Museum of Natural History in Florence. According to an international team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists, brought to Earth by the Khatyrka meteorite, which fell near the Koryak Mountains in eastern Siberia. When scientists analyzed the mineral, they were intrigued, not because of its age, as many would expect, but because of its atomic structure.
The structure of this mineral has never been found before in nature, although it has been artificially created in a laboratory. They are known as “quasicrystal” because it resembles a crystal from the outside but from the inside noticeably different.
The researchers studied a small sample of the mineral khatyrkite, which is mounted on a pyramid-shaped piece of clay next to a penny to illustrate the small size of the sample. (Image courtesy of Luca Bindi and Paul Steinhardt)
Atoms were arranged in a variety of different configurations, which, based on human understanding of science and chemical composition, were simply not possible in nature.
Quasicrystals have a dramatic history. Dan Shechtman grew the first quasicrystal in 1982, a discovery so controversial he was asked to leave his research lab. But the evidence was overwhelming: this was a new type of material. Schechtman was honored for the discovery with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The concept of quasicrystals — along with the term — was first introduced in 1984 by Steinhardt and Dov Levine, both then at the University of Pennsylvania. When the team discovered that the meteorite contained this mysterious, ancient, and cleverly engineered material, they merely moved goalposts, simply stating that it can in fact form naturally.
“The finding is important evidence that quasicrystals can form in nature under astrophysical conditions, and provides evidence that this phase of matter can remain stable over billions of years,” said physicist Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton.
Technically, scientists describe quasicrystals as quasiperiodic, arranged manually, which are no longer on the periodic table. Although they exhibit a pattern that fills all available mass continuously, they lack what scientists and mathematicians call “translational symmetry.”
Ufologists and scientists alike had previously hypothesized that evidence of extraterrestrial life would most likely be found in forms like this. Pointing out that quasicrystals, being a novel form of matter, should actually be seen as artifacts of artificially created, alien technology.
The Koryak Mountains, in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
No one has been able to explain how quasicrystals can form by natural processes, and it’s not likely that anyone will, it just doesn’t happen. Their “forbidden symmetry” makes it impossible for them to form naturally. The only other known quasicrystals besides those found in the meteorites near the Koryak Mountains were recently synthesized by scientiss under laboratory conditions.
Being very hard, with low friction characteristics, also low heat conduction, quasicrystals are a very useful product, used in a wide range of high-speed technologies, such as aircraft coatings and stealth fighters.
In 2017, The team at Geological and Planetary Sciences division’s Analytical Facility at Caltech discovered 35 new minerals in the Khatyrka meteorite. The facility’s director, Chi Ma, said, that “normally we don’t observe” such aluminum-rich metal in space rocks because the aluminum would have reacted to form aluminum oxide.
The new minerals were found in a tiny fragment of the Khatyrka meteorite, seen here in a backscattered electron image. Credit: Chi Ma/Caltech
He said the Khatyrka meteorite is the only meteorite ever found that contains metallic aluminum. The meteorite fragment hosting the trio of new minerals is now in the holdings of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, which maintains a catalog of more than 600,000 specimens.
If this material was not created by nature as some claim. Where did this mysterious material come from and how did this complex material end up inside an ancient meteorite?
Harvard professor Avi Loeb theorized that a less explored possibility is that our universe was created in the laboratory of an advanced technological civilization. Since our universe has a flat geometry with “zero net energy,” an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling.
Could the extraterrestrial material found in the Khatyrka meteorite have been artificially created millions or billions of years ago by an ancient civilization from another world? Was it part of a much more complex technological structure?
On October 30, 2007, Ken Johnston who was in charge of the Apollo mission imagery, and Richard Hoagland, a former NASA consultant, and American author, held a public press conference in Washington. According to them, NASA had been hiding the truth for more than 40 years that the Apollo mission astronauts discovered traces of ancient civilization on the moon.
Hoagland said that when he first saw the old photos from the Apollo mission that were kept by Johnston in 1995, they had artificial structures, but were edited in the photos presented by NASA.
He personally saw that at the end of the 60s, NASA employees were ordered to paint the moonlit sky on negatives not to mislead the astronauts, because the sky on the moon is black.
Dr. Ken Johnston was selected as Mars One Astronaut Round 2 Candidate but later the program was stopped due to no funding.
According to Johnston, in a series of shots against the black sky, white stripes showed intricate configurations, which were the ruins of huge buildings that once reached a height of several kilometers.
Of course, if such pictures were shown in the public, it could have created chaos in the media. Richard Hoagland showed reporters a snapshot of a huge building: a glass tower. Perhaps, this was one of the tallest structures found on the moon.
On March 21, 1996, a similar briefing was held at the Washington National Press Club where NASA scientists and engineers participating in the moon and Mars programs reported the results of processing the information received. For the first time, the existence on the moon of artificial structures and objects of anthropogenic nature was announced.
Somebody Else Is On The Moon (1970)
It is worth noting that NASA seems to have deliberately leaked information about extraterrestrial intelligence on the moon. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the fact that George Leonard, who published his book “Somebody Else Is On The Moon” in 1970, wrote it on the basis of numerous photographs that he had access to in NASA. It is curious that the entire circulation of his book almost instantly disappeared from store shelves. It is believed that they could have bought it in bulk so that the book would not have been widely distributed
Lunar images by NASA
Leonard wrote in his book that they were assured of the complete lifelessness of the moon, but the data speak differently. He added that before the space age, astronomers had built big telescopes to check the strange activities on the moon that were noticed by both professionals and amateurs.
According to Johnston, the Americans, having been on the moon, discovered the so-called secret of gravity control. Whether this technology was applied in practice in terrestrial conditions is unknown. The lunar race resumed, and now, there are not two participants, as during the Cold War, but at least five. In addition to the United States, they are Russia, China, India, and Japan. The Americans have thawed their lunar program recently. One of the main proponents of this idea was George W. Bush. The States are going to build a base on the moon. Why it is needed, has not yet been told.
Most of the other astronomers are skeptical about the statements of Johnston and Hoagland. After all, these are the people who, in all seriousness, declared their mission to reveal all the secrets of NASA, to reveal all the information that, according to them, the agency is hiding. They even wrote a book and blog on the Internet. As for NASA representatives themselves, they usually do not comment on the statements of rogue scientists.
In the 2007 press release, Kay Ferrari, JPL’s Director of the SSA program, asked Johnston to resign. It was Johnston “being quoted [as] criticizing NASA in Hoagland’s new book, ‘Dark Mission,'” that prompted her to ask for Johnston’s resignation from the SSA Program. When Dr. Johnston refused, citing First Amendment protections of free speech afforded all NASA employees, even those at JPL, Ferrari apparently decided to remove him arbitrarily from the SSA Program, as stated in the press release.
After his abrupt departure, he indicated that he was tired of the US government sitting on evidence for more than four decades, evidence that ancient alien cities exist on the Moon. The low-quality pictures included in the book depict ruins of buildings, huge dome-like objects made of glass, stone towers, and castles hanging in the air.
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New Michael Salla: Did ISS Live Camera Reveal ET Space Fleet Participating in Disclosure Initiative?
New Michael Salla: Did ISS Live Camera Reveal ET Space Fleet Participating in Disclosure Initiative?
On May 6, a formation of more than 30 UFOs was captured by one of the live cameras of the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment gives a spectacular high altitude live feed of Earth as the ISS orbits at an altitude of approximately 250 miles (400 km) at over 17,000 mph (27,600 km/h).
During the live feed a large formation of disk-shaped UFOs appeared and moved across the full visual field of the camera before disappearing. According to information received by Elena Danaan, a former professional French archeologist, the UFOs belong to cooperating extraterrestrial organizations that are part of an officially sanctioned disclosure plan being conducted with an Earth Alliance.
This is the video version of an article published on May 12 on Exopolitics.org and is narrated by the author Dr. Michael Salla
Guy Summons UFO With Meditation, Camden, Maine, May 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Guy Summons UFO With Meditation, Camden, Maine, May 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 12, 2022 Location of sighting:Camden, Maine, USA
Source:Email (send all reports to scwaring@yahoo.com)
Hey check this out. A reader on my website sent in a video today that started with him trying to intimidate a meditative contact with a UFO. To use meditation to call it to come closer. This has been a thing since the old Fox News Las Vegas video in 2010 of a man calling UFOs on TV news! Anyways, it works, I've done it myself, stay calm, focus the thoughts on a mental sentence and project it out into the sky. Make sure to be outside, rooftop, park open area works. Just say in your mind with kindness and love in your heart (they can sense your feelings)..."Hello my brothers and sisters from far away, we are one, please come to me." And it will work, like it did the first time I ever used it. Just as this eyewitness in the video used a similar technique to mentally call them.
Scott C. Waring - Tiawan
Eyewitness states:
I used meditation after watching a documentary and The UFO appeared. After completing my daily walk from Camden harbor to Rockport harbor had previously witnessed a UFO. Upon watching a documentary that afternoon about how to meditate to summon UFOs I perform the act at the Camden library Park in Camden Maine. I looked up I said a few people visiting and Saw a hovering tic tac shaped craft that I proceeded to follow and film.
A man was able to film a mysterious humanoid on his house’s roof
A man was able to film a mysterious humanoid on his house’s roof
A guy in a rural Mexican town noticed weird sounds coming from outside. Even though he was afraid, he decided to look at his video camera. After hearing some rustling sounds, the man took out his camera to get a better view. The man realized he was looking in the wrong place after hearing a strange pitched sound. From the other side, a towering, extraterrestrial-like creature emerged on the house’s roof, staring down at the guy.
The weird humanoid disappeared after a few seconds, and the guy, terrified, chooses to turn the other way and go back to his home.
Check out the video here and share your thoughts about what you saw. Is it possible? Or, we are looking at an edited video?
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UFO Sightings by Canadian Commercial Pilots are Up and the Military and Government Take Notice
UFO Sightings by Canadian Commercial Pilots are Up and the Military and Government Take Notice
While all eyes will be on the U.S. congressional hearing on unidentified aerial vehiclesscheduled to be held in Washington D.C. next week, those looking for a good preparation would do well to look to the north to Canada, where CTVNews.ca revealed that the country’s then Minister of Defence received a briefing on UFOs back in June 2021—a briefing that the media has now made public which shows Canadian commercial pilots have had many UFO encounters and the Canadian military is serious about investigating them. Is Canada ahead of the U.S. in UFO research and disclosure?
“I believe it is prudent to request a full briefing for Minister Sajjan from the Canadian perspective on this issue.”
Harjit Sajjan is a former CAF lieutenant-colonel and the current minister of international development. In May 2021, Sajjan’s then chief of staff George Young saw the flurry of activity in the U.S. government surrounding military UFO reports and demanded a briefing be put together. CTVNews.ca recently obtained the briefing after numerous requests and found it reported there were about 1,000 UFO sightings annually in Canada. Commercial and military pilot sightings are made to the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS) which is available to the public. Canadians interested in UFO sightings by the general public can check with Ufology Research, the organization operated by prominent UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski. Rutkowski was involved in compiling data for the Defence Minister’s briefing (read it here), which included examples of unexplained UAPs in Canadian airspace.
Recent examples include:
- 23 December 2018 (Yarmouth, NS). Lights were reported by both a witness on land and one at sea. Three primary radar returns were recorded at the observed location.
- 9 May 2021 (Hudson Bay, SK). A Delta Air Lines Inc. Boeing 737-900 from Fairbanks, AK to Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN was cruising at 39,000 ft when the pilot asked ATC about traffic well above them and moving right to left.
In addition, the briefing revealed that the Defence Research Board (DRB) conducted research into reported flying saucers near North Bay, ON, in the 1950s, and responsibility for UFO reporting in the 1960s went to the National Research Council (NRC), which was supported by the RCMP. Rutkowski’s name figures prominently in the briefing – in 1995 the NRC and RCMP stopped their investigations and ‘Non-Meteoric Sightings’ reports switched to Rutkowski and the University of Manitoba, which to this day assists in archiving his Canadian UFO Survey files.
That 2021 Canadian briefing should be a template for the 2022 U.S briefing. It describes how the various organizations work together to share UAP data -- NAV Canada manages UAP-related reporting, CAF (via NORAD) monitors and tracks all air traffic approaching and traveling through North American airspace, reports of unidentifiable occurrences are done via a CIRVIS (Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings) report directed to the nearest Air Traffic Control or Flight Information Centre, and CIRVIS reports related to UFO/UAP are directed to Chris Rutkowski. It sound like the Canadian government has a UFO reporting and investigation system in place and working well, doesn’t it?
Does Canada have any better UFO photos?
“We are long past the era of UFOs being a subject of ridicule. Well-trained observers have reported sightings of UFOs and UAP and there seems to be a renewed interest by both scientists and the military establishment in taking a closer look at this persistent phenomenon.”
Rutkowski thinks so, but opposition defence critic Kerry-Lynne Findlay told CTVNews.ca Canadians deserve more:
“We believe the government should adopt a streamlined, whole-of-government approach to standardize the collection of reports across numerous departments and contractors, such as NAV Canada. Efforts should be undertaken to investigate and make those findings public in a responsible manner.”
Again, this sounds like a perfect blueprint for the Pentagon’s investigations into UAPs and reporting the data and conclusions to Congress and the public. Let’s hope they follow it. Kudos are also in order for CTV News and its reporting team for doggedly pursuing and eventually obtaining the Sajjan briefing.
Astronomer Catches Disk Shaped UFO While Viewing The Moon!
Amateur Astronomer catches Disk shaped UFO as he was recording the moon. I would like to show you a few other cases of UFOs that were captured by astronomers as they record the moon and to get your opinion to what the objects could be.
Megaplatanos is a little village located outside of Athens. It is mostly inhabited by farmers and shepherds who work in the fields and mountains from early morning until nightfall, as do other Greek communities. On September 2nd, 1990, at about 9 p.m., a few people who happened to be standing outdoors staring up at the sky, have noticed a few odd lights in the sky. It was a group of five or six mysterious flying objects approaching from the north, one of which was flying unpredictably. Witnesses reported observing odd lights emitted by the troubled plane, causing it to lose altitude and crash into a close mountain. The Megaplatanos crash is recognized as Greece’s Roswell event.
Mysterious lights over Greece
The mysterious lights were originally seen hovering over central Greece. According to reports, over a dozen of these objects were hovering across the sky about that time. They were observed flying north, past the city of Thessaloniki, close to Mount Pentelicus. The ships eventually shifted direction and proceeded south into the Peloponnese area. They changed direction and proceeded back towards central Greece from there. One of the UFOs appeared to shift colors and started flying erratically at that moment. As those objects settled in Atalanti, the troubled UFO fell quickly and crashed on the southern section of Tympristos, a tiny hill located a few kilometers outside Megaplatanos. On the crest of this hill is a modest church known as the Church of Prophet Elias. The object was believed to have crashed just yards away from the church. This event happened on Sunday night around 9:30 p.m.
People who witnessed these objects have reported that the other UFOs have headed towards the crashed one and very quickly backed up towards the sky. Some thought that was some sort of well-organized recovery mission for the crashed UFO.
Megaplantos UFO crash site
One family bears testimony
The Karadratu family observed bright lights lighting up the dark sky for almost 15 minutes. They overheard 3 loud explosions before noticing that one of the flying objects had gotten brighter and closer to them. They saw it fall approximately a kilometer away from their house, the object had seemed to be damaged or on fire. The family has reported that they saw a black smoke after the crash happened. They also added that other UFOs have fallen near the grounded craft and had started circulating it. The objects’ lights were so strong that they were able to light up a section of the mountain.
The family explained that they were just standing there, looking. Then, they moved in closer to get a better look. The husband noticed some sort of movement in front of the burning item, like shadows passing back and forth, but they couldn’t tell if they were humanoid or not. They also said that in the dazzling circle that formed around the large item, the shadows were doing something. They had been there from approximately 10 a.m. on Sunday until about 3 a.m. on Monday.
Mrs. Karadratu has claimed that they only felt safe approaching the crash site after the sun had risen. When they began investigating, they discovered charred dirt and a few burned pine trees. One of the trees also had its bottom trunk burnt. Mr. Karadratu’s skin burned up within seconds of touching the tree. They both noticed two little holes in the ground where the impact looked to have occurred. The Karadratus came upon a strange small spherical object with what seemed to have two antennas close or in the holes. The object also had a lightning bolt symbol on it.
The Karadratus spotted creatures from a distance but couldn’t tell whether they were humans or not because they had been around a kilometer away and the dazzling lights and fire made it nearly impossible to detect certain anatomical traits. They were aware, however, that these entities or shadows began moving quickly around the wrecked vessel.
Photo of the UFO crash site
Police and scientists’ look into it
The Fthiotida Police Department had arrived quickly. Strange lights and a possible accident near Prophet Elias’ church have been noticed across the hamlet. They could only see traces of a bush fire during their initial assessment of the location. When the cops met the Karadratus, that had been on the site since earlier that day, they were handed the circular item they had discovered.
Mr. Panetsos, the director of the police department, discovered no evidence of a downed aircraft except the burnt soil and the object supplied to them by the Karadratus. He recruited the assistance of Mr. Zisimopoulos, the deputy prosecutor, who demanded a thorough study of the alleged accident scene. Various additional metals were found there, none of which were larger than 12 cm. The materials were sent to the Tanagra Air Force Base, which is around 90 kilometers south of the accident site.
Tanagra AFB determined that the artifacts weren’t something unseen before and were most likely bits from an outdated fighter plane. The Air Force Research and Technology Center (KETA-ETHM) examined the location, however, and came to a different conclusion. On October 19th, 1990, the incident report said:
They have confirmed that the UFO had scorched the grass and plants within a 200-meter radius. The following items had been found in the debris: Fragments of an 11cm diameter copper female plug with Arabic numbers in the center. A set of copper multipin cables is attached to the previously described plug. These cables’ insulation was constructed of silk, such as fabric and Teflon. A circular burned rubber cover. A ring made of steel. Each steel bar was 10cm long. Two regulators with the Greek letter F at their bases were located at the bottom. Given the alphabetical and numerical clues, the debris discovered was of terrestrial origin. It was archaic technology, perhaps remnants of an earlier satellite. The measurements, construction, and wiring, all contributed to this realization. The origin of the satellite was probably from the Soviet Union or Europe, as the metric system in centimeters and meters is only used in these portions of the world. The letter F is most likely from the Soviet Union because they used and still are using this Greek letter in its Cyrillic alphabet and possess the technology for such a gadget.
Debris from a UFO crash site
An investigation gone wrong
Many Greek Ufologists dismissed the theories of a fallen satellite or metal fragments from an outdated jet fighter plane. One of them was Socrates Ekaterinidis. He wrote for various newspapers and spoke out about the tragedy on Greek radio. He said that KETA-allegation ETHM’s of a fallen satellite lacked substantiation because no wreckage or even a modest impact crater had been discovered. He further claimed that the Air Force Base had overlooked the fact that one of the items had an unusual lightning bolt symbol. Why they had missed this discovery fueled his assumptions of a military cover-up or poor inquiry work. Mr. Ekaterinidis maintains that the police did not detect any inscription on the metal objects, including the Greek letter F.
To add to the confusion, the director of the Astronomical Institute of the National Observatory of Athens issued a statement suggesting that this was a meteor crash. Mr. Makris never visited the spot or looked into any eyewitnesses or police records. Nonetheless, he issued the following statement:
He had stated that the whole thing does not have an extraterrestrial origin. During that period (September 1990), the Earth’s orbit comes close to a flock of meteors known as Persians. Because of their fast speed, these meteorites produce significant friction and burn when they approach the Earth’s atmosphere at a height of around one hundred kilometers. As a result, the entire planet witnessed flashes. When it comes to meteors, they might be man-made satellites. As more satellite fragments are destroyed, they burn in the atmosphere. The phenomenon might potentially be caused by aberrant refractions or reflections of earthly lights in the atmosphere. Even the lights from a fleet of automobiles may produce such a beautiful scene. He also added that any other theories are nothing else but nonsense and a result of imagination or mass hysteria.
When many UFO investigators questioned the Atalanti police, they said that no investigative body ever took the testimonies of dozens of people who observed the unusual UFO lights and the crash near the village of Megaplatanos. According to what is known, just a few photographs obtained by the authorities and the Karadratu family have been shown to the general public.
Greece’s Roswell
In contrast to the 1947 occurrence in Roswell, New Mexico, the alleged UFO crash in Greece received practically zero public notice. This complicates the research since none of the initial UFO investigators shared their results with the rest of the globe. Greece has failed to completely embrace the modern era, despite its ancient magnificence and rich cultural and historical achievements.
These parts of Greece have shown a refusal to keep up with current times which can be both positive and detrimental. So, it’s understandable that knowledge concerning the alleged UFO encounters and crashes in 1990 may have been deeply buried and forgotten over years. The majority of folks have no idea that the Megaplatanos crash happened. This is because the sole knowledge regarding the occurrence comes from some of the locals who still live in Megaplatanos, that remember that event when the Greek sky was lighted by weird lights.
We’ve Now Seen Planet-Forming Disks Around Hundreds of Young Stars. What Do They Tell Us?
We’ve Now Seen Planet-Forming Disks Around Hundreds of Young Stars. What Do They Tell Us?
Is our Solar System comparable to other solar systems? What do other systems look like? We know from exoplanet studies that many other systems have hot Jupiters, massive gas giants that orbit extremely close to their stars. Is that normal, and our Solar System is the outlier?
One way of addressing these questions is to study the planet-forming disks around young stars to see how they evolve. But studying a large sample of these systems is the only way to get an answer. So that’s what a group of astronomers did when they surveyed 873 protoplanetary disks.
Mass is the critical piece in a new study into planet-forming disks. The disk’s mass determines how much matter is available to form planets. By measuring the disks’ mass around young stars, astronomers can constrain the total mass of planets that might form there and get one step closer to understanding solar system architecture.
“Up to now, we didn’t know for sure which properties dominate the evolution of planet-forming disks around young stars,” van Terwisga said in a press release. “Our new results now indicate that in environments without any relevant external influence, the observed disk mass available for forming new planets only depends on the age of the star-disk system.”
The dust mass not only tells astronomers the mass of planets that might form from a disk. Depending on the disk’s age, it could also tell astronomers what planets have already formed.
But other factors affect disk mass too, and those factors vary from disk to disk. Things like stellar wind and irradiation from nearby stars outside the disk can also affect mass. So how were the researchers able to isolate those effects in such a large sample?
They focused on a well-known region of protoplanetary disks called the Orion A cloud, which is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex (OMCC). The OMCC is about 1350 light-years away and home to the well-studied Orion Nebula, a feature even backyard astronomers can see.
The Herschel Space Telescope captured this image of the giant Orion A star-forming cloud. It traces the large-scale distribution of cold dust. Orion A is about 1350 light-years away and consists of individual star-forming regions indicated by their labels. The locations of planet-forming disks (+) observed with ALMA are indicated, while disks with dust masses above 100 earth masses appear as blue dots. The famous Orion Nebula, visible to the naked eye in the sky, hosts the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), including several massive stars emitting intense radiation. Image: S.E. van Terwisga et al./MPIA
Álvaro Hacar is a co-author of the study and a scientist at the University of Vienna, Austria. “Orion A provided us with an unprecedented large sample size of more than 870 disks around young stars,” Hacar said. “It was crucial to be able to look for small variations in the disk mass depending on age and even on the local environments inside the cloud.”
This is a good sample because all disks belong to the same cloud. That means their chemistry is uniform, and they all have the same history. The nearby Orion Nebular Cluster (ONC) hosts some massive stars that could affect other disks, so the team rejected any disks in Orion A closer than 13 light-years to the ONC.
Measuring the mass of all these disks was tricky. The team used the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the dust. ALMA can be tuned to different wavelengths, so the team observed the young disks at a 1.2 mm wavelength. At that wavelength, the dust is bright, but the star is dim, which helps eliminate the effect of the star in each disk. Since observing at 1.2 mm makes the observations insensitive to objects larger than a few mm—for example, planets that have already formed—the team’s measurements measured only dust available to form new planets.
This artistic impression illustrates what planet-forming disks around young stars often look like. They initially consist of dust and gas configured into rings of dense material. In time, the solid components grow into pebbles which eventually can evolve into planets. Since the ALMA observations used in this study are only sensitive to millimetre-sized dust grains, evolved disks with larger objects or even planets produce a relatively faint signal from the remnant material. The new results indicate that without external irradiation, such disks evolve similarly. After about a million years, most of them do not have enough mass to produce large planets like Jupiter. However, such planets may already have formed there. Image Credit: MPIA graphics department
Measuring dust without interference from stars was one hurdle, but the researchers faced another one: data.
A detailed survey of almost 900 protoplanetary disks creates a lot of data, and all that data has to be processed before it has any collective meaning. If the team had relied on existing methods, it would have taken about six months to process all that data. Instead, they developed their own method to handle the data using parallel processing. What would’ve taken months took less than one day. “Our new approach improved the processing speed by a factor of 900,” co-author Raymond Oonk said.
When they processed the data, the researchers found that most of the disks held only 2.2 Earth masses of dust. Only 20 of the almost 900 disks held enough dust for 100 or more Earths. “In order to look for variations, we have dissected the Orion A cloud and analyzed these regions separately. Thanks to the hundreds of disks, the sub-samples were still sufficiently large to yield statistically meaningful results,” van Terwisga explained.
The researchers found some variability in disk dust mass in different regions of Orion A, but the variations were minimal. The age effect can account for the variations, according to the authors. As disks age, the disk mass declines, and clusters of disks the same age have the same mass distribution. “We must stress that the differences between these clusters, which are located far from each other on the sky, are small and not highly significant relative to each other and to the field, even in the most extreme cases,” the authors write in their paper.
This figure shows the six low-mass and low-density clusters of YSOs in the study. Despite their wide distribution in Orion A, the disks show the same mass-age correlation. Image Credit: S.E. van Terwisga et al. 2022.
It’s expected that as disks age their dust mass decreases. Planetary formation accounts for most of that decrease: what was once dust becomes planets. But other effects contribute to dust loss, too. Dust can migrate towards the disk center, and irradiation from the host star can evaporate the dust. But this study strengthens the correlation between age and dust loss.
Can the results from this study apply to other young star-disk populations? The authors compared their results from Orion A with several neighbouring star-forming regions with young disks. Most of them, but not all, fit with the age-related mass loss seen in Orion A. “Altogether, we think our study proves that at least within the next 1000 light-years or so, all populations of planet-forming disks show the same mass distribution at a given age. And they seem to be evolving in more or less the same way,” van Terwisga said.
The researchers have more work they’d like to do. They’re going to examine the effect smaller stars can have on a smaller scale of a few light years. In this study, they avoided the effect that massive stars in the ONC can have on neighbouring disks. But smaller background stars could still be affecting the disks, and they might explain some of the small variations in the age-mass correlation.
The age of the star and its disk, the chemical properties, and the dynamics of the parent cloud all combine with mass to paint a clearer picture of the solar system that arises from the disk. Astronomers aren’t able to take data like this and predict what type of planets might form in any given Solar System. But it’s remarkable that the correlation between disk age and disk mass is strong, even across large structures like Orion A.
“The remarkably homogeneous properties of disk samples of the same age are a surprising finding,” the authors conclude, and their results confirm what previous studies and surveys hinted at. “Now, however, we can show this applies to a larger number of YSOs and YSO clusters, forming in well-separated parts of the same giant cloud. For the first time, the unprecedented size of the SODA (Survey of Orion Disks with Alma) disk sample allows us to zoom in on the effects of age gradients and clustering in a single star-forming region.”
Astronomers Finally Catch a Nova Detonating on a White Dwarf as it's Happening
Astronomers Finally Catch a Nova Detonating on a White Dwarf as it's Happening
On July 7, 2020, the X-ray instrument eROSITA captured an astronomical event that – until then – had only been theorized and never seen. It saw the detonation of a nova on a white dwarf star, which produced a so-called fireball explosion of X-rays.
“It was to some extent a fortunate coincidence, really,” said Ole König from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), who led the team of scientists who have published a new paper on the discovery. “These X-ray flashes last only a few hours and are almost impossible to predict, but the observational instrument must be pointed directly at the explosion at exactly the right time.”
A white dwarf is a small, very dense star that forms when a low-mass star uses up all its fuel. Typically, white dwarfs are the size of a planet. Sometimes these dead stars flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation, and then it gradually returns to its original brightness. As opposed to a supernova, which is an explosion of a star where most of the material is ejected from the star, a nova does not eject much mass of the star and can occur several times in the life of a white dwarf.
“These so-called novae do happen all the time but detecting them during the very first moments when most of the X-ray emission is produced is really hard,” said Dr. Victor Doroshenko from Tübingen University, also part of the research team. “Not only the short duration of a flash is a challenge, but also the fact that the spectrum of emitted X-rays is very soft. Soft X-rays are not very energetic and easily absorbed by interstellar medium, so we cannot see very far in this band, which limits the number of observable objects, be it a nova or ordinary star. Telescopes are normally designed to be most effective in harder X-rays where absorption is less important, and that’s exactly the reason why they would miss an event like this!”
eROSITA is the primary instrument on-board the Russian-German Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, which – like the James Webb Space Telescope – is in a halo orbit around the second Lagrange point. It has been in space since 2019 is conducting the first all-sky survey in the medium energy X-ray range (up to 10 keV).
The existence of a ‘fireball’ phase immediately after the runaway fusion nova event has been theorized for 30 years. Scientists predicted it should be observable as a short, bright and soft X-ray flash before the nova becomes visible in the optical range. The trick to seeing it, as König said, is to have your telescope pointed at the right place at the right time.
In their paper, published in Nature, the team said that no X-ray source was detected 4?hours on either side of when the visible flash was detected, which constrains the duration of the flash to shorter than 8?hours.
eROSITA saw YZ Reticuli, the star at the center of the explosion, with seven different cameras. This is a composite image of those views. Credit: Koenig et al
The nova happened on YZ Reticuli, also known as Nova Reticuli 2020, which was a naked eye nova in the constellation Reticulum discovered on July 15, 2020. Previously it was known as a VY Sculptoris type object with the designation MGAB-V207. Nova Reticuli 2020 was spotted by veteran comet hunter Robert McNaught from Coonabarabran, Australia. It was visible in the southern hemisphere for several days, and just barely visible to the naked eye.
“The physical origin of X-ray emission coming from white dwarf atmospheres is relatively well understood, and we can model their spectra from first principles and in exquisite detail,” said Dr. Valery Suleimanov, also from Tübingen University. “Comparison of models with observations allows then to learn basic properties of these objects such as weight, size, or chemical composition.”
“The problem in this particular case,” added Doroshenko, “was, however, that, after 30 years with no photons we suddenly had too many, which distorted the spectral response of eROSITA, which was designed to detect millions of very faint objects rather than one but very bright.”
Since these novae run out of fuel very quickly, they cool rapidly and the X-ray radiation be-comes weaker until it eventually becomes visible light. Since these novae are only visible after the X-ray flash, it is very difficult to predict such outbreaks and it is mainly down to chance when they hit the X-ray detectors. The visible light reached Earth 12 hours after the eROSITA detection, when it was first observed by McNaught.
“A seemingly bright star then appeared, which was actually the visible light from the explosion, and so bright that it could be seen on the night sky by the bare eye,” said König. “We were really lucky.”
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
On April 10th, 2019, the international consortium known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) announced the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The image showed the bright disk surrounding the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy (aka. Virgo A). In 2021, they followed up on this by acquiring an image of the core region of the Centaurus A galaxy and the radio jet emanating from it. Earlier this month, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that the EHT would be sharing the results from its latest campaign – observations of Sagittarius A*!
This supermassive black hole resides at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 27,000 light-years from Earth, 44 million km (27.34 million mi) in diameter, and has a mass of 4.31 million Suns. The campaign’s results were shared in an ESO press release and a series of live-streamed press conferences worldwide, including the ESO Headquarters in Munich, Germany. The team’s results (which were shared in six papers) were also published today in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Since the 1970s, astronomers have speculated about the existence of SMBHs, which were believed to be why massive galaxies had such energetic core regions. Also known as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), or “quasars,” these regions are known to temporarily outshine all of the stars contained in their disks. In some cases, jets of superheated material (relativistic jets) have also been found emanating from them at a fraction of the speed of light.
The study of SMBHs has led to new theories about how galaxies formed and evolved in our Universe and has allowed astronomers to test the laws of physics under the most extreme conditions (i.e., Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity). Until 2019 the study of these massive black holes was confined to observing their effect on the surrounding environment. In particular, astronomers have noted how the gravitational forces of SMBHs cause gas and dust to fall in around their outer edges (the Event Horizon).
This matter is then accelerated to relativistic speed and slowly be accreted onto the faces of the black hole, releasing the tremendous amounts of energy that allow AGNs to outshine their galactic disks. However, visualizing these massive objects in telescopes is extremely difficult because they are nestled within the tightly packed group of stars at the galaxy’s center (aka. the “galactic bulge”), which produces a tremendous amount of light interference.
But thanks to a technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), where telescopes worldwide combine light to achieve high-resolution imaging, astronomers at the EHT Collaboration created a virtual telescope with an aperture equivalent in size to the Earth. When concentrated on an object that is difficult to resolve, this telescope can gather light over time and reconstruct an image of what it looks like (similar to a long exposure time with a camera).
This allowed the EHT team to image the bright Event Horizon around the M87 supermassive black hole (M87*) for the first time and has led to new insights on several other SMBHs. For example, the EHT also observed Sgr A* on multiple nights in 2017 and collected data for several hours straight. The latest image shows the Event Horizon of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) and is the first definitive evidence of this SMBHs existence.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) looking up at the Milky Way and the location of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our galactic center. Credit: ESO
Geoffrey Bower, an EHT Project Scientist from the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, spoke of the results in an ESO press release. “We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity,” he said. “These unprecedented observations have greatly improved our understanding of what happens at the very center of our galaxy and offer new insights on how these giant black holes interact with their surroundings.”
As noted, the EHT Collaboration is an international effort that includes facilities worldwide, which includes the ESO’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in northern Chile. ESO Director General Xavier Barcons was also part of the press conference and expressed his support for the Collaboration and its latest results.
“It is very exciting for ESO to have been playing such an important role in unraveling the mysteries of black holes, and of Sgr A* in particular, over so many years,” he said. “ESO not only contributed to the EHT observations through the ALMA and APEX facilities but also enabled, with its other observatories in Chile, some of the previous breakthrough observations of the Galactic center.”
While the image of Sagittarius A* looks remarkably similar to M87*, there are some significant differences between the two. For one, our galaxy’s SMBH is more than a thousand times smaller and less massive than M87* – about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun. However, the edges of both black holes look very similar, which the team concludes is the result of General Relativity governing these objects up close. At the same time, differences seen further away are due to differences in the material surrounding them.
“The gas in the vicinity of the black holes moves at the same speed – nearly as fast as light – around both Sgr A* and M87*. But where gas takes days to weeks to orbit the larger M87*, in the much smaller Sgr A* it completes an orbit in mere minutes. This means the brightness and pattern of the gas around Sgr A* were changing rapidly as the EHT Collaboration was observing it – a bit like trying to take a clear picture of a puppy quickly chasing its tail.”
In short, M87* was a steadier target than Sgr A*, where nearly all of the images acquired looked the same because its rapid velocity created the appearance of uniformity. In contrast, the images of Sgr A* the team extracted were markedly different, owing to the slower velocity of matter in the accretion disk. The EHT researchers had to develop new tools to account for this and provide an average of all the different images.
To achieve this, the team worked rigorously for five years, using supercomputers to combine and analyze their data and creating an unprecedented library of simulated black holes to compare with the observations. Because of this,s scientists will now have images of two black holes with very different sizes and offers, which offers opportunities to test the laws of physics under different domains. Scientists have already begun to use the data to test theories and models of how gas behaves around SMBHs.
While this process is not yet well-understood, it is thought to play a key role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Said EHT scientist Keiichi Asada from the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taipei:
“Now we can study the differences between these two supermassive black holes to gain valuable new clues about how this important process works. We have images for two black holes – one at the large end and one at the small end of supermassive black holes in the Universe – so we can go a lot further in testing how gravity behaves in these extreme environments than ever before.”
The results of the EHT Collaboration’s observation campaign (contained in six studies) were also shared in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Whereas the first paper presents a summary of their overall findings, papers II, III, and IV demonstrate how the lower mass and shorter dynamical scale of Sgr A* led to complexity with the imaging and data analysis. In Paper V, researchers combine the EHT results with extensive multi-wavelength constraints to explore the accretion and outflow physics of Sgr A*.
In Paper VI, researchers present infrared measurements of stellar orbits around Sgr A* to constrain the mass, distance, and ring diameter of Sgr A* to approximately 1% accuracy, enabling precision explorations of gravitational physics. Additional papers not performed by the EHT collaboration are also provided that address the possibility of dynamical VLBI imaging, a new analysis of the data obtained by the 2017 campaign, evaluating simulated images of black holes, and black-hole image reconstruction.
US Drone X-47B Held By China Military! Google Earth Map! Video, UFO Sighting News.
US Drone X-47B Held By China Military! Google Earth Map! Video, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of discovery: May 11, 2022
Location of discovery: China
Guys I found this on Google map the other day and made this video about it. I found two different aircraft there and I also found five military trucks which carry ballistic nuclear missiles. This is so small of an area that I would say it covered less than half a mile. Still the drone they have is very similar to the US Navy X-47B. Also there is a J-20 military jet there. No UFO or alien involved, but I really thought this was something strange.
Please forgive the video, my mic broke the day before, so I am waiting on a new one tomorrow.
The photographs analyzed here was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (2022-05-07 07:58:16 UTC) and Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (2022-05-07 07:59:02 UTC).
The anomalies featured here look like typical entranceways cut into a rockface or slope you would find here on Earth, e.g. in Egypt.
In the one it looks like there is a ramp leading up to and into the entranceway, there seems to be a perfect straight edge frame and possibly cracked plaster on the inside wall.
I speculate the first anomaly to be a couple of meters tall. There also seems to be an object to the bottom right of the opening which may have covered the opening.
In the second anomaly we see similar right angles and straight edges (One side seems to reveal a wall or slab of uniform thickness as well as a peculiar dark like running diagonally across the opening).
When it comes to trust or not the available news stories about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and extraterrestrials, there are very less credible sources. The authorities responsible to make official statements regarding the subject often leave the people in doubt. Either they are hiding the bigger secrets or waiting for the world to get ready for them. That is why to keep the conversation going on, people like Luis Elizondo have shared the information that might be holding some truth. As they have closely worked with the government.
It is more than 4 years since that New York Times article revealing the existence of the secret program (AATI) funded by the United States Army to investigate UFOs. Luis Elizondo ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATI) from 2007 to 2012. Since then, he has spoken about various incidents that happened to the US pilots and possibilities of alien existence.
Since the disclosure, several pilots have come forward to discuss what they saw. Many characterize the objects as having strange shapes and defying the laws of physics as they hurtle through the air.
According to Luis Elizondo, several military pilots reported strange burns after chasing UFOs. Image credit: Katie Simpson/CBC
To make matters worse, Elizondo has publicly stated his experiences, providing interesting information. among such data, he has suggested that some pilots suffered physical symptoms after their UFO encounters.
In his interview with GQ, Elizondo suggested that pilots who had encountered the UFO had ended up with physical symptoms, although his phrasing was ambiguous.
“I’ve got to be careful, I can’t speak too specifically, but one might imagine that you get a report from a pilot who says, “Lue, it’s really weird. I was flying and I got close to this thing and I came back home and it was like I got a sunburn. I was red for four days.” Well, that’s a sign of radiation. That’s not a sunburn; it’s a radiation burn.”
This has caused many theorists to speculate on the possibility that these objects “defend” themselves in an unknown way from terrestrial pursuits. Or that the propulsion used is totally different from what we know.
Elizondo even went so far as to say that other pilots also experienced space-time warping. “It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel.” He said that the closer such objects got, the more they began to experience variations in space-time relative to the vehicle and the environment. This was said in reference to one of the theories about the objects, which mentions that they alter the space-time around the ship to move at incredible speeds.
He also mentioned that there are more unpublished videos about these mysterious unknown phenomena.
“I was talking to pilots routinely. There’s videos out there [in government, that the public haven’t seen] – there’s one that’s 23 minutes long. There’s another one where this thing is 50 feet away from the cockpit. I mean, it ain’t ours. We know that. Sometimes you just couldn’t believe it – you’d have seven or eight incidents in a single day. I’d get these emails from an admiral or a ship’s captain saying, “Lue, what do you want me to do? I can’t keep people below deck forever. These things are swarming my ship, they’re all over the place.”
Apart from these claims of radiation burn and space-time wrap, Elizondo embraces the theory of the “Zoo Hypothesis.” (Click here to read the full article)
“What if it turns out that there’s another species that is even higher on that ladder than we are? Do we need the social institutions that we have today, do we need government and religious organizations that we have today, if it turns out that there is something else or someone else that is technologically more advanced and, perhaps from an evolutionary perspective, more advanced? Have we been wasting our time all this time? Or are we doing exactly as we are supposed to be doing?
The recently published book “Skinwalkers at The Pentagon” talks about the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), which was a continuation of AATIP. In the book, the researchers explain how this phenomenon has been documented with much evidence that the “phenomena” infect humans.
The AAWSAP investigated UFO sightings, analyzed UFO incursions on US military bases, and studied many strange phenomena that government investigators encountered at Skinwalker Ranch.
Encountering UFOs often resulted in “attaching” strange phenomena to military personnel who visited the ranch and brought “something” home to their families, resulting in frightening paranormal outbreaks in their families that terrorized and sometimes injured their children.
Published in 1975, “The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race” was Jacques Vallee’s fourth work on the puzzling UFO/contactee phenomena. That time, he first put forward his idea that these phenomena were some kind of ‘control system’ on human consciousness. (Click here to read the full article)
According to Dr. Vallée, the basic idea is that UFOs are essentially a “show” put on for people to generate some sort of reaction, and have been operating on human culture for all of recorded history.
The 100 year UFO ET Cover Up – Timeline of events, people and organizations
The 100 year UFO ET Cover Up – Timeline of events, people and organizations
Dan Willis served with the US Navy where he first encountered evidence of a UFO/ET coverup in 1969. He was among a select group of 20 insiders/whistleblowers who came forward to share their testimony about the coverup in the famous May 2001 Disclosure Project press conference held in Washington DC.
In this interview, Dan covers his background, participation in the Disclosure Project, and his timeline of the UFO extraterrestrial cover up dating back to 1922. Key events discussed include Maria Orsic, the Third Reich’s flying saucer program, Temporal War, Antarctica, Operation Highjump, President Eisenhower’s meetings and agreements, and how these relate to current events.
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko is sure that aliens exist, which is confirmed by the stories of his colleagues who saw UFOs
Although he did not encounter alien creatures, the Russian astronaut admitted that “it’s no secret that they exist.” Kornienko said on a television program:
“I didn’t see aliens, but I’m sure they exist. I was just unlucky.”
Kornienko said: “If the universe is infinite, then it would be presumptuous to suspect or think that we are the only ones. In addition, there is such a science as ufology. This has been confirmed by both our American colleagues and ours.”
At the same time, Mikhail Kornienko unknowingly revealed a little-known fact about the existence of a special USSR program called «Grid», which studied UFOs.
Most citizens were unaware of it due to its “top secret” status.
The secret program became known due to the fact that the topic of investigation of anomalous phenomena was considered from the point of view of its influence on the army and the work of military equipment.
The impetus for the creation of a special program for the study of UFOs was the so-called “Petrozavodsk Phenomenon” in September 1977, when a huge jellyfish-like object was seen in the sky over Petrozavodsk in Russia.
«The ‘Grid’ program was financed with state money. However, its members weren’t the most communicative people, so all we know is a vague description of ‘Grid’ activities.”
The slightest mention of UFOs or aliens in the media was criticized by the KGB, which is why the authors of the studies could not publish their scientific developments.
Then the program changed its name to “Galaxy MO”, and later received another “Horizon MO”, but the tasks remained the same – the study of UFOs.
Unfortunately, all of the Grid materials sold for several thousand US dollars.
The buyer was the CIA, which received materials on 400 of the most mysterious cases of military collisions of Soviet aircraft with UFOs.
But, as Kornienko explained, some information about the work of scientists in the framework of the «Grid» program was still leaked to the press.
“They, as a rule, did not publicize their research. And I know them because a lot of the information has been leaked to the media. It’s not a big secret that this show was real. They found something, systematized and summarized something.
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Martian Dust is Starting to Darken Ingenuity’s Solar Panels
Martian Dust is Starting to Darken Ingenuity’s Solar Panels
Like every solar-panel-powered vehicle on Mars, maintaining electrical power always becomes an issue at some point in the mission. Last week, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. While they were able to re-establish communications, which is done through the Perseverance rover, engineers know that keeping Ingenuity’s batteries charged is going to be increasingly difficult as the dark winter is on the way to Jezero Crater.
The engineering team had to do some trouble-shooting to figure out the issue, but they reported that the communications dropout on May 3, Sol 427 of the Perseverance rover’s mission at Mars, “was a result of the solar-powered helicopter entering a low-power state, potentially due to the seasonal increase in the amount of dust in the Martian atmosphere and lower temperatures as winter approaches.”
The amount of dust on the solar panels diminishes the amount of sunlight hitting the solar array, reducing Ingenuity’s ability to recharge its six lithium-ion batteries. When the battery pack’s state of charge dropped below a lower limit, the helicopter’s field-programmable gate array (FPGA) – basically the operating computer — was powered down.
Animation of one of Ingenuity’s flights, using pictures taken by the helicopter. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech.
Even though Ingenuity flies through the air – and one would anticipate the dust would fly off the helicopter — dust on Mars is different from dust on Earth. Martian dust is electrostatically charged, so it clings to the solar panel’s glass. While many have said every solar powered vehicle on Mars should have a little whisk broom on its robotic arm or something like wiper blades to brush off the dust, engineers have said that would be difficult. The dust is also very gritty, and by trying to wipe it off, the solar panels could get scratched, damaging the panels and making the power problem even worse.
“We have always known that Martian winter and dust storm season would present new challenges for Ingenuity, specifically colder sols, an increase in atmospheric dust, and more frequent dust storms,” said Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos, in a press release. “Every flight and every mile of distance flown beyond our original 30-sol mission has pushed the spacecraft to its limits each and every sol on Mars.”
Best buds. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WASTON camera on the rover’s robotic arm on April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
Ingenuity – the little 1.8 kg (4 pound) helicopter that has flown her way into our spacey hearts — became the first powered aircraft to operate on another world, making its first flight on April 19, 2021. The original mission plan was to make five experimental test flights over a span of 30 Martian days (sols). But Ingenuity has flown 28 times, covering 6.9 kilometers (4.2 miles).
With less sunlight, the batteries did not charge sufficiently and the FPGA lost power during the cold of night. The FPGA manages Ingenuity’s operational state, switching the other avionics elements on and off as needed to maximize power conservation. It also operates the heaters that enable the helicopter to survive frigid Martian nights, maintains precise spacecraft time, and controls when the helicopter is scheduled to wake up for communications sessions with Perseverance.
Ingenuity’s heaters are key to keeping electronics and other components within operational temperatures. As the FPGA turned off, its internal clock reset. JPL said that when the Sun rose the next morning and the solar array began to charge the batteries, the helicopter’s clock was no longer in sync with the clock aboard the rover. Essentially, when Ingenuity thought it was time to contact Perseverance, the rover’s base station wasn’t listening.
As Eric Berger from Ars Technica points out, while Ingenuity was initially viewed as an add-on demonstration mission, it has grown into much than that, and has become a scout for Perseverance, checking out the path ahead.
But when the team lost contact with the helicopter, the decision was made to halt all of Perseverance’s ongoing science activities for a full day to just sit there and listen intently for Ingenuity’s call. Former rover driver Scott Maxwell tweeted out how endearing and heartfelt that feels:
And now, with ‘ingenuity’ of the helicopter and rover teams, they have come up with a plan to keep Ingenuity warm and operating.
They will try to help the helicopter’s battery accumulate enough of a charge during the next few sols so that it could support all necessary spacecraft systems during the cold Martian night. They uplinked new commands to Ingenuity which lowers the point at which the helicopter energizes its heaters from when the battery falls below 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius) to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 40 degrees Celsius). The helicopter then shuts down quickly, rather than consuming the battery charge with the heaters. The team hopes this strategy will allow the battery to retain whatever charge it collected during the day. The Ingenuity engineers hope that after several days of the helicopter’s array soaking in the limited sunlight, the battery will have reached a point where the spacecraft can return to normal operations.
But there are some unknowns if this will work. Ingenuity has several off-the-shelf parts that weren’t designed for the cold of Martian winter.
“Our top priority is to maintain communications with Ingenuity in the next few sols, but even then, we know that there will be significant challenges ahead,” said Tzanetos. “I could not be prouder of our team’s performance over the last year, let alone our aircraft’s incredible achievements on Mars. We are hopeful that we can accumulate battery charge in order to return to nominal operations and continue our mission into the weeks ahead.”
Een zonnevlam is een ontploffing op de oppervlakte van de zon. Zo’n explosie ontstaat wanneer de energie plots vrijkomt die wordt vastgehouden in de magnetische velden van de ster.
Zwaarste aardbeving ooit gemeten op MarsDinsdag explodeerde de zonnevlek genaamd AR3006. De explosie werd door NASA ondergebracht in de X-klasse, ofwel de zwaarste categorie. Dergelijke zonnevlammen kunnen ervoor zorgen dat radioverbindingen en elektriciteitscentrales uitvallen.
Radiostoringen
Volgens de website spaceweather.com veroorzaakte de uitbarsting van dinsdag radiostoringen op de kortegolf in gebieden rond de Atlantische Oceaan. Radio-uitzendingen die werken op frequenties onder 30 MHz kampten met storingen tot meer dan een uur na de zonnevlam.
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) legde de explosie op de zon vast. Deze ruimtesonde van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA monitort sinds 2010 voortdurend de activiteit van de ster.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash towards the middle of the Sun – on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in teal.
Chinese marsover doet verrassende watervondst: “Dit zou heel goed nieuws kunnen zijn voor menselijke ontdekkingsreizigers”
De Chinese Zhurong rover heeft bewijzen gevonden dat er veel langer water op Mars heeft bestaan dan we tot nu toe dachten. De Chinese wetenschappers achten het zelfs mogelijk dat er nog steeds ondergronds water is op de rode planeet.
De belangrijkste missie van de rover, die drie maanden heeft geduurd, was het zoeken naar tekenen van oud leven. Hij heeft onderzoek gedaan naar de mineralen, de omgeving en de verspreiding van water en ijs. De rover verkende zijn landingsplaats en stuurde informatie terug naar de Tianwen-1 orbiter die rond de planeet cirkelde.
De gegevens van de eerste verkenning door de rover suggereren dat het Utopia Planitia bekken water bevatte in een tijd dat veel wetenschappers dachten dat Mars droog en koud was. Mars was ooit warm en nat miljarden jaren geleden, maar iets veranderde en zorgde ervoor dat de planeet de dorre, bevroren woestijn werd die het nu is. De rode planeet kreeg dit soort landschap ongeveer 3 miljard jaar geleden.
Verrassing
“Het meest significante en nieuwe is dat we gehydrateerde mineralen hebben gevonden op de landingsplaats. Die mineralen zijn een indicatie voor de wateractiviteiten”, zei hoofdauteur Yang Liu van de studie.
Deze ontdekking kwam voor onderzoekers als een verrassing, omdat eerdere waarnemingen door orbiters geen tekenen van gehydrateerde mineralen op de landingsplaats aan het licht brachten. “Daarom was de verkenning met de rover zo belangrijk”, zei Yang.
De bevindingen suggereren ook dat er “aanzienlijke voorraden” water in de gehydrateerde mineralen of zelfs grondijs zouden kunnen zitten, die toekomstige menselijke ontdekkingsreizigers zouden kunnen gebruiken tijdens bemande missies naar Mars.
“Een van de belangrijkste bronnen voor menselijke ontdekkingsreizigers is water,” zei Yang. “Gehydrateerde mineralen, die structureel water bevatten, en grondijs kunnen worden gebruikt als de belangrijkste waterbron op Mars.”
Hey, as you already know, I like checking the Mars rover photos on a daily basis and something strange caught my eye. A doorway!
Mars has so much proof of ancient alien life on it. Look at these recent photos taken by the rover this week. Two photos show a doorway into the hillside. The entrance looks very similar to the ancient Egyptian entrances in Vally of the Kings in Egypt. This doorway is about two X the size of the people I have reported finding on Mars over the last decade...which vary from 8 inches to 12 inches tall. With so much concrete evidence (no pun intended) I don't know how archeologists could deny such things. I mean, archeologists became what they are for the passion they have at cracking the mystery of life at different stages. Mars...is proof of life so early it goes beyond anything the Earth has to offer. 100% proof that ancient intelligent species once lived and thrived on Mars.
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Rare blood red sky in Zhoushan, China, 300 years of mystery!
Rare blood red sky in Zhoushan, China, 300 years of mystery!
On the evening of May 7, 2022 a rare red sky appeared in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. The local meteorological bureau of Zhoushan said that the red glow was simply the result of light, likely from fishing boats, reflecting of off low level clouds.
A blogger said that in 1770, there was a bloody sky for nine days in many countries. In 2017, Japanese scientists published a paper in Astrophysics express, believing that the bloody sky event in 1770 was caused by large-scale solar activity.
If it was the case of lights of fisher boats reflecting off low level clouds, then that should happen much more often and people would know and recognize it, but that is not the case here.
I think the red glow is more something like the 1770 event or it could be a test of some sort of (space) weapon.
An odd detail is that magnetic elements fell from the sky after the red glow which can be seen in the following video; it is clear that they cover it up for some reason.
Black Circular UFO Passing The Moon Spotted By Amateur Astronomer In Colombia. May 8, 2022
This object was spotted durning one of Ruben Ariza livestreams from his home in Armenia in Quindío, Colombia on May 8, 2022. In the footage we can see this UFO fly into view leaving Ruben in absolute joy at this sighting. As the craft passes the moon it seems to be casting a shadow on the moon's surface.
Thanks to Ruben Ariza for his diligent work and sharing his work with the world..
In 1666, famed Italian astronomer and mathematician Giovanni Cassini (the man who discovered four of Saturn’s largest moons) observed the Martian polar ice caps for the first time. However, it was not until the late-18th century, when Sir William Herschel recorded his own observations, that the connection to Earth’s own ice caps was established. In his subsequent treatise, “On the remarkable appearances at the polar regions on the planet Mars” (1784), noted how the southern cap grew and shrunk due to seasonal changes.
With the development of modern telescopes and robotic explorers, scientists have learned a great deal more about these polar deposits. In 2011, they learned that unlike the northermost ice sheet, the southern cap is largely composed of frozen carbon dioxide (aka. “dry ice”). According to new research led by the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), glaciers of carbon dioxide ice have been moving and carving features in the southern polar region for more than 600,000 years – and are on the move right now!
The research team was led by Isaac Smith, a former PSI research scientist and an assistant professor of Earth and Space Science at York University in Toronto (where he also holds a Canada Research Chair in Planetary Science). He was joined by geologists, glaciologists, and engineers from the PSI, York University, the Institute of Low-Temperature Science and Arctic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Ice at Mars’ south pole. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Bill Dunford
The presence of carbon dioxide glaciers in Mars’ southern polar region was first confirmed in 2011 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Along with data obtained by the ESA’s Mars Express, scientists noted that they were flowing like glaciers of water ice do here on Earth, based on the surface features they carved in their wake. As Smith described in a recent PSI press release:
“Approximately 600,000 years ago, CO2 ice started forming at the Martian south pole. Due to climate cycles, the ice has increased in volume and mass several times, interrupted by periods of mass loss through sublimation. If the ice had never flowed, then it would mostly be where it was originally deposited, and the thickest ice would only be about 45 meters thick. Instead, because it flowed downhill into basins and spiral troughs – curvilinear basins – where it ponded, it was able to form deposits reaching one kilometer thick.”
These observations also showed that the portion of the ice cap composed of water ice appears to be stationary, remaining at high altitudes. In previous research, which Smith helped contribute to while still with the PSI, scientists investigated the strength properties (aka. flow laws) of the carbon dioxide glaciers to determine why this was happening. Their results indicated that under the types of conditions that exist around the southern polar region, carbon dioxide ice flows were almost 100 times faster than water ice glaciers.
For this, they concluded that the CO2 ice behaves like glaciers here on Earth, which makes the slow-moving water ice cap appear stationary. “The glaciers have enough mass that if sublimated, they would double the atmospheric pressure of the planet,” Smith added, citing a 2018 paper by Than Putzig, a PSI Senior Scientist and co-author on this paper. “The longest glacier is about 200 kilometers long and about 40 kilometers across. These are big!”
Artist’s impression of the ice cap around the South Pole on Mars. Credit: NASA.
For this study, Smith and his colleagues relied on the NASA Ice Sheet and Sea-Level System Model (ISSM) to model the glacier’s movements. When adapted for conditions on the surface of Mars and with CO2, they found that typical methods were not moving the carbon dioxide glaciers. They found that while the activity is ongoing, the flow rates peaked about 400,000 years ago when the deposition was at its greatest. Since their ice is currently decreasing in mass, said Smith, the flow rate of the glaciers is currently in a “slow period”:
“Atmospheric deposition would put the ice in a pattern we don’t see. It would be much more evenly spread and thinner. What the glacier interpretation provides is a mechanism to move the ice from high places, into the lower basins that are also at lower [latitudes].
“If atmospheric deposition were the only process acting on the ice, then most of it would be found at the highest latitude and highest elevation. That’s just not the case. The ice is flowing downhill into basins, much like water flows downhill into lakes. Only glacial flow can explain the distribution we found in 2018.”
This work is bolstered by additional research performed by Smith and his team, which identified several surface features that are very good analogs for features seen on terrestrial glaciers. These include topographic profiles, crevasses, and compression ridges, which provided a basis to compare with their adapted-ISSM models. These findings could also inform future planetary surveys and point towards more “Earth-like” glacier activity.
Mars’ south polar ice cap, seen in April 2000 by Mars Odyssey. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS
To date, Earth, Mars, and Pluto are the only bodies in the Solar System known to have actively flowing ice, ranging from water ice and CO2 to frozen nitrogen. But there are many other icy bodies in the Solar System, including the larger satellites that orbit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and the growing number of smaller planets discovered in the Kuiper Belt. Many of these same bodies experience regular exchanges between their interiors and surfaces (endogenic resurfacing, cryovolcanism, etc.).
Many of these bodies will likely have glaciers of their own composed of substances like carbon monoxide, ammonia, and methane, which could behave in even more exotic ways! In the coming years, scientists will be able to test these theories thanks to missions like the Europa Clipper and the Enceladus Orbiter, which will explore two major satellites that have interior oceans and may even support life. The dynamics of their icy surfaces could provide additional evidence of how these moons formed and evolved.
The paper that describes their findings recently appeared in the journal JGR Planets, a publication overseen by the American Geological Union (AGU).
Video from the Chinese port-city of Zhoushan neighbouring Shanghai shows the sky turned blood-red under thick layers of fog.
Panic could be heard in the voices of the residents as they recorded the discoloured horizon, stirring apocalyptic fears.
The crimson sky was most prominent by the port, prompting worries that a fire had got out of control.
The red sky became a top trending topics on China's Twitter-like social media, Sina Weibo, attracting more than 150 million views.
On Douyin, China's version of TikTok, users called the red sky a bad omen over China's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, resurgent in neighbouring Shanghai.
One user said it means: 'Accidents will happen', with another adding. 'I started to stock up on supplies.'
But local media explained the strange weather phenomena was not a sign of Armageddon but in fact a result of light refraction.
Blood red sky blankets city near Shanghai sparking Armageddon fears. The crimson sky was most prominent by the port, prompting worries that a fire had got out of control
Fish are videoed writhing by the port as the red light illuminates the city. The lighting may have come from a fishing boat that was harvesting Pacific saury, according to local media quoting China Aquatic Products Zhoushan Marine Fisheries
The rare weather phenomena attracted millions of views on Chinese social media, trending on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, and attracting more than 150 million views. Local media explained the strange weather phenomena was not a sign of Armageddon but in fact a result of light refraction
'When weather conditions are good, more water in the atmosphere forms aerosols which refract and scatter the light of fishing boats and create the red sky seen by the public,' said the staff of the Zhoushan Meteorological Bureau, according to the Global Times.
The lighting may have come from a fishing boat that was harvesting Pacific saury, according to local media quoting China Aquatic Products Zhoushan Marine Fisheries Co, which owns the boat.
Online sleuths said particulate matter from the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption, found to be the largest volcanic explosion in the 21st century so far, could also have contributed to the light refraction.
Historians recently uncovered documents from 1770 from China, Korea and Japan, where eye-witnesses reported the skies turning an eerie red.
Researchers told Live Science that geomagnetic storms, caused by solar eruptions hitting the earth's magnetosphere, might have caused the event.
Chinese state media said solar and geomagnetic activity on Saturday was calm and there were no significant anomalies in solar activity, discrediting the notion that a geomagnetic and solar storm may have turned the sky red in Zhoushan.
During the Carrington Event of 1859, the most intense geomagnetic storm recorded in history, electrical currents in the atmosphere zapped telegraph wires and caused paper to catch fire.
A similar geomagnetic storm today would damage power grids across the world, leaving millions without light or electricity.
Zetas Suggest Blood Red Sky In China And Saskatchewan Canada Is Result Of Nibiru's Approach!!
Zetas Suggest Blood Red Sky In China And Saskatchewan Canada Is Result Of Nibiru's Approach!!
Zetas Suggest Blood Red Sky In China And Saskatchewan Canada Is Result Of Nibiru’s Approach!!
Blood red sky blankets city near Shanghai sparking Armageddon fear. Surely Nibiru related. [and from another] https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/blood-red-sky-near-shanghai-26906122 [and from another] Hello Nancy and the Zetas. What will be the comments on this? In the Chinese urban district of Zhoushan, it seems that the apocalypse has begun. [and from another] The sky turned blood red, and so far no one can name the cause of this phenomenon. [and from another] Saskatchewan, Canada: Yorkton sky this evening (Sunday) 5/8/2022, it was so red it looked like it was on fire, and 15 mins later it was gone. Never seen it so bright. Laurie Steele shared image. [and from another]https://t.me/ZetaTalk_Followers/13686
Red skies were noted after Nibiru arrived in the inner Solar System in 2003. These were either ignored by the establishment or claimed to be pollution, even when rust red fell on the white snow of Siberia and blood colored water in bird baths tested positive for iron oxide. Nibiru and its wafting tail are drawing closer to the Earth, and of course this will result in more intense blood red skies. The public knows this is an End Times sign, thus constant denial by the establishment will only enrage the public. Thus the establishment will just fall silent.
Mysterious Red Sky Over Zhoushan, China May 7, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Red Sky Over Zhoushan, China May 7, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 7, 2022
Location of sighting: Zhoushan, China
China gov says its caused by fishing boats, but thats a lie, otherwise we would see red skies 365 days a years. There is a mass lockdown in that area for the last few weeks, possible cure in rocket spread to the masses? But my theory is its sun ejection, since magnetic dust has been found on cars in the area. One photo does show a glowing object in the sky over the city, so a UFO can't be ruled out. The object has a glow of its own. It may even be a meteorite that exploded higher up in the atmosphere, spreading its magnetic reflective metallic dust across the sky. Dust that was seen on cars and said to be magnetic. Most meteorites are magnetic to some degree.
Strangely enough, I have a friend from Taiwan in shanghai right now. She said the entire city is under covid lock down and its hard to get any fresh food. The food they get is old and moldy. Maybe China is using a rocket explosion full of some experimental covid cure to hit the entire area? Just a thought...so many possibilities, we must consider them all.
George Knapp – Secret of Skinwalker Ranch… Latest Update – COAST TO COAST AM 2022
George Knapp – Secret of Skinwalker Ranch… Latest Update – COAST TO COAST AM 2022
COAST TO COAST AM – April 2022. George Knapp welcomed Brandon Fugal, owner of Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch, along with members of his team from the Secret of Skinwalker Ranch television show: Thomas Winterton, Eric Bard, Kaleb Bench, and Dr. Christopher Lee. Calling the group’s appearance “historic,” Fugal said “I don’t think anyone would have imagined in years past a broadcast live from the most scientifically studied paranormal hotspot.” As researchers and experiencers of the paranormal, Fugal went on, none of the team ever expected to be on a TV show, so the recent media focus on their work is new for all of them. Fugal explained that one of the conditions agreed to by its network is that nothing about the show is ever to be scripted, planned, or contrived.
White Objects Over Los Angeles, California May 5, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White Objects Over Los Angeles, California May 5, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of sighting: May 5, 2022 Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA
UFOs and Los Angeles, they some how fit well together. Yeah, I was born in LA and have heard about sightings over the city all my life. This sighting is a little unique in that the objects seen are white. One long snake-like object and many smaller sphere objects. Aliens love California and why not? They got everything there.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
In the sky was 1 large craft of some sort and then 4 smaller light type crafts below. The smaller ones faded and came back into sight but the large one stayed visible.
Disk Seen Over Antalya, Turkey May 6, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Disk Seen Over Antalya, Turkey May 6, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 6, 2022
Location of sighting: Antalya, Turkey
Source: Email report
Watch as the eyewitness sees a metallic disk in the distance. He said he watched until the object just disappeared like smoke, fading into nothingness. Thats is what happens when a UFO raises its cloak of invisibility. Once thought to be foolish superstition, but not known to be a technological fact. This is a rare and great capture from Turkey. I believe it came from an under water alien base below the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. UFOs are watching us, and drop feeding us proof of their existence. Thus, when the times comes to fully disclose and meet us...we humans wont panic.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Oval and convex roof, from time to time it was spinning, all the time the light was flashing, when it allegedly began to fall, it simply disappeared in the sky, as if it had turned into a cloud.
Object During Thunderstorm, Belmont, North Carolina, May 6, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Object During Thunderstorm, Belmont, North Carolina, May 6, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 6, 2022
Location of sighting: Belmont, North Carolina, USA
Source: Email report
An eyewitness caught a glowing object during a thunderstorm in North Carolina this week. The object moves slowly, but has a steady glow. UFOs are often seen during thunderstorms. I believe its because the UFOs create a static shield around them from the propulsion systems and it could trigger a lightning storm. This is some remarkable and important video, proof that UFOs can change our weather.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Saw red orange dot above tree around 5:20. Thought it was possible plane. But landing pattern and location of light seemed odd. Got my dog to walk. Light did not move. Still above tree. Kept seeing lightning behind the clouds. The red light appeared to be in front of clouds. I also captured a short video when it started moving away. Then slowly went behind the clouds. And it started raining shortly after.
Object Shoots Out of Cloud, Channahon, Illinois May 7, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Object Shoots Out of Cloud, Channahon, Illinois May 7, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 7, 2022 Location of sighting: Channohon, Illinois, USA
Source: Email report
The eyewitness didn't say much except they would like to explore these sightings with an investigator and get some counseling about it. The object is dark like a stealth fighter jet, but makes no sounds and appears round! I know of no USAF round craft that looks like this. This shoots out of the cloud at high speed. Absolutely 100% alien craft here! Fantastic and rare catch.
Snake Like UFO Spotted Passing An Airplane Over Carson, California. May 7, 2022
This serpent like UFO was filmed over Carson in California on May 7, 2022 around 8pm. This fast moving object not only moved like a snake but it was self illuminated which leads me to believe this could be some sort of "Biological Organism". The witness stated the following: "This is the fourth time I have caught this snake-like object flying near a chem vehicle. Not sure what it could be. Maybe some of you have seen one..or have an idea what is could be."
Thanks to John Graf for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:
A Supermassive Black Hole Just Flipped its Entire Magnetic Field
A Supermassive Black Hole Just Flipped its Entire Magnetic Field
Black holes are powerful cosmic engines. They provide the energy behind quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is due to the interaction of matter with its powerful gravitational and magnetic fields.
Technically, a black hole doesn’t have a magnetic field on its own, but the dense plasma surrounding the black hole as an accretion disk does. As the plasma swirls around the black hole, the charged particles within it generate an electrical current and magnetic field. The direction of the plasma flow doesn’t change spontaneously, so one would imagine the magnetic field is very stable. So imagine the surprise of astronomers when they saw evidence that a black hole’s magnetic field had undergone a magnetic reversal.
In basic terms, a magnetic field can be imaged as that of a simple magnet, with a north and south pole. A magnetic reversal is where the orientation of that imaginary pole flips, and the orientation of the magnetic field flips. This effect is common among stars. Our Sun reverses its magnetic field every 11 years, which drives the 11-year cycle of sunspots astronomers have observed since the 1600s. Even the Earth undergoes magnetic reversals every few hundred thousand years. But magnetic reversals weren’t thought to be likely for supermassive black holes.
In 2018, an automated sky survey found a sudden change in a galaxy 239 million light-years away. Known as 1ES 1927+654, the galaxy had brightened by a factor of 100 in visible light. Soon after its discovery, the Swift Observatory captured its glow in x-rays and ultraviolet. A search of archival observations of the region showed the galaxy actually started to brighten toward the end of 2017.
At the time it was thought this rapid brightening was caused by a star passing close to the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. Such a close encounter would cause a tidal disruption event, which would rip the star apart as well as disrupt the flow of gas in the black hole’s accretion disk. But this new study casts a shadow on that idea.
How a black hole might undergo magnetic reversal. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jay Friedlander
The team looked at observations of the galactic flare across the full spectrum of light from radio to x-ray. One of the things they noticed was that the intensity of x-rays dropped off very quickly. X-rays are often produced by charged particles spiraling within intense magnetic fields, so this suggested a sudden change in the magnetic field near the black hole. At the same time, the intensity of light in visible and ultraviolet increased which suggested that parts of the black hole’s accretion disk were getting hotter. Neither of these effects is what you’d expect with a tidal disruption event.
Instead, a magnetic reversal better fits the data. As the team showed, as a black hole accretion disk undergoes a magnetic reversal, the fields weaken at the outer edges of the accretion disk first. As a result, the disk can heat up more efficiently. At the same time, the weaker magnetic field means that fewer x-rays are produced by charged particles. Once the magnetic field completes its reversal, the disk returns to its original state.
This is only the first observation of the magnetic reversal of a galactic black hole. We now know they can occur, but we don’t know how common these reversals are. It will take more observations to determine just how many times a galaxy’s black hole can become a switch hitter.
I was watching the NASA space station live cam when I decided to look back in their indexed videos archive. I found a UFO fleet in a video from 48 hours ago. The fleet of about 31 disks flew past the space station live cam. I made three views of them...first is an extreme close up, second is a close up, and third is the 100% original. None are retouched, all are original color. Please go to the NASA link I provide to confirm this sighting. Without confirmation, it means little. With confirmation...its not only real, but its actually still on the NASA/IBM site right now. 100% proof that aliens are in Earths orbit and moving in huge groups. Look at how evenly spaced they are and how they seem to be flying in military formation. As if they themselves were about to go to war with another alien species out there that threatens them. It looks like this species has our backs.
Rep. Tim Burchett on UFOs: 'the government is part of the cover-up'
Rep. Tim Burchett on UFOs: 'the government is part of the cover-up'
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) says he doesn't trust the Department of Defense after the latest secret briefings on UFOs.
Rep. Burchett joined “On Balance with Leland Vittert” to discuss his statements as well as what it is he does believe when it comes to extraterrestrial life.
He believes the Pentagon knows more than what they’re saying following the latest secret briefings on UFOs. “There’s an arrogance in government at that level that we cannot handle what’s going on out there, It’s a bogus cover-up and the government is part of the cover-up and they’re not going to disclose it to us because they don’t trust us, Burchett said.
Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly
Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly
Curators handling lunar rocks take extreme care to keep these materials from contamination as they work with them in cold boxes using gloves and protective gear. This frozen Apollo 17 sample is being studied in a nitrogen-purged glove box at NASA Johnson Space Flight Center. Courtesy NASA/Robert Markowitz.
Ever wonder what happened to all those collections of rocks and dust the Apollo astronauts brought back from the Moon? Some of those lunar samples were studied right away. Others made their way into a few museums and science centers and the desks of world leaders. Still others landed in storage at NASA Johnson’s Space Center in Houston. Some got stored at room temperature while others were put into a deep freeze. The idea was to preserve any traces of gases or water or possibly organic materials on them. Now, some of these lunar samples are at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where they’re under examination for the first time in 50 years using new techniques not available during the Apollo years.
What Do Lunar Samples Have to Tell Us?
Why study old lunar rocks and dust? And, how do you do it? For Natalie Curran, principal investigator for the Mid Atlantic Noble Gas Research Lab at Goddard, the history the samples have experienced on the Moon is a big draw. The lunar surface is a harsh place. There’s no atmosphere and no flowing water. Impact craters, radiation from the Sun, and cosmic rays are the biggest agents of surface change on the Moon.
“Our work allows us to use noble gases, such as argon, helium, neon, and xenon, to measure the duration a sample has been exposed to cosmic rays, and this can help us understand the history of that sample,” said Curran. “Cosmic rays can be damaging to organic material that may be in a sample, so understanding the duration helps to determine the effects that exposure has had on the organic.”
Colleague Jamie Elsila, a research scientist in Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, finds the existence of small, volatile organic compounds in the samples fascinating. That’s includes amino acids, which are essential to life on Earth. And, they aren’t just found on the Moon and asteroids. They likely exist in a variety of very different places across the solar system, which is what she and her team want to understand.
“We think some of the amino acids in the lunar soils may have formed from precursor molecules, which are smaller, more volatile compounds such as formaldehyde or hydrogen cyanide,” she said. “Our research goal is to identify and quantify these small organic volatile compounds, as well as any amino acids, and to use the data to understand the prebiotic organic chemistry of the Moon.”
Taking Care of Precious Lunar Samples
Several years ago, the Artemis Curation Team at Johnson, led by NASA scientist Julie Mitchell, began planning a new facility. They wanted a place where the Apollo 17 materials could be processed for further study. Creating the lab also provided a chance to plan for the delivery and stated-of-the-art handling of rocks and dust from upcoming Moon missions. Artemis is the next one to go up from NASA. Although the mission is delayed, its eventual launch (possibly in 2025) will deliver the first woman to the Moon. It will also start up the collection of lunar samples where Apollo left off.
The first step was to design and retrofit a special lab for sample preparation. “By doing this work we’re not just facilitating Artemis exploration. We’re facilitating future sample return and human exploration into the rest of the solar system,” Mitchell said. “I feel very privileged to contribute in this small way by developing the capabilities for us to collect these materials, bring them home safely, and curate them for the long term.”
It’s tough to pack the Apollo samples for shipment and keep them pristine. According to Ryan Zeigler, Apollo sample curator, doing it in the cold made things even more difficult. But, it was worth it, he said. Ziegler works at the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) division at Johnson. “It’s an important learning lesson for Artemis, as being able to process samples in the cold will be even more important for the Artemis mission than it is for Apollo. This work gives us some lessons learned and a good feed forward for Artemis.”
Keeping things Chill
Cold sample storage is important. It keeps materials from other worlds safe and free from contamination by Earth dirt, rocks, and life. Why is this crucial? For one thing, scientists want to study ONLY Moon materials, not Earth buggies. That’s important when they want to know what conditions are like on the lunar surface.
In addition, future lunar missions will focus on gathering materials from the Moon’s polar regions. That means ice crystals could get brought back, mingled with the dust and rocks. On other parts of the Moon, impact sites could contain amino acids or other organic compounds. Those come from the bits of asteroids that have slammed into the lunar surface. Obviously, it’s important to keep the ice in its pristine, frozen state and the amino acids and other materials safe from Earth-bound contamination. That’s why some of the Apollo samples were “on ice” all these years.
50 years of Storage Combined with Research Will Pay Off
Both frozen and non-frozen Apollo 17 samples arrived at Goddard safely. Now, lunar scientists are focused on teasing out their secrets. Ongoing work on these samples, and future returns from other places, will give new insights about the origin and evolution of other worlds in the solar system.
Hey I found two UFOs in a Google Map location. One object is a gold disk near the mountain ridge. The other UFO is over a hillside watching some people in the lake below. This location is no doubt a hotspot for UFOs because there must be an alien base somewhere nearby. I noticed that behind the golden UFO there are some archways in the side of the mountain. This shows me that they are hiding the entrance to the base using some kind of hologram rock wall.
Strange UFO activity over Cameron Park, California – 6 May 2022
Strange UFO activity over Cameron Park, California – 6 May 2022
This strange UFO event happened in in Cameron Park in El Dorado County, California.
Witness report:
Two UFO’s seen within a half hour of each other, the second flying low over my home, followed 15 minutes later by an unusual jet. ,My friend and I were watching the night sky from my porch in Cameron Park the day after conducting a CE5 event approximately 10 miles away.. We noticed colored flashing lights to the SW flying to the NW at an altitude approximately half as high as a commercial flight path I see from my porch, and about half the distance. It generally moved in a straight line, but was also observed performing short zig zags. As it came closer it became apparent it was not a jet. At it’s closest I thought I could see a central white glowing orb or oval shape, surrounded by several smaller glowing and flashing orbs of red and blue. I attempted to film it with my camera, but was unable to capture an image. Exactly 25 minutes later, we saw a bright white light coming from the same direction. By this time I had grabbed my night vision camera and was able to film it from just a few seconds after it was first spotted. This object changed from a steady bright white light to flashing colored lights seconds after my friend said “It’s not blinking”. This object flew from SW to W, ended up flying almost directly over my home, and I was able to observe that it appeared to be made up of glowing orbs, a large white glowing orb in front and a red glowing orb slightly behind, with several smaller, dimmer, glowing orbs of red and blue around the larger two. The two large globes glowed steadily, the smaller orbs blinked and flashed. As it passed near my house it was only several hundred feet high, and there was no sound whatsoever from it. Exactly 15 minutes after sighting the second UFO, an unusual, large, slow moving, quiet, black jet with a glowing and flashing nose cone and a search light mounted in the front followed the approximate flight path of the first UFO. I was able to take video of this as well.
According to some unusual statements, the state of Israel, along with other Western governments, would have made contact with the aliens years ago.
So says Haim Eshed, a retired Israeli general, former head of the space agency and current university professor in the country. “Authorities around the world are aware of the existence of aliens to varying degrees.”
Why keep it a secret?
Eshed, according to the Jerusalem Post , thinks that humanity is not prepared for news of this nature and category. “Revealing the existence of extraterrestrials would undermine the beliefs of millions of people.”
In an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth , Eshed, who has served for decades as the head of Israel’s space agency and head of the country’s space security program, is a highly respected expert on the subject.
According to Eshed, Israel and the United States have been dealing with aliens for years, being a recurring element in their internal policies.
He explains that there is a huge organizational element, called the ” Galactic Federation “, which includes various races, civilizations and species of aliens.
“The Earth and humanity, since the middle of the 20th century, would have drawn up agreements for their own income.”
The former head of space security, although he does not clarify what species or galactic empires have been in contact with man, he did want to give some descriptions of what kind of agreements have been made between aliens and the US, the country he would lead conversations representing civilization.
These agreements and deals have been made because both parties wish to investigate and understand “the structure of the universe” , and the only way to arrive at comprehensive knowledge is constant cooperation between different members of the universe.
This is where things get a bit weird…
Eshed claims that the cooperation includes a secret underground base on Mars, where there are US and alien representatives, a huge facility that houses inconceivable tools, materials and devices, as well as gigantic ships and other gadgets of alien origin.
The information, which could be a mere wish on Eshed’s part, must be grasped “with tweezers”, of course.
The same Israelite points out that he once tried to present a plan to present them to the world, but the Galactic Federation supposedly prevented him from doing so, saying that they wished to avoid mass hysteria in society, the crash of the markets or possible wars, since they felt that the humanity needed to evolve
“It was not allowed to do so because they wanted humanity to reach a new stage where it understands what space is and how we can navigate through it thanks to future spacecraft,” he concluded.
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Clif High: Hollow Earth
Clif High: Hollow Earth
Clif High on Hollow Earth
The truth about the hollow earth, Hollow earth Proof. Do you think there is a Hollow Earth and that denizens reside within its murky depths? Let us know in the comments what your perspective is of the Hollow Earth.
While hunting a deer, a man from Wyoming met an alien who had come to Earth also to hunt deer. The alien drugged the hunter, and then took him to his planet. On October 25, 1974, 41-year-old Carl Higdon, who worked in the oil industry, went hunting for a weekend to the Medicine Bow National Forest in Carbon County, Wyoming (USA).
Higdon visited the forest by car, but the road was not very good, so he walked over a small forested hill. When he was on the other side of the hill, he immediately came across a herd of deer, one of which was a large male with branched antlers.
Carl Higdon
Higdon was about to shoot the deer when something very strange happened. He aimed, fired, but suddenly the shot was completely silent, and the rifle did not recoil. And then Higdon watched in amazement as the bullet from the rifle flew ahead in very slow motion.
Higdon was about to shoot the deer when something very strange happened. He aimed, fired, but suddenly the shot was completely silent, and the rifle did not recoil. And then Higdon watched in amazement as the bullet from the rifle flew ahead in very slow motion.
At such a slow pace, the bullet flew only a few meters, and then fell sharply to the ground, as if it had hit something invisible. And when the hunter looked at this and wondered, he noticed that the whole atmosphere around him became tense, as if filled with static electricity.
Higdon went to the bullet to pick it up and saw that it was flattened as if it had hit something very strong. The deer had already fled by that time, but Higdon was not alone there. He heard a noise of branches crunching. When he looked to the right in the shade of the trees, he saw a human figure.
Ausso one
The figure was the size of a tall man and wore a tight black jumpsuit, similar to a diving suit. He wore a pair of seat belts, and a metal belt with a yellow star decoration at his waist.
Despite being human, the creature’s head was not at all human. He had no ears, his eyes were small and deep-set, his mouth was an open slit, from which three large teeth were visible, and two short antennae grew from his forehead. The hair on the creature’s head was like straw and stood straight up.
The creature did not seem to have a neck at all, an eerie head sat directly on its shoulders, merging with the body. The arms were very long, while one arm had something like a chisel instead of a wrist at the end, and the other had no wrist at all.
This strange entity looked at Higdon for a few moments, and then took a few steps towards him and asked him in English “How are you?” The stunned Higdon answered “Okay” after a couple of seconds.
Illustration of Carl Higdon with an alien named Ausso one
The creature nodded at that and came even closer. It didn’t look threatening and then asked Higlon if he was hungry. Without waiting for the hunter’s response, the creature pulled out a plastic bag from somewhere and sent it through the air as if using telekinetics towards the hunter. He caught the package, opened it somehow, and found four pills inside.
The creature said the pills would keep him full for the day. The hunter pulled out one and swallowed, and put the rest in his pocket. Then the creature finally introduced itself, said its name was “Ausso One” and then pointed to something behind it. Higdon saw a transparent cube-shaped object that looked like a large box-shaped spaceship. He saw no entrance, no windows, no landing gear. The spaceship just stood on the ground.
Newspaper clip of Carl Higdon alien abduction
Ausso asked Higdon if he wanted to take a ride, and before the hunter could answer, he somehow ended up inside the spaceship, as if he was teleported there. He did not understand how he fit into that tiny space, but he was immediately seized by panic when he saw that his arms and legs were tied with some kind of ribbons.
When he calmed down a little, he a kind of force field in which five deer were floating. They were frozen, and he was sure that they were the same deers that he had seen in the clearing. Then he saw another creature from the Ausso race in the spaceship.
This creature approached the hunter and put a helmet on his head. Then the ship took off, and Higdon could see through the transparent walls how they went up and there was his car at the bottom of the hill. Then they flew even higher and reached the Earth’s orbit.
Then they flew into deep space around 163,000 light-years away from Earth. They ended up on a new planet, where the ship approached a huge tower.
Around the tower, many colored lights were revolving like powerful searchlights, they were so bright that Higdon could not open his eyes.
What happened next, Higdon hardly remembers. At some point, he saw a group of people outside, but he did not understand why they were there and who they were. And then, Ausso told him that his race regularly flies to Earth for hunting. Then the hunter was placed in a room, where he was scanned by some kind of device. Ausso said that the hunter was not suitable for their purpose, and they would bring him back home.
They were on Earth as quickly as they flew away from it. Before releasing Higdon, Ausso took the package with pills from him, and then wanted to take his gun, but said that he was forbidden to do so. After that, the aliens disappeared, and Higdon found himself in the forest, completely disoriented and frightened.
He wandered around until he somehow found some kind of transport, and in some time, he realized that it was his car. With the help of the radio, he gave a distress signal and then sat in the car and shivered, waiting for help. When the search party reached him, it turned out that his car was parked at the bottom of a deep forest canyon, 5 miles from where he left it.
There were no roads nearby and there were no tire tracks in the gorge, so this fact was already a good proof of Higdon’s words. Higdon did not immediately recognize his wife from the stress he had endured. Later, it turned out that in that area, on the eve of the abduction of the hunter, other people saw strange lights in the sky.
When Higdon was found, he was so confused that he had little to say. He only kept repeating about the bullet, which flattened out when struck against something invisible. Most of his memories were obtained through regressive hypnosis. Then a medical examination of the hunter was carried out, and it turned out that the scars left from his long-term tuberculosis disappeared from his lungs, and stones from which he had suffered for a long time disappeared from the kidneys.
A flattened bullet was found in the pocket of his jacket, and research showed that it could only get such damage if it hit a very hard surface, harder than wood or stone in the forest.
Later, Higdon was repeatedly called a fraud, who supposedly invented all this to become famous, but at least the strange fact of finding his car in a place where it could not be in any way according to the laws of physics shows that this story is real.
Ghost Filmed Opening And Closing The Refrigerator Door & Shadow Figure Seem In A Doorway At ICU Unit
First clip: The Location remains unknown at this time and this was posted on April 26, 2022. In the footage we can see this father sit at his desk when the refrigerator opens and then closes, As he gets up and walks towards the refrigerator it opens and closes again leaving this dad running to get his kids. Thanks to The Hamily Family for sharing this video and to view the original:
And a very huge THANKS to Snoo for this cool find.
Second clip:This was filmed in the IUC Unit of an hospital in Hawaiian Gardens a city in Los Angeles County, California. This was captured sometime in 2019 but recently posted to reddit. The witness stated the following "I was on my camera because i may see something and at first i didnt i thought i did, but it wasn’t until later when i got off work and was walking inside i was watching the video and then i realized there was a figure and it was the creepiest shit i have seen in my life thus far." He also added "What caught my attention at first when i watched this was a blur by the secondish door way… then i later saw the figure which gave me chills… its pure black with a black aurora."
Thanks to boredguyonline for allowing me the use of this footage and to view the original:
Andy is joined by former head of the Pentagons AATIP programme, Luis Elizondo for one of his last interviews for some time: – Reflecting on 4 and a half years of work – Biggest mistake – Wow! moments – Different shapes of craft – Lue’s book & possible Joe Rogan appearance? – In five years time..? – Listener questions And much, much more…! Recorded 23rd April 2022.
In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan made time in his worldwide seafaring schedule to stop in what is now Patagonia, where he encountered giants.
Magellan ordered one of his men to make contact with the giant (the emissary’s reaction would have to be seen but sadly has been lost in history), and thus be sure that exchanging dances and songs would lead to a demonstration of friendship.
It worked. The man was able to bring the giant to a small island off the coast, where the great captain awaited. The description of the scene was carried out by a scholar during the day, Antonio Pigafetta, who kept the travel diary that later became Magellan’s Voyage: First Voyage Around the World.
“When he stood before us, he began to wonder and fear, and he raised a finger upwards, believing that we came from heaven. He was so tall that the tallest of us was only up to his waist’, and he had a deep, resonant voice.
The illustration above proves it, Patagonia was once inhabited by giants who dwarfed the celestial Europeans who came to conquer them.Okay, maybe that’s not a perfect test. But it could be that the people Magellan encountered, the Tehuelches, were indeed huge, and therefore this myth has some basis in reality.
On that small island, Magellan had his men give the giant food and drink, and then made the mistake of showing him a mirror.
“The moment the giant could see himself he was terrified,” wrote Pigafetta, “he jumped back throwing four of our men to the ground.”
But once things had settled down, the explorers proceeded to make contact with the rest of the tribe, hunting with them and even building a house to store their supplies while they stayed on the coast.
After several weeks with the tribe, Magellan came up with a plan: he had to kidnap two of them and take them back with him to Spain to test these giants he had discovered.
“But this had to be cunningly plotted, otherwise the giants would have gotten our men into trouble.” Magellan offered them all kinds of metal products to waste their time, such as mirrors, scissors and bells, so they wouldn’t mind putting handcuffs and chains on their legs.
“Whereupon these giants were pleased to see these chains, not knowing where to put them.” Magellan, however, lost evidence of him during the long journey back to Spain. The giants did not survive.
But what Magellan and Pigafetta brought back was that story and the new name of the land of the giants, Patagonia, its etymology is still not entirely clear. Some argue that it means “Land of the big feet”, because of the “leg”.
Although Magellan most likely took his name from a novel popular at the time, Primaleón was called, and he told about a race of wild people called the Patagonians.
Although they let the British pour cold water on the whole affair, Sir Francis Drake managed to come into contact with the Patagonians themselves, as his nephew summarized in The World Encompassed in 1628:
“Magellan was not entirely deceived in naming these giants, in general they differ so much in stature, greatness and bodily strength, and also in the ugliness of their voices, but neither were they as monstrous and giant as they were represented, there are some English as tall as the tallest we could see, but by chance the Spaniards do not think that any English would come here to fail them and that makes them more audacious to lie».
For scholars that was like an open sore, and rightly so. According to William C. Sturtevant in his essay, Patagonian Giants and Baroness Hyde de Neuville’s Iroquois Drawings, the Tehuelches were just a particularly statuesque people.
While Magellan’s later voyages measured Patagonians up to 3 meters tall, others put them further into the 1.82 meter range.
“Popular interest in the giants of Patagonia waned when the scientific reports began to appear,” Sturtevant writes. “Some estimates from the 19th century or from measurements of some individuals are still high,” more than 2 meters.
But the best measurements of Tehuelche men placed them around 1.80 meters tall, perfectly reasonable for a human being, but totally unpresentable for a giant.
“If we accept the lowest (and least documented) of these means based on modern measurements of males,” he adds, “the Tehuelches are nonetheless among the highest known populations worldwide.”
In contrast, male Europeans, such as Magellan, in the 16th to 18th centuries would have measured in a low range of 1.5 meters. His imagination, however, seems to have surpassed his small stature.
But why was there such a difference in height between Europeans and these “end of the world” natives? Animals, including humans, have a tendency to grow more in cold climates and less in warm oneThis is known as Bergmann’s rule: With a larger body, you lose less heat, and are therefore better suited to surviving sub-zero temperatures.
So it’s no accident that the world’s largest land predators, like the polar bear, live in the far north, while tropical creatures, which lose heat faster, are better suited to sweltering jungles.
And over evolutionary time, environments can put the same pressure on humans. Thus, the natives of glacial Patagonia would have grown—in theory—more than their European counterparts.
In a feeble attempt to explain something without actually investigating the issue, skeptics claim that gigantism is probably the cause of many of the reports of giants in the Americas, however, they have never presented evidence for such a claim.
Gigantism is extremely rare, so rare that there are no incidence statistics for this hormonal disease. In the history of the United States there are less than 100 recorded cases of gigantism.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of tall people today—reaching or approaching 2 meters—do not have any gigantism disorder. On the other hand, the percentage of modern humans that reach 2 meters in height is 0.000007%.
So how come, for example, the Smithsonian happens to have in its possession 17 skeletons over 7 feet tall found in ancient burial mounds in a relatively small region of North America?
2 big asteroids past Earth May 6 Friday and Monday 9 Plus Halley's Comet!!!!!!
2 big asteroids past Earth May 6 Friday and Monday 9 Plus Halley's Comet!!!!!!
2 big asteroids past Earth May 6 and May 9
Friday (May 6) and Monday (May 9) There are two asteroids making very safe flybys of Earth in the coming days. Despite what you may have read in media reports, no one is issuing any warnings about asteroids 2009 JF1 or ca, which will zoom by our planet on Friday (May 6) and Monday (May 9) respectively. Nor are scientists concerned about the asteroid 418135 (2008 AG33), which passed by our planet already on April 28 despite some media outlets claiming it’s coming on Thursday (May 5)
There are two asteroids making very safe flybys of Earth in the coming days.
Despite what you may have read in media reports, no one is issuing any warnings about asteroids 2009 JF1 or 467460 (2006 JF42), which will zoom by our planet on Friday (May 6) and Monday (May 9) respectively. Nor are scientists concerned about the asteroid 418135 (2008 AG33), which passed by our planet already on April 28 despite some media outlets claiming it’s coming on Thursday (May 5).
NASA monitors all asteroids via a network of partner telescopes and its Planetary Defense Coordination Office. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory also has loads of asteroid statistics you can review, including a list of prominent upcoming flybys and its Small-Body Database.
There’s even a curated list of asteroids available that the agency monitors, which require “more attention” because there is a tiny, statistically improbable chance of impact. Officials update it as new information comes in, including the removal of asteroid Apophis from the list in 2021 after fresh observations showed it poses no threat whatsoever in the next 100 years.
May 2022 Return of Halley’s Comet, Blood moon Rapture????
In the early morning hours on Friday, we have a chance to see bright streaks across the sky, thanks to Halley’s Comet and the eta Aquariid meteor shower.
Comet Halley is probably the most well-known comet in the world, putting on a spectacular show every time it flies past our planet. However, it only does so once every 75 years.
Twice each year, though, we get a reminder from 1P/Halley that it’s only a matter of time before it comes back for another pass. The first such reminder arrives starting in the middle of April, and lasts until the end of May, in the form of bright streaks of light across the night sky.
Tall White Base In Behind In Area 51, Has New 35 Meter Hanger! UFO Sighting News.
Tall White Base In Behind In Area 51, Has New 35 Meter Hanger! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 5, 2022
Location of discovery: 69 (111km) Miles behind Nellis AFB
Source: Not saying...🤨 but its not Google Earth.
Ohhhhhhh...new hanger and a new smaller building. 🧐 I believe this is the Tall White base, 69 miles behind Nellis AFB, old firing range. But WTH is this new hanger for? Tall White aliens...remember the Charles Hall interview? 🤨 This is not Google Earth so don't bother looking there. 🛸 36°55'39.47"N 116° 0'22.70"W
But really, whats going on at the Tall White base that Charles Hall said existed behind the old firing range of Nellis AFB. Well the firing range is said to be way back, Charles Hall said it was past Indian Springs. This is just 30 miles from there, deep in Area 51 land.
So...WTH is that hanger for? A new Tall White spacecraft? It measures 35 meters by 35 meters. No small craft.
Alien black cube shoots out of the sun and then disappears into space
Alien black cube shoots out of the sun and then disappears into space
On May 2, 2022 NASA satellite EIT 284 captured a massive black cube flying out of the sun.
Not only is the Borg cube in Star Trek a reflection of what's really out there, like this massive cube spacecraft but is it also proof that our sun is a stargate?
Jeremy Corbell on UFOs + FOX News with reporter John Hook
Jeremy Corbell on UFOs + FOX News with reporter John Hook
Do you believe we’re being visited here on Earth? A Gallup poll says 4 in 10 Americans now think some UFOs that people have spotted were alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies. This is up from a third saying so two years ago. This number has climbed because for the first time, the government is expressing concern over sightings of crafts that simply can’t be explained by our current understanding of physics. It presents two problems: our adversaries have developed superior technology or this stuff is otherworldly. Either way, the choices are troubling. FOX 10’s John Hook talks to Jeremy Corbell, a documentary filmmaker who has been doing a deep dive into the UFO subject for over 20 years.
The UFO briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed.
The UFO briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed.
Agencies need to “take this issue much more seriously,” one aide said.
In an image from video provided by the Defense Department from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. | Department of Defense via AP
Lawmakers receiving the latest secret briefings on UFOs say national security agencies still aren’t taking seriously the reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin violating protected airspace.
Members of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees received classified progress reports in recent weeks on a series of new data collection efforts the Pentagon and spy agencies are now required to pursue to more rigorously investigate reports of UFOs, three people with direct knowledge confirmed.
But some leading sponsors of recent legislation want more analysts and surveillance systems dedicated to determining the aircrafts’ origin — and not just more reports of their existence.
One of those lawmakers is Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand(D-N.Y.), a member of both committees whohas called the phenomena “an urgent issue” and for the first time is expressing her public dissatisfaction at the response.
“Senator Gillibrand believes that the DoD needs to take this issue much more seriously and get in motion,” said one of her aides, who requested anonymity in order to discuss private conversations. “They have had ample time to implement these important provisions, and they need to show us that they are prepared to address this issue in the long-term.”
The congressional briefings come four months after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Pentagon to create the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office.
The office, which is supposed to be fully operational by June, was granted the authority to pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process” to investigate “unidentified aerial phenomena” — the now-widely accepted nomenclature for UFOs.
That means identifying people across the government “to respond rapidly to incidents or patterns of observations.”
The bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden, also required an annual report and semiannual briefings for Congress, including descriptions of all UAP incidents such as those “associated with military nuclear assets, including strategic nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ships and submarines.”
To respond to Congress’s direction, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks directed the creation of an Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group to oversee the stepped-up effort and establish the permanent UFO office required by Congress.
Among its tasks is to standardize UAP incident reporting across the military and collect and analyze more intelligence.
“The Department continues to brief Congress on our efforts regarding unidentified aerial phenomena, including our progress in standing up the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, in accordance with the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act,” Susan Gough, a department spokesperson, told POLITICO in a statement.
“I cannot comment on specific engagements,” she added.
Expanding investigations of UAPs will require dedicating far more resources and personnel to the task, military and intelligence experts say.
But some members of Congress and their staff are beginning to air their dissatisfaction with the progress in making that happen.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the top Republican on the intelligence panel, also believes the Pentagon is not aggressively carrying out Congress’ direction.
“Rubio is definitely frustrated,” said one of the senator’s aides, who was not authorized to speak publicly. “They are not moving fast enough, not doing enough, not sharing enough.”
“The administration is aware of the concerns,” he added. “It is not at the level it needs to be.”
Others are more critical, accusing the Pentagon of hiding information from Congress.
“I don’t trust the Department of Defense to get this right since leadership there has always been part of a cover-up,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Transportation Aviation Subcommittee.
“It is clear from the public evidence that we don’t have full control of our airspace,” added Burchett, whose district includes Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where there have been numerous reports of UFO sightings over the decades. “That’s a national security issue and it’s also unacceptable.”
Five current and former military and intelligence officials and contractor personnel privy to the deliberations who were not authorized to speak publicly told POLITICO they believe real progress is being made to compel agencies to take a more proactive approach — and also be more transparent about what they might know about UFO sightings and technologies.
Capitol Hill scrutiny has intensified since 2017, when former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo went public with his concerns. Since then, Navy pilots have come forward with credible testimony of UFO encounters, and the Pentagon began releasing select footage depicting mysterious aircraft captured by fighter jet cameras and ship radars“They are putting time in, they are doing work,” said a government contractor who has been enlisted in the new effort. “They are going to put some bodies on it. I think they’ll probably file the reports back to Congress on time. And that is a big plus.”
Others said that while officials are doing a better job of collecting reports of UAPs, they are still reluctant to dedicate more intelligence assets to determine whether some of the reported craft might belong to a foreign nation or if they are extraterrestrial in nature.
“I have seen everything we have [in the files] and I am very confident they are not ours,” said a former senior intelligence official who had authority over the UFO portfolio, referring to classified U.S. aircraft programs.
The continued uncertainty is prompting members of Congress to increase pressure on the Pentagon and spy agencies to do much more than merely collect UAP reports.
The contractor worries that the new Pentagon panel “is going to receive reports and collate them but they’re not going to lead any organized, serious effort to find out what the hell’s going on, nor are they going to be in a position to press anybody else to do that.”
“I don’t trust the Department of Defense to get this right since leadership there has always been part of a cover-up”
Congress wants “somebody to get on the stick over there and get to the bottom of it,” the contractor added.
That also means determining where the sightings are most commonly being reported and then cueing technical systems to monitor those areas more regularly — for example, to “have these three satellites collect X amount of hours in X locations.”
“Who’s got all the puzzle pieces, who’s doing serious analysis, and then making informed, intelligent decisions about [intelligence] collection?” he asked.
But it also means “you have to compete with a lot of other priority things that are going to often outrank this,” he added.
Elizondo also said in an interview that he believes an enduring problem is that there are still “pockets of information” on UAPs within the government that are not being shared with the new Pentagon oversight body or Congress.
And when some of those pockets reach oversight committees through other channels, it further undermines their confidence in the government’s ability to seek and provide comprehensive answers.
“When they are made aware of information and data and videos and photos that are not being provided by DoD, it sets up a situation where the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing,” Elizondo said.
Gough, the Pentagon spokesperson, declined to respond to such criticism.
Elizondo also warned that the Pentagon is lumping the most mystifying UAP reports with more traditional drones or other more readily identifiable objects commonly discovered in U.S. airspace, such as weather balloons or discarded rocket and satellite components.
The intent of the new law “is not to associate UAPs as an air clutter issue or space junk,” Elizondo said. “That should not be confused with clearly breakaway technologies that are being employed and demonstrated within our controlled U.S. airspace.”
The government UFO contractor sees signs of momentum to give “the phenomenon” the attention it deserves, but expects Congress will have to take more legislative action.
“I think there are pockets of people in different agencies who are enthusiastic,” he said. “But is it a focused effort? Is there somebody at a high level who is an advocate who owns this problem and is putting together a plan to get the answers that Congress wants? I think the answer to that is no.”
Great Deception—the final Luciferian push to condition the sheeple to believe yet another lie… it was the “aliens” and not the rapture.
The most recurrent warning found in New Testament is do not be deceived.
US & Israel Working with Alien Galactic Federation… But World Not Quite Ready to Know?
The Jerusalem Post—along with many, many other media outlets—is reporting that a former Israeli space security chief has revealed that aliens exist… but humanity is not ready to know.
In the latest “leak” of alien information (so-called soft confirmation), Haim Eshed, a retired Israeli general, stated in an interview with Yediot Aharonot that governments around the world know that aliens exist, but they have kept it a secret because “humanity isn’t ready.”
Well, isn’t that just super convenient!
It’s the same old story: Aliens exist… but we can’t tell you because you’re just not ready. But, of course, like some jedi mind trick or magical illuminati sleight of hand, that is exactly what we’re doing—telling you!
Apparently, according to Eshed, these aliens are in hiding until mankind is fully ready to accept and embrace them.
March 27 2022. According to the book “Intervention”, (by Alan Butler, Watkins Publishing, 2012), March 27 2022 could be a critical date for revealing the future. I wonder if it could relate to alien invasion then? The book “Intervention” comes up with the 3-27-2022 date by relating it to a number 27.322 related to the moon, and the unusual numerical facts related to the moon. This book proposes that the moon being unlike other satellites of the solar system, it appears to have been designed and parked in orbit around the earth, possibly by people in the future, to allow intelligent life to develop on earth. Note that there is an unusual astrology pattern on that 3-27-2022 date, of planets in 2 clusters in Aquarius (Moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn) and Aries-Pisces (Sun and Mercury in Aries, Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces). Perhaps the aliens will come to stop Putin from launching nuclear weapons.
Could there be an alien UFO invasion of earth in 2022 – 2030? Could aliens on UFOs conquer earth and establish an alien New World Order? Could this alien conquest of earth also be the return of Jesus Christ on a UFO as described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation? Aliens invade in 2022 – 2030? On this consider the prophecies of the Bible’s Book of Revelation and also the Psalms of the Bible which have hidden prophecies, and also the Prophecies of Nostradamus. Many of the Prophecies of Nostradamus I think predict an alien invasion.
Prophecies in the Psalms:
See the section onthis page on J.R. Church’s excellent book “Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms” (published by Prophecy Publications, 1990), J.R. Church discovered a pattern where events in years in the 20th century correspond to Psalms of that year number (Psalm 48 corresponds to year 1948, for example, and the birth of the state ofIsraelthen; Psalm 67 would correspond to 1967 and Israel conquering Jerusalem then), from the point of view of Israel and the Middle East.
This pattern may continue with Psalm 101, since September 11 occurred in 2001, and Psalm 101:8 “…cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord”. Could that be about New York City, which is a very religious city, having two great cathedrals.
And the Psalms pattern may agree with the predictions for future years on this page, for years 2022 – 2028, corresponding to Psalms 122 – 128. And even up to 2050, corresponding to Psalm 150.
Psalm 120:4 “sharp arrows”, 120:7 “they are for war”. Coronavirus epidemic? .
Psalm 121:1 “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.”
Psalm 122:3 “Jerusalem is builded as a city”. Could this be soon, Revelation 21:2, 10-26, where a New Jerusalem comes down to earth from outer space. Apparently an alien UFO invasion installs this giant city on earth as a new world headquarters, with the returned Christ as lead alien.
Psalm 127:1 “build the house” – building of the New Jerusalem in 2027? A new reorganized world, after alien invasion?
Psalm 128:5: mentions Jerusalem. The building of the New Jerusalem continues in 2028?
Psalm 150: Refer to Psalm 150: “in the firmament of his power”
Ok maybe this guy isn't an alien, but can you prove it? Gota find him to do so, take blood tests, DNA tests. However I feel this may be one hell of an awesome prankster. This guy somehow keeps walking in front of the Google Map car and got his photo taken without hands, feet or head! That should be impossible. One person who commented on my video said green screen! But thats impossible to run around with a green screen in New York. Also how did he turn into a white bird. Even I have to admit when the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor or the paranormal or alien presence. But...how? How did he do it? This is just not possible. Maybe he's an digital artist who is a hacker? Or maybe a magician? Or...maybe he's not even human. Whatever he is...I'm in awe!
U.S. government investigations into extraterrestrial life have everyone asking the question: Have aliens visited Earth? Former FBI agent Ben Hansen and UFO leading expert Nick Pope join NewsNation’s “Banfield” to weigh in.
RH Negative: The Most Profound Mystery of the Ancient World!... The Secret of Holy Royal Bloodline
RH Negative: The Most Profound Mystery of the Ancient World!... The Secret of Holy Royal Bloodline
COAST TO COAST AM 2022. The Most Profound Mystery of the Ancient World!… The Secret of Holy Royal Bloodline, Courtesy of Reality Films Distribution: This fascinating video provides interviews with some of the most knowledgeable guests on earth, discussing a wide range of subjects that include History, Religion, Ancient Mysteries and all things Esoteric and Occult.
You’ll learn about newly discovered, exciting facts from the experts and hear never before revealed information on the God Kings of Europe and Royal bloodlines descended from Jesus; you’ll learn about techniques to improve your mind, body and soul and you’ll discover the latest research regarding the pyramids of the world.
Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
A gamma-ray view of the sky centered on the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Could strange spinning neutron stars explain a mysterious excess of gamma radiation emanating from the core region? That’s one possibility astronomers are discussing. Courtesy NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Ever hear of the Galactic Center GeV Excess? No, it’s not a cosmic rock band, although that’s a great name for one. Actually, it’s what astronomers call a super-high rate of gamma-ray radiation coming from the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy. Since this Galactic Center Excess was first detected in 2009, people thought it might be a signature of dark matter annihilating itself in mass quantities. But, as with any unexplained phenomenon in space, others disagreed. It could also have something to do with Sagittarius A*, the galaxy core’s own supermassive black hole. Or, it might be some other kind of strange burst event. Now, an astronomer at the Australian National University suggests that rapidly spinning neutron stars may be the culprits behind this high-energy galactic mystery.
The work by Associate Professor Roland Crocker and published in Nature Astronomy does not change the fact that the excess exists. However, it does offer another less-murky explanation than dark matter. “It is based on millisecond pulsars, neutron stars that spin really quickly, around 100 times a second,” he said in a press release statement. He noted that astronomers have detected gamma-ray emissions from some individual millisecond pulsars before in the neighborhood of the Sun. “So, we know these objects emit gamma rays.”
Millisecond Pulsars Emit Gamma Radiation
Pulsars are the remains of massive stars that died in supernova explosions. The core of the star collapses into a spinning compressed ball of neutrons. They’re packed together in a region no bigger than about 20 km (12 miles) across. The neutron star sends out pulses of electromagnetic radiation from its poles as it spins. The term “pulsar” means “pulsating radio source” and is a perfect description of these oddball objects. The best-known pulsar is at the heart of the Crab Nebula. It spins 30 times per second.
A composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). The Crab Nebula is powered by a quickly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star called a pulsar, which was formed when a massive star ran out of its nuclear fuel and collapsed. The combination of rapid rotation and a strong magnetic field in the Crab generates the Crab’s famous “signal.”
A millisecond pulsar turns very fast, making one spin in less than 10 milliseconds. It sends out electromagnetic radiation in the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray spectrum bands. These types of pulsars may well originate in low-mass X-ray binary systems. That’s where one of the members is a star and the other is a black hole or neutron star. As highly energetic objects, millisecond pulsars are obvious candidates for gamma-ray emissions sources.
Modeling Millisecond Pulsars as Sources of the Galactic Center Excess
Crocker and his team modeled what they call the integrated emission from around 100,000 such pulsars. It turns out such a huge population could produce a signal similar to the Galactic Center Excess. He noted that they haven’t disproved the idea of dark matter being involved. “Our results point to another important source of gamma-ray production,” he said. “For instance, the gamma-ray signal from the Andromeda Galaxy may be due mostly to millisecond pulsars.”
The team used gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope to analyze the extent of the Galactic Center GeV Excess and consider the various proposed sources for it. In their results, they report on their analysis of millisecond pulsars in the center of the galaxy. They also discuss a weird kind of microwave “haze” in the core of the Milky Way, and the role these pulsars could play in its formation.
Shown here are gamma-ray pulsars detected with the LAT as of 2021. The different shapes indicate various types, including millisecond pulsars (indicated by diamonds) that give off gamma radiation. Courtesy Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope pulsars insights page.
Rethinking Dark Matter’s Role in the Galactic Center Excess
The discovery that millisecond pulsars could play a major role in the gamma-ray excess changes the idea of dark matter’s role. For one thing, astronomers are still figuring out what this stuff really is. “The nature of dark matter is entirely unknown,” said Crocker. “So, any potential clues garner a lot of excitement. Now, with this new pulsar data, astronomers may need to look at other clues to the existence of dark matter, even as they try to explain its nature.
Is the pentagram shaped anomaly found in Algeria of alien origin?
Is the pentagram shaped anomaly found in Algeria of alien origin?
The anomaly to be known as the Nisanian Pentagram. According to scientists the most plausible scientific explanation would seem to be that it is a natural, albeit highly weathered, formation known as a volcanic plug.
Although they say it is a volcanic plug, it looks more like something which is artificially made, it just doesn't fit in the surrounding area.
It also seems impossible that it was a meteor impact, other meteor impacts don't leave craters like this one.
Now Google labelled this anomaly as 'H 666' 666: 6+6+6=18=1+8=9 - 9 is the number present in the universe.
Could it be that a long time ago extraterrestrial visitors have made this pentagram symbol to show the early civilization that the pentagram, the number 9, is the connection to the universe and other worlds?
Coordinates: 29°14'25"N7°02'11"W
A curious image captured by Google Earth shows what appears to be a strange star-shaped formation in a remote part of Algeria. The weird find, showcased by indefatigable UFO researcher Scott Waring over the weekend, is located in the Algerian town of Oum El Assel. Given the somewhat ominous label 'H 666' by Google, the anomaly (which can be seen in depth here) is rather difficult to decipher as it could either be an object sitting on the ground or a land formation. Be that as it may, Waring offered a rather fantastic theory for what it could be.
The UFO researcher argued that the anomaly is, in fact, a sign that was placed in the Algerian desert by interstellar visitors long ago. Specifically, he mused that ancient ETs left behind "symbols to be found and one day interpreted to reveal to humanity that many intelligent alien species have been here and will come back." While Waring may have recently raised awareness of the star-shaped curiosity, it would appear that the Google Earth image has been circulating online for quite some time and has come to be known as the Nisanian Pentagram.
While various sinister rumors surrounding what the anomaly could be have circulated online, the most plausible scientific explanation would seem to be that it is a natural, albeit highly weathered, formation known as a volcanic plug. A similar case of proverbial mistaken alien identity occurred earlier this year when what was thought to be a crashed flying saucer sitting in a remote part of South Africa was later revealed to be a man-made structure.
Daytime UFO maneuvering over Bridgetown, Barbados 12 April 2022
Daytime UFO maneuvering over Bridgetown, Barbados 12 April 2022
This daytime UFO footage of a bright object maneuvering in the sky above Barbados was filmed on 12th April 2022.
Witness report:
At 12:14pm on April 12, 2022 my wife called to me from the balcony of our hotel room at the Barbados Hilton in Bridgetown where we were staying on vacation. She told me to come and see the “UFO”. I thought she was joking until I actually saw what she was referring to. It was a reflective object very high in the sky and was inland. At first I thought it might be a balloon or kite , but the altitude seemed much too high. I was able to film using my iPhone 12 for 26seconds
UFO Expert Says Seagulls and Flies May Be Alien Spies
UFO Expert Says Seagulls and Flies May Be Alien Spies
Yes, you read that headline correctly … although some think it may be time to retire the “UFO expert” description for this particular person after he admitted his belief that extraterrestrials may have infiltrated the minds and/or bodies of seagulls, flies and other creatures who spend a lot of time around humans in a worldwide attempt to spy on us and send data back to an intelligent species planning to attack and take over Earth.
“If aliens want to hack into and control a living organism, or construct a drone that's a perfect mimic, it would be best to choose something ordinary and ubiquitous, like a seagull or a housefly.”
Feeding gulls or refueling alien drones?
That sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie but it’s actually an observation made in The Mirror by none other than Nick Pope – the former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator, current UFO journalist and recent newsmaker with the variety of ‘expert’ proclamations he’s made about extraterrestrials. Those include warnings that aliens are afraid of Russian president Vladimir Putin and “Independence Day” actor-turned-Oscar-banned pugilist Will Smith, ETs like Queen Elizabeth II, and the most likely result of first contact between humans and aliens will be the demise of humans. Now Pope has weighed in on how said aliens might be preparing for that first contact – with lifelike seagull or housefly drones or real creatures whose brains are under their control.
"If aliens are secretly monitoring Earth, they'll be doing it up-close-and-personal - not with distant telescopes, but a way that would enable them to get crystal clear images and recordings, right under our noses.”
OK, most people would admit that would be a smart – albeit Twilight Zone-ish – strategy and certainly something humans would consider if they were the superior party in an alien encounter. In a way we’re doing the same thing on Mars, although not exactly secretly. However, Pope thinks we humans would be easily duped by these clandestine seagulls and houseflies … and he offers evidence to prove it.
"By way of comparison, aircraft like the stealth fighter and the stealth bomber were flying for years before they were public knowledge.”
Pope points out that the secret military inventions of the U.S. and other world powers have been kept well-hidden for years. If the military already has insect-size and birdlike drones that it allows the public to see, what kind of stealth versions are deep inside the secret test facilities? All of a sudden, that “Birds Aren’t Real” conspiracy theory that started out as a hoax isn’t so hoaxy after all.
"So next time you move to swat that fly, watch out - your actions might inadvertently start an interstellar war!"
Put down the swatter and nobody gets hurt.
So, why would extraterrestrials use seagulls or houseflies as their mind-controlled or robotic spies? Pope actually hits the nail on the head – they’re everywhere and they’re annoying, so we’re constantly swatting flies and chasing seagulls away from our seafood dinners or poop-covered cars. We’re so busy doing that, we’re distracted away from that one slightly funky-looking birds or slightly larger than the others fly who is sending training videos back to the alien military headquarters.
What started out sounding absurd just might be a brilliant assessment from the same UFO expert who brought you the recent news that Elon Musk may be blocking alien tweets.
Is Nick Pope onto something? Just in case ... keep your eyes on those gulls and flies!
Strange Military Encounters with Enormous UFO Motherships at Sea with Physical Effects
Strange Military Encounters with Enormous UFO Motherships at Sea with Physical Effects
Brent Swancer
Among the many, many UFO reports floating around out there, some of the more amazing are those that have been witnessed by trained military personnel. Even weirder still is when such unidentified objects are of incredible dimensions and seem to have physical effects on the witnesses. Out over the vast expanses of oceans of our world there have been numerous encounters with something very large and very strange, and which have served to cause physical effects on the ones who have seen them.
In the November 1981 issue of the Flying Saucer Review there is a curious case that was sent in a letter directly to the magazine by a witness who claims that she had had a very odd and terrifying experience out over the ocean with a massive, cigar-shaped unidentified object. The unnamed witness claims that at the time she had been working for NATO as an English language secretary based in Paris, and was aboard an Air Canada DC-8 aircraft on a military sanctioned mission with a party of fifty NATO personnel who were en route From Paris to Canada for the NATO Ministerial Meetings in Ottawa. At the time, the plane was deep over the Atlantic Ocean and the witness was in a window seat looking out enjoying the view of sky when something very strange and very large caught her attention. She describes it this way:
I was just reaching down to take a book from my hold-all, and was astonished to glimpse below the ‘plane something dark and absolutely tremendous that stood out in vivid contrast to the brightness all around. I could not believe my eyes. I pressed close to the window in unbelief and there, almost beneath the DC-8, was a gigantic dark grey ‘torpedo’. It seemed menacing and frightening, and I had the impression that it was stationary. It was utterly unlike anything that I had ever seen in my whole life. It looked as though made of steel. No portholes or windows were visible. No wings or projections. Nothing but the long perfect torpedo form, with its bullet-shaped head, and the rear end which was cut off sharply and squarely. The monster – and I emphasize that it was this terrifying size that impressed me – was well below us. I thought maybe 2,000 meters or so below us, but of course I had no way of being able to gauge this or to estimate the size of the thing. I looked down again quickly at the monster, and saw that a swathe of tiny clouds was beginning to pass over it, though it remained visible through them for a few seconds before being lost to my sight.
The sighting greatly disturbed the witness, but when she looked around the other passengers on the mostly empty flight were either asleep or lost in their books or thoughts, so it did not seem as if anyone else had seen that behemoth in the sky. At the time, she decided not to mention it, afraid that no one would believe her and that she would be ridiculed. The witness at the time had no real knowledge of the UFO phenomenon, and was rather confused and frustrated, but years later she would read several books on the subject that convinced her that she was not crazy. She would also begin to link what she had seen with a more frightening aspect of her experience that had happened after she had seen the object. She says of this:
After my glimpse of the monster ‘torpedo,’ I sat there brooding on it for half an hour or so, as I recall, when suddenly the DC- 8 started to shudder and pitch up and down violently, nosing steeply upwards, then steeply downwards, and this went on for a long, long time. I might explain that I had often encountered turbulence and ‘air-pockets’ when travelling by airplane, but it had never been anything remotely like this. This was as though we were in a gigantic lift that was shooting up and down madly. And, as though that was not enough, there now came a succession of reports like cannon-fire or thunder, filling the cabin.
Meanwhile the plane continued to shudder and ‘buck’ violently, and each time it came down I had the sensation that it was going to break in half. Throughout all this, everybody in the passenger’s cabin sat there petrified, absolutely silent, white-faced. After a while of this, I felt such panic that I rushed up front in search of a stewardess, and shouting “What’s going on? I’m scared!” I lifted a curtain in front of what seemed to be a sleeping-berth, and found a stewardess lying on the bed there, her hands covering her eyes as though she were weeping. She gave no response to my shouts, and all around there was total silence still, apart from the sound of the engines, overlaid by the repeated ‘claps of thunder’ and the continued bucking up and down of the plane.
I went back to my seat, and suddenly found myself bathed in perspiration. Every pore in my body seemed to be hard at work. And yet I noticed that the light dress I was wearing was still completely dry. A second time, I ran forward to the stewardesses’ quarters but there was nobody there. I hammered on the door leading to the cockpit, and shouted again, asking what was happening, as I was scared to death. The other stewardess came out and looked at me as though I were an idiot, and for a while said nothing. Then, calmly, she announced ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, do not be alarmed: the cabin is being depressurized.’ Shortly afterwards, the Captain was heard to make the same announcement.
Although at the time she had not put the two events together, upon learning more about UFOs she said that she was fairly convinced that they were intimately connected. Additionally, she expresses suspicion that the crew may have even been trying to cover something up about the incident. She explains:
I should like very much to know whether all that I have just described, about the violent behavior of the aircraft and the loud reports, is explicable as being due to the process of ‘depressurization’ and, if so, what are the circumstances that are likely to have made it necessary for such alarming and drastic steps to be taken? Is this sort of thing usual and normal – as the calm behaviour of the second-mentioned stewardess seemed to indicate? And why, in that case, had the other stewardess – as it seemed – been weeping? Was this simply because she, like all the rest of us, found the turbulence just a bit too alarming? ‘Or is it possible that she was still suffering from shock after seeing the gigantic ‘torpedo’? It certainly would be interesting to know the answers to these questions.
As for the plane’s crew, there was only the one stewardess who seemed upset. What is certain is that the pilots up in the nacelle certainly would have had abundant time in which to see the ‘cigar,’ as it cut slightly diagonally across their route from their port side and well below them. No explanation or comment whatsoever about the ‘cigar’ was given by the Captain or any other crew member, and no statement was made by the authorities when we landed in Canada. We were flying under NATO auspices and in that sense we were under military control. In such circumstances it would not be surprising if the cockpit crew and the stewardesses were less forthcoming about a UFO than perhaps they might have been, were it an ordinary passenger flight.
What was going on here? Another case involving a similarly enormous craft that had physical effects on a military vessel allegedly occurred on July 2, 1971, rather fittingly in the Bermuda Triangle, southeast of Florida. On this day, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy CVA-67 was returning to Norfolk, Virginia after completing a two-week operational readiness exercise in the Caribbean, where they were to take some leave time before heading off for duty in the Mediterranean for six months. This main witness in this account, who reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center, was at the time assigned to the communications center monitoring teletypes printing the Fleet Broadcasts. On this evening at around 8:30 p.m., his equipment suddenly began going haywire, after which he soon learned that all communications on the ship were malfunctioning. Soon after this, there was someone shouting that something was hovering over the ship, and when he went up with some other personnel they saw something their training had never prepared them for. The witness would say:
As we looked up, we saw a large, glowing sphere. Well, it seemed large, however, there was no point of reference. That is to say if the sphere were low; say 100 feet above the ship, then it would have been about two to three hundred feet in diameter. If it said 500 feet about the ship then it would have been larger. At arm’s length it was the size of a beach ball. It made no sound that I could hear. The light coming from it wasn’t too bright, about half of what the sun would be. It pulsated from yellow to orange slowly. We didn’t get to look at for more than about 20 seconds because General Quarters (Battle stations) was sounding and the Communication Officer was in the passageway telling us to get back into the Comm Center. We returned and stayed there (that was out battle station). We didn’t have much to do because all the communication was still out.
After about 20 minutes, the teletypes started printing correctly again. We stayed at General Quarters for about another hour, then secured. I didn’t see or hear of any messages going out about the incident. Over the next few hours, I talked to a good friend that was in CIC (combat information center) who was a radar operator. He told me that all the radar screens were just glowing during the time of the incident. I also talked to a guy I knew that worked on the Navigational Bridge. He told me that none of the compasses were working and that the medics had to sedate a boatswain’s mate that was a lookout on the signal bridge. I figured this was the one yelling it was God. It was ironic that of the 5,000 men on a carrier, that only a handful actually saw this phenomenon. This was due to the fact that flight Ops had just be completed a short time before this all started and all the flight deck personnel were below resting. It should be noted that there are very few places where you can go to be out in the open air aboard a carrier.
He would soon after learn that not only the communications equipment, but many other pieces of equipment onboard, including even aircraft had ceased to function when the mysterious object had been looming there. Even more ominously, it would also seem that there were “men in trench coats” soon aboard interviewing witnesses on what they had seen and that there was an air of secrecy about the whole thing. The witness would explain of all of this:
From what I could learn, virtually all electronic components stopped functioning during the 20 minutes or so that whatever it hovered over the ship. The two Ready CAPs (Combat Air Patrol), which were two F-4 Phantoms that are always ready to be launched, would not start. I heard from the scuttlebutt (slang – rumor mill) that three or four “men in trenchcoats” had landed, and were interviewing the personnel that had seen this phenomenon. I was never interviewed, maybe because no one knew that I had seen it. A few days later, as we were approaching Norfolk, the Commanding and Executive Officers came on the closed-circuit TV system that we had. They did this regularly to address the crew and pass on information. During this particular session, the Captain told us how well we did on the ORE and about our upcoming deployment to the Mediterranean. At the very end of his spiel, he said “I would like to remind the crew, that certain events that take place aboard a Naval Combatant Ship, are classified and are not to be discussed with anyone without a need to know”. This was all the official word I ever received or heard of the incident.
An account that involves an even more gargantuan craft purportedly occurred on October 24, 1989, with a report made by a sailor aboard the Naval submarine USS Memphis (SSN-698), operating out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. At the time they were on Special Assignments protecting the Space Program, on patrol about 150 miles of the Florida coast when the submarine began experiencing a deluge of technical problems. Numerous electronics systems were going haywire, communications were totally shut down, tanks were blowing out of control, navigation ability was lost, and even the controls in the reactor were on the fritz. It was a very dangerous situation, and so they surfaced and went to diesel engines. The witness says of what happened next:
It was raining and the entire sky was red like a red neon sign. I saw a large inverted V-shaped UFO off the port side. The executive officer told me to stand fast and he would speak to the captain. In a minute, the captain appeared on the tower and asked me for a distance to the craft. The laser range finder determined the closest point was 200 meters, and the farthest point was 1,000 meters off the port. The UFO was not perpendicular to our ship but at about a 45′ angle.
This huge vessel was over a half-mile across. The UFO made a half-circle around our ship then passed across the stern causing our electronics systems to go crazy. We had permanent damage in communications and the sonar room. As the craft flew over the stern, I could see the rain stop under its red glow. The water seemed to rise almost afoot as the UFO passed over silently. When the UFO finished its swing across the stern it paused – the sky got brighter red and it simply moved off at tremendous speed inside 15 seconds. When the UFO left, our boat returned to normal with the exception of the radio and sonar. We did a quick system check and the captain ordered us to return to reactor power and get underway.
He then explains that after they reached port they were pulled aside by their superiors and put into what he calls “protective custody.” The atmosphere was apparently very intense, and they proceeded to be told the “official story” and that they should not talk about what they had seen. The witness would say of this:
We reached port in about 7 hours where I was taken into “protective custody.” Two enlisted men and I agreed we had witnessed a real UFO. I was the one who shot it with a laser range finder, so I was the only one that had its exact sizes. I shot that vessel as it hovered and I got solid readings, not spotty like I would on debris. We were in holding for about three hours when an officer from the Air Force arrived and gave us a line of bull about an exploding weather satellite. The Navy then transferred virtually everyone on the crew to new assignments. This included the captain, the executive officer and the entire crew. They were split up which almost never happens unless one of them gets a promotion or a new command, neither of which happened.
It seems to be a pattern that such incidents are swept under the carpet, only adding to the eerie vibe of such cases. What was going on in any of these cases? Are there these massive craft roaming about over the oceans of our world? What are they trying to say with these physicsl effects they have put forth? It is hard to say, and these remain a very curious corner of the UFO phenomenon indeed.
New X-Ray Technique May Have Proven Shroud of Turin is 2,000 Years Old
New X-Ray Technique May Have Proven Shroud of Turin is 2,000 Years Old
A shroud is a long piece of cloth, usually made of cotton or linen, that is wrapped around a corpse before it is buried or placed in a tomb – most often without a casket. The most famous shroud is the Shroud of Turin, which appears to be stained with the image of a man that many believe was Jesus, who, according to the biblical story, was only it for three days before he came back to life. The Shroud of Turin seems to come back to life as well – rising up in the news every few years as the debate over its authenticity rages on. Just a few weeks ago, a million-dollar prize was offered to anyone who can prove the shroud is not a forgery or show how it was forged. This week, an Italian scientist unveiled in a studya new X-ray technique he claims has proven the Shroud of Turin is 2,000 years old. Does he win the prize?
Secondo Pia's 1898 negative of the image on the Shroud of Turin
“We have therefore developed a method to measure the natural aging of flax cellulose using X-rays and then convert it into time elapsed since fabrication. The new dating method, based on a technique called Wide Angle X-ray Scattering, was first tested on linen samples already dated using other techniques, on samples that had nothing to do with the Shroud, and then applied to a sample taken from the Shroud of Turin.”
In an interview with National Catholic Register, Italian scientist Liberato De Caro explains how to the polymer chains of cellulose which make up cloth fibers gradually break over centuries due to the combined effect of temperature, humidity, light and chemical agents in the environment. He has spent 30 years studying this aging process using X-rays and developed a method of modeling it for various fibers of various ages. The end result is the Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) technique which he proved to be reliable using fabrics ranging in age from 3000 BCE to 2000 CE. He then applied the technique to a sample of the Shroud of Turin and graphed the results.
“These curves show that the sample of the Shroud of Turin (orange curve in the picture) should be much older than the approximately seven centuries indicated by the radio-dating carried out in 1988.”
In 1988, carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating) was used on Shroud samples by three separate laboratories which all concluded it was about seven centuries old and not authentic. De Caro claims carbon-14 dating is affected by contamination and fabric is filled with air spaces that can trap and hold contaminants no matter how thoroughly it is cleaned – the reason the 1988 carbon-14 dating gave different results on samples from the edge of the shroud compared to those from the middle. WAXS is non-destructive, can be performed on smaller samples and can be repeated for comparisons. In fact, De Caro’s tests were made on fibers from the same section as the 1988 tests … and delivered different results.
So … which test is right?
“However, the earlier study of pollen trapped in its fibers had already shown a consistent presence of pollen from the Middle East, in particular from the ancient region of Palestine, as if the Shroud had been in that geographical area and not in Europe for a significant period of its history.”
De Caro claims that another study on the pollen trapped in the shroud’s fibers shows the pollen came from the Middle East, not from Europe where the known history of the shroud began in the 1300s. In other words, the pollen proves the shroud was in the Middle East before the 1300s and WAXS shows it’s about 2,000 years old.
Bingo … drop the mic … pay Liberato De Caro the money. Right?
“It would be enough to take 1-mm-long samples from these threads, combine them with other linen samples taken from other ancient fabrics of known date, and involve several laboratories in a dating experiment using the technique we have developed that uses X-rays. It could also be carried out as a blind experiment, that is, without laboratories knowing which samples are taken from the Shroud compared with those taken from other linen fabrics, to avoid any possible bias in the data analysis by the authors of the research.”
To his credit, De Caro admits that even though his study was peer-reviewed, conducting the WAXS tests again in different labs with blind samples should be conducted to confirm the 2000-year age of the shroud. It should be noted that the majority of the reports on De Caro’s study have been made by religious media sites, not scientific ones.
It remains to be seen if this research is enough to prove the Shroud of Turin is not a 700-year-old fake and win the million-dollar prize.
Are the study results enough to prove it’s the burial shroud of Jesus? They’re going to need a bigger X-ray machine for that.
Black Cube Exists Sun, NASA Covers It Up! May 2, 2022 UFO Sighting News.
Black Cube Exists Sun, NASA Covers It Up! May 2, 2022 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2, 2022 13:06
Location of sighting: Earths sun
Source: Helioviewer.org
I was watching the SOHO sun viewer when I noticed a black cube in a few frames of the video. Right after the cube exited the sun...a huge solid black screen covered up 25% of the whole viewing area. Its clear that NASA is trying to hide these cubes from us. But thats less important than knowing what those cubes are doing? Why are they exiting and entering our sun? Could such a disturbance cause a solar flare that would destroy Earth? Is the sun hollow or are these Earth size ships just gathering rare particles that we have yet to discover?
We may never find out in our lifetime, but I still hold out hope that NASA will one day come clean and tell the public the truth. That aliens exist.
Ancient Alien Structure On Moon, NASA Photo, 40 Min Video! UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Alien Structure On Moon, NASA Photo, 40 Min Video! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 1, 2022
Credit NASA: When this video hits 5k views...I will post the link to the original NASA source photo.
Hey all, hows it going? I found this old NASA photo and its just amazing. Its littered with structures from head to toe. The best of all the structures of course it at the northern pole area. There is a maze-like structure on the edge of a crater. There are also a lot of other structures in this photo. Literally every black area on this photo are structures. Which would mean the with so much surface of the moon covered in structures, the moon is obviously hollow. Its a space station that appreas moon like to decieve and observe primitive civilizations. I dare you to find better or more clear evidence than this. Such evidence does not exist...yet. But give me time.
Where are the aliens? | Sara Walker and Lee Cronin and Lex Fridman
Where are the aliens? | Sara Walker and Lee Cronin and Lex Fridman
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations.
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The Black Knight, A 13000 Year Old Alien Satellite?
The Black Knight, A 13000 Year Old Alien Satellite?
Space Junk or Extraterrestrial “Satellite”, the “Black Knight” as it’s called today– has been around for quite some time now. This discovery is perhaps one of the most (in)famous space objects that orbit our Planet. This “Artificial Satellite” has caused mayor media interest since the late 50′s, and it has become one of the most talked about objects in space. First thought to be an Russian spy satellite, the Black Knight has gripped the interest of millions worldwide. According to monitoring agencies around the world, The Black knight has been transmitting radio signals for over 50 years now.
But according to many, this discovery was made much earlier than we thought. Rumors are that it was Nikola Tesla the first man to “intercept” a signal from this otherworldly satellite in 1899 after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs. After Tesla’s discovery in the next 30 to 50 years the signal was being intercepted more frequently until it was apparently “decoded”. Since the 1930′s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals which allegedly come from the “Black Knight”. In 1957, Dr. Luis Corralos of the Communications Ministry in Venezuela photographed it while taking pictures of Sputnik II as it passed over Caracas. The strange thing was that unlike the Sputnik one and two, The Black Knight Satellite orbited Earth from East to West.
Sputnik one and two orbited West to East using Earth’s natural rotation to maintain orbit. The story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940′s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th 1954. The Time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960. Here is what they said about it. Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website. The Articles of 1954:
On August 23, 1954 the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story that angered the Pentagon who were trying to keep the information secret. The short article stated: Pentagon scare over the observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the earth has dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural, not artificial satellites. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, headed the identification project. One satellite is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other track is 600 miles from the earth. Pentagon thought momentarily the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space explorations. Interest in the Black Knight was higher each year, in 1957, an unknown “object” was seen “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft. According to reports, the “unidentified object” was in Polar orbit, at that time The United Stated nor the Russians possessed the technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit.
According to our research the first Polar orbiting satellite was launched in 1960. Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of a observational Satellite, the only question here is, who placed The Black Knight in a polar orbit and for what purpose? The Object continued to amaze Astronomers World Wide. In the 1960′s the Black Knight was located once again in Polar Orbit. Astronomers and Scientists calculated the objects weight to be over 10 tons which would be at that time the Heaviest Artificial Satellite to orbit our Planet. The Black Knights orbiting was unlike any other object orbiting Earth, as it was moving as twice as fast when compared to the man made Spacecrafts. There are also several reports that the Grumman Aircraft Corporation gave much importance to this mysterious “Satellite”, On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight.
At that point people all over the world started identifying the object in the sky, which could be seen as a red light moving at higher speed compared to other satellites in a East to West orbit. The Grumman Aircraft Corporation formed a committee to study the data received from the observations made but nothing was made public. In 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space. On his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green object in front of his capsule in the distance moving towards his Spacecraft. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar travelling East to West. NBC reported this but after Cooper returned to Earth, the Reporter were not allowed to ask Cooper about the unidentified object. The official explanation given to Coopers sighting were “high levels of carbon dioxide, which caused hallucinations“. The Black Knight has been a topic of interest all around the world.
Until today most of the “official” information on the mysterious object is kept safe and away from society. No one has answered some of the most simple and logical questions to ask, who placed that “satellite” in Polar orbit? To what purpose? Is the Black Knight an Extraterrestrial satellite sent to Earth to study the Human race? Did the Satellite attempt to communicate with the human race? Have we ignored attempted communications? One thing is for sure, The Black Knight remains as one of the most mysterious objects to orbit our planet. Is there a connection between this (in)famous space object and ancient mankind’s achievements? Let us know what you think and post your comments below. Here are the images of the Black Knight and links to the raw images from NASA.
Check out the official NASA images of ”The Black Knight” by visiting these links:
The Future Circular Collider: Its potential and lessons learnt from the LEP and LHC experiments
The Future Circular Collider: Its potential and lessons learnt from the LEP and LHC experiments
As researchers seek to learn more about the fundamental nature of our universe, new generations of particle accelerators are now in development in which beams of particles collide ever more precisely and at ever higher energies. Professor Stephen Myers, former Director of Accelerators & Technology at CERN and currently Executive Chair of ADAM SA, identifies both the positive and negative lessons which future projects can learn from previous generations of accelerators. Building on the extraordinary feats of researchers in the past, his findings offer particularly important guidance for one upcoming project: the Future Circular Collider.
The Standard Model of particle physics aims to provide a complete picture of all elementary particles and forces which comprise our universe. So far, the model has held up to even the most rigorous experiments which physicists have thrown at it, but there are still many aspects of the universe that it can’t explain. Among these is dark matter: the enigmatic substance which makes up much of the universe’s overall mass, but whose composition remains completely unknown to researchers.
In addition, there are still no concrete answers to the question of why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter, or why tiny, chargeless neutrinos have any mass. For many physicists, it is now clear that the Standard Model in its current form isn’t enough to answer these questions. This ultimately calls for a new theory which can encompass all of these as-yet mysterious phenomena and offer a deeper understanding of how our Universe evolved after the Big Bang.
Artistic impression of the FCC accelerator and tunnel. Credit: Polar Media
This may sound like an immensely ambitious goal, but the discoveries made by particle physicists so far have been no less transformative for our understanding of how the universe works. So far, the Standard Model has been tested by the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP). Already, the measurements of particle interactions offered by this experiment have had huge implications for our understanding of the infinitesimally small and the universe itself. Even further advances have since been made by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) leading to the discovery of the Higgs boson and the study of how it interacts with other fundamental particles. Studying the properties of the newly found Higgs boson opens a new chapter in particle physics.
The integrated FCC programme is the fastest and most effective way of exploring the electroweak sector and searching for new physics.
In a recently published essay, entitled ‘FCC: Building on the shoulders of giants’, in a special issue of the EPJ Plus journal, Professor Stephen Myers looks back at the building of the LEP and LHC colliders that contributed to the development of the Standard Model. His essay also discusses what the building and commissioning of the LEP can teach researchers in the design of the newly proposed circular electron-collider (FCC-ee).
Possibilities with particle accelerators Particle colliders are at the core of all experimental research in fundamental physics. After inducing head-on collisions between beams of particles, travelling in opposite directions at close to the speed of light, researchers can closely analyse the particles formed in the aftermath. Ideally, this will allow them to identify any elementary particles contained within the colliding particles and the fundamental forces which govern the interactions between them.
Aerial view showing the current ring of the LHC (27km) and the proposed new 100km tunnel. @CERN
Among the first experiments to do this successfully on a large scale was the LEP, which induced collisions between beams of electrons and positrons – their antimatter counterparts. ‘In the autumn of 1989, the LEP delivered the first of several results that still dominate the landscape of particle physics today’, Myers recalls. ‘It is often said that LEP discovered ‘electroweak’ radiative corrections to a high degree of certainty’.
This discovery relates to two fundamental forces described by the Standard Model: electromagnetism (which governs interactions between charged particles) and the weak nuclear force in atoms (which is responsible for radioactive decay). Although the two forces appear very different from each other at low energies, they essentially merge into the same force at extremely high energies – implying that they split apart in the earliest moments of the universe.
The unification of these two forces in a single theory was undoubtedly one of the most important advances in particle physics to date, and ultimately opened up a new era of precision in the field. Although the LEP finished operating in 2000, it continues to set the standard for both modern and future experiments.
On this year’s Space Day in China, Wu Yanhua, deputy head of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said that China wants to build an asteroid monitoring system. Further, the nation wants to create a system that allows it to redirect asteroids similar to NASA’s D.A.R.T defense system.
China plans to build an asteroid monitoring system
Image source: Hubble Space Telescope / ESA
Wu said that the CNSA wants to create a ground-based asteroid monitoring system to catalog any near-Earth objects (NRO) that pose a threat to both Earth and our space endeavors. If it discovered any near-Earth objects that we need to be aware of, tech could be developed to deal with them.
Wu told the Chinese state-owned news agency, the Global Times that China is also developing simulation software to help judge impact possibilities and outcomes.
This simulation may prove to be similar to one that NASA ran in 2021 when it simulated an asteroid headed for Earth. Insiders told Global Times that the system is still in the establishment phase. As such, the Chinese government has not approved it just yet. Still, seeing China working towards an asteroid monitoring system is good news for everyone.
While NASA has continued to work on ways to combat asteroid impacts—like the upcoming test for its D.A.R.T. spacecraft—there’s still a long way to go. Asteroids can still pop up out of almost nowhere without an early warning system in place.
In fact, we recently discovered an asteroid just two hours before impact. Luckily, it was a small object, and not something bigger like this 80-mile wide comet from the Oort Cloud.
With larger asteroids though, NASA and other space agencies seem to agree that the results of an impact could be catastrophic. That’s why having an early warning and asteroid monitoring system in place is vital.
China will also develop redirect systems for NROs
The asteroid known as 16 Psyche. Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
On top of its asteroid monitoring system, Wu says China hopes to test an asteroid redirect probe within four years. The test will see a probe find an NRO and then crash into it to alter its orbital trajectory.
This is exactly what NASA is already doing with D.A.R.T. However, NASA is doing it roughly 6.8 million miles from Earth. China has not shared how far it plans to go out with its test. With some luck, the CNSA hopes to test the probe in 2025 or 2026.
It’s good to see other nations taking the threats posed by asteroids seriously. NASA is working on its own plans, and now China is throwing its hat in the ring.
With plans to take humanity back to the Moon, and even one day to put people on Mars, we’re going to need all the help we can get fighting back against the dangerous forces at play in space.
What is it? Strange Lights in Sky Caught on Camera in Marion, Ohio
What is it? Strange Lights in Sky Caught on Camera in Marion, Ohio
In Marion, Ohio, residents have been thrown into a fright after a bizarre story emerged regarding peoples being scared at a street location by what has been described as a “strange lights”.
That and more strange events caught on tape. Real or fake? Video here:
Antarctica Lost an Ice Shelf, but Gained an Island
Antarctica Lost an Ice Shelf, but Gained an Island
Collapsing ice shelves on the eastern coast of Antarctica has revealed something never seen before: a landform that might be an island. But this is not the first newly revealed island off the Antarctic coast. A series of islands have appeared as the ice shelves along the continent’s coastline has disintegrated over the past few years.
The island is visible in the three images, which were taken by Landsat satellites between 1989 and 2022. The landform maintains its shape, even through the ice around it has melted, shifted, and disappeared. With the collapsing ice, scientists think large icebergs likely smashed into the island, but the island maintained its shape.
The eastern coast of Antarctica has lost most of the Glenzer and Conger ice shelves, as seen in these satellite images taken between November 15, 1989 – January 9, 2022. Credit: NASA GSFC/UMBC JCET.
However, scientists are unsure if there is any solid earth below the mound of snow and ice.
“It is undoubtedly similar to other ice islands, such as Bowman Island (also visible in the image above),” said John Gibson, a scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division, in a post on NASA’s Earth Observatory. Gibson thinks the feature is likely an ice island: a large, heavy cap of ice sitting solidly on an underwater peak.
Gibson called the ice island “self-perpetuating,” meaning that snow and ice accumulating on the island’s surface balances out the amount of melting that occurs underwater. If that balance becomes disrupted by a decrease in snowfall, then the ice island could thin and float away. “The unnamed island is a more-or-less permanent feature of the landscape,” Gibson said, “but may someday detach from the underlying rock and become an iceberg.”
NASA says that elevation data in December 2021 from the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) on NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) shows at least part of the island stands 30 to 35 meters (100 to 115 feet) above the surface of the sea.
NASA says that most of the Glenzer and Conger ice shelves are gone, having collapsed earlier this year. And with further collapse of Antarctic ice shelves due to the warming ocean, more of these islands might be popping up.
“The discovery of more of them is likely to continue in the years ahead due to shrinking glacial and sea ice,” said Christopher Shuman, a University of Maryland, Baltimore County, glaciologist based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “Obviously these are ‘new to us’ features, but we also have more people and more tools to look at the margins of Antarctica now. Several examples do not make a trend, but they do imply that other once-hidden features are likely to be noticed in the years to come.”
Worlds Biggest and Most Mysterious Snakes Ever Found
Worlds Biggest and Most Mysterious Snakes Ever Found
Snakes—you either think they’re the most fascinating creature on the planet or, you know, downright disgusting. Either way, we humans bow down to the boas of the world because not only are they bigger than us, but they’re stronger for sure and probably hungrier than us, too. In fact, there are more than 3,000 varieties of snakes slithering around the globe and the biggest serpents? Well, let’s just say they put the garden snake in your backyard to absolute sssshame.
I found a huge alien structure on the floor of the ocean. It's 9 miles or 14km long. The object has left a trail on the ocean floor behind it. The trail goes off for hundreds of miles. This trail indicates that its moved alot over the years, and I believe it's been on the ocean floor for several thousand years. The object is about 300-500 meters tall! Its no wonder why Google prefers to blur out most of the ocean floor. This object can only be seen clearly on the Internet version of Google map. The downloaded version has a png of the ocean waves on top of the structure so the detail is blurred. Yes, Google did it on purpose, yes Google is helping keep the public in the dark about the existence of aliens.
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Bats will have a large contribution to virus transmission between species in the future, a modelling study finds.
Credit: Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times via Getty
Over the next 50 years, climate change could drive more than 15,000 new cases of mammals transmitting viruses to other mammals, according to a study published in Nature1. It’s one of the first to predict how global warming will shift wildlife habitats and increase encounters between species capable of swapping pathogens, and to quantify how many times viruses are expected to jump between species.
Many researchers say that the COVID-19 pandemic probably started when a previously unknown coronavirus passed from a wild animal to a human: a process called zoonotic transmission. A predicted rise in viruses jumping between species could trigger more outbreaks, posing a serious threat to human and animal health alike, the study warns — providing all the more reason for governments and health organizations to invest in pathogen surveillance and to improve health-care infrastructure.
The study is “a critical first step in understanding the future risk of climate and land-use change on the next pandemic”, says Kate Jones, who models interactions between ecosystems and human health at University College London.
The research predicts that much of the new virus transmission will happen when species meet for the first time as they move to cooler locales because of rising temperatures. And it projects that this will occur most often in species-rich ecosystems at high elevations, particularly areas of Africa and Asia, and in areas that are densely populated by humans, including Africa’s Sahel region, India and Indonesia. Assuming that the planet warms by no more than 2 °C above pre-industrial temperatures this century — a future predicted by some climate analyses — the number of first-time meetings between species will double by 2070, creating virus-transmission hotspots, the study says.
“This work provides us with more incontrovertible evidence that the coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker,” says Gregory Albery, a disease ecologist at Georgetown University in Washington DC and a co-author of the study.
The challenges of modelling
To make their predictions, Albery and his colleagues developed and tested models, and ran simulations over a five-year period. They combined models of virus transmission and species distribution under various climate-change scenarios, focusing on mammals because of their relevance to human health.
Source: Ref. 1
The team built the species-distribution model to predict where mammals would move to find more liveable habitats as the planet warms. The virus-transmission model predicts the probability of a virus jumping between species for the first time, by taking into account where species might meet as their habitats shift and how closely related they are evolutionarily (viruses are most likely to transmit between related species).
The modelling seems “technically impeccable”, says Ignacio Morales-Castilla, a global-change ecologist at the University of Alcalá, Spain, although he points out that forecasting exercises such as this sometimes need to include unrealistic assumptions. But he adds that the breadth and scope of the research and its ability to identify which parts of the world might be most at risk “clearly stand out”.
One assumption the researchers had to make was about how far and wide species would spread as the climate changes. But factors such as whether mammals can adapt to local conditions or physically cross barriers in landscapes are difficult to predict.
Bats are projected to be involved in viral transmission regardless of these factors, the study found. Thought to be part of the origins of COVID-19, bats are known reservoirs of viruses and make up about 20% of mammals. The team says that — in part because bats can fly — they are less likely to experience barriers to shifting their habitats.
Spillovers to humans?
Although Jones applauds the study, she urges caution when discussing its implications for human health. “Predicting the risk of viral jumps from mammals into humans is more tricky, as these spillovers take place in a complex ecological and human socio-economic environment,” she says.
Many factors could reduce the risk to human health, including increased investment in health care or a virus being unable to infect humans for some reason, she adds.
But the researchers urge that there is no time to waste. Earth has already warmed by more than 1 °C above pre-industrial temperatures, and this is driving species migration and disease swapping. “It’s happening and it’s not preventable, even in the best climate-change scenarios,” Albery says.
Albery and one of his co-authors, Colin Carlson, a global-change biologist also at Georgetown University, say that even though some increase in disease transmission is inevitable, that is no excuse for inaction. The researchers call on governments and the international community to improve the monitoring and surveillance of wild animals and zoonotic diseases, particularly in future hotspots such as southeast Asia. Improving health infrastructure is also essential, they say.
As people begin to prepare for and adapt to global warming, most efforts focus on activities such as halting deforestation or reinforcing sea walls. But Carlson says pandemic preparedness and disease surveillance are climate-change adaptation, too.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01198-w
References
Carlson, C. J. et al.Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04788-w (2022).
Marshall County UFO: Sheriff Val Johnson's Cracked Windscreen, Temporary Blindness, And Loss Of Time
Marshall County UFO: Sheriff Val Johnson's Cracked Windscreen, Temporary Blindness, And Loss Of Time
A UFO sighting by a Marshall County police officer in 1979 resulted in a smashed windscreen, temporary blindness, and a loss of time. An unexplained encounter with an unidentified flying object and the investigation that followed.
Sheriff Val Johnson's 1979 Marshall County UFO Incident
By any standard, the close encounter that occurred in the Red River Valley flatlands of far northwestern Minnesota in the early hours of August 27, 1979, must be judged one of the most remarkable - and evidential - UFO cases ever recorded. Unlike other potentially important UFO incidents, this one had the good fortune of being fully investigated and documented soon after its occurrence.
Deputy Sherrif Val Johnson, 35, was on duty on the west end of Marshall County, not far from North Dakota and approximately 45 miles south of the Canadian border. Around 1:40 a.m. Johnson, driving on County 5 west of Stephen, saw a light through his side window. The light was to his south, shining from a grove of trees standing alongside Highway 220, which he was approaching. It looked too glaring to be a vehicle headlight. Therefore, he reasoned, it could be from a downed airplane, perhaps one flown by drug smugglers from Canada.
Still, Johnson was not alarmed enough to call it into headquarters in Warren. First, he wanted to know with certainty what the light was. He turned south on 220 and accelerated to 65 mph. Now he was close enough to see that, oddly, the light was not illuminating the area or casting shadows. At that instant the light moved toward him, travelling so fast that it crossed the mile and a half separating him and it almost instantaneously. It made no sound, and even at close range it still looked like a blinding light.
"I heard glass breaking and saw the inside of the car light up real bright with white light,"he told reporter Jim Durkin the next day."It was very, very extremely bright. That's all I can remember... After the light hit my vehicle, I don't remember a thing."
When he returned to consciousness, his head was resting on the steering wheel, and his eyes were on the red "ENGINE" light on the dashboard. Lifting his head, he looked out the window and was alarmed to see the car had skidded sideways across the northbound lane and now faced eastward. The front tires were touching the gravel on the shoulder. Johnson could see only with difficulty.
He radioed headquarters and requested assistance. It was 2:19 a.m. His voice was shaky when he tried to answer the dispatcher's question about what had happened. "I don't know," he said. "Something attacked my car. I heard glass breaking, and my breaks locked up, and I don't know what the hell happened."
Deputy Greg Winskowski arrived on the scene shortly. Johnson was still inside the car, and when Winskowski opened the door, he saw a red bump on his colleague's forehead, leading him to deduce that Johnson had hit his head against the steering wheel and been knocked unconscious. Winskowski called an ambulance from the Warren hospital.
Val Johnson's patrol car at the scene of the incident
The ambulance driver thought Johnson appeared to be in a mild state of shock. At the hospital, Dr. W. A. Pinsonneault examined his eyes, which had a pinkish irritation on their surface. He was unable to examine them for long, however, because the doctor's probe light hurt so much that Johnson could not stand to be exposed to it for more than a few moments at a time. Pinsonneault likened them to "mild welder's burns" (caused by exposure to intense light) and handed out salve and bandages. Johnson gave a taped statement at the sheriff's office at 5 a.m. and then was driven home.
Sheriff Dennis Brekke, who had come upon the scene of the incident shortly after Winskowski's arrival, drove Johnson's patrol car, a 1977 Ford LTD, to the department garage. The drive was not a simple exercise because the car was damaged in a number of peculiar ways:
The inside headlight on the driver's side was smashed, though not its companion immediately to the left. On the hood, four feet four inches behind the smashed light and close to the windshield, was a flat-bottomed, circular dent, half an inch in diameter. (An investigator who saw it on the twenty-ninth noted, "As the 'creases' in the rear of the dent reveal, the pressure of the blow was delivered primarily downward and toward the windshield.") A crack in the windshield on the driver's side, about a foot and a half behind the dent, ran top to bottom, with four apparent impacts; it looked as if a cluster of small objects, stones perhaps, had done the damage. The car's electric clock, set correctly at 7 p.m. when Johnson came on duty, was 14 minutes late. So, weirdly, was the deputy's wind-up wristwatch, set at the same time.
Allan Hendry, who saw the car the following day, has described the other damage:
"The red plastic lens covering the roof light on the driver's side (2nd from left) shows a triangular puncture, and the lens was dislodged from the housing. Neither the missing piece of plastic nor any foreign debris could be found trapped inside the lamp housing. There is no apparent damage to the housing itself...
"The shaft of the three-foot roof antenna set on a spring-loaded base has been bent over at a 60-degree angle starting 5 1/2" above the spring. Insect matter can be seen still clinging to the metal (though the shaft is coated quite tenaciously with this tissue material). Oddest of all, the large "bubble" lamp is just inches in front of the antenna, and is virtually the same height as the location of the bend, but is unscathed...
"The trunk antenna is identical to the rooftop model... The bend this time is sharper still - 90 degrees - and involves only the upper 3 1/2" of the shaft. There is a rising angle of incidence from the first bend to the second one; with a 4'7" separation between antennas (horizontally) and an 18" rise in the second bend; this results in an 18-degree angle from front to back. This second antenna is for a CB radio. There was no damage to the car's regular telescopic antenna on the front hood. All the damage favoured the driver's side of the car. The rear antenna, 2'11" from the left side of the car, is the closest the damage got to the car's centerline."
At 11 a.m. Sherrif Brekke took his deputy, who still had bandages over his eyes, to Grand Forks, North Dakota, for a more comprehensive eye examination by opthalmologist Leonard Prochaska. Dr Prochaska found that Johnson's problems had cleared up. He was not surprised; as he would tell Hendry, it is not unusual for corneal flash burns (usually caused by exposure to strong sources of ultraviolet radiation such as a welders arc) to heal within hours.
Investigation and Analysis.
That morning the Sheriff also phoned the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS), then headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, and reported the incident. Allan Hendry, CUFOS' full-time investigator, took the call and quickly arranged to fly to the site the next day. Then he called military and civilian aviation facilities in Minnesota and North Dakota to see if any had picked up unusual traffic on the radar. None had.
Meanwhile, the Marshall County officers had found shattered pieces of headlight glass next to the milepost sign Johnson was near when the light accelerated in his direction. This seemed to establish that the "collision," if that is what it was, happened slightly over one mile south of the 5/220 intersection. The car travelled some 855 feet before dark skid marks in the pavement indicated that the brakes had locked up. The marks went on for an additional 99 feet before they curved to the east and crossed into the northbound lane. From an experiment with a car similar to the one Johnson had been driving, Brekke concluded that Johnson had been travelling at 48 mph when the skid marks started.
On the twenty-ninth Hendry, Johnson, Brekke, and others scoured the site. Nothing out of the ordinary registered on a Geiger counter. No additional physical evidence was recovered. Hendry determined that the damage was inconsistent with anything an airplane could have caused, and nothing he learned about Johnson's character and reputation led him to suspect the office of perpetrating a hoax - though, as we shall see, one commentator on the case would argue for this explanation of the case.
Meridan French, a windshield expert from the Glass Division of Ford Motor Company, flew to Warren to examine the fractures personally. His report reads in part:
"There were four distinct and separate fracture origins. One was on the inboard surface of the inner glass ply and three were on the exterior surface of the outer ply. Because all four origins were at different locations in the windshield, it is concluded that they represent four independent events. From the fracture patterns, however, it appears that the time between at least three events was extremely short, on the order of a few milliseconds... There was no penetration of the windshield laminate anywhere and no tears in the polyvinyl butyral interlayer... The character of all glass fractures showed them to be the result of mechanical forces rather than thermal stresses. In fact, there was no evidence of unusual heat, either general or localized... None of the four fracture origins were individually usual, any of which could be artificially reproduced. However, as a group and in combination they are difficult to explain... I judge the sequence of events to be as follows:
1. The first fracture was of the inboard ply with the fracture origin at the inside surface. The type of fracture would indicate an impact on the exterior surface of the windshield exactly opposite the fracture point. The impacting object was probably not metallic or stone-like because there was no apparent damage to the exterior surface at the point of impact. I would estimate the impacting object to be very firm, perhaps even hard, with a mass velocity sufficient to produce a relatively high (10,000 to 12,000 psi), highly localized stress. Examples of object types could range from a softball, baseball, or golfball to a rubber-headed hammer. Such a failure could also have been made with a blow from the side of a tightly closed fist.
In a laminated glass impact failure as described here, it is not unusual for the glass ply opposite the impact to fail while the impacted plate does not. Glass failure always originates as a defect or point of damage, and it often happens that the plate opposite the impact is the weaker of the two in the highly stressed impact area.
2. The second failure to occur was in the outer glass ply at a point approximately 0.9" below the first origin. The fracture is horizontal and forms a point of tangency between two circular crack patterns, one above the other. Failure originated on the outside surface from a relatively low level bending stress for which there are several possibilities:
Localized loading or pushing on the glass from the inside. This is unlikely because of the limited space between the glass and the padded cowl at the origin location.
Positive pressure inside the car which would bend the windshield outward.
Negative pressure outside the car which would achieve the same effect.
Localized inward bending of the glass by a relatively small impacting object for the first fracture would have caused a tensile bending stress in the outboard surface in the area of the second failure. This is the most plausible in view of the circular crack pattern above the second fracture origin.
3. The third fracture also originated on the outside surface about 1.0" below the second origin. In this case, the glass is severely crushed in a small, roughly circular area as though impacted by an extremely hard object but without sufficient force to cause additional cracking of the inner glass opposite the point of impact. There was no visible residue from the impacting object in the crushed glass area when examined closely with a 20x magnifier.
4. The fourth fracture origin was also on the exterior of the windshield, approximately 5.5" above the point of the second failure. This is also a bending stress failure oriented horizontally but is believed to be a secondary failure originating at a crack from an earlier failure.
5. There is also a band of very fine fractures several inches long with some degree of glass crushing, running almost vertically and just to the passenger side of the four principle fracture origins. This last cracking is all in the outboard ply, and I believe it to be a completely secondary fracture system probably resulting from normal flexing or cracking of the already broken windshield in moving the car after the original incident.
Even after several days of reflection on the crack pattern and apparent sequence of fractures, I still have no explanation for what seemed to be inward and outward forces acting almost simultaneously. I can only (conclude) ... that all cracks were from mechanical forces of an unknown source."
About the dent in the hood, French observed that evidently "some 1/2" diameter, flat-ended object made a forceful impact with the hood at that location and then tilted toward the windshield. It may even have been the source of the windshield impacts."
A team of engineers at the materials testing laboratory at Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, studied the two antennas, the glass pieces from the headlight, and the punctured plastic lens from the rooftop lamp. The engineers' analysis indicated that "flying particles" (such as rocks or stones) were responsible for the damage to the headlight glass and lamp plastic. But the bends in the antennas required mechanical forces uniformly applying several pounds of pressure. Other tests for magnetism or radiation produced no anomalous readings.
A Possible Hoax?
By the time Hendry arrived in Warren, local people were urging Johnson to undergo hypnosis and see if he could "recall" what happened during the sighting's missing 40 minutes. Evidently, some were speculating that he may have been abducted by a UFO. Johnson had no interest in the idea, and he also rejected suggestions that he take a polygraph test. As far as he was concerned, neither would accomplish anything besides satisfying other people's "morbid curiosity." His employers and his friends were sticking by him, and all he wanted to do was go on with his life. He turned down all invitations to appear on television, though he would change his mind and consent to a September 11 appearance on ABC television's Good Morning, America with Hendry.
Val Johnson standing with his squad car from 1979
In the absence of any direct evidence that Johnson had hoaxed the incident, Philip J. Klass, a fierce critic of the UFO phenomenon, argued the case by innuendo and buttressed it with sarcasm. In his view there were only two possible explanations: either the episode was a hoax, or "malicious UFOnauts" had hit the headlight, hood, and windshield with a "hammerlike device," gently bent the antennas, then set the clock and watch back 14 minutes. In other words, the alternative explanation - at least as Klass expressed it - was too absurd to be considered; therefore the incident must be a hoax.
Besides, Klass argued, Johnson's refusal to undergo a polygraph examination was suspicious. Debating Hendry at the Smithsonian Institution in September 1980, he claimed that "Deputy Val Johnson... likes to play practical jokes, especially in the late evening when he gets a little bored, as I learned... by talking to some of the people who have worked with him and know him very well."
It is hard to imagine by what definition the infliction of serious damage to a police car qualifies as a "practical joke." In a book published two years later, Klass cited as "evidence" a former co-worker's testimony that Johnson "did like to pull tricks on a guy once in a while... like maybe hide your coffee cup on you." This was the most damning charge Klass succeeded in uncovering, and even here his informant said, "I don't know if you'd call him a 'practical-joker'... As far as we know, he's never told us any untruths."
Similar Cases
Almost exactly two days after the Marshall County close encounter - but hours before the story hit the press - Russ Johnson (not related to Val Johnson) was travelling on Highway 50 on the western outskirts of Vermillion, South Dakota, at 2 a.m., August 29, when he spotted what he took to be a single blinding headlight ahead of him. It was stationary for only two seconds; then it streaked toward him and in two seconds had engulfed his car. He closed his eyes and hit the brakes. His car skidded to a stop, spinning sideways across the road until - like Val Johnson's vehicle - it faced east. Opening his eyes, he watched the light heading towards the west. It angled upward slightly before it disappeared.
When Johnson notified the police immediately afterwards, they, in turn, alerted Prof. Robert Adams of the nearby University of South Dakota. Adams spoke with the witness half an hour after the event. The next day he went to the site with the still-shaken Johnson and saw the skidmarks.
When Val Johnson's story became known, other Warren County residents came forward to detail their own recent UFO sightings. One night in mid-August Jon Linnell and his wife, on their way home from Northwood, North Dakota, to Warren, "saw bright lights over a field to my left," Linnell said:
"The light stayed in the same spot above the trees... 15 seconds later the thing came at us... It scared me. My wife said, 'It's going to hit us.' It came and hovered on top of us so we couldn't see what it was. We couldn't see the outline of it. When I'd almost stopped the car, it took a 180-degree turn and took off north. There were too many lights for a plane and there was no sound. When you tried to see what it was, it hurt your eyes."
Val Johnson said he had received three calls from individuals who stated that they had seen a bright light in the sky the night of his experience. In one instance, a farmer near Oslo (Johnson's hometown, just a few miles south of the encounter site) told him that - in Johnson's words - "a large light hovered over their farm bright enough to turn off his mercury yard light." Also "a bright light swooped down on a truck driver in the middle of the night," and, "one woman said a bright light passed over her farmstead and the electricity and television went out." None of these reports, unfortunately, was investigated.
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