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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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
30-06-2022
Mystery Of Ilkley Moor Alien Picture Taken By British Police Officer & Saw UFO In 1987
Mystery Of Ilkley Moor Alien Picture Taken By British Police Officer & Saw UFO In 1987
After the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, Ilkley Moor became the most famous alien spot in the United Kingdom. A retired British police officer named Philip Spencer never thought that one fine morning he would encounter an alien entity and capture it in his camera.
The incident occurred on December 1, 1987. In the early morning, Spencer left his home in Ilkley, saying goodbye to his wife and children to meet his father-in-law who lived on the other side of Moor.
Ilkley Moor is an upland moorland & conservation area in Yorkshire, England with a notable bird population, walking trails & tranquil views. It has the carved boulders, dating back to the Bronze age. Besides, it is known for the legends of strange creatures that roam in the darkness and strange lights that were seen coming through the mist. The place is situated just 21 miles away from the RAF Menwith hill military base which accounts for several UFO sightings.
Alien photograph captured by British police officer Philip Spencer in 1987
It was dark when Spencer started his journey. He had a compass to navigate in dense fog and a camera, hoping to capture the beautiful sites of Moor on his way. When he was passing through the area called White wells, an 18th-century town, he was distracted by something unusual. He saw a small-sized creature with long arms, similar in shape to a “Sock Monkey.”
Surprisingly, the creature made a strange move with its right arm, like it was waving at Spencer, and that’s the moment he captured in his camera before the entity disappeared behind the slopes.
According to Spencer, the creature had big black eyes, pointed ears, and strangely long arms. He described its feet as a hoof split into two toes.
What happened next is really shocking. Spencer said that he immediately followed the creature but unfortunately lost it. Subsequently, he claimed to have seen a dome-shaped spacecraft that rose from the moor and disappeared into the sky.
Image credit: Ufocasebook
Spencer seemed to be confused as things were not adding up for him. He came to his father-in-law’s village and was shocked to see the time in the church clock. It was already 10 a.m., and he could not understand where he had missed 2 hours. He thought that he might have hallucinated everything. But his doubts were cleared after he processed the photographs he had taken. He got assured after seeing the creature in the photograph. It was blurred but still, it existed.
The negative was later examined by various UFO experts, and they did not find any sign of tamper. It means that Spencer took a real shot of the alien creature.
Wharfedale UFO expert Nigel Mortimer re-examined Spencer’s photo in 1998. He said: “I have been trying to do this analysis for years. We are also trying to get other people involved and will look at the evidence properly. It isn’t just this photo – there have been reports of other phenomena in that area for years. I was talking to some Americans last week and they told me that they regard this Ilkley case as second only to the Roswell case in the US as evidence of aliens.”
Newspaper clipping of Ilkley Moor incident
The strangeness did not end there. After the incident, Spencer started having strange dreams in which he saw a starry sky. Then he wondered what could have happened to him during the missing time. He was advised by the UFO investigators to go under hypnosis. He recalled the creature approached him before he took a photo. He said (under hypnosis):
“I’m walking along the moor. Oh! It’s quite windy. There’s a lot of clouds. Walking up towards the trees, I see this little something, can tell, but he’s green. It’s moving towards me. Oh! I can’t move, I m stuck! He’s still coming towards me. And I still can’t move… I’m stuck, and everything’s gone fuzzy. I’m… I’m floating along in the air… I want to get down! And these green things walking ahead of me, and I don’t like it.
I still can’t move. I’m going around the corner and this green thing in front of me. Oh, God, I want to get down. There’s a… there’s a big silver saucer thing, and there’s a door in it, and I don’t want to go in there! Everything’s gone black now…”
He remembered he had been examined by the creaturs inside the ship, and they showed him a movie on a disaster that would occur if people did not stop population growth and pollution. After that, he was returned back to the moor with no memory of his abduction.
Philip Spencer did not earn fame and money from his story, and he is one of few abductees who showed evidence to prove his encounter.
Even the legendary author Homer explored Greek mythology for the idea of automata and self-propelled devices more than 2,500 years ago. By the third century BC, engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt were building true mechanical machines. And such scientific inventions and historically existing technologies were not unique and inherent only in Greco-Roman culture.
Many ancient societies invented and even designed automata. Chinese chronicles are also full of stories of emperors fooled by realistic androids and descriptions of artificial servants allegedly created in the second century by a female inventor, Huang Yueying. And the Hindu epics speak of such techno-miracles as flying war chariots and animated beings. One of the most intriguing stories from India tells how robots once guarded the relics of the Buddha. As unbelievable as it sounds to modern ears, this story has a strong connection between ancient Greece and ancient India.
A sculpture depicting the distribution of the Buddha’s relics.
The story takes place during the time of the kings Ajatashatru and Ashoka. Ajatashatru, who ruled from 492 to 460 BC, was famous for introducing new military inventions such as powerful catapults and a mechanized war chariot with rotating blades. When Buddha died, Ajatashatru was assigned to guard his precious remains. The king hid them in an underground chamber near his capital, Pataliputra (now Patna) in northeast India.
Traditionally, statues of giant warriors stood guard near the treasures. But according to the legend, Ajatashatru’s guards were unusual: they were ancient robots. In India, automata or mechanical beings that could move on their own were called “bhuta vahana yantra,” or “spirit movement machines” in Pali and Sanskrit. It was reportedly predicted that the Ajatashatru robots would remain on duty until the future king distributed the relics of Buddha throughout his kingdom.
Stupa drum panel showing the Distribution of the Relics. Credit: British Museum
Hindu and Buddhist texts describe automata warriors circling like the wind, slashing enemies with swords like Ajatashatru’s war chariots with spinning blades. In some versions, the robots are powered by a water wheel or created by Vishwakarma, the Hindu craftsman deity and the divine architect of the gods. But the most striking version came in a confusing way into the scripture of Lokapannatti from Burma. These were Pali translations of older, lost Sanskrit texts known only from Chinese translations, each drawing on earlier oral traditions.
This tale says that many “Yantakars,” the creators of robots, lived in the west of the country of “Yavans,” Greek-speaking people, in Roma Visaya – the Indian name for the Greco-Roman culture of the Mediterranean world. The secret technology of the yavana robots was carefully guarded. Robots from Roma Visaya were engaged in trade and agriculture, catching and executing criminals.
The creators of the robots were forbidden to throw them out or reveal their mechanical secrets – if they did, then the killer robots pursued and killed them. The rumors of magical robots reached India and inspired a young artisan from Pataliputra who also wanted to learn how to make such machines.
According to the leg end, a young man reached Roma Visayas and married there the daughter of a robot maker, who taught him his craft. And then one day, he stole the blueprints for creating robots and decided to bring them to India.
Confident that the killer robots will kill him before he can get there, he cut his thigh, inserted the blueprints under his skin, and stitched himself up. And he ordered his son to bring his plan to the end and get along with the body of his father to Pataliputra. And he went on his way. Naturally, he was caught, killed, and his son found his body and delivered it to Pataliputra.
Arriving in India, the son extracted the blueprints from his father’s body and, following the instructions, built automatic soldiers for King Ajatashatru to protect the relics of Buddha stored in an underground chamber. All this was so secret that soon people forgot about the existence of a secret vault.
The Bulis of Allakappa received a portion of the Buddha’s relics following the War over the Buddha’s Relics against the Sakyas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Two centuries after Ajatashatru, the powerful Mauryan empire in Pataliputra was ruled by Ashoka, 273-232 BC. According to the legend, Ashoka heard the rumor of the hidden relics and searched until he found an underground chamber guarded by ferocious android warriors. When Ashoka tried to get inside, a fierce battle broke out between him and the robots.
According to one version, the god Vishvakarman helped Ashoka defeat them by shooting arrows into the bolts holding the rotating structures together. According to another one, the son of an old engineer explained how to disable the robots and take control over them. Be that as it may, Ashoka ended up commanding an automaton army himself.
A statue of Visvakarman, the engineer of the universe.
Is this legend just a fantasy? Or could it have arisen against the backdrop of early cultural exchanges between East and West? The story clearly connects the mechanical creatures protecting the relics of Buddha with automata from Roma Visaya, a Greek-influenced state. How old is this tale? Most scientists believe that it arose in the Middle Ages if we count according to the European calendar.
But some are sure that this story can be much older. The narrative points to a technological exchange between Mauryan and Hellenic cultures. And contacts between India and Greece began in the fifth century B.C., when the engineers of Ajatashatru created new military machines. Greco-Buddhist cultural exchange intensified after the campaigns of Alexander the Great in northern India. Greek and Aramaic inscriptions on a monument originally erected by King Ahsoka in Kandahar, in present-day Afghanistan.
In 300 B.C., two Greek ambassadors, Megasthenes and Deimachus, already resided in Pataliputra, which boasted Greek-influenced art and architecture and was the home of the same legendary artisan who stole the robot designs from Roma Visaya. And the Great Pillars erected by Ashoka are inscribed in ancient Greek and contain the names of Hellenistic kings, demonstrating Ashoka’s direct connection with the West. Historians know that Ashoka corresponded with Hellenistic rulers, including Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Alexandria, whose spectacular procession in 279 B.C. became famous for the use of elaborate animated statues and automatic devices.
Inscriptions in Greek and Aramaic on a monument originally erected by King Asoka at Kandahar, in what is today Afghanistan.
Historians report that Ashoka sent envoys to Alexandria, while Ptolemy II sent envoys to Ashoka in Pataliputra. Diplomats usually presented magnificent gifts to showcase the cultural achievements of their countries. Maybe drawings or miniature models of automata and other mechanical devices were donated to the ancient Indians?
Today, it is no longer possible to pinpoint the date of the legend’s appearance, but it is likely that the idea of robots guarding the relics of Buddha combines real and imagined engineering feats from the time of Ajatashatru and Ashoka. This astounding story is proof that the concept of automata has been around since antiquity and illustrates the universal and eternal connection between imagination and science really well.
The space industry growth is booming and Morgan Stanley’s Space Team estimates that the roughly $350 billion global space industry could surge to over $1 trillion by 2040. Such advancement has given new opportunities for scientists to sneak deep into the dark valleys of space. This led to more people supporting the existence of intelligent species other than humans in the universe. There are many occasions when the NASA workers claimed to have seen unnatural phenomena, objects, and even beings in space. Dr. Norman Bergrun, who had worked for NASA, claimed that there were massive alien spacecraft proliferating in the rings of Saturn.
Dr. Bergun is the author of the books “Ringmakers of Saturn” and “Tomorrows Technology Today,” which document the existence of extraterrestrial vehicles of immense power. A scientist who pioneered the methodology of thermal ice prevention design, he is also credited with roll-stability laws for airplanes and missiles.
Dr. Bergrun was manager of test planning and analysis for the Polaris Underwater Launch Missile System and evaluated satellite system applications. Also a director of Information Systems, he founded his own company in 1971 and is cited in “Who’s Who in the World” and other reference works. He was an alumnus of Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), predecessor of Ames Research Center, NASA where he worked for 12 years as a research scientist.
Dr. Norman Bergrun. Image credit: Legacy.com
There has been a theory that NASA employees cannot talk too much. A few former NASA employees shared some details that they could not have given out because of the confidentiality agreement. Dr. Bergrun said that it is Saturn that can be the refuge of an alien civilization, and NASA just hide their evidence, using it for their own purposes.
Dr. Norman Bergrun played a key role in the Voyager missions, the probes that were sent out and tasked with photographing Saturn, its rings and moons. There is a photo shown below from that mission he was able to obtain from the agency of a large unidentified flying object hovering just outside Saturn’s rings. It is huge, approximately the size of Earth, and is published in his book, “Ringmakers of Saturn.”
A UFO The Size Of Planet Earth Seen Hovering Near Saturn. Credit: Dr. Norman Bergrun
Dr. Bergrun said: “What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating. You can find them around Uranus and Jupiter. Wherever you see some rings, that’s where I see the aircraft, I call them a ring maker. I say that it is electromagnetic because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it that I knew were what we called ‘potential lines’ and that says it was electrical.”
In that book, Dr. Bergrun analyzed photographs of Saturn’s rings taken by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1980 and 1981. He detailed his theory that the rings were formed by giant Electro-Magnetic Vehicles (EVMs), which are possibly being controlled by intelligent beings. He stated that the 7000-mile-long elliptical ships are currently orbiting Saturn within the rings and emitting visible exhaust. Later, analysis by Bergrun and others suggested the same or similar ships are in orbit around the Sun, Jupiter and Uranus.
Infrared photograph of one of the gigantic cylindrical objects taken by Hubble in the Saturn's rings
A strange bend was spotted in Saturn's two outermost rings as they passed behind the planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini took the image on June 9, 2016, and NASA released it on July 25.
Some point to this break in Saturn's rings as signs of alien activity.
Credit: NASA
Dr. Bergun claimed that he had to go through a lot of trouble in publishing his book, according to retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Bob Dean. Below is the transcription of the interview between Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot and Dr. Bergun:
Kerry Cassidy: “Have you heard that NASA alters their footage, coming from the moon, etc?
Bergrun: “I know some of the things they do with it, yeah”
Kerry: “Okay, so even their footage is not always dependable right, although I guess it’s dependable to begin with, it’s just that they start altering it later?”
Dr. Bergun: “I have been told by a very reliable source, he asked me, what camera did I get that image from on the moon, I said ‘Hasselblad,’ and he said, ‘That’s right.’ He says, ‘I thought we darkened that enough that you wouldn’t find it.’”
Kerry: “So you were finding things they thought they covered up? Incredible.”
Dr. Bergun: “Yeah, and this guy says, ‘Well I suppose you want me to go out and tell everybody about that?’ I said ‘No, I don’t want to embarrass you, that doesn’t make any difference to me, whatever you want to do is fine with me, I’m just saying I found what you saw.’ “
Hediedon July 1, 2018, at Tracy Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at the age of 96. Unfortunately, Dr. Bergun was just another name on the list of NASA whistleblowers who is forgotten and ignored due to a lack of followers and media attention.
Colossal UFO Interacted With The Sun To Avoid A Big Solar Storm Heading To Our Planet
Colossal UFO Interacted With The Sun To Avoid A Big Solar Storm Heading To Our Planet
Strange things happen daily, but as weird as everything gets we never expected things to get as weird as this. A new discovery was made by NASA themselves, one that sounds a bit too fantastical, to say the least.
A huge U̳F̳O̳ has been spotted in between Earth and the Sun, just strolling by, enjoying the view. Not only that, according to their official statements this U̳F̳O̳ was not even paying attention to us in the slightest, it was just minding its business trying to avoid a huge solar storm that was heading our way.
Immediately after these pictures were made public SOHO made sure that none of it gets out, removing all of the pictures almost instantly and shutting down all 6 of the solar observatories across the globe.
In doing so they made sure that the world would never know the truth behind it all. It is a sad day indeed, but one that quickly reminded us all why we’re so against the superiors in our society. Check out the video below, it is actually interested in telling you the truth, not just coercing you into believing whatever they want you to believe like NASA does every Tuesday.
In the middle of World War II, “an American battleship put a technology designed by Einstein himself to the test and managed to become invisible and teleport.” This is how the “Philadelphia Experiment” was born.
This is, at least, what some conspiracy theorists say. Here is the true story of the USS Elridge, the ship that “traveled back in time”:
What is popularly known as the Philadelphia Experiment, (or Philadelphia Experiment), alludes to a supposed dark program of the US Navy called Project Rainbow.
Legend has it that the military were testing an electromagnetic field generator with which they were trying to find practical applications to the unified field theory proposed by Albert Einstein.
In one sentence: they wanted to achieve invisibility.
Private technicians who would not know what they were installing would equip two powerful generators, dozens of meters of electrical cable around the hull and other complex electronic devices to the USS Elridge, a 93 meter long battleship.
On July 22, 1943, the first supposed experiment would take place.
“The generators activated an electromagnetic field that made the battleship disappear from view for a few minutes surrounded by a greenish mist.”
“Some sailors complained of severe nausea caused by the test.”
“The equipment was readjusted and the second test took place on October 28. This time, the entire ship completely disappeared and appeared at the navy base in Norfolk , 600 kilometers away and 15 minutes in the past. “
“He was sighted there during that time. After that he disappeared again in the middle of a blue lightning to return to Philadelphia ”.
Official statements from the navy
As they say, the consequences of this second experiment were so devastating for the crew that the Navy decided to cancel the project.
“Most of the sailors developed schizophrenia and some completely lost their minds.”
“Many were seriously injured when they materialized, and others, less fortunate, fused horribly with the ship’s hull.”
“Some faded days after the experiment and never reappeared.”
This is, broadly speaking, the gruesome story perpetuated by theorists, ufologists, and some science fiction movies. The navy has always denied the existence of the Philadelphia experiment.
In a statement released in November 2000, the Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) completely denied the existence of any invisibility or teleportation programs, as well as Einstein’s involvement.
But between 1943 and 1944, Einstein worked as a part-time consultant for the navy on theoretical research on explosives and blasting.
Of course, there is no evidence that Einstein has worked on anything related to invisibility or teleportation.
How did the Philadelphia Experiment come to light then?
The answer is through a series of letters sent by Carl Meredith Allen under the pseudonym Carlos Miguel Allende.
Allegedly, Allen was a merchant marine who saw the USS Elridge disappear from his own ship, the SS Andrew Furuseth.
Allen described the alleged teleportation experiment in a correspondence with the writer and ufologist Morris Jessup.
Although the marine never provided any credible proof of what he said, Jessup was fascinated by the story and included it in a book called The Case For The UFO. Continue with more information in the following video:
Göbekli Tepe (or Göbeklitepe) is the famous Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey that is considered to be the first and oldest known permanent human settlement in the world. If it is truly the first place people settled down, that means there were wanderers before then. Where did these particular wanderers come from 12,000 years ago? It turns out the answer to that question has been a mystery … until now. A surprising recent discovery in this well-studied land may have identified the place of origin of the first residents of Potbelly Hill – the Lake Baikal region of Siberia.
“Mass migrations of the peoples of Siberia to Zagros along the Central Asian mountain corridor should have reached the cultural areas of Göbekli Tepe through northern Iraq.”
Professor Semih Güneri from the Center for Archaeological Research of the Caucasus and Central Asia at Dokuz Eylul University, presented his findings at the Preliminary Turkish Congress Bringing Culture to the World held in Istanbul in mid-June 2022. Together with his research partner Professor Ekaterine Lipnina, Güneri introduced the attendees at this international conference to the idea that a mass migration began in Siberia 30,000 years ago, spreading all across Asia and eventually to Eastern and Northern Europe. As reported by Cumhuriyet,Hurriyet Daily News and other media sources covering the conference, Güneri found evidence which leads him to believe these wandering Siberians were the people who stopped and established Göbekli Tepe.
Göbekli Tepe
“Based on the results of joint research with Russian colleagues, we found out that traces of the production of stone tools made by copying by the Upper Paleolithic Siberian peoples, represented by the Early North Asian genetic group, were previously identified in Europe and Russia in the region”
While Göbekli Tepe is rich in structures, especially the circles of massive stone pillars decorated with reliefs of wild animals, the site lacks the kind of archeological data which could identify its residents, including their religion which motivated to build this temple and settle around it. Güneri knew that the Siberians of 30,000 years ago had a unique way of making stone tools. That is why he became excited when he found evidence of toolmaking at Göbekli Tepe.
“We discovered products of microblade copying technology, invented by the ancient peoples of North Asia 30,000 years ago, in the region of the Zagros Mountains.”
Güneri found evidence of a Siberian microblade copying technique in the Zagros mountains in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey – the pathway Siberians would have taken on their migration. Dr. Güneri refers to the technique as a “pressed microblade stone tool technology.” While other Göbekli Tepe were looking at the giant monoliths, the world’s oldest, Güneri went small … really small.
“The imprinted microblades we are working on are tiny cutters of 2-5 mm in size. These are precision tools used in the finest works by arranging them on bone material.”
The origin of this technique was confirmed in 2019 when he went to the Baikal region of south-east Siberia, home of Lake Baikal, the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m or 5577 feet) lake in the world – a lake steeped in history and mystery to this day. The people of this region would certainly have been advanced enough to transport this technology with them and even teach it to others – which Güneri confirmed in his presentation.
“After that, this technique was transferred to the Göbekli Tepe culture. The connection between the high culture of Göbekli Tepe and the carriers of the Siberian technology for manufacturing microblades has already been proven. The results of the genetic analysis of the population of the Zagros region confirmed the presence here of traces of people from Siberia who reached Zagros through the Central Asian mountain corridor and assimilated with the Göbekli-Tepe culture in northern Iraq.”
Professor Güneri used previous genetic research on the people of the Zagros region to support his theory that they were the microblade toolmakers from the Lake Baikal region. The paper he and Professor Lipnina authored has been published in the “most respected archaeological peer-reviewed journal” in Turkey, and they look forward to further research and discussions.
Other than the weather and the rumors of underwater aliens, why would anyone want to leave the beautiful Lake aikal?
OK, so that explains how Siberians got to Göbekli Tepe and made it the first permanent settlement in the world. While the location itself was permanent, the residents weren’t. History shows that many of the people who planted themselves there later uprooted and moved on. Where did the move to? For that answer, we turn to Mehmet Özdoğan, an academic from Istanbul University, who shared his idea on where “the people of Göbeklitepe migrated to” and why.
“The people of Göbeklitepe turned into farmers, and they could not stand the pressure of the overwhelming clergy and started to migrate to five ways.”
Let’s stop here for a moment. Many archeologists follow the theory that Göbekli Tepe was not the world’s first permanent settlement but the world’s first temple where nomadic hunter-gatherers from many areas came to perform their rituals and move on. Mehmet Özdoğan proposes a variation on that theme – he sees Göbekli Tepe as a settlement AND a temple. And, while the former nomads liked the idea of settling down, farming, socializing and all of the other amenities that go with living in a town, they didn’t like having to answer to the settlement’s leaders, which would have also been the temple’s clergy. So, like so many other people have done throughout history, they became the first to move seeing freedom from a religion. Where did they go? Özdoğan cites five directions.
“Migrations take place primarily in groups. One of the five routes extends to the Caucasus, another from Iran to Central Asia, the Mediterranean coast to Spain, Thrace and [the northwestern province of] Kırklareli to Europe and England, and one route is to Istanbul via [Istanbul’s neighboring province of] Sakarya and stops.”
No surprise here – these were former nomads. After trying their hands at farming and regular temple attendance, they headed out in every direction -- Özdoğan says the migration happened fast and the former Göbekli Tepe residents went small – they formed about 300 settlements in what are now northern Greece, Bulgaria and Thrace. What happened to those who didn’t think the temple leaders were so bad and decided to stay behind?
“Those who remained in Göbeklitepe pulled the trigger of Mesopotamian civilization in the following periods, and those who migrated to Mesopotamia started irrigated agriculture before the Sumerians.”
In other words, they sparked what we now call civilization. Follow that trail all the way back to the start and this means civilization’s real roots began at Lake Baikal in Siberia. Proud Siberians will certainly like that theory. What do you think?
UFOs Seen Over Scottsdale, Arizona On 3-20-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Seen Over Scottsdale, Arizona On 3-20-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 3-20-2021
Location of sighting: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Email report:
Arizona is a hotspot for UFOs, both during the day and during the night. I spoke to Charles Hall twice and he said there is an alien base that the US military has given to them behind the Area S4 old nuke testing site. He worked as a VIP between the military and the aliens, because they had some bad interactions which got a few soldiers killed. These UFOs are heading to that ET base.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was traveling east/south east on FLW Blvd in the evening after sunset, when the vehicle in front of me slowed way down and almost came to a stop. I slowed down also thinking there was an accident up ahead. Then I saw hovering in the sky in direct line with the highway four lights evenly spaced out. They reminded me of the Phoenix lights I had seen photos of. There were no other vehicles at that moment traveling east . I watched these lights remain stationary as I continued to travel east/south east on the Blvd. when I got to an intersection and stopped at a red light I recorded what I saw and the fourth light had disappeared and only three lights remained. A small plane came from the east and was traveling west, I recorded it flying close to the hovering lights. When it got over the lights two fluttering orb like lights come out of the depth of the sky , moving in close to the plane and then disappearing back into the depth of the sky. I pulled into a parking lot on the southwest corner of the intersection and took another photo. I watched it for about another fifteen minutes and then it was gone.
In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered the partial fossilized skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis at a dig site in Ethopia. Named “Lucy” because of the Beatles’ song playing continuously on the camp’s loudspeaker system, the early australopithecine was dated to about 3.2 million years ago, making it at the time the oldest human ancestor remains ever found, and helped establish Ethiopia as the top candidate for the birthplace of humanity. That title was previously claimed by South Africa, where in 1947 a nearly complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus was found. Nicknamed Mrs. Ples, it was dated to 2.1 to 2.6 million years ago. That changed recently when new analysis of Mrs. Ples changed her date of birth by a million years – making her about 3.4 to 3.6 million years old, pushing Lucy and Ethiopia back down the list.
“Sterkfontein is the most prolific single source of Australopithecus fossils, the vast majority of which were recovered from Member 4, a cave breccia now exposed by erosion and weathering at the landscape surface.”
In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), co-author Professor Dominic Stratford from South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand explains how Sterkfontein, a set of limestone caves about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Johannesburg, became known as the Cradle of Humankind – now a World Heritage Site. Limestone mining started there in the late 1890s and miners immediately began finding fossils which they turned over to paleontologists. In 1936, paleontology students from the University of the Witwatersrand found the first adult Australopithecine fossils – a child’s skull determined to be Australopithecus africanus was found earlier in Taung and became known as Taung Child. In 1947, British-South African doctor and palaeontologist Robert Broom uncovered a nearly complete skull of an adult female A. africanus (although there was some speculation it was an adolescent male) which Broom called Plesianthropus transvaalensis (near-man from Transvaal) – the name that was eventually shortened to Mrs. Ples.
We must never stop analyzing fossils
In 1997, a nearly complete skeleton of a second species of Australopithecus was discovered in the caves by paleontologist Ronald J. Clarke – named “Little Foot” after the first parts of the skeleton found, its age has been difficult to determine. However, Little Foot kicked off a flurry of paleo activity at Sterkfontein – to date, fossils of approximately 500 hominids have been excavated there, leading it to be called the Cradle of Humankind … despite the fact that most of the fossils have been resistant to accurate dating and those that have are younger than Ethiopia’s Lucy. Until now.
“Sterkfontein has more Australopithecus fossils than anywhere else in the world. But it’s hard to get a good date on them. People have looked at the animal fossils found near them and compared the ages of cave features like flowstones and gotten a range of different dates. What our data does is resolve these controversies. It shows that these fossils are old — much older than we originally thought.”
Co-author Darryl Granger, a professor at Purdue University, explains in Sci-News the new technique developed by the study team to get a more accurate date on Mrs. Ples and other Sterkfontein fossils. It started with the sediments surrounding the fossils in the limestone caves, particularly the cave known as Member 4 where the majority of the Australopithecus fossils have been found. They were looking for radioactive cosmogenic nuclides – which are extremely rare isotopes created by the cosmic rays which are constantly bombarding the Earth as high-energy particles. These cosmogenic nuclides cause nuclear reactions as they hit surface rocks, thus creating new radioactive isotopes within the mineral crystals. In particular, they looked for beryllium-10 and aluminum-26 – aluminum-26 is aluminum that is missing a neutron, causing it to slowly decay into magnesium over millions of years. According to the researchers, finding the two cosmogenic nuclides together was the key.
“Since aluminum-26 is formed when a rock is exposed at the surface, but not after it has been deeply buried in a cave, we can date cave sediments — and the fossils within them — by measuring levels of aluminum-26 in tandem with another cosmogenic nuclide, beryllium-10.”
The cosmogenic nuclides put the date of the sediment and the Australopithecus fossils in it at 3.4 to 3.67 million years ago. That pushed Mrs. Ples ahead of Lucy on the age chart. More importantly, it pushed the australopiths into a more prominent position as a human ancestor. Professor Stratford points out that the previous 2.4 million-year-old age made the South African Australopithecus species too young to be the ancestors of the Homo genus, which appeared starting 2.8 million years ago. By pushing its appearance back one million years, it now overlaps in age with other early hominins in Africa, including Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus deyiremeda at Burtele in eastern Africa, Australopithecus bahrelgazali in Chad at the crossroads of North and Central Africa, Kenyanthropus platyops at Lake Turkana in the Kenyan Rift Valley, and Australopithecus anamensis at Woranso-Mille in Ethiopia. This now solidifies South Africa’s place in early hominin evolution, and Sterkfontein’s hold on the title of the Cradle of Humankind.
We must never stop searching for fossils
But wait … there’s more.
The caves of Sterkfontein were used for millions of years by hominins and animals, resulting in a confusing mix that has made it difficult for paleontologists to paint an accurate picture of the historical evolution of the caves and their occupants. This new age determination technique using cosmogenic nuclides helped the research team draw maps of the cave deposits, which clearly showed how the animal fossils of different ages dating back millions of years were mixed with those from excavations in the 1930s and 1940s. While it helped this research team positively date Mrs. Ples and her friends, Dr. Granger hopes it will aid paleontologists around the world facing similar challenges.
“What I hope is that this convinces people that this dating method gives reliable results. Using this method, we can more accurately place ancient humans and their relatives in the correct time periods, in Africa, and elsewhere across the world.”
This could be the key to finding more Denisova hominin fossils in the piles of bones and sediment in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
We think we know so much… and yet we know so little.
The afternoon of August 12, 1883, started like any other for Mexican astronomer José Bonilla. He arrived at the small and recently built observatory he worked at in Zacatecas, Mexico, set up his equipment, and got to work on observing sunspot activity. It was all pretty routine for him, but as he went about his observations and collected data something very strange began to come into view, which would rattle astronomy at the time and lead to what is widely believed to be one of the earliest UFO photographs ever taken, supposedly of a fleet of UFOs crossing the sun.
At first there was nothing out of the ordinary, but as Bonilla looked on he was shocked to see a group of large, dark unidentified objects crossing over the sun’s surface at a rapid pace, each of them ringed with what appeared to be some kind of mist and trailing a faint dark tail behind them. At first he thought they were perhaps artifacts of his telescope, perhaps something on the lens, but an inspection of his instruments found nothing to be wrong with them, nor anything to account for what he was seeing. As the mysterious objects passed out of view more appeared, seeming to be neverending, and it was all anomalous enough that he began taking photographs of the strange phenomena. Throughout that day and the next the objects continued to pass over the sun, until he had logged around 450 of them, a whole fleet of the things. They matched no known astronomical or sun phenomena he knew of, were not easily attributable to any Earth-based phenomena either, and Bonilla was at a complete loss as to what he had observed. All he knew was that it was something deeply strange and unprecedented.
On January 1st, 1886, the photos he had taken would be published in the French astronomy magazine L’Astronomie to mixed responses. The editor of the magazine was pretty fast to write them off as flecks of dust or bugs, and others explained it all away as migrating birds, but others held them up as something truly mysterious and beyond current knowledge. At the time they were just sort of an oddity that was soon forgotten about, but in more modern times the photos gained new life in the UFO community, where they were picked apart, studied, and hailed as some of the earliest UFO photos ever taken, but there was little to prove either way what was actually seen in those images, bringing about much discussion and debate that went nowhere.
It would not be until 2011 that a solid, plausible explanation was finally proposed by scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexican astronomers Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and Guadalupe Cordero took a good look at the Bonilla photos and came to the conclusion that the objects were fragments of a massive comet in the process of breaking up, which to them explained the fuzziness around the edges and the dark trails they left in their wakes. They also calculated that the comet had passed within between 373 to 4,970 miles of the Earth, an extremely close flyby missing us by just a hair’s breadth. Oddly, no other astronomers at the time had witnessed the event, but the researchers have explained that this could be because of what is called the “parallax effect," meaning that if the comet fragments were so close to Earth, only certain regions of the Earth would have lined up with both the sun and the comet fragments, which would have ensured that they would not have been in line with the Sun even for observers nearby.
One of Bonilla's photos
The most sobering finding of all was that each of the fragments was estimated by the researchers as having been from 50 to 800 meters across (165 feet to 2.5 miles), coming from a parent comet that would possibly be a monstrous billion tons or more. This would have made the mother comet a size on par with Hailey’s Comet or Mars’ moon Deimos, which is generally thought to be similar in mass to the progenitor of the impact that killed the dinosaurs. In short, if it were to have hit us, it would have most likely been an extinction level event. Indeed, each one of the fragments alone was at least as big as the meteor thought to have exploded over Tunguska, Siberia on June 30, 1908 with the force of a 12 megaton bomb, about 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, to flatten an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq. miles) of forest, easily enough to annihilate a large metropolitan area. According to these scientists there were likely far more of the fragments than Bonilla had actually been able to witness, with perhaps 131 objects per hour and a total of 3275 objects in the time between observations. To put it into perspective of how close we probably came to an apocalypse if these were comet fragments, Manterola has said of it, “So if they had collided with Earth we would have had 3,275 Tunguska events in two days, probably an extinction event.”
The team is not completelty sure that their findings are accurate, but it seems to be about the best we can do to try and explain what Bonilla saw on that fateful day. What did he observe out there? Was it some mundane earthly phenomena such as dust, bugs, or birds? Was it an actual fleet of alien spacecraft? Or was it a comet that came very damn close to wiping us out? Whatever the case may be, it remains an intriguing and obscure bit of astronomy history and lore.
What looked like one craft is actually two UFOs near sun, Video, June 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
What looked like one craft is actually two UFOs near sun, Video, June 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 27, 2022 11:18:07 UTC
Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: Helioviewer.org
Now here is a huge UFO. I knows its a UFO by how fast it moves. Its seen only on a single frame of video for heliovier. A normal human spacecraft would take days to travel the entire length of the view screen, however this is there and gone in a blink of an eye. That screams near light speed, but at short leaps. We caught it on a leap...a small split second rest before it shot off again. The entire UFO looks like an L shape and is huge, about 1.5-3.5km across.
I took a screenshot and added some shadow to bring out the detail (seen above). You can clearly make out that the object has some square sections at the joints and long round arm in between. Its the exact same shape that Buzz Aldrin said he once saw in space. When I put the screenshot into negative format, it actually looks like two different craft traveling extremely close, being held together by a tractor beam. Yes...I believe this to be 100% correct. Its two craft (look at screenshot at bottom of post as proof).
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
BELOW IS NEGATIVE FORMAT AND IT LOOKS LIKE ITS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY TWO DIFFERENT CRAFT.
UFO Fleet Over Connecticut Shows How Fearless Aliens Are Of Being Seen, June 29, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Connecticut Shows How Fearless Aliens Are Of Being Seen, June 29, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 29, 2022
Location of sighting: Durham, Connecticut, USA
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A UFO fleet was caught over Connecticut this week. Connecticut is has one side touching the ocean. This means its highly likely there UFOs were come from or heading to an underwater base along the coast line. One question many people have is why are there no military jets intercepting them? They are seen on radar right? Wrong! Alien tech is only visible on radar by accident, when damaged, or on purpose. Here there are invisible to radar.
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Eyewitness states:
My fiance observed 3, what appeared to be cigar shaped, craft traveling at a constant speed over our treeline. She assumed they were air craft but immediately questions herself. They made no noise as they flew over. We live on a well traveled air route and are used to air liners and even military planes flying over our head.
UFO: What we know so far about the flying saucer phenomena
UFO: What we know so far about the flying saucer phenomena
Two senior United States defense intelligence officers testified before a House of Representatives intelligence subcommittee regarding UFOs in May 2022. This was the very first public hearing on the issue in fifty years in the United States Congress. The hearing took place eleven months after a government assessment revealed more than 140 occurrences of unexplained aerial phenomenon (UAPs) reported by US military aircraft since 2004.
The Sun, a British news organization, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demand to the US Department of Defense, which caused the release of over 1,500 pages of records linked to UFO-related sightings from the covert Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), back in April 2022. Claims of radiation burns and nerve damage, linked to the sighting were among the records found. The publication of these papers has reignited interest in alien UFO sightings.
And to a Pew Research Center analysis from 2021, nearly half of Americans believe that UFO encounters recorded by military personnel are probable proof of life beyond Earth. About 40% believe that UFOs reported by the military are “probably” signs of alien life.
The general people do not consider UFOs to be a big danger to the nation. UFOs are neither a menace nor a slight one, according to 87 percent of respondents in the same study. Only one in ten people believe UFOs pose a danger to national security in the United States.
Officials from the military, on the other hand, hold a different viewpoint. Officials from the Defense Department have previously stated that UFOs are not fake and constitute a major threat to the country. Military authorities, on the other hand, do not believe UFOs are of alien origin. Instead, military authorities think that greater observation and research can explain virtually all inexplicable situations.
Who coined the phrase “unidentified flying object” (UFO)?
A UFO would be any kind of flying object that you observe in the skies but are unable to identify. Numerous conspiracy theorists claim that such unidentified objects are extraterrestrial spaceships from another planet that have arrived on Earth. The UFO notion gained prominence during the Cold War era, when several countries, including the United States, were creating new kinds of fighter jets and related technology to improve their air combat capabilities.
In 1947, the current age of UFO encounters began. Kenneth Arnold, an American aviator, claimed to have seen nine dazzling blue-white things flying in a “V” configuration over Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, that year.
He calculated their speed to be around 1700 miles per hour, and associated their motion with “skipping a saucer across the sea.” At the time, newspaper accounts misconstrued this and referred to the objects as “flying saucers”.
Many UFO sightings were recorded in the years following the “flying saucer” revelation, and the subject of UFOs got so intricate that even the US Air Force began discreetly researching sightings. Air Force Captain Edward James Ruppelt was in charge of a project code-named Blue Book that looked investigated UFO reports in the 1950s. The project’s main goals were to conduct a scientific investigation of all UFO-related evidence available at the time and to determine if UFOs could be deemed a national security concern. It was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Throughout the study, the team behind Ruppelt and their followers came to the conclusion that no UFO which had been evaluated or disclosed was a threat to national security. They claimed this because there was no proof that the sightings displayed technology beyond the understanding of modern science.
They also came to the conclusion that the characterization of “flying saucers” clearly doesn’t apply to all UFO experiences. Numerous reports of unidentified flying objects defined things that did not resemble a flying saucer or a flying disc. As a result, Ruppelt invented another, more appropriate name, ‘UFO,’ which stands for an unidentified flying object; nevertheless, other sources claim that the phrase was originally used by American writer and marine pilot Donald Edward Keyhoe in 1953.
The most amazing UFO sightings
The first public legislative hearing on UFOs was just held in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on May 17, 2022. During the meeting, the Pentagon revealed that between 2004 and 2022, military members reported at least 400 UFO occurrences. Surprisingly, the UAP study team confirmed just 144 UFO incidents till 2021.
At the meeting, Scott W. Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, stated that they had witnessed an increase in the number of illegal and/or unidentifiable aircraft or objects, as well as military control training zones, training ranges, and other specified airspaces. He also stated that they cannot point to something that was not created by humans, but he can provide many cases that remain unanswered.
Aside from the incidents addressed at the previous hearing of Congress, there have been countless UFO encounters in the past that continue to amaze ufologists and pique the public’s interest.
Rancher W.W. “Mac” Brazel discovered debris on his land in June or July 1947, about 75 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. Tinfoil, thick paper, and rubber strips were among the debris found in the wreckage. He gave part of the information to the Roswell sheriff, who forwarded it to Colonel William Blanchard, the commanding officer of the RAAF.
The Roswell Daily Record published an article that featured the media release, but Army officials swiftly issued a fresh statement, claiming that the discovered debris was really from a weather balloon.
Many conspiracy theorists and ufologists expressed skepticism of the government’s contradictory accounts in the years since, and have claimed, without proof, that many UFOs containing alien beings crashed at the Roswell site, and that the US government had the spacecraft and the extraterrestrials under its control.
Kevin D. Randle, an army veteran, told All About Space in an interview that everyone believes that something dropped at Roswell, but no terrestrial explanation exists. The US Air Force, on the other hand, has dismissed all extraterrestrial and UFO-related reports. In 1994, it issued a report acknowledging that the weather balloon narrative was false but alleging that the wreckage originated from top-secret espionage equipment at the time. The gadget was made up of a series of high-altitude balloons with microphones that were supposed to float silently above the Soviet Union, monitoring nuclear testing. The bogus weather balloon scenario, according to the study, was an attempt to hide the existence of the covert espionage mission.
The extraterrestrial invasion of Levelland
On November 2, 1957, farmworkers Pedro Saucedo and Joe Salaz in Levelland, Texas, reported having seen a 200-foot rocket-shaped UFO. They informed the local sheriff that a mysterious flying object with a blue headlight was likely to hit their truck, causing them to leap out. Even though the UFO did not collide with the truck, it tampered with its electronic system, causing the lights engine to quit operating.
Amazingly, that wasn’t the only UFO sighting on that particular day. Many residents, including motorist Jim Wheeler, Newell Wright a student at Texas Tech University, and Levelland Fire Commissioner Ray Jones, observed blue light flashes, weird objects, automobile electronics, and engine system problems while driving. The reports were eventually probed by the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which found that the sightings and electronic malfunctions in the cars were caused by powerful ball lightning and electrical storm incidents.
UFO sighting in Westall
On April 6, 1966, hundreds of pupils and instructors at Westall Secondary College in Clayton South, Australia, saw a flying saucer-shaped UFO. Although no photographs were obtained, multiple eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a UFO in various interviews.
Later, authorities from the local weather office claimed that a weather balloon was launched that same day. The balloon may have crashed in the field or the college and been mistaken for a UFO, they alleged. The Royal Australian Air Force likewise rejected accusations that there was an inexplicable aerial phenomenon in the skies on April 6th.
Yet, in 2021, one of the instructors who observed the incident, Andrew Greenwood, stated that two individuals purporting to be members of the government came to his house following the occurrence. Greenwood was informed by the guys that he was “wrong about what he observed” and that he must not say something further about it. When Greenwood objected, the guys threatened to dismiss him, according to him.
Ronald Reagan saw UFOs twice during his presidency.
One of the most widely reported UFO sightings in US history. According to certain stories, Ronald Reagan observed UFOs long before he became president of the United States. The first meeting is said to have occurred in the 1950s when Reagan was on his way to actor William Holden’s house in Hollywood for a party. In her book, Lucy in the Afternoon, American actress Lucille Ball, who was also there, claims that Reagan and his spouse Nancy claimed to see a UFO on their trip to LA.
As governor of California in 1974, Reagan witnessed another bizarre airborne phenomenon. That time, he was traveling in a Cessna with two security guards on his way to Bakersfield when Reagan’s pilot Bill Paynter saw a peculiar yellow light following their plane. Every person on board was taken aback as the UFO suddenly accelerated from a typical cruise speed to a phenomenal speed.
Reagan, predictably, stayed mute about his UFO sightings during his presidency. He did, however, employ the idea of alien contacts in a UN address about reducing Cold War tensions, where he mentioned the potential of the Earth being invaded by some extraterrestrial power, which would simply demonstrate how feeble we, as humans, are.
A UFO fleet has arrived in Belgium.
In November 1989 and March 1990, a storm of triangular-shaped UFOs was sighted in the Belgian skyline for many weeks. Over 13,000 individuals reported seeing big black triangles floating in the sky throughout the occurrences. The Belgian Air Force also identified unusual objects on their radars and dispatched two F-16 fighter jets to investigate.
During their hunt, the pilots also noticed some activity on their radar but did not see any UFOs floating about in the sky. Many researchers and specialists who analyzed the Belgian UFO wave later pointed out that SOBEPS, a ufologists’ team who stated to have investigated the incidents, had circulated disinformation and produced a mass hallucination. According to the researchers, SOBEPS manipulated individuals into thinking that anything strange in the sky may be a UFO.
An image of a triangular UFO also went viral, however, it was discovered in a TV interview in 2011, that the image was not real. The forger made a polystyrene UFO model, painted it, and took a shot that resembled what several people claimed to have seen in Belgium.
Interesting UFO and associated sightings facts
Here are some interesting and little-known UFO facts:
Even though media sources began reporting on UFOs in earnest following the Kenneth Arnold event does not indicate that sightings were not made prior to this. Ancient authors, historians, astronomers, and philosophers have occasionally written about unusual flying objects. For example, Julius Obsequens, a 4th and 5th-century Roman writer, talked of the appearance of marvelous things, including inexplicable occurrences in the sky. Tales from Germany and Switzerland, on the other hand, mention conflicts in the skies in the 16th century.
The earliest reported UFO sighting in the United States occurred in 1639. At the time, John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay area, reported about a flying object seen by a man called James Everell. The alien object was spotted above a dirty river located in Boston, according to the account retrieved from Winthrop’s diary. It could shrink in size and had flames.
UFO enthusiasts throughout the world honor World UFO Day on July 2 (in commemoration of the Roswell incident), while others observe it on June 24 (remembering the Kenneth Arnold sighting). Persons join in groups and then go skywatching in the hopes of seeing a UFO. Furthermore, the purpose of these events is to increase awareness of UFOs and to persuade the government to provide more secret material on aliens and UFOs.
NASA has just chosen to become engaged in the UAP investigations. The verdict follows a legislative hearing on UFOs, throughout which the United States House also reviewed the security threats involved with unidentified flying objects.
We don’t know for certain whether UFOs of alien origin exist. However, the increased interest in UFO studies by scientists, the government, and research organizations such as NASA is a promising indication. Their combined efforts may yield rational answers for the numerous UFO encounters that occur each year, as well as raise public awareness of this intriguing subject.
Beelden tonen meest realistische simulatie van zwart gat tot nu toe
Beelden tonen meest realistische simulatie van zwart gat tot nu toe
Drie onderzoekers hebben een simulatie gemaakt van het grootste zwarte gat in ons sterrenstelsel: Sagittarius A*. Het gaat om de meest realistische simulatie die er tot nu toe gemaakt werd. Wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters licht de simulatie toe: “Ze zijn tot heel wat nieuwe inzichten gekomen, zo voeden zwarte gaten zich met sterrenwind.” Bekijk de volledige video hierboven.
“Mensheid komt mogelijk oorspronkelijk ook uit Zuid-Afrika”: vroege voorouders van de mens een miljoen jaar ouder dan gedacht
Nieuw onderzoek stelt dat fossielen van onze voorouders uit de Zuid-Afrikaanse grotten van Sterkfontein - die deel uitmaken van de zogenaamde ‘wieg van de mensheid’ - tussen de 3,4 en 3,6 miljoen jaar oud zijn. Dat is maar liefst een miljoen jaar ouder dan eerder gedacht. Het betekent ook dat onze voorouders uit Zuid-Afrika al op aarde rondliepen in de tijd van de vrouwelijke mensachtige met de bijnaam ‘Lucy’, van wie het skelet in 1974 in Ethiopië in het oosten van Afrika werd gevonden.
De kalksteengrotten van Sterkfontein liggen ten noordwesten van Johannesburg in Zuid-Afrika. Sinds het einde van de 19de eeuw gebeuren er opgravingen, ook vandaag nog. De fossielen van zo’n 500 hominides of mensachtigen zijn er inmiddels al blootgelegd, méér dan op eender welke andere site in de wereld. Samen met twee andere Zuid-Afrikaanse locaties, Kromdraai en Swartkrans, is Sterkfontein opgenomen op de Werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO. Ze vormen de ‘wieg van de mensheid’.
In 1947 werd bij Sterkfontein de meest complete schedel ooit van een Australopithecus africanus, een voorloper van de moderne mens, gevonden. De vondst kreeg de naam ‘Mrs. Ples’. Wetenschappers schatten de leeftijd van het fossiel op iets tussen 2,1 en 2,6 miljoen jaar. Maar volgens de Franse wetenschapper en coauteur van de nieuwe studie, Laurent Bruxelles, “klopte dat chronologisch niet”. Zo toonde recent onderzoek aan dat het skelet van ‘Little Foot’, ook een Australopithecus, 3,67 miljoen jaar oud was. Zo’n groot leeftijdsverschil tussen Mrs. Ples en Little Foot leek onwaarschijnlijk omdat ze door zo weinig sedimentaire lagen gescheiden werden.
De onderzoekers vermoeden nu, op basis van nieuwe dateringstechnieken, dat Mrs. Ples tussen de 3,4 en 3,6 miljoen jaar oud is. Dat is zelfs wat ouder dan Lucy, van wie de leeftijd is geschat op 3,2 miljoen jaar. Zuid-Afrika is zo weer mee in de running als het gebied waar de mensheid mogelijk is ontstaan, ten koste van Oost-Afrika. Op dat vlak werd “Zuid-Afrika grotendeels genegeerd omdat het zo moeilijk was de fossielen te dateren”, legt Ronald Clarke, professor aan de Universiteit van Witwatersrand en coauteur van het artikel in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift PNAS uit. “De fossielen werden grotendeels afgedaan als niet relevant voor het verhaal van de menselijke evolutie. Het is een grote stap, want dit bevestigt dat deze primitieve voorouders zich overal in Afrika bevonden.”
De Zuid-Afrikaanse Australopithecus africanus en de Oost-Afrikaanse Australopithecus afarensis waren “tijdgenoten”, voegt Dominic Stratford, onderzoeksdirecteur van de grotten en tevens coauteur van de studie, eraan toe. Mogelijk kwam het zelfs tot voortplanting tussen beiden. “In een tijdsbestek van miljoenen jaren en met een afstand van slechts 4.000 kilometer hadden deze soorten genoeg tijd om te reizen en zich samen voort te planten... dus we kunnen ons grotendeels een gemeenschappelijke evolutie door Afrika voorstellen”, aldus nog Laurent Bruxelles.
Volgens de studie is de geschiedenis van de mensachtigen “complexer dan de lineaire evolutie”, aldus nog Bruxelles. Onze stamboom is “meer een bos, om de woorden van onze overleden vriend Yves Coppens te gebruiken”, verwijst hij naar de Franse paleontoloog die mee Lucy ontdekte en die vorige week stierf.
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Record ‘Fast Nova’ Flares Over a Single Day
Record ‘Fast Nova’ Flares Over a Single Day
A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.
Some stars burn bright but brief. These transitory novae pepper the sky, with one flaring into naked eye visibility every few years… but it was a recent brief appearance of just such a ‘new star’ that gave astronomers a chance to probe the secrets of the Universe.
Japanese amateur astronomer Seidji Ueda was the first to raise the alarm worldwide. Amateurs are always on the hunt for galactic novae, as it’s one of the key fields where they can contribute to real science. The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) has been the key clearinghouse for novae observations and light curves since 1911.
The discovery was made on the night of June 21st, 2021. The ‘star’ was a galactic nova in the northern constellation of Hercules the Hero, right along its border with Sagitta and Aquila, just off the galactic plane. Soon, the nova had a name: V1674 Herculis (V1674 Her or Nova Herculis 2021).
The location of Nova Herculis 2021 in the sky. Credit: Stellarium.
Generally, novae reach a peak brightness for several days or weeks before fading from view. Recent memorable novae include Nova Delphini 2013 and Nova Centauri 2013. Such ‘new stars’ can give familiar constellations a decidedly strange look.
This image from the New Technology Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows Nova Centauri 2013 in July 2015 as the brightest star in the centre of the picture. This was more than eighteen months after the initial explosive outburst. This nova was the first in which evidence of lithium has been found. Credit: ESO
But Nova Herculis 2021 had a surprise in store. The nova topped out, flirting with naked eye brightness at magnitude +6 before fading from view in just one day. 24 hours after its eruption, the nova had faded a hundredfold. This tops the 3-day record set by Nova V838 Herculis (also in Hercules) in 1991.
The light curve for Nova Herculis 2021. Credit: AAVSO.
Novae are produced when a dense white dwarf star siphons material off a main sequence companion. The material becomes compressed on the surface of the white dwarf, which can then ignite under the pressure of nuclear fusion in a violent flash. Novae can erupt multiple times, in what’s known as a recurrent nova. Novae can also build up and evolve over time into supernovae, which can be seen across the Universe.
“The white dwarf that exploded is massive and growing in mass toward a Supernova 1A explosion,” astronomer Sumner Starrfield (University of Minnesota) told Universe Today. “It ejected far less mass than necessary to be accrete by the white dwarf and initiate an explosion.”
Nova are vital as they seed heavier elements back into the cosmos, and Type IA supernovae are used as standard candles to measure extra-galactic distances.
Stranger still, Nova Herculis 2021 exhibits a 501 second ‘wobble’. This oscillation is visible across the visible and x-ray spectrum, and is persistent from bright to faint magnitudes. This, along with variations in the energetic wind ejected by the nova into the surrounding interstellar medium seems to be driven by the orbital period of the white dwarf star versus its companion.
Nova Herculis 2021 is an estimated 4,750 parsecs (15,500 light-years) distant.
Nova Herculis 2021 flares briefly into prominence. Credit: Michael Jaeger.
“We are continuing to observe this system since it has not returned to quiescence,” says Starrfield. “We know that it has a ~500 second oscillation—presumably the white dwarf rotation period—and an about 3.6 hour rotation period that is probably the rotation period of the binary. We need more spectroscopy and photometry to better understand those periods and the implications of those periods.”
Observations of Nova Herculis 2021 were made using the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, along with its multi-object double and PEPSI spectrograph.
Studying novae may also go a ways towards addressing the ‘cosmological lithium problem,’ and the source of lithium abundance in metal-rich stars like our Sun.
“Both theory and observations now imply that classical novae are the lithium producers in the galaxy,” says Starrfield. “A long standing problem has been why there is more lithium in stars like the Sun than produced by the Big Bang.”
Nova Herculis is a fascinating discovery to follow, in the strange stellar menagerie of our Universe.
Read the report on Nova Herculis out of University of Minnesota and Ohio State University in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society.
Watch Robot Dog Shoot A Rifle!! World Robot Dog Army Threat To Human Race? Spot The Robot Dog Is Designed To Carry Large Weapon And Hunt Humans?
Watch Robot Dog Shoot A Rifle!! World Robot Dog Army Threat To Human Race? Spot The Robot Dog Is Designed To Carry Large Weapon And Hunt Humans?
Watch Robot Dog Shoot A Rifle!! World Robot Dog Army Threat To Human Race? Spot The Robot Dog Is Designed To Carry Large Weapon And Hunt Humans?
Here’s the glossy version… meaning, the harmless dog that knows a few tricks, and doesn’t do much else… meanwhile watch the other videos and you’ll know this isn’t just a giant cute toy!!
Well if you ask me, it’s reasonable to say that the back of the robot, is designed to and equipped with the ability to carry anything, weapons included! People… this is a real issue… look at what China has…
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29-06-2022
A New Map of Mars, Made From 51,000 Orbital Images
A New Map of Mars, Made From 51,000 Orbital Images
When NASA sent the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to the red planet in 2006, the spacecraft took an instrument with it called CRISM—Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars. CRISM’s job is to produce maps of Mars’ surface mineralogy. It’s been an enormous success, but unfortunately, the loss of its last cryocooler in 2017 means the spectrometer can only undertake limited observations.
But CRISM is going out with a bang, creating one final image of the surface of Mars that NASA will release in batches over the next six months.
“It’s effectively a whole new data set that will fuel a second wave of discoveries about Mars’ surface composition.”
Scott Murchie, CRISM’s principal investigator, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
The new map will cover 86% of Mars’ surface. It’ll be 5.6 gigapixels in size and will reveal the locations of dozens of important minerals in 72 colours. Since many minerals form in the presence of water, the locations of certain minerals reveal evidence of Mars’ watery past. The new map will also help plan future missions and choose the most promising locations for rovers to visit.
Jezero Crater on Mars was the landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. The colours in this image show surface minerals detected by CRISM, which helped identify the crater as a desirable landing site. The green colour represents carbonates, which are good at preserving fossils. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
We already have the first portions of the new map. The final version of the map will contain about 51,000 540-kilometre-long strips, contained in 1764 tiles. In mid-June, NASA released 48 of those tiles, and they cover five of Mars’ most scientifically interesting regions.
The final map is a whole new data set and the first of its kind. The data has been gathered over the mission’s years but has never been put together, though mission scientists had this project in the back of their minds. “We’ve had the map tiles as a product set on the books really from the very beginning,” said Frank Seelos, a planetary scientist at APL and lead on the CRISM mapping project. “We knew we wanted to do this, but it took us many, many years to get to the point where we had enough data and the tools needed to make it worthwhile.”
A near-global map of Mars, composed of nearly 51,000 mapping strips mosaicked into 1,764 tiles. The grid overlay shows the boundaries of the individual tiles. An additional 100 tiles in each polar region — not included here — are being processed separately. The map shows familiar large-scale surface brightness patterns, largely governed by the distribution of bright-red iron oxide-bearing dust. Darker, relatively dust-free regions consist of impact-fragmented crustal rock and wind-blown sand. The Nili Fossae region, where the Mars 2020 (Perseverance) rover is exploring Jezero Crater near the top-right quadrant, is indicated by the yellow box in the center-right part of the map. It’s also the location of the leading image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johns Hopkins APL
CRISM has made about 33,000 high-resolution images over the years, and they’ve helped identify landing sites for rover missions, and also inform the future Mars Sample Return mission. But while it was doing that work, it was also gathering lower-resolution mapping strips, about 83,000 of them. Now that CRISM is no longer active, the team is building their map from those strips.
This four-panel montage shows different aspects of the tile mosaic composed of data collected over the Nili Fossae region from the yellow rectangle in the larger image preceding it. Top left: An approximate natural colour rendering of Mars’ surface. Top right: Synthetic colour composite showing variation in iron mineralogy, with iron oxide appearing in red, iron-bearing minerals (e.g., olivine, high-calcium pyroxene) in blue, and low-calcium pyroxene in cyan. Bottom left: Water-altered iron- and magnesium-rich phyllosilicate clays, as well as some carbonates, with warm colours indicating a stronger feature. Bottom right: Synthetic colour composite showing the variation of unaltered igneous minerals, with olivine (red), low-calcium pyroxene (green), high-calcium pyroxene (blue), and mineral mixtures (other non-primary colours). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johns Hopkins APL
Processing this much data into one cohesive map is a complicated task requiring powerful computing resources. It takes time to optimize the maps and account for environmental conditions and discrepancies between the different images. “For an individual tile, the optimization process might take just five hours in some exceptional cases, but sometimes it will take over a day,” said CRISM team member Katie Hancock, a software developer at APL who spearheaded the development of the optimization code. In a press release from JH/UAPL, Hancock said that it could take a computer cluster a month to build the map of the entire planet.
The map will be important for years to come and will fuel future discoveries about Mars. “It’s effectively a whole new data set that will fuel a second wave of discoveries about Mars’ surface composition,” said Scott Murchie, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and CRISM’s principal investigator. “In fact, one of the objectives of the next MRO extended mission is for its HiRISE camera to go back and image in colour the hundreds of new high-science priority spots we’re finding on the map — spots that haven’t been imaged at high resolution because their importance wasn’t known.”
CRISM is still operational in a limited way. Without a cryocooler, it can’t perform infrared observations and will be limited to visible light operations. It’s in standby mode right now and is on deck until it’s decommissioned in a few months.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is still going strong and has exceeded its planned mission length by several years. In 2018 NASA said it wants to keep the spacecraft operating through the late 2020s, at least. One of the obstacles to greater longevity is its aging gyroscopes, but NASA said they can rely on stellar navigation to maintain the spacecraft’s orientation. MRO’s HiRISE camera has captured almost 70,000 high-resolution images of the surface of Mars. It doesn’t rely on a cryocooler so as long as MRO is operating, we’ll still be seeing stunning visible light images of Mars.
The ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter is still operating at Mars, too, and it carries its own spectrometer. The Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer, or Observatoire pour la Mineralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activit (OMEGA) also uses near-infrared to map mineral concentrations on the Martian surface.
Frank Seelos, the lead on the CRISM mapping project, points out that the mission has been a success and the instrument doesn’t need to contribute any more than it has already to be a big part of Mars’ exploration.
“The warranty on this thing expired years ago before my kids were even born,” Seelos said. “The CRISM investigation has been very long-lived, and the fact that we were able to take data for so many years is amazing. The release of these tiles is a kind of exclamation point for the instrument’s legacy.”
CRISM has left its mark on multiple missions to Mars. This is an image of Mars’ Santa Maria Crater from Orbit. NASA’s Opportunity rover arrived at the western rim of Santa Maria Crater, some 90 meters wide, on Dec. 16, 2010, at a spot called “Palos”. Opportunity then drove in a counterclockwise direction to a spot called “Wanahani” at the southern edge. Researchers used data collected by CRISM to direct Opportunity’s route to Endeavour crater. Spectral observations recorded by CRISM indicated the presence of water-bearing sulphate minerals at the location shown by the red dot on the southeast rim crater. This image was taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera also on MRO. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
“The CRISM investigation has been one of the crown jewels of NASA’s MRO mission,” said Richard Zurek, the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Analyses based on these final maps will provide new insights into the history of Mars for many years to come.”
If you’d like to take a deeper look at what CRISM shows us about the minerals on Mars’ surface, visit JHUAPL’s MICA site. MICA is a downloadable set of published descriptions and type locations of unique spectral features identified on Mars by using data from CRISM. It was published in 2019.
70 Meter Dark Entrance Found On Crater On Google Moon Map, June 29, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
70 Meter Dark Entrance Found On Crater On Google Moon Map, June 29, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
LOL, I just found this after finding the blue planet object on Google Sky. I just switched over and 5 min later found this on the moon. The dark black square is 70 meters by 70 meters according to google ruler. However this is also some thick framing around it which causes me to think this is an entrance and exit point for small craft to reach inside the moon. You see, the moon is hollow, an Apollo mission which measured the echo of a lander rocket recorded that the moon is hollow. So with that point made, this 70 meter dark square with the think frame does appear to be an open doorway. This is 100% proof that intelligent life exists below the surface of the moon.
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Giant Blue Matter On Google Sky Map May Be Intelligently Made Planet, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Blue Matter On Google Sky Map May Be Intelligently Made Planet, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 29, 2022
Location of discovery: far right of Horesehead Nebula
Coordinates: -2.759860° -88.686101°
I was looking over Google Sky map, which is free and comes with the Google Earth map. You only need to click on the Satern icon on the top center of the Google map to move to Sky map or moon maps.
Here I found a strange object which I believe to be fake land. I believe that aliens can create planetary matter but in any design or shape that they see as being more useful to them. Here is a scattering of matter, blue and made to act like a planet. The object has lights in front of it due to planets an stars seen between us and it. It is not transparent.
We see life and existence as a lower life form would...simple with simplistic answers, however the depth of possibilities is endless and this object is space is no Nebula its something created by intelligent beings.
San Diego, California Skies light up with lights over ocean, June 27, 2022, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
San Diego, California Skies light up with lights over ocean, June 27, 2022, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:June 27, 2022 Location of sighting: San Diego, California, USA
An unusual line of lights lit up the California city of San Diego a few days ago. The lights are similar to the ones seen by thousands of people over Phoenix, Arizona back in March 13, 1997 where long lines of lights were seen in the sky over the city. Well it looks like those aliens are back and they are near San Diego, but over the ocean area. This seems to indicate there may be an alien base somewhere in the ocean near San Diego, which would explain a lot of the earth quakes that they have been having over the years. The US military has denied that any exercises took place, so that rules out flare, but then again flares only last minutes, this sighting lasted almost an hour!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Its still happening, going on about an hour now. Multiple floating lights over the ocean. Very still, very bright. Orange reddish lights. Pattersn of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6."
Alien civilizations from level 1 to level 7 - We are only at level 0.72
Alien civilizations from level 1 to level 7 - We are only at level 0.72
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964.The scale is hypothetical, and regards energy consumption on a cosmic scale.
Kardashev's has given rise to numerous scenarios exploring the possibility of more evolved civilizations. These scenarios each question in their own way, defining a civilization: energy sources, technology and the transmission of interstellar messages.
The purpose of this classification is to guide the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, particularly within SETI, in which Kardashev participated, and this on the assumption that a fraction of the energy used by each type is intended to communicate with other civilizations.
To make this scale more understandable, they compare the speed of transmission across the galaxy of a volume of information equivalent to a medium-sized library.
For example:
A type 2 civilization can send this data by means of a transmission beam emitting for only 100 seconds. A similar amount of information can be sent across intergalactic distances of about ten million light years, with a transmission time of several weeks.
A type 3 civilization can transmit this same amount of data to the entire observable universe with a transmission time of 3 seconds.
Kardashev believes that it will take humanity 3,200 years to reach Type 2, and 5,800 years to reach Type 3, but physicist and futurist Michio Kaku suggested that, if humans increase their energy consumption at an average rate of 3 percent each year, they may attain Type 1 status in 100–200 years, Type 2 status in a few thousand years, and Type 3 status in 100,000 to a million years.
A Type I civilization is usually defined as one that can harness all the energy that reaches its home planet from its parent star.
A Type 2 civilization is capable of harnessing the energy radiated by its own star, or example, by means of the successful completion of a Dyson sphere or Matrioshka brain.
Note 1: A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output.
Note 2: A Matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere. It is an example of a class-B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems.
A Type 3 civilization is in possession of energy at the scale of its own galaxy. Civilizations of this type as having access to power comparable to the luminosity of the entire Milky Way galaxy.
A Type 4civilization can control or use the entire universe while
a Type 5 civilization can control collections of universes as well as there is
a Type 6 multidimensional civilization
a Type 7 creator civilization what is discussed in the video below.
At the current time, humanity has not yet reached Type 1 civilization status, we are only at level 0.72
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Mysterious rocket crash on moon baffles scientists or was it a UFO?
Mysterious rocket crash on moon baffles scientists or was it a UFO?
A mystery rocket has crashed into the moon creating two large craters. NASA astronomers are baffled, they don't know where the rocket came from and why the impact was spread over two distinct areas.
The astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. The impact occurred on March 4, 2022 with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later spotting the resulting crater. Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern crater (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards) superimposed on a western crater (16-meter diameter, about 17.5 yards).
The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end. Typically a spent rocket has mass concentrated at the motor end; the rest of the rocket stage mainly consists of an empty fuel tank.
No other rocket body impacts on the Moon created double craters. The four Apollo SIV-B craters were somewhat irregular in outline (Apollos 13, 14, 15, 17) and were substantially larger (greater than 35 meters, about 38 yards) than each of the double craters. The maximum width (29 meters, about 31.7 yards) of the double crater of the mystery rocket body was near that of the S-IVBs.
That means it wasn’t an average rocket, NASA reported in a June 24 news release.
The origin of the rocket body remains uncertain and so far, none of Earth’s space exploring nations have taken credit or blame for the crash.
Since they cannot identify the object means it was an Unidentified Flying Object, but NASA will never admit that it was a UFO that crashed on the moon.
During archaeological excavations in Crimea , experts discovered a necropolis of the Byzantine Empire where the tomb of a giant was .
While the reconstruction work on the Mithridates Staircase in Kerch continues, archaeological excavation work has also started in the area.
This revealed up to 100 square meters of a necropolis, which had burials of people who once visited the temple of Juan Bautista .
To date there are 27 uncovered burials , some of children and twin burials. In addition to other elements, such as bronze pendants or bracelets.
They even managed to find felt clothing in one of the burials . This was very helpful as it allowed them to date the find .
Tomb of a giant in the necropolis
The find itself was not common and it became much more strange when they found a funerary box that exceeded 2.30 meters in length . When they uncovered it, they found what appeared to be the skeleton of a giant.
If the standard physique of the inhabitants of the area in the past is taken into account, finding a skeleton of a man that exceeded two meters in height is something that does not agree with the data.
The average height of the population of the date was 1.60 meters high , so there is no way to explain how the remains of this giant were buried in the area.
The remains were examined by the team’s anthropologist, who hopes to give an estimate of the age of the person buried there.
The remains must be analyzed to discover their origin
complicated excavation
The excavation work has been slow due to the complicated terrain, which is mixed . In ancient times, garbage was simply thrown on the ground.
Then, in the Middle Ages , the necropolis was created on top of all the ancient remains. For this reason it has become difficult for archaeologists to give an exact interpretation of the origin of everything found.
At the moment, the experts are in negotiations with the diocese of Kerch-Feodosia to be able to extract the remains found and examine them better.
Experts continue to investigate the origin of the mysterious skeleton and the reason for its abnormal size. In addition to finding an explanation for its origins.
The existence of giants is common in different ancient cultures, despite the fact that traditional archeology tries to keep these types of findings hidden. But discoveries like the one in Crimea show us that they existed.
ARCHEOLOGEN ZIEN 3400 JAAR OUDE STAD VAN MYSTERIEUZE BESCHAVING UIT HET WATER OPDOEMEN
ARCHEOLOGEN ZIEN 3400 JAAR OUDE STAD VAN MYSTERIEUZE BESCHAVING UIT HET WATER OPDOEMEN
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Door aanhoudende droogte viel de stad – die zich normaliter onder water schuilhoudt – eerder dit jaar heel even droog. Wat volgde, was een race tegen de klok. Mét resultaat.
Als klimaatverandering ergens tot uiting komt, dan is het – even afgezien van de polen – wel in Irak. Met name het zuiden van het land gaat regelmatig gebukt onder extreme droogte. Zo ook in januari en februari van dit jaar. Om de gewassen op de droge akkers in ieder geval nog een kans te geven, werd een beroep gedaan op het Mosoel-reservoir; het belangrijkste waterreservoir dat Irak sinds de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw rijk is (zie kader). Het waterpeil in dit reservoir zakte rap. En terwijl het water zakte, dook in het reservoir een grote en daarmee vermoedelijk belangrijke stad uit de Bronstijd op.
Mosoel-reservoir In 1981 werd in het noorden van Irak aangevangen met de bouw van de Mosoeldam (in die tijd aangeduid als de Saddamdam). Door de dam ontstond een stuwmeer dat men kort na de voltooiing van de dam – in 1985 – liet vollopen. Verschillende archeologische vindplaatsen verdwenen daarbij onder water, waaronder dus ook de stad die begin dit jaar tijdelijk uit het water verrees. Wat deze stad echter bijzonder maakt, is dat deze – ook voorafgaand aan de totstandkoming van het stuwmeer – nooit door archeologen onderzocht is.
Geen vrije tijd Koerdische archeologen haastten zich – met enkele Duitse collega’s – naar het Mosoel-reservoir. En dat was het startsein van een race tegen de klok (en het water). De archeologen hadden daarbij een duidelijk doel voor ogen: een zo’n groot mogelijk deel van deze stad – voor het water deze weer zou verzwelgen – verkennen. “De tijdsdruk had geen effect op de opgravingen en onze documentatiemethoden,” benadrukt onderzoeker Ivana Puljiz, verbonden aan de universiteit van Freiburg. “Maar het betekende wel dat we bijna geen vrije tijd hadden.”
Zes weken was de archeologen uiteindelijk gegund. En in die periode werd er continu keihard gewerkt. “De grootste uitdaging tijdens de opgravingen was het weer. Door de tijdsdruk bleven we doorgraven in kou, sneeuw, hagel, regen en zelfs stormen. Want we wisten niet wanneer het waterpeil weer zou stijgen en hoeveel tijd we zouden hebben.”
Machtig rijk Maar het harde werk heeft zijn vruchten afgeworpen. Want de archeologen zijn erin geslaagd om – in de korte tijd die hen daarvoor gegund was – een groot deel van de stad in kaart te brengen. Daarnaast zijn in de stad ook een aantal interessante vondsten gedaan die hopelijk meer inzicht kunnen geven in het nog altijd mysterieuze beschaving die tussen 1550 en 1350 voor Christus over grote delen van het noorden van Mesopotamië en Syrië heerste: de Mittani.
Over de Mittani “Het Mittani-rijk is één van de grootste staten die tijdens de late Bronstijd in het zuidwesten van Azië te vinden waren,” vertelt Puljiz. “Het bestond gelijktijdig met het Nieuwe Rijk in Egypte, de Kassieten die over Babylon heersten en het Hettitisch Koninkrijk (dat centraal Anatolië en noordwestelijke Syrië besloeg, red.). Het gebied waarin de Mittani heersten, was groot en reikte van de Mediterrane kust tot het noorden van Irak. Maar er is heel weinig bekend over de organisatie van het rijk, omdat de hoofdstad ervan tot op heden nog niet met zekerheid geïdentificeerd is en de archieven nog op ontdekking wachten.”
Waardevol Het maakt de opgravingen die nu op de tijdelijke oevers van het Mosoel-reservoir hebben plaatsgevonden heel waardevol. “De opgravingen wijzen erop dat dit een belangrijk centrum in het Mittani-rijk was,” vertelt onderzoeker Hasan Qasim. En de stad kan ons dan ook meer vertellen over deze nog altijd vrij mysterieuze beschaving.
Grote gebouwen Zo zijn de onderzoekers tijdens hun opgravingen op een paleis gestuit, maar ook op een soort fort met muren en wachttorens en een enorm, meerdere verdiepingen tellend pakhuis. “Wat het meest opwindend is, is dat we ons nu een voorstelling kunnen maken van hoe de stad eruitzag,” stelt Puljiz. “Hoe de stad functioneel en ruimtelijk georganiseerd was. Wat ons daarbij onder meer verbaasde was dat we op verschillende plaatsen in de stad op enorme gebouwen stuitten.”
In de stad zijn opmerkelijk goed bewaard gebleven muren ontdekt.
Afbeelding: Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, KAO.
Metershoge muren Veel van die gebouwen zagen er naar omstandigheden nog redelijk goed uit. Zo werden er op verschillende plaatsen in de oude stad goedbewaard gebleven muren teruggevonden die soms wel enkele meters hoog waren. Dat de muren – gemaakt van in de zon gedroogde kleisteen – zelfs na meer dan 40 jaar onder water te hebben gestaan, nog heel zijn, is volgens de onderzoekers te herleiden naar een aardbeving die de stad rond 1350 voor Christus verwoestte. Tijdens deze beving stortten de bovenste delen van gebouwen in, waardoor de onderste delen erdoor begraven – en later ook beschermd – werden.
Tabletten Naast de muren stuitten de onderzoekers nog op een andere spectaculaire vondst; vijf keramische vazen die samen een meer dan 100 kleitabletten tellend archief herbergden. De kleitabletten dateren uit de periode kort nadat de aardbeving plaatsvond. En ook daarvoor geldt dat het bijna wonderbaarlijk te noemen is dat deze kleitabletten hun decennialange onderdompeling hebben doorstaan. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de tabletten brieven zijn en hopen dat deze ons meer kunnen vertellen over de ondergang van de stad en misschien ook de opkomst van het Assyrische rijk in het gebied.
Hier zie je een met kleitabletten gevuld vat. Eén van de kleitabletten zit zelfs nog in zijn ‘envelop’.
Afbeelding: Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, KAO.
Zakhiku Ten slotte denken de onderzoekers dankzij de opgravingen ook te weten hoe de Mittani deze indrukwekkende stad noemden. “Tijdens onze opgravingen hebben we een administratieve tekst gevonden die de oude stad Zakhiku noemt. We nemen aan dat dit verwijst naar de plek waar we opgravingen hebben gedaan.”
Dat de onderzoekers in amper zes weken tijd zoveel gezien en gedocumenteerd hebben, is indrukwekkend. En er viel nog veel meer te ontdekken, maar de tijd ontbrak; de archeologen waren in februari gedwongen de stad weer terug te geven aan het water. Maar niet voordat ze deze voor zover mogelijk met plastic hadden bedekt. “Het is belangrijk om ons gedeelde culturele erfgoed voor toekomstige generaties te behouden,” stelt Puljiz. “En archeologische vindplaatsen in reservoirs eroderen door het stijgende en dalende water. Uiteindelijk zal zo’n vindplaats compleet eroderen en gaan alle ruïnes verloren.” Dat probleem speelt ook in het geval van Zakhiku. “Hoewel de gebouwen uit de Mittani-periode dankzij hun omvang goedbewaard zijn gebleven, zijn de bovenliggende lagen – zonder ooit archeologisch onderzocht te zijn – al bijna vrijwel geheel geërodeerd. We hopen verdere erosie te voorkomen door de vindplaats in te pakken met plastic dat door stenen en keien op zijn plaats wordt gehouden.”
Na de opgravingen werden de ruïnes met plastic bedekt om ze tegen erosie te beschermen.
Afbeelding: Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, KAO.
Inmiddels is de stad weer volledig door water bedekt. Wanneer deze weer uit het water verrijst, is onmogelijk te voorspellen. “Maar ik hoop dat we ons onderzoek op deze opwindende plek weer eens voort kunnen gaan zetten,” stelt Puljiz. “Er zijn nog zoveel dingen te ontdekken!” En niet alleen in deze stad. Want naast Zakhiku zijn er in de jaren tachtig met de totstandkoming van het Mosoel-reservoir nog veel meer gebieden aan het water ten prooi gevallen. “Voorafgaand daaraan heeft de Irakese overheid een soort reddingsprogramma op poten gezet waarbij talloze van deze gebieden eerst door Irakese en buitenlandse onderzoekers zijn onderzocht.” Hoewel men ook van het bestaan van Zakhiku op de hoogte was, werden de resten van deze stad echter nooit onder de loep genomen. En mogelijk zijn er nog wel meer plaatsen die archeologen toen – bewust of onbewust – niet nader hebben onderzocht. “Er kunnen zomaar tientallen andere belangrijke plaatsen zijn waar we nog helemaal nietsvan weten,” denkt Puljiz.
THE EARTH'S CORE IS COOLING WAY FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT, SCIENTISTS SAY
THE EARTH'S CORE IS COOLING WAY FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT, SCIENTISTS SAY
OUR PLANET IS TURNING INTO A ROCKY PLANET LIKE MERCURY OR MARS MUCH "FASTER THAN EXPECTED."
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Cooling Earth
According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than originally anticipated — a new mystery that could throw a wrench in our understanding of the planet's evolution.
To get a better sense of how far along the Earth is in the process, scientists are studying the thermal conductivity of the minerals present in the layer between the planet's core and mantle. The faster that hot center passes heat to the planet's outer layers, the faster the Earth is losing the heat present in its core.
Heating Rocks
In a lab simulation, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Carnegie Institution for Science applied immense amounts of pressure and heat to a mineral called bridgmanite — which is found in the transitional zone between the core and mantle — to simulate the conditions deep below the surface. They then measured its thermal conductivity to get a better sense of the cooling processes at play.
The results were surprising.
"This measurement system let us show that the thermal conductivity of bridgmanite is about 1.5 times higher than assumed," said ETH professor Motohiko Murakami, lead author of a paper about the findings published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in a statement.
In other words, the heat from the core is being passed on at a much faster rate than previously thought, leading to the greater cooling of the Earth.
A New Perspective
The study could rewrite what we already know about the dynamic processes leading to the slowing down of convection currents.
"Our results could give us a new perspective on the evolution of the Earth’s dynamics," Murakami explained. "They suggest that Earth, like the other rocky planets Mercury and Mars, is cooling and becoming inactive much faster than expected."
The researcher did, however, note we didn't know enough to pinpoint how long it will take for convection currents to stop altogether.
De Amerikaanse sonde Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), die sinds 2009 rond de Maan wentelt, heeft na de mysterieuze inslag van een rakettrap twee nieuwe impactkraters op het hemellichaam gevonden, zo heeft nieuwszender CNN maandag gemeld.
Op 4 maart sloeg een door mensenhanden gemaakt object, voor het eerst niet met opzet, op de Maan in. Nadien stelde de LRO vast dat er twee nieuwe impactkraters zijn. Een oostelijke is achttien meter breed en een westelijke zestien meter.
Volgens CNN zijn astronomen verrast dat er twee kraters zijn. Het suggereert dat de impact het werk is van een groot object.
Wat dat object precies is, is nog steeds onduidelijk. Eerst was sprake van een trap van een Amerikaanse Falcon-draagraket. Daarop sprak China de versie tegen dat het een trap van de Lange Mars-3C draagraket was die de Chinese Chang’e-5 Maanmissie lanceerde.
Mogelijk kan de dubbele inslag astronomen meer leren over de precieze herkomst, aldus nog CNN.
A rocket body struck the moon on March 4 near the Hertzsprung crater, creating a double crater roughly 28 meters wide.
Limburger looft 1 miljoen euro uit voor wie bezoek van aliens in ufo kan bewijzen
Eén miljoen euro voor wie het bestaan van ufo’s als buitenaardse ruimtetuigen kan bewijzen. Dat mooie bedrag looft Limburger Marc Broux uit, om zijn overtuiging dat ufo’s van aliens niet bestaan kracht bij te zetten. Zijn belofte loopt tot nog tot 21 april 2025.
24 juni 1947. Piloot Kenneth Arnold ziet negen onbekende vliegende objecten nabij de Mount Rainier in de Amerikaanse staat Washington. Zijn melding ervan geldt als de allereerste van zogenaamde ufo’s: unidentified flying objects of ongeïdentificeerde vliegende voorwerpen. De ufologie, het onderzoek naar ufowaarnemingen, bestaat sinds vrijdag dus exact 75 jaar. Maar of ook ufo’s zelf écht bestaan, dat is een andere zaak.
Marc Broux, een ufoloog uit Zolder, was lange tijd een believer, maar nu niet meer. De expert gelooft wel in waarnemingen van ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten, maar niet dat die vliegende schotels zouden bemand zijn door aliens, die onze aarde al dan niet geregeld een bezoekje brengen. “Al 75 jaar beweren honderdduizenden mensen ufo’s gezien te hebben”, aldus Broux. “Tienduizenden beweren in oogcontact te zijn geweest met de bestuurders ervan. En duizenden aardse mensen beweren ontvoerd en onderzocht te zijn geweest door buitenaardsen. Wel, als dat zo is, dan moet het toch een kleine moeite zijn om één fysisch, materialistisch, tastbaar of visueel bewijs te geven. Maar... dat gebeurt niet.”
Volgens Broux zijn ufo’s dan ook geen buitenaardse ruimtetuigen, maar eerder verkeerd geïnterpreteerde astronomische, natuurkundige of psychologische gebeurtenissen.
Wie wél bewijsmateriaal heeft, die kan zijn rekening aangedikt zien met maar liefst één miljoen euro. Broux lanceerde die belofte op 21 april van dit jaar en ze loopt nog tot 21 april 2025. “Maar er zijn spelregels”, voegt hij eraan toe. Wie aanspraak maakt op de mooie geldsom, moet kunnen bewijzen dat “bepaalde intelligente wezens die van buiten ons zonnestelsel komen, met hun ruimtetuigen onze aarde een bezoek brengen”. Foto’s en filmmateriaal zijn geen bewijs voor Broux. “Het beste bewijs is uiteraard het ruimteschip zelf”, vult hij aan. Het eventuele bewijsmateriaal zal ook wetenschappelijk onderzocht worden. Geïnteresseerden kunnen het deelnameformulier aanvragen met een brief naar Begonialaan 35 in Heusden-Zolder.
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We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves
We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves
On February 11th, 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the detection of gravitational waves (GW) for the first time. As predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, these waves result from massive objects merging, which causes ripples through spacetime that can be detected. Since then, astrophysicists have theorized countless ways that GWs could be used to study physics beyond the standard models of gravity and particle physics and advance our understanding of the Universe.
To date, GWs have been proposed as a means of studying Dark Matter, the interiors of neutron stars and supernovae, mergers between supermassive black holes, and more. In a recent study, a team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University has proposed a way where GWs could be used to search for ultralight bosons around rotating black holes. This method could not only offer a new way to discern the properties of binary black holes but could lead to the discovery of new particles beyond the Standard Model.
It’s a well-known fact that normal matter will infall toward black holes over time, which will form an accretion disk around its outer edge (aka. Event Horizon). This disk will be accelerated to incredible speeds, causing the material within to become super-heated and release tremendous amounts of radiation while slowly being accreted onto the black hole’s face. However, for the past few decades, scientists have observed that black holes will shed some of their mass through a process called “superradiance.”
This phenomenon was studied by Stephen Hawking, who described how rotating black holes would throw off radiation that would appear “real” to a nearby observer, but “virtual” to a distant one. In the process of transferring this radiation from one reference frame to another, the acceleration of the particle itself would cause it to transform from virtual to real. This exotic form of energy, known as “Hawking Radiation,” will form clouds of low-mass particles around a black hole. This leads to a “gravitational atom,” so-named because they resemble ordinary atoms (clouds of particles surrounding a core)
While scientists know that this phenomenon occurs, they also understand that it could only be explained through the existence of a new ultralight particle that exists beyond the Standard Model. This was the focus of the new paper, where lead author Daniel Baumann (GRAPPA and the University of Taipei) and his colleagues examined how superradiance causes unstable clouds of ultralight bosons to form around black holes spontaneously. In addition, they suggest that the similarities between gravitational and regular atoms go deeper than their structure.
In short, they suggest that binary black holes could cause particles in their clouds to become ionized via the photoelectric effect. As described by Einstein, this occurs when electromagnetic energy (such as light) makes contact with a material, causing it to emit excited electrons (photoelectrons). When applied to a binary black hole, Baumann and his colleagues show how clouds of ultralight bosons could absorb the “orbital energy” of a black hole companion. This would cause some of the bosons to become ejected and accelerated, evident from the black hole’s associated GW signals.
Artist’s concept of a “gravitational atom,” where a nucleus (black hole) is surrounded by clouds of particles. Credit: UvA Institute of Physics
Lastly, they demonstrated how this process could dramatically alter the evolution of binary black holes by reducing the time it takes for the objects to merge. As they state:
“The orbital energy lost in this process can overwhelm the losses due to GW emission, so that ionization drives the inspiral rather than merely perturbing it. We show that the ionization power contains sharp features that lead to distinctive “kinks” in the evolution of the emitted GW frequency.”
These “kinks,” they argue, will be discernible to next-generation GW interferometers like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). This process could be used to discover an entirely new class of ultralight particles and provide direct information about the mass and state of “gravitational atom” clouds. In short, the ongoing studies of GWs using more sensitive interferometers could reveal exotic physics that advance our understanding of black holes and lead to new breakthroughs in particle physics.
This is one of many possibilities that have been ventured thanks to the revolution taking place with GW astronomy. In the coming years, astrophysicists hope to use them to probe the most extreme environments in the Universe, like black holes and neutron stars. They also hope that primordial gravitational waves will reveal things about the early Universe, help resolve the mystery of the matter/anti-matter imbalance, and lead to a quantum theory of gravity (aka. a Theory of Everything).
Canada admits UFO activity as a member of Parliament claims they are real
Canada admits UFO activity as a member of Parliament claims they are real
Following the moves taken by the US, Russia, and China earlier this week, Canada should become the latest state to either support or boost up the investigation into UFOs.
NASA announced the establishment of a small team to “advance the scientific knowledge of unexplained aerial phenomena ahead.” NASA confirmed the establishment of a small team to further scientific knowledge of mysterious aerial occurrences, making the United States the first to ‘act.’
In recently revealed letters dated June 6, officials from Canada acknowledged their plan to help UFO studies in the United States.
John Hannaford, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources Canada, indicated his plan to participate in the US research in a letter to Larry Maguire M.P. and Kathleen Heppell-Masys, Directorate of Security and Safeguards for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This is what he wrote in the letter:
“I am writing in follow-up to my May 18, 2022, appearance before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources, where you raised security-related questions regarding the Government of Canada’s position on drones and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) near North American nuclear facilities. Given the shared priority for nuclear safety and security of nuclear facilities, and the growing interest in UAPs in both Canada and the United States, the CNSC is committed to raising the issue with its United States counterpart and sharing any related information going forward.”
In a prior email, Maguire confirmed the existence of UAPs and stated that Canada needs to consider them with more seriousness.
This disclosure comes about a year after the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a study claiming that the federal government couldn’t explain all of the 144 UAPs which were discovered by military aviators, instead they could do that only for one of them. They did mention birds or balloons, as well as classified American programs and superior Russian or Chinese technology.
Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars
Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars
Dust is an everyday feature on Mars and wreaks havoc on various pieces of equipment humans decide to send to it, such as Insight’s continual loss of power or the losses of Opportunity and Spirit. But we’ve never really understood what causes the dust to get up into the air in the first place. That equipment that is so affected by it usually isn’t set up to monitor it, or if it is, it has been sent to a place where there isn’t much dust, to begin with. Now, that has changed with new readings from Perseverance in Jerezo crater, and the answer shouldn’t be much of a surprise – dust devils seem to cause some of the dust in the atmosphere on Mars. But strong winds contribute a significant amount too.
A new paper in Science Advances by a team of over 45 scientists reports on data collected by Perseverance’s instrumentation that is designed to study the Martian environment. The Radiation and Dust Sensor (RDS) instrumentation is part of a broader package of instrumentation known as the Mars Environment Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA).
This instrument can detect changes in the environmental conditions that would occur around the rover about once a second. The most likely cause of those changes would be the presence of dust devils.
UT video discussing the perils of dust storms
But it is not enough to detect those changes alone, as they could be caused by sources other than dust devils. So the RDS combines forces with another MEDA instrument, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS), which can provide data on the tracking radiative flux around the rover. Combining these two data sets allow scientists to comprehensively say whether or not a dust devil has overtaken the rover.
They do so often. About four times a day, the rover is subjected to “convective vortices,” the technical term for updrafts that are strong enough to sense. About one of those four carries enough dust to be thought of as what we would conventionally call a “dust devil.” And their existence seems to be the source of most of the dust that reaches the air. But they aren’t the only source.
There was some evidence for strong wind gusts that don’t actually form into a dust devil and might force a significant amount of dust into the air themselves. While these weren’t necessarily as strong as the dust devils, they covered a much larger area, with the largest being ten times larger than the largest dust devil. So even if they are much weaker, they were potentially able to lift smaller grains of dust high into the atmosphere.
Another dust devil seen by HiRISE. Credit – NASA / JPL / UArizona
The scientists think that a roughly equal amount of dust in the Martian atmosphere could be caused by both dust devils and these more concentrated wind gusts. But no matter what the dust is from, the existence of instruments on Mars that can finally collect data on the underlying cause of the dust is a breakthrough in understanding the Martian environment. It might also help us find a way to disrupt this potentially destructive process if it ever comes to that.
Deep-Sea Camera Captures What No One Was Supposed to See
Deep-Sea Camera Captures What No One Was Supposed to See
Life on earth is entirely dependent on water, every single living organism requires water for survival. More than 60% of the human body is composed of water. We are dependent on water in different ways including for drinking, for taking showers, cooking food, and for swimming. Agriculture and industry both run on water. Well, 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and oceans constitute about 96.5% of this water. It means, we have tremendous opportunities to explore but exploring the abyss of the ocean is a difficult proposition and maybe quite scary. Scientists have been trying to reach the darkest corners of the unchartered oceans and they have come across some terrifying things.
Bright pulsating almost plasma looking UFO ramming in upon itself in Dearborn Missouri on June 7, 2022
Video Source MUFON Case Number 123037
UFO SIGHTING! TIC TAC SHAPED UFO WITNESSED IN ALABAMA & FR. THEN IN FRANCE IT MAKES EXTREME 25°TURN?
UFO sighting! Tic-Tac or pill shaped UFO recorded by family in Detroit Alabama then what appears to be the same UFO seen in Canoux en Provence France recorded by camper during their trip. Video source mufon case number 122858 and case number 122997 Source of videos of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun and the Moon, by Terry's Theories
Spirit Orb Seen On Baby Monitor Leaves When Mother Goes To Investigate & Returns After She Leaves.
This was captured on June 23, 2022 at their home in Preston, Lancashire in England. I believe this to be a spirit orb and not dust or a bug as with dust would not hover or stay in one spot for any length of time as for this being a bug, this was seen for several nights and always in the same area that had been clean so what could this be? One explanation could be with the passing of the grandmother could this be her watching over granddaughter
Two Fighter Jets Spotted Chasing A UFO Over Mount Desert Island In Maine. June 20, 2022
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Now back to the footage. In this short clip we can see these two jets giving chase to this UFO just before the camera goes out of focus and the object and jets enter the clouds. I asked the witness if there was an air show and he replied "There was no air show. Heard the planes and looked up. My daughter saw them first. Low altitude over the water."
Thanks to Alex McCall for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:
COVER UP!? TIC TAC Found On Google Earth!? CRAZY UFO's Fall From SKY Village in Shock! 2022, UFO Sighting News.
COVER UP!? TIC TAC Found On Google Earth!? CRAZY UFO's Fall From SKY Village in Shock! 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Hey check out this great video of several discoverer on Google Earth map and UFO sightings reported by Thirdphaseofmoon of Youtube. Fantastic channel and great investigative thoughts and analysis.
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Third Phase Of Moon States: COVER UP!? TIC TAC Found On Google Earth!? CRAZY UFO's Fall From SKY Village in Shock! 2022
Black Circular UFO Passing The Moon Spotted By Amateur Astronomer In Colombia. May 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Black Circular UFO Passing The Moon Spotted By Amateur Astronomer In Colombia. May 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 8, 2022
Location of sighting: Moon
Hey check out this amazing dark disk that passes over the moon, the object is absolutely amazing and even has a shadow on the moon below it. Thats 100% proof that is low over the moons surface.
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..
Can we expect a killshot that knocks out all modern day communication and power systems?
Can we expect a killshot that knocks out all modern day communication and power systems?
A G1-class geomagnetic storm was underway on June 26, 2022. The reason for the storm is a crack that has opened in Earth's magnetic field, allowing solar wind to enter the magnetosphere.
Immense cracks sometimes develop in Earth's magnetosphere and remain open for hours. Solar wind can pour through the gaps to fuel bright displays of Arctic lights.
Our magnetic shield takes the brunt of space storms, but some energy slips through its cracks, sometimes enough to cause problems with satellites, radio communication, and power systems.
Now, this time the A G1-class geomagnetic storm won't do any damage to satellites, radio communication, and power systems but it is just a matter of time a "killshot" will be triggered by a super solar flare. It has happened before and soon or later it will happen again.
Remember the solar storm of 1859—known as the Carrington Event - was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm during solar cycle 10 (1855–
1867). It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused damage to electric equipment worldwide, which at that time consisted mostly of telegraph stations. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record on September 1–2, 1859.
A severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth on March 13, 1989 and caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system. The storm began on Earth with extremely intense auroras at the poles. The aurora could be seen as far south as Texas and Florida.
The Halloween solar storms were a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that occurred from mid-October to early November 2003, peaking around October 28–29. One of the solar storms was compared by some scientists in its intensity to the Carrington Event of 1859.
The solar superstorm a Carrington-class CME of July 2012 was an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection (CME) event that occurred on July 23 that year. It missed the Earth with a margin of approximately nine days. The region that produced the outburst was thus not pointed directly towards the Earth at that time. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event.
In 2013, Edward A. Dames, Major, U.S. Army (ret.) well known for his remote viewing capabilities, stated that he is very concerned about unprecedented events that will take place in the near future which will affect the whole world.
Edward A Dames - Quote from 2013: "I am far more concerned with a global pandemic breaking out, concomitant with a worldwide economic collapse, and leading to a devastating solar flare hitting the planet."
So far he has been right, We have experienced the global Covid 19 pandemic, a global economic collapse is unfolding right now, so will his 3rd prediction also come true and can we expect a "killshot" that knocks out all modern day communication and power systems?
And although Edward A. Dames 3rd prediction points to a devastating solar flare it is not unthinkable that, with the ongoing turmoil in the world in mind, the danger of a “killshot” will come of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon instead of devastating solar flare hitting the planet.
After their van shuts down in the middle of nowhere, this couple starts to see unexplainable bright lights from above, leaving them flabbergasted. They are convinced that they saw a UFO that night.
Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data
Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this illustration, has been exploring our solar system since 1977, along with its twin, Voyager 2.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
While the spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a system data issue.
The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from Earth, along with gathering and returning science data. But readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don’t reflect what’s actually happening onboard.
The AACS controls the 45-year-old spacecraft’s orientation. Among other tasks, it keeps Voyager 1’s high-gain antenna pointed precisely at Earth, enabling it to send data home. All signs suggest the AACS is still working, but the telemetry data it’s returning is invalid. For instance, the data may appear to be randomly generated, or does not reflect any possible state the AACS could be in.
The issue hasn’t triggered any onboard fault protection systems, which are designed to put the spacecraft into “safe mode” – a state where only essential operations are carried out, giving engineers time to diagnose an issue. Voyager 1’s signal hasn’t weakened, either, which suggests the high-gain antenna remains in its prescribed orientation with Earth.
The team will continue to monitor the signal closely as they continue to determine whether the invalid data is coming directly from the AACS or another system involved in producing and sending telemetry data. Until the nature of the issue is better understood, the team cannot anticipate whether this might affect how long the spacecraft can collect and transmit science data.
Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth, and it takes light 20 hours and 33 minutes to travel that difference. That means it takes roughly two days to send a message to Voyager 1 and get a response – a delay the mission team is well accustomed to.
“A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission,” said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager 1 and 2 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “The spacecraft are both almost 45 years old, which is far beyond what the mission planners anticipated. We’re also in interstellar space – a high-radiation environment that no spacecraft have flown in before. So there are some big challenges for the engineering team. But I think if there’s a way to solve this issue with the AACS, our team will find it.”
It’s possible the team may not find the source of the anomaly and will instead adapt to it, Dodd said. If they do find the source, they may be able to solve the issue through software changes or potentially by using one of the spacecraft’s redundant hardware systems.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Voyager team has relied on backup hardware: In 2017, Voyager 1’s primary thrusters showed signs of degradation, so engineers switched to another set of thrusters that had originally been used during the spacecraft’s planetary encounters. Those thrusters worked, despite having been unused for 37 years.
Voyager 1’s twin, Voyager 2 (currently 12.1 billion miles, or 19.5 billion kilometers, from Earth), continues to operate normally.
Launched in 1977, both Voyagers have operated far longer than mission planners expected, and are the only spacecraft to collect data in interstellar space. The information they provide from this region has helped drive a deeper understanding of the heliosphere, the diffuse barrier the Sun creates around the planets in our solar system.
Each spacecraft produces about 4 fewer watts of electrical power a year, limiting the number of systems the craft can run. The mission engineering team has switched off various subsystems and heaters in order to reserve power for science instruments and critical systems. No science instruments have been turned off yet as a result of the diminishing power, and the Voyager team is working to keep the two spacecraft operating and returning unique science beyond 2025.
While the engineers continue to work at solving the mystery that Voyager 1 has presented them, the mission’s scientists will continue to make the most of the data coming down from the spacecraft’s unique vantage point.
More About the Mission
The Voyager spacecraft were built by JPL, which continues to operate both. JPL is a division of Caltech in Pasadena. The Voyager missions are a part of the NASA Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
For more information about the Voyager spacecraft, visit:
Kinross UFO: An Unidentified Craft, A Hidden Transcript & A Missing Air Force Jet
Kinross UFO: An Unidentified Craft, A Hidden Transcript & A Missing Air Force Jet
In 1953, Air Defence Radar over Lake Superior, Michigan, detected a UFO travelling at rapid speeds. An F-89C interceptor jet was dispatched to investigate, the plane and its pilots were never seen again.
In 1953, over Lake Superior, a jet as well as its crew disappeared after being scrambled to track a UFO
On the evening of November 23, 1953, Air Defence Command radar detected the presence of an unidentified object moving at 500 mph over Lake Superior. An F-89C all-weather interceptor, piloted by Lieutenant Felix Moncia Jr., with radar observer Lieutenant R. R. Wilson in the rear cockpit, was dispatched from Kinross Air Force Base, near the Soo Locks in northern Michigan. Under radar guidance, the jet headed toward the target.
At 8000 feet, 70 miles off Keweenaw Point, and 160 miles northwest of the Soo Locks, the blip of the F-89 and that of the UFO merged, then faded from the screen. Nothing more was heard from the interceptor, and no trace of it was ever found, despite an extensive search.
A brief statement, prepared by the Public Information Office at Wisconson's Truax Air Force Base (which handled such duties for bases in the area), was given to the press. By the next day, however, an Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon claimed that the unidentified object was a Royal Canadian Air Force C-47 and that the F-89, far from colliding with it as the radar reading indicated, had never been any closer than miles from it. The fate of the F-89 after that was unclear, the Air Force contended: it had crashed for unknown reasons.
The Canadian government denied on several occasions that any incident involving one of its aircraft and a USAF interceptor had occurred on the date in question. In any case, the official Air Force version implied an implausible incompetence on the parts of radar operators at such a sensitive installation. The official version has it that Moncla may have suffered from vertigo and lost control of his aircraft, though records indicate he was flying on instruments. No transcript of Moncla's radio conversation with the controllers has ever been released.
The Air Force gave conflicting accounts to Moncla's widow. First, she was told that the F-89 had flown too low in its effort to identify the Canadian plane and crashed into the water. Subsequently, another officer asserted that the interceptor had exploded at a high altitude.
Disappearing Aircraft.
For years rumours have circulated that the Air Force is covering up other cases in which UFOs apparently snatched military aircraft. The most interesting of these stories comes from the testimony of Master Sergeant O. D. Hill of Project Blue Book - or so Cleveland ufologist Tom Comella would assert in a nationally published magazine article that has never been challenged.
According to his account, on February 4, 1956, Comella and three other civilian UFO investigators met with Air Technical Intelligence Centre (ATIC) representatives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where Blue Book was headquartered. Their purpose was to discuss two cases in which low-flying objects had passed over residential areas. The ATIC personnel promised to get back to them. But they heard nothing until June 28, when Edgar Smith, a member of the civilian group, received a visit from M. Sgt. Hill, though Hill had not participated in the original meeting. After initially reciting the standard anti-UFO Blue Book line, Hill told Smith that the project existed to "prevent another Pearl Harbour." He said that "our planes have been and still are disappearing from the sky." Then asking not to be quoted, he related two cases.
The first of these sounds in every way except one like the Kinross episode. The sole discordant detail is Hill's reference to a "thorough search of the land area"; the Kinross case took place, of course, over a body of water. Perhaps Hill's recall was imperfect. Smiths notes have Hill saying this of the second case:
"A transport plane with 26 persons aboard was rapidly approaching its air base some 10 miles away from shore. Back on land at the radar station the operator was carefully tracking the transport plane and was in constant radar communication with the plane. Suddenly the radar operator spied a second blip on his radarscope. He immediately radioed the transport and advised the pilot to beware of the alien object." The UFO was travelling at a high rate of speed, about 2500 mph. It jumped about on the radarscope like a tennis ball. All of a sudden the mysterious blip headed straight for the transport plane, and before the radar operator could warn it, the two objects had united into one on the radar screen. The one remaining blip sped straight up at a terrific rate of speed. A surface search of the water in the vicinity revealed no oil slick, although a general's briefcase was found floating. The plane has completely disappeared."
Hill told Smith that such incidents had officials worried. Two hundred scientists were at work on the UFO problem for the U.S. government.
As soon as Hill left his house, Smith called Comella to summarize the sergeant's account and tell him Hill was on his way. Hill repeated the stories to Comella and added that many top officials believed UFOs to be of extraterrestrial origin. A month later Smith and Comella saw Hill at ATIC headquarters, then met separately with the new Blue Book head, Captain George T. Gregory. When asked about the disappearance cases, Gregory attributed them to "bugs or small birds that get into the radar pattern." When Comella asked if birds were responsible for the aircraft's disappearance, too, Gregory said, "Well, we just cannot talk about those cases."
Hill never disputed Comella's version of events. There seems no reason to doubt that Comella's account of their interaction is correct. To date, no independent confirmation of the second disappearance case (if we assume the first to refer to the Kinross event) has surfaced.
The world was not ready when the Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Wordensaid in a live interview that humans are the ancient aliens who came down to Earth and started civilization here. He referenced Ancient Sumerian texts for it. More interestingly, according to Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, there have been some kind of intergalactic space battle involving super-advancedextraterrestrials that took place in our solar system millions of years ago.
The author of the book “The Cosmic War,” Dr. Joseph P. Farrell says there is ample evidence across our solar system of cataclysmic and catastrophic destruction events. He suggests that two cosmic wars took place, one 65 million years ago, and another 3.2 million years ago.
The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics, and Ancient Texts: A Study in Non-Catastrophist Interpretations of Ancient Legends by Joseph P. Farrell
Note:Joseph Farrell is an Oxford educated historian who specializes in alternative history, World War II, and secret technologies. After a lifelong interest in alternative history, science, and a fascination for ancient texts, Joseph started writing on these subjects in 2001.
Rejecting the naturalist and materialist assumptions of catastrophism forwarded by other researchers, Dr. Farrell says that it is time to take the ancient myths of a Cosmic War in the heavens seriously. Incorporating extraterrestrial artifacts, cutting-edge ideas in contemporary physics, and the texts of ancient myths into his argument, he maintains that ancient interplanetary war was fought in our own solar system with weapons of extraordinary power and sophistication.
Many ancient history scholars and authors have mentioned the so-called “Technology of the gods,” which includes not only the mystical flying machine “Vimana,” but also powerful weapons of the gods, for example, “Vajra,” an artifact of the Anunnaki gods which shoots lightning.
Sumerian god Ninurta wielding a “thunderbolt”
In the book, Dr. Farrell mentions the ancient Sumerian god Ninurta wielding a “thunderbolt” that is a dead-solid ringer for an electrical discharge produced in a modern lab that experiments with plasma physics.
Dr. Farrell asserted that the echoes of this cosmic war are reflected in the ancient texts of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Biblical texts, Vedic tradition, and also New World mythology, from the Maya and Aztecs to the myths of some native North American tribes.
But think about it: the oldest texts from the ancient Mideast are perhaps 4,000 to 5,000 years old. Vedic texts may go back as far as 5,000 or 6,000 years. Besides, purely oral traditions might possibly push the information back a few thousand more years. That’s a long time, but it’s nothing compared to 3.2 million years. It is ridiculous beyond belief to consider a connection between a 6,000-year-old ancient manuscript with events that happened 65 million years ago!
It sounds unacceptable that all of the civilizations, high and low such as the Egyptians, the Mongols, the various Chinese dynasties, the Roman Empire, the Inca, and the Aztecs have come and gone in just the past few thousand years. The Soviets’ period was only 75 years.
It is true that the traces of traditions and mythology have survived thousands of years. British psychologist and author Stan Gooch, who is probably best known as the proponent of a “hybrid-origin theory” of human evolution, makes a ra ther compelling case that much of our fundamental culture today is underpinned and actually derived from the extinct Neanderthal race, that last of which died out about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Gooch said the modern man is unaware of and/or has forgotten the origins of its primary, fundamental cultural attributes (such as the development of the Zodiac and various god/theological concepts) and so much more.
Joseph P. Farrell. Image in public domain
But it does not help Dr. Farrell. As for him, even 20,000 to 30,000 years is nothing. The Neanderthals had an approximately 250,000 run as a successful species. But it’s nothing for Dr. Farrell.
According to mainstream scientists, the origin of Homo sapiens is about 200,000 years. Yet Dr. Farrell is making the case that legends were handed down by one civilization or another for 3.2 million years.
Though there are alternative archaeology proponents like Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, who says the human species is actually billions of years old. Unfortunately, such statements are certainly on the fringe, to say the least.
But Dr. Farrell’s cosmic war scenario gets a tremendous shot in the arm from the work of physicist Dr. John Brandenburg (He is a brilliant and accomplished plasma physicist who earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 1981).
Dr. John Brandenburg published two controversial books — “Death on Mars” and “Life and Death on Mars” — in which he makes a highly scientific and rigorously technical case that Mars was destroyed by nuclear weapons millions of years ago as part of some sort of interstellar cosmic conflict.
Brandenburg said Mars was wiped out when some advanced extraterrestrial race dropped two one-million-megaton bombs that exploded in strategic locations about 20 miles above the Martian surface.
If he is correct, that would be a benefit for Dr. Farrell’s theory about an ancient cosmic war, but there is a major problem.
According to Dr. Brandenburg, Mars was nuked 251 million years ago. That does not go along with Dr. Farrell’s timelines of 3.2 million and 65 million years ago. However, Dr. Farrell might be onto something in his book, “The Cosmic War.”
According to late Dr. Tom Van Flandern, an American Astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics for the U.S. Naval Observatory, a planet in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was exploded around 65 million years ago or as early as 3.2 million years ago. He finds some way to frame his cosmic war scenario within a time scenario of, say, 10,000 to 15,000 years.
Thomas Van Flandern (1940-2009).
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
“I suggest that Van Flandern’s Exploded Planet Hypothesis makes sense only if one is willing to entertain a nonnatural explanation. Of course, this is heretical on several levels, as the explanation must somehow encompass the presence of potential artifacts on Mars as well as a presumed high-tech culture on Mars’ erstwhile parent. “Strangely, the revelatory climax from Eando Binder’s Puzzle of the Space Pyramids comes to mind. In Binder’s novel, the asteroid belt was formed by a focused gravity assault that harnessed the energy of the entire solar system. The pyramids of the title were essentially gravity generators used to manipulate space-time,” Dr. Farrell wrote.
It is the least to say about Dr. Farrell’s Cosmic War. But in doing so, he offers a solution to an enigma that has long mystified researchers, disclosing the cause of that ancient war, the means by which it was waged, and the real nature of the secret technology behind the ancient “Tablets of Destinies.”
A team of archaeologists who carried out work on a project in the Sahara, published the discovery of mysterious stone structures, scattered throughout the desert.
Of different sizes and shapes , these mysterious structures could have an antiquity of thousands of years. Experts have declared that this is a unique discovery.
Mysterious structures in the Sahara
Experts studying the mysterious structures have not yet been able to discover the exact dating of their construction. Much less why they were built.
The main people in charge of this research are Joanne Clarke, from the University of East Anglia, England and the Independent researcher Nick Brooks , among other archaeologists.
The experts have also been working on a book where all the work done is described in detail . In addition to all the studies done on the unknown and mysterious structures.
The scientists stated to the media the following:
“The archaeological map of Western Sahara remains literally and figuratively almost blank as far as the international archaeological research community is concerned, particularly far from the Atlantic coast”
Specialists spent almost a decade studying and investigating the mysterious structures. From 2002 to 2009 .
During said working, they classified hundreds; These ranged from rectangular platforms, giant circles, crescents, or straight lines .
Seen with the naked eye, the structures appear to be a combination of forms that goes from the smallest. These are the stone lines, platforms, and circles. Forming a total of 600 meters long in total.
Some of these mysterious structures are believed to mark the location of tombs . However, the rest, until further research is conducted, remain a mystery to archeology.
Lost knowledge?
Unfortunately, the investigations have had to be stopped for the safety of the archaeologists, so it has not been possible to deepen the studies. This is because the area is taken over by terrorist groups.
For example, Al Qaeda operates in the region, and it is widely known that this and other groups often kidnap foreigners .
Experts assure that, as soon as they can, they will continue to excavate the surface in search of other hidden mysteries under the Sahara.
It should be noted that this discovery denotes how much historical information is hidden from the world. Perhaps, lost in time under the sand.
There are many enigmas and curiosities that surround these mysterious structures, to the point of seeing many theories born around them. The most popular is the possible existence of an extinct civilization, which had very advanced knowledge that lived in the remote past.
“A classic set of impressive UFO photos was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Trent in the early part of the evening, just before sunset, on May 11, 1950, near McMinnville, Oregon. According to the Trent's account the object, as it appeared over their farm was first seen by Ms. Trent while she was feeding the farm's rabbits.
She then quickly called her husband who got the family's camera and Mr. Trent then took two shots from positions only just a few feet apart. The pictures first appeared in a local newspaper and afterwards in Life magazine. Seventeen years later the photos were subjected to a detailed analysis for the University of Colorado UFO Project.
William K. Hartmann, an astronomer from the University of Arizona, performed a meticulous photometric and photogrammetric investigation of the original negatives, and set up a scaling system to determine the approximate distance of the UFO.
Hartmann used objects in the near foreground, such as a house, tree, metal water tank, and telephone pole, whose images could be compared with that of the UFO. There were also hills, trees, and buildings in the far distance whose contrast and details had been obscured by atmospheric haze.
Hartmann used these known distances of various objects in the photo to calculate an approximate atmospheric attenuation factor. He then measured the relative brightnesses of various objects in the photos, and demonstrated that their distances could generally be calculated with an accuracy of about +/- 30%. In the most extreme case, he would be in error by a factor of four. He then wrote:
"It is concluded that by careful consideration of the parameters involved in the case of recognizable objects in the photographs, distances can be measured within a factor-four error ... If such good measure could be made for the UFO, we could distinguish between a distant extraordinary object and a hypothetical small, close model."
Hartmann then noted that his photometric measurements indicated that the UFO was intrinsically brighter than the metallic tank and the white painted surface of the house, consistent with the Trent's description that it was a shiny object. Further, the shadowed surface of the UFO was much brighter than the shadowed region of the water tank, which was best explained by a distant object being illuminated by scattered light from the environment.
"it appears significant that the simplest most direct interpretation of the photographs confirms precisely what the witnesses said they saw"
Hartmann further wrote that "to the extent that the photometric analysis is reliable, (and the measurements appear to be consistent), the photographs indicate an object with a bright shiny surface at considerable distance and on the order of tens of meters in diameter. While it would be exaggerating to say that we have positively ruled out a fabrication, it appears significant that the simplest most direct interpretation of the photographs confirms precisely what the witnesses said they saw."
In his conclusion, Hartmann reiterated this, stressing that all the factors he had investigated, both photographic and testimonial, were consistent with the claim that "an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped, tens of metres in diameter, and evidently artificial, flew within sight of [the] two witnesses."
Controversy - The Skeptics' Case
Not satisfied with Hartmann's findings and totally devoid of any evidence that the UFO was a hoax and hanging from the wires, UFO debunker Robert Sheaffer argued qualitatively that the haze in the photos (the haze veiled the UFO and led Hartmann to conclude the UFO was about 1.3 kilometres distant) could be due to a "dirty" camera lens, and thus the object could still be close to the camera.
He further argued that shadows on the garage were strong evidence for a large time lag between the photos, and alleged that the shadow positions suggested the photos were taken at 7:30 in the morning rather than in the evening (the image on the left depicts the edge enhancement technique which, under typical conditions, can reveal the presence of a wire less than a quarter of a millimetre thick at a distance of up to 3 metres).
Dr. Bruce Maccabee, an optical physicist, analyzed the original negatives and found no support for Sheaffer's time lag claim. He also repeated Hartmann's calculations in much greater detail, including corrections for lens grease and obtained about the same results as Hartmann originally did. (One other important aspect of Sheaffer's dirty lens hypothesis is that it fails to explain why it didn't affect all objects in the photos, and not just the UFO.
All the nearby objects in the photo were all sharp with high contrast, but the objects in the distance such as a barn, a house, trees, and hills (and the UFO), were of low contrast, exactly as would be expected from absorption and scattering of light.)
Maccabee calculated the UFO to be over 1 kilometre away, and about 30 meters in diameter and 4 meters thick.
Regarding the alleged reported time the photos were taken which, according to Sheaffer, would be inconsistent with the position of the shadows on the photos, Maccabee discovered that the garage shadows could only have been caused by a diffuse light source, rebutting Sheaffer's argument.
Maccabee suggested that a bright cloud illuminated by the evening sun could possibly have caused them. Moreover, neither Sheaffer nor Klass has provided a plausible cause as to why the Trents would have lied about this, especially since it is immaterial to analysis of the UFO's distance.
Repeaters
In his book "UFOs Explained," Klass argued that the Trents were "repeaters," citing a story published in the Portland Oregonian June 10 in which Mrs. trent is quoted as saying to reporter Lou Gillette that "she had seen similar objects on the coast three different times but no one would believe me."
Klass further quotes from a newspaper article written about 17 years later, in which she is quoted as saying "We've seen quite a few since then but we didn't get any pictures, they disappeared too fast."
Klass indictment of "repeater" is based solely on Mrs. Trent's claims as reported in the paper. Assuming the account is accurate, an important detail however, is that Mr. Trent apparently did notagree with his wife. For reasons we can only guess, Klass did not include in his book Mr. Trent's response to the following question (story in the June 11, 1950 L.A. Examiner):
"why [did you wait] so long before telling anyone about [the photos]. Trent admitted he was 'kinda scared of it.' He said: 'You know, you hear so much about those things... I didn't believe all that talk about flying saucers before, but now have an idea the Army knows what they are."
This suggests that Mr. Trent had not seen any UFOs before and was skeptical about flying saucers (hence his wife's claim that "no one would believe me")... until he saw one himself.
One get's into a logical muddle here. If, as Klass believes, there are no saucers and therefore the Trents couldn't have seen one, then Mrs. Trent must have been lying when she said she saw several previously. On the other hand, Mr. Trent was telling the truth about his skepticism, although he could well have supported his wife's claim by saying that he too had seen several even if he really didn't believe they existed.
After all, if its a hoax, he could say anything to support the hoax story. One way to get out of this muddle is to assume that they both told the truth regarding previous sightings (Mrs. Trent had several, Mr. Trent had none and didn't believe in saucers).
Of course, Mrs. Trent previous sightings certainly could have been honest misidentifications... and if this were so then she wasn't really "a repeater" unless you classify a person who repeatedly and honestly misidentifies objects as "a repeater" [Maccabee op. cit., private communication].
When The New York Times exposed the Pentagon’s secret UFO program AATIP, it became known that the US government never stopped investigating UFOs since the Project Bluebook was shut down. Luis Elizondo, the man behind this program has declassified several secrets of the US defense agency that allowed many witnesses from the government itself to speak about their encounters with the phenomenon. Now, for the time on the public platform, someone dares to admit that the Pentagon hired him as a “UFO hunter.”
In an interview on June 21, 2022, with George Knapp on KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Dr. Travis Taylor announced that he served as the head of science for the U.S. government’s UAP Task Force, the entity which analyzed UFO incidents and delivered the June 2021 report to Congress which precipitated the current Congressional UFO action, including a 2021 law establishing a permanent UFO office and a 2022 UFO hearing.
Dr. Travis Taylor has been a popular face in the UFOlogy. He has appeared on popular TV shows such as “Ancient Aliens” and “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” and is one of the world’s best-known UFO hunters.
While serving in this capacity, Dr. Taylor appeared on CBS Sunday Morning in 2021 to analyze UFO videos and comment on the imminent UFO report without disclosing to CBS or to the audience that he was a paid government UFO researcher working on that very report.
Dr. Taylor also works for a defense contractor analyzing UFOs for the federal government. He and his former UAPTF boss both now work for the same contractor.
Mysterywire writes: “As a scientific prodigy, Dr. Taylor earned advanced degrees at a young age and has spent his entire adult life working on classified projects, first for the U.S. Army, then for defense contractors. He wrote a book about how the U.S. government should prepare for alien contact which caught the attention of Jay Stratton, a high-ranking intelligence official who has been involved with each of the Pentagon’s Secretive UFO investigations including AAWSAP, the largest UFO program of all, managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, based at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, funded with $22 million secured by late U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. Stratton worked with AAWSAP, then its successor program AATIP. Later, he took charge of a third effort, the UAP Task Force, long before Congress formally created that team.”
Dr. Taylor was asked by Jay Stratton, the director of the UAP Task Force if he would like to join the task force as the chief scientist. Dr. Taylor unhesitatingly agreed with it. He was involved in writing the final report to Congress summarizing the known evidence about UFOs.
The team created a classified briefing consisting of the most intriguing military encounters, starting with the 2004 Tic Tac incident. The task force whittled down a huge database into 144 of the very best cases. “We picked sources that were, we knew had a chain of custody of the data. And out of those 144 to 143 of them, we still couldn’t figure out what they were, where they came from and what their intent was,” Dr. Taylor said.
He added: “But here’s the thing. A skeptic and a debunker, they take their results by starting from the beginning … by knowing that the result is going to be this. So they change … they take the analysis to lead them in the direction to do that.”
Astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor.
“The data that we had, in many cases, there was more of it than what the general public has and what was released. And so when we say that we had a thing that was from multiple sensors, and it told us multiple things, and we also had eyewitness accounts, audio information, and so on,” Dr. Taylor said.
Dr. Taylor and the task force members were stunned to know that a Navy official told a Congressional hearing last month that all of these were “drones,” as if the mystery has been solved. It was done to disregard the work of the task force.
Fortunately, Dr. Taylor said that they have a lot of sensory data which fails to provide any conclusive information on them. Dr. Taylor went into much greater detail about why the “drone” scenario falls far short of explaining the 2019 UFO encounters. And also why so many UFO videos appear to be fuzzy.
In his interview with George Knapp in May 2022, Dr. Taylor said: “You know, I had never seen a UFO until I got out there. Now, I have seen more UFOs now than you can count.”
In a surprisingly candid and wide-ranging interview, Dr. Taylor shared his opinions about the role of science in the pursuit of the unknown, his personal experiences with strange phenomena on Skinwalker Ranch, the physical effects of close encounter cases, and the mysterious “hitchhiker effect” that multiple UFO/paranormal eyewitnesses have reported.
In his opinion, this unexplained phenomenon can be different for people in regards to their brain activity. Hypothetically speaking, he said that the phenomenon can be connected with different planes in the universe. He added that he could go along with the idea of a portal but was not sure. He believes it is bizarre but there is some truth to it.
The comet responsible for the Perseids, the shooting stars that light up the sky every August, is considered the most dangerous object known to mankind
That shooting stars are not stars is one of those disappointments you have to live with. Although the explanation for why diaspores of light are lit in the August sky year after year, contains endless fascinations, among them, that the comet responsible for the Perseids is considered the most dangerous object known to humanity.
Before giving way to Swift-Tuttle, we must recognize that we owe it that millions of people in the world look at the exhausted summer sky and make their wishes.
Among the wonderful stories that are surely not true (although they should), they say that Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer of the year 1oo AD, was the one who triggered the custom of asking for wishes to the shooting stars.
The shooting star was the sign that the sky was opening, just for a second, and in that time the message could reach the gods of Olympus. For that, the wish had to come true before the star went out.
This is just one of the many, many legends behind the reason why the Perseids gather wishes, dreams of love, glory, and those that allow you to pay the electricity bill (more through the roof than ever).
What is not a legend is that one of the biggest night shows of the year, the Perseids, we don’t owe it to the gods, we owe it to a comet.
Swift–Tuttle
Comet Swift-Tuttle, formally 109P/Swift-Tuttle, is a huge, icy comet in a 133-year orbit around the Sun, and the reason for Earth’s spectacular annual Perseid meteor showers.
Comet Swift-Tuttle has a nucleus 26 km in diameter, two and a half times larger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, and travels four times faster.
The comet responsible for the Perseid meteor shower could hit Earth, causing devastating damage, but in 2,400 years with an impact equivalent to 20 million hydrogen bombs.
Calculations of Comet Swift-Tuttle’s orbit show Earth is ‘100% safe’ for the next 2,000 years. But in the year 4479, its orbit will bring it ‘dangerously close’ to our planet.
The chances of it hitting Earth are extremely low, with a 99.9999% chance of missing. But, a ‘gravitational kick’ from Jupiter could send it hurtling toward Earth.
While the chance of it crashing into Earth is slim, experts say there’s a slim chance its orbit will be offset by a ‘gravitational kick’ from Jupiter, causing an impact with 30 times the energy that killed the dinosaurs. .
If it were to impact, it could trigger the worst mass extinction Earth has seen in hundreds of millions of years.
The comet moves four times faster than the asteroid that caused the extinction of more than 70% of the species in the Cretaceous, the one that hit what is now known as the Yucatan Peninsula, which is considered responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs .
The impact of the comet responsible for the Perseids would release 28 times more energy, the equivalent of the explosion of 20,000,000 hydrogen bombs.
This would mean that the Perseids would stop lighting up the wishes of future humans. Meanwhile, like every year in August, we will enjoy the greatest celestial show of our lives.
There is a long list of astronauts who claimed to have seen strange anomalies while being in outer space and strongly supported UFO phenomena. After returning from Moon, former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced an epiphany that changed his thoughts about the origin of life on Earth and accused the government of hiding the truth.
n February 1971, after the successful completion of the mission, the Apollo 14 crew returned to Earth. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell became the fifth and sixth astronauts to walk on the moon’s surface. While Shepard chose to live in the glory, Mitchell became the main troublemaker for many years.
He publicly accepted the existence of aliens after being on the Moon and stuck to it until his death. He accused the US government of hiding the truth about contact with aliens. Immediately after his return, Mitchell left NASA and immersed himself in studying UFOs, ancient history, and human consciousness.
Edgar Mitchell, 1971.
Image credit: NASA
Later, he explained that during his time in space, he experienced an incomparable mystical experience, and tried to find the answer to the question of what it was in the ancient texts. Eventually, he managed to find a term in Sanskrit to describe his experience, samadhi. Hindus consider it a special state of enlightened and clear consciousness, and Buddhists consider it the last step on the path to nirvana.
“The experience in space was so powerful that when I got back to Earth I started digging into various literatures to try to understand what had happened. I found nothing in science literature but eventually discovered it in the Sanskrit of ancient India. The descriptions of samadhi, Savikalpa samadhi, were exactly what I felt: it is described as seeing things in their separateness, but experiencing them viscerally as a unity, as oneness, accompanied by ecstasy,” Mitchell said. [Source]
Mitchell described it as a feeling of complete dissolution in the infinite universe, accompanied by ecstasy, as well as a clear understanding of the absolute unity of man and the cosmos, which seemed to him an incredibly ancient and intelligent self-regulating system.
In general, Mitchell returned from the Moon as a completely different person. He moved to California, where he co-founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. This non-profit organization was engaged in research, which was skeptical of mainstream science. The institute conducted experiments with yoga, meditation, extrasensory perception, telepathy, telekinesis, etc.
There were rumors about the institute in the 70s and 80s that it was part of the secret Stargate Project that was funded by US military intelligence to study various parapsychological phenomena. Allegedly, Mitchell, taking advantage of the fact that the doors of the highest offices were open to him, almost personally lobbied for the inclusion of his organization in the project. However, in any case, the Stargate was closed due to the lack of any results that were of even potential interest to the army.
But Mitchell’s greatest fame was brought by his scandalous statements about the existence of aliens. He was perhaps the most famous figure who publicly shared such views, so journalists were very willing to interview him, and ufologists and supporters of various conspiracy theories around the world literally idolized the former astronaut and invariably referred to his interviews in their books.
Edgar Mitchell during an Apollo 14 training session in 1970
For example, he claimed that the 1947 Roswell crash incident was a true story. But on the official note, it was the weather balloon crash and video footage of the autopsy of humanoids, allegedly secretly made by army operators, was determined to be fake.
However, Mitchell grew up in the small town of Artesia, a few miles from the very Roswell airbase where the crash allegedly occurred. The astronaut claimed that many of his neighbors, acquaintances, and friends worked at this base, and what he heard from them is enough for him to consider the Roswell incident a real UFO crash. Mitchell did not disclose the names of his informants, referring to the fact that they all signed a non-disclosure agreement and he did not want them to have problems.
Mitchell claimed that he used all his connections to find out anything about the UFO phenomenon that had occupied him since the early 70s, and eventually, he found people at the highest rank who shared information with him.
According to Mitchell, he once had a confidential conversation with a Navy admiral, who secretly told him that in fact, the aliens had established contact with the government back in the early 1940s. They were interested in earthly weapons, primarily the atomic bomb. At the very beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA, aliens often came to Earth because they feared nuclear war and tried to influence the world elites in some way.
In another interview, Mitchell claimed that his words were distorted by journalists. The admiral did tell him that the government had been aware of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence since the early 1940s and was covering up authenticated UFO sightings. However, he never spoke of any interference in political affairs. He did not give the names of his high-ranking informant from the Navy, so as not to substitute him.
According to Mitchell, there is a well-organized group in the highest US government circles whose goal is to stop any leaks about the UFO phenomenon. At the same time, he himself categorically denied that he had ever seen extraterrestrial beings.
From time to time, fake interviews of Mitchell appeared on various sites devoted to conspiracy theories, in which he allegedly said that he had personally observed flying saucers and almost dined with humanoids. In official interviews, Mitchell vehemently denied these rumors, claiming that he had never seen any humanoids or UFOs, but was sure of their existence.
In 2016, Wikileaks revealed thousands of emails that were allegedly linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The emails unfolded secret information shared with Podesta about UFOs and ETs.
In 2015, Podesta received emails from Mitchell that expressed his concern about the weaponization of space and its impact on the ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence). Despite the fact that aliens might be violent as shown in the various sci-fi, the notable astronaut called them nonviolent in his email.
In January 2015, he sent an email to Podesta, asking him to have an urgent meeting to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy (ZPE). He was concerned about the peace in space.
Terri with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, ScD, 2011 inductee honoree in the Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking
Mitchell wrote: “My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will be there too, to bring us up to date on the Vatican’s awareness of ETI. Another colleague is working on a new Space Treaty, citing involvement with Russia and China. However, with Russia’s extreme interference in Ukraine, I believe we must pursue another route for peace in space and ZPE on Earth.”
Mitchell emailed Podesta again on September 18, 2015. He wrote: “Because the War in Space race is heating up, I felt you should be aware of several factors as you and I schedule our Skype talk. Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.”
It was confirmed by one of Mitchell’s collaborators that the meeting between Podesta and him never took place. He died in February 2016 at the age of 85, just a few days short of the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 return to Earth, the mission that changed his life forever.
US Military Wants Elon Musk to Drop Soldiers Into Battlefields from Space
US Military Wants Elon Musk to Drop Soldiers Into Battlefields from Space
The Pentagon is collaborating with Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to investigate the possibility of using the company’s rockets to drop troops and equipment into global flashpoints.
USTRANSCOM is one of the military’s unified combatant commands. It provides for the military’s transportation needs, and heavily relies on commercial infrastructure and technologies to carry out its mission of projecting and sustaining military power.
There is a growing trend among military projects to tap commercial-first space technologies in order to convert them to military use at a much smaller cost than if the military were to research and develop its own technologies from the ground up.
Among the hoped-for outcomes of the research agreement is a rocket-based “quick reaction force,” which would place troops or equipment anywhere in the world on short notice by leveraging SpaceX’s Starship, a fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle that is currently in development, reports zerohedge.
Fear begins to arise on the ranch as a team member must be taken to the emergency room after passing out, in this clip from Season 3, “Full Metal Mesa.”
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance snapped this photo of a balancing boulder and snake-head rock on June 12, 2022, using its Mastcam-Z camera system.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has been hard at work snapping pictures of oddities found on the surface of the red planet, and its finds are sending alien conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
Since Perseverance landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it has been exploring the Jezero Crater area, which was created by the impact of an ancient meteorite. This location was selected because more than 3.5 billion years ago, scientists believe that a lake once filled the crater and may have been home to microbial life.
“There is evidence of ancient river flow into Jezero, forming a delta that has long since been dry,” according to NASA, which has tasked Perseverance with finding signs of past life in the primordial lakebed.
But some internet denizens believe that life on Mars is not as ancient or microbial as scientists assert after Perseverance sent back a picture of a precariously balanced rock on top of a boulder on the uninhabited planet.
The rock is about the size of a bowling ball, according to Yahoo! News, and was found in Hogwallow Flats, an area that sounds like it was plucked straight from a Harry Potter book.
The find was posted to Perseverance’s social media pages on June 16 along with additional photos of the area. The mighty robot said its team back on Earth was “happy as pigs in mud(stone)!”
It cheekily didn’t mention the eerie balancing rock that was shared in a subsequent post, simply saying that the photos mean there are “Tons of potential targets for study.”
The lack of an explanation for the balancing rock left a vacuum for alien conspiracy theorists to purport that perhaps Martians are playing an elaborate prank on us.
“Aliens are playing tricks on us… I tell you,” one Facebook user wrote in response to the balancing rock. “They are certainly hiding in Mars.”
Another Facebook user pegged the rock as a “Martian basketball.”
One Twitter user pointed out that a formation next to the balancing rock resembled the head of a snake. Others thought it looked more like a turtle.
Geology enthusiasts, though, were quick to point out that the balancing rock formation may be a result of weathering and wind erosion. They posit that the rock isn’t “balancing” on the boulder per se, but may be attached at the bottom.
Balancing rock formations can be found in a number of parks across our planet, including Arches National Park in Utah and St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia, and are usually the result of erosion or retreating glaciers.
One Facebook user wasn’t convinced by this explanation, writing, “What I find odd about the balancing rock is all the other rocks in the area (are) sharp edged and flat. How is that the only round rock?”
Gizmodo, an outlet that covers technology and science, reached out to NASA to ask about the balancing rock and the agency said it was likely a PBR (a Precariously Balanced Rock).
“Often a balancing rock is in fact connected to the larger underlying rock by a stem or pedestal,” NASA wrote. “The Martian balancing rock … was most likely formed after extensive aeolian (wind) and/or chemical erosion carved it out from the local bedrock.”
NASA says that the presence of these formations on Mars can help us glean information about the area’s seismic history, writing that PBRs “have been called “reverse seismometers” because the existence of PBRs makes it possible to measure earthquakes/marsquakes that didn’t happen.”
“If these rocks are still balanced, then the ground hasn’t moved enough to knock them over,” NASA added.
Just one day before this find was posted, Perseverance shared images of what appeared to be a piece of silver foil on the barren planet.
How did this piece of human trash appear on Mars, which is about 200 million kilometres away from Earth?
NASA was immediately ready with an explanation that time, saying the agency believes it was a piece of a thermal blanket that was used during Perseverance’s landing to protect the robot from extreme temperatures.
The balancing rock isn’t the only strange rock formation to be found on Mars.
Last month, NASA’s Curiosity Rover snapped an image of what looked like a doorway leading into a rock face. The opening is estimated to be about 30 centimetres tall and 40 centimetres wide, making it approximately the size of a dog door.
According to the legendary Montauk Project whistleblower, Al Bielek, the US first discovered time travel technology in 1936 and was given assistance from the future to win World War II. Bielek’s startling information provides an answer to a common question concerning extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs, “how did Nazi Germany lose the war if they were receiving technological assistance from Draco Reptilians”, as claimed by secret space program insiders such as William Tompkins in his Selected by Extraterrestrials book series?
On April 20, 2000, Bielek recorded video testimony of his involvement in the famous Philadelphia Experiment and US classified research into time travel. During his recording, he described how time travel technology was discovered by accident in 1936. A submerged Atlantean crystal was discovered by the US Navy drilling ship, Kearsarge (AB-1) in the Bermuda Triangle area of the Atlantic Ocean.
After disappearing for two months due to the Atlantean crystal’s activation, the Kearsarge returned with its crew intact to share the incredible news that they had traveled into the future. Future humans had given them detailed instructions for how to develop time travel technology, which would be vital for success in the coming World War.
After two years of experimentation and calibration, the time travel technology was ready for use according to Bielek’s sources. The time travel technology was subsequently used to gain advanced weapons from the future that were used in World War II. In the following extract from Bielek’s April 20, 2000, video recording, he explained what he had learned about the use of time travel technology during World War II:
The stories I ran into and the information I had which partly came out of Los Alamos Laboratory’s Black Vault, as did so much other things, was they found out how to calibrate it. They were able to use the Kearsarge and later a number of other ships similarly outfitted with the appropriate equipment for time travel into the future, and this allegedly according to my information became essential to the winning of World War Two against Nazi Germany.
We had to pull some hardware out of the future modify, a few things, and even if you look at the end of the war wherein we dropped a plutonium bomb, as well as a standard uranium gun barrel type bomb on Japan, so when Hiroshima was on the uranium gun barrel bomb and the one in Nagasaki by public statement wasn’t a plutonium bomb. One has to ask some very serious questions since in the record of the development of the atomic bomb these tests to Trinity Flats was stated in the manuals and they declassified that information to be a plutonium bomb, and that it took all of the production of plutonium out of Hanford engineering works for over a year to produce enough plutonium of bomb grade they could use to test a bomb.
They were so concerned about whether it would work or not because they implied previous failures, which was true. They put a steel, very heavy steel shell around the bomb in case it fails [so] that they wouldn’t lose the plutonium, they could salvage it. Of course, it did happen that that particular device exploded quite well, left a nice glassy plating on the desert floor and was seen for many many miles. That took all of the plutonium that we had produced up to that time. How did we within one month get enough plutonium to build a bomb and drop it on Nagasaki? That has never been answered, and I think the answer lies in the fact that we had time travel capability and took some of the plutonium production out of the future where in the 80s and 90s and 70s even, we were able to produce it in rather large amounts relatively speaking.
The Russians over 40 years from one of their secret cities that built up a stockpile of 40 tons of bomb grade plutonium they don’t know what to do with and they’re still producing it. So it’s not that difficult to produce once you have the proper facilities other than that one specific instance. I’m told there were other instances of time travel being used to produce hardware in the future that is our era let us say the 80s to be used during the period of World War Two. The bottom line was we militarily defeated Hitler and the Axis powers in Japan and the world settled back to uneasy peace.[1:24:52]
Bielek’s incredible testimony is supported by historical events. The US Kearsange (AB-1) was a drilling ship that was active up to 1940 so it’s feasible that it was involved in the discovery of ancient Atlantean technology buried in the Bermuda Triangle area of the Atlantic Ocean. Also, the entire secrecy over the development of the Manhattan Project raises many questions over how two distinct types of atomic bombs could be developed and deployed only days apart to bring the Pacific war to a quick end.
Additionally, the Philadelphia Experiment, which multiple researchers have confirmed as genuine, appears to be an off-shoot of time travel research involving Navy ships that can be traced back to the Kearsarge incident. Finally, Bielek’s involvement with the Montauk Project (1971-1983) which also conducted time travel experiments does support his claim of having had access to highly classified material at various facilities, including the alleged Black Vault at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Bielek’s testimony supports claims that World War II was not only a Temporal War between different extraterrestrial factions, as I’ve discussed previously, but also involved future humanity. In fact, Bielek claims that he was sent to the future and witnessed first-hand future humans operating in 2137 and 2749 AD., and why they wanted Bielek to help them change future timelines.
In my upcoming webinar, Time Travel, Temporal War and our Future, I will investigate Bielek’s incredible time travel claims and contrast these with information from other insiders, researchers and experiencers concerning the Philadelphia Experiment, Montauk Project, Project Pegasus, Wingmakers, and Romania’s Department Zero conducting research into the Bucegi Mountains discoveries.
Bielek’s testimony, along with the testimony and documents provided by others concerning time travel technology, supports claims that future humanity has played a critical role in influencing past events in our history such as World War II. Most importantly, time travelers from our future, along with highly evolved extraterrestrial civilizations, are here today to assist us in revealing long suppressed knowledge, and transforming our world.
Mysterious 'blue blobs' reveal a new kind of star system
Mysterious 'blue blobs' reveal a new kind of star system
by Mikayla Mace Kelle for UA News Tucson AZ (SPX)
UArizona astronomers have identified a new class of star system. The collection of mostly young blue stars are seen here using the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys.
University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation.
The new stellar systems contain only young, blue stars, which are distributed in an irregular pattern and seem to exist in surprising isolation from any potential parent galaxy.
The stellar systems - which astronomers say appear through a telescope as "blue blobs" and are about the size of tiny dwarf galaxies - are located within the relatively nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. The five systems are separated from any potential parent galaxies by over 300,000 light years in some cases, making it challenging to identify their origins.
The astronomers found the new systems after another research group, led by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy's Elizabeth Adams, compiled a catalog of nearby gas clouds, providing a list of potential sites of new galaxies. Once that catalog was published, several research groups, including one led by UArizona associate astronomy professor David Sand, started looking for stars that could be associated with those gas clouds.
The gas clouds were thought to be associated with our own galaxy, and most of them probably are, but when the first collection of stars, called SECCO1, was discovered, astronomers realized that it was not near the Milky Way at all, but rather in the Virgo cluster, which is much farther away but still very nearby in the scale of the universe.
SECCO1 was one of the very unusual "blue blobs," said Michael Jones, a postdoctoral fellow in the UArizona Steward Observatory and lead author of a study that describes the new stellar systems. Jones presented the findings, which Sand co-authored, during the 240th American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California, Wednesday.
"It's a lesson in the unexpected," Jones said. "When you're looking for things, you're not necessarily going to find the thing you're looking for, but you might find something else very interesting."
The team obtained their observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico and the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Study co-author Michele Bellazzini, with the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy, led the analysis of the data from Very Large Telescope and has submitted a companion paper focusing on that data.
Together, the team learned that most of the stars in each system are very blue and very young and that they contain very little atomic hydrogen gas. This is significant because star formation begins with atomic hydrogen gas, which eventually evolves into dense clouds of molecular hydrogen gas before forming into stars.
"We observed that most of the systems lack atomic gas, but that doesn't mean there isn't molecular gas," Jones said. "In fact, there must be some molecular gas because they are still forming stars. The existence of mostly young stars and little gas signals that these systems must have lost their gas recently."
The combination of blue stars and lack of gas was unexpected, as was a lack of older stars in the systems. Most galaxies have older stars, which astronomers refer to as being "red and dead."
"Stars that are born red are lower mass and therefore live longer than blue stars, which burn fast and die young, so old red stars are usually the last ones left living," Jones said. "And they're dead because they don't have any more gas with which to form new stars. These blue stars are like an oasis in the desert, basically."
The fact that the new stellar systems are abundant in metals hints at how they might have formed.
"To astronomers, metals are any element heavier than helium," Jones said. "This tells us that these stellar systems formed from gas that was stripped from a big galaxy, because how metals are built up is by many repeated episodes of star formation, and you only really get that in a big galaxy."
There are two main ways gas can be stripped from a galaxy. The first is tidal stripping, which occurs when two big galaxies pass by each other and gravitationally tear away gas and stars.
The other is what's known as ram pressure stripping.
"This is like if you belly flop into a swimming pool," Jones said. "When a galaxy belly flops into a cluster that is full of hot gas, then its gas gets forced out behind it. That's the mechanism that we think we're seeing here to create these objects."
The team prefers the ram pressure stripping explanation because in order for the blue blobs to have become as isolated as they are, they must have been moving very quickly, and the speed of tidal stripping is low compared to ram pressure stripping.
Astronomers expect that one day these systems will eventually split off into individual clusters of stars and spread out across the larger galaxy cluster.
What researchers have learned feeds into the larger "story of recycling of gas and stars in the universe," Sand said. "We think that this belly flopping process changes a lot of spiral galaxies into elliptical galaxies on some level, so learning more about the general process teaches us more about galaxy formation."
De blauwe blobs zijn geen lang leven beschoren, maar spectaculair zijn ze wel. Wetenschappers ontdekten maar liefst vijf sterrenstelsels met deze jonge blauwe sterren.
Wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Arizona stellen dat de blauwe sterrenstelsels wezenlijk anders zijn dan de tot nu toe bekende soorten. Ze zitten vol met jonge, blauwe sterren en liggen verrassend ver weg van andere sterrenstelsels.
De geïsoleerde ‘blauwe blobs’, zoals astronomen ze liefkozend noemen, zijn relatief klein. De vijf sterrennevels hebben het formaat van een klein dwergsysteem en liggen in het Virgocluster. Potentiële buren zijn meer dan 300.000 lichtjaren ver weg, waardoor het lastig is om erachter te komen hoe ze zijn ontstaan.
Nederlandse ontdekking De ontdekking werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door het Nederlands instituut voor radioastronomie (ASTRON). Onder leiding van onderzoeker Elizabeth Adams is een schat aan informatie verkregen over gaswolken – de geboorteplaatsen van sterren – in het heelal. Met behulp van deze data is een lijst gemaakt van potentiële nieuwe sterrenstelsels en de locatie daarvan. Nadat deze ASTRON-catalogus was gepubliceerd, gingen verschillende onderzoeksgroepen met de data aan de haal. David Sand, professor astronomie aan de Universiteit van Arizona ging met zijn team bijvoorbeeld op zoek naar bijzondere sterren in deze interstellaire gaswolken.
Sand dacht te kijken naar gaswolken in ons eigen Melkwegstelsel, maar sommige sterrenclusters, zoals SECCO1, bleken helemaal niet hier om de hoek gelokaliseerd te zijn. Tot hun verrassing bevonden de mysterieuze blauwe nevels zich veel verderop in het Virgocluster.
“SECCO1 is een hele aparte blauwe bubbel”, zegt Michael Jones, deskundige op het gebied van jonge sterrenstelsels van de Steward Observatory in Arizona. “In ons vak is het belangrijk om open-minded te zijn. Verwacht het onverwachte. Als je op onderzoek uitgaat, vind je niet altijd waar je naar op zoek was. Soms stuit je juist op iets totaal anders, wat enorm interessant blijkt.” Dat bleek in dit geval zo te zijn.
H1 en H2 Het team analyseerde data van de Hubble en de grote ruimtetelescopen van New Mexico en Chili. Samen kwamen ze tot de conclusie dat de meeste sterren in deze nieuwe stelsels erg jong en erg blauw zijn. Bijzonder is ook dat er bijna geen atomair waterstofgas (H1) aanwezig is in de sterren. Dit is fascinerend, omdat een ster normaal gesproken wordt gevormd onder invloed van atomaire waterstof. Dit wordt langzaam omgezet in dikke wolken moleculair waterstofgas (H2), voordat de ster zijn vorm krijgt. “We zien dat deze stelsels nauwelijks atomaire waterstof bevatten, maar dat betekent niet dat het niet aanwezig is. Dit moet wel, aangezien er nog steeds sterren worden gevormd. Het bestaan van de jonge sterren en het weinige gas betekent dat ze kort geleden hun gas hebben verloren”, aldus Jones.
“Rode sterren hebben een kleinere massa en leven daardoor langer dan blauwe sterren. Die branden hard en gaan snel dood. Rode sterren vervagen, blauwe sterren jakkeren in hoog tempo alle brandstof erdoorheen, zodat ze geen gas hebben voor de vorming van nieuwe sterren. Het zijn een soort oases in de woestijn”, zo legt Jones de verschillen uit tussen de twee stersoorten.
Het lijkt erop dat de blauwe sterrenstelsels hun brandstof, bestaande uit moleculaire gaswolken, hebben afgesnoept van andere sterrenstelsels. Aangezien de dichtstbijzijnde stelsels honderdduizenden lichtjaren verderop liggen, is dat waarschijnlijk met een flinke klap en veel snelheid gepaard gegaan.
Twee manieren om gas te stelen Er zijn twee manieren waarop een sterrenstelsel gas kan stelen van een ander stelsel:
Tidal-stripping: Het strippen door middel van getijdenkrachten gebeurt wanneer twee grote stelsels langs elkaar schuren. Onder invloed van de zwaartekracht worden gaswolken en sterren uitgewisseld.
Ram-pressure-stripping: Hierbij botst een sterrenstelsel op een ander stelsel. Met veel geweld worden gaswolken naar buiten gedwongen. Deze materie sluit dan aan bij het andere stelsel. Het is te vergelijken met een ‘bommetje maken’ in het zwembad.
Bij de blauwe bubbels in het Virgo-cluster lijkt sprake te zijn van een intergalactisch ‘bommetje’. De hoge snelheid waarbij het ene stelsel op het andere invliegt, is kenmerkend voor ram-pressure-stripping. Dit verklaart de enorm geïsoleerde ligging van de stelsels.
A team at the University of Arizona is proposing a concept that just might save us from extinction: a 21st-century version of Noah’s Ark on the moon. This ark wouldn’t contain two of every animal, but rather a repository ofcryogenically frozen reproductive cells from 6.7 million species on our planet.
Consider it a global insurance policy, says Jekan Thanga, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Arizona’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and the project’s mastermind. “As a human civilization, we’re in a fragile state,” he says. And such a shelter could come to fruition in the next three decades, he adds.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, an Earth-bound version of the lunar ark, opened in 2008 and currently contains more than 1 million crop seed samples, including staples like rice, wheat, and barley. It’s a somewhat appropriate analog for the lunar ark, but storing 6.7 million gametes, spores, and seeds isn’t the same on the moon as it is on Earth; there are the added challenges of microgravity, radiation levels roughly 200 times those on Earth, and wildly fluctuating temperatures.
With that in mind, Thanga’s team plans to install the lunar ark inside the moon’s extensive network of over 200 lava tubes just beneath its rocky surface. These tunnel-like structures are an ideal home because they insulate the facility from harsh conditions in much the same way that Svalbard’s storage facility, built deep inside a mountain, provides protection from the elements here on Earth.
The lunar ark sounds like a setting for a sci-fi novel, but Thanga says the possibility for such a shelter is very real—and it could come to fruition in the next three decades.
The team wants to first send a mission called SphereX (not to be confused with NASA’s Earth-orbiting SPHEREx mission) to explore the lunar lava tubes and collect lunar regolith (loose rock and dirt). A team of robots would deploy from a nearby lander, hop or fly into the tubes, and then form a relay, transferring images and data back to the lander. SphereX could teach researchers about the lava tubes’ layout, temperature, and geological makeup, to guide the design process for what would be the first structure built on the moon.
“What we envision is taking one of the existing pits—just the opening into the lava tube—and installing an elevator shaft,” Thanga says. From there, the elevator shafts would function as the entry and exit to a series of 32 cryopreservation modules. These upright cylinders, stacked in 16 rows, would preserve the reproductive cells. Robots or astronauts would be able to check samples in petri dishes in and out, “like a library,” Thanga says.
The storage modules would need cryogenic coolers to maintain the cells at the right temperatures: –292 degrees Fahrenheit for reproductive cells, and –320 degrees Fahrenheit for stem cells. And they would require a spinning apparatus that uses centrifugal force to keep the freezers in motion and prevent the cells from clumping together and building up cold spots. “The setup would be similar to a carousel shelving unit with music CDs packed into a circle,” Thanga says.
Meanwhile, robots connected to a magnetic strip (to simulate Earth’s gravity) could remove the samples from their modules and transport them to an analysis lab, periodically checking to see if the seeds and sex cells are stable.
There’s evidence to suggest that the samples would remain viable despite the radiation and microgravity. In 2010, researchers at the Slovak Academy of Sciences found that flax plants could grow in radioactive soil near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant with minimal changes to the plant’s proteins. And this June, scientists in Japan produced 168 healthy mice offspring from sperm cells that had been in storage aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly six years.
Thanga says that private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, which continue to drive down the cost of space launches, further bolster the likelihood of establishing a lunar ark. With some back-of-the-envelope calculations, Thanga estimates it would take 250 rocket launches to carry 50 specimens each of the 6.7 million species his team wants to preserve on the lunar ark. To put that into context, it took 40 launches to build out the ISS, the most expensive structure ever created.
Thanga’s team is currently planning an experiment that will send two cryopreservation pouches into space. Each will contain 500 samples from one animal species—50 individual samples are the bare minimum to prevent inbreeding in the short-term, while 500 individuals are required to prevent genetic drift. Ideally, the system will demonstrate successful cryopreservation for five to seven days in-orbit before returning to Earth to see if the samples survived.
Moon Construction 101
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Building out the lunar ark will be an expensive endeavor, considering it costs about $700 to put a one-pound payload into Earth’s orbit, according to NASA. That’s why scientists want to avoid lugging cement into space; instead looking for ways to use moon rocks, says Sven G. Bilén, Ph.D., professor of engineering design, electrical engineering, and aerospace engineering at Pennsylvania State University.
“The regolith that’s on the moon is a very, very challenging regolith to work with, because it’s essentially these tiny little razor blades, they’re very jagged and sharp, they’ve never had a geological process to form them,” says Bilén, who is not involved in the lunar ark project. So, building this kind of complex would likely require an entire moon-rock mining operation, as well as a processing center where operators could melt the rocks down into a flowable cement.
In this age of exploration a lot of attention has been paid to what lies out beyond our planet and what swims about in the darkest depths of our unexplored seas, but an area that seems to get significantly less attention is the world that lies locked down in the never-ending black night below us. Here caves and caverns stretch out and meander over vast distances, sometimes harboring new discoveries beyond our wildest dreams. Yet the most bizarre and baffling supposed accounts of the deep places of the earth are those concerning strange, unknown civilizations long gone, who are claimed to have dwelled within the earth and that remain lost and unconfirmed.
One of the most seemingly absurd claims of such an underground civilization was detailed in a 1956 bestselling book called The Third Eye, which is an allegedly autobiographical account by a man named Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, outlining his experiences at Chakpori Lamasery, in Tibet. Among the wealth of strangeness in the book, such as Rampa’s operation to drill a hole in his head to release mysterious mental powers, the titular Third Eye, and the strange discovery of his own mummified body from a previous incarnation, there is his curious account of finding a vast subterranean world crafted by inscrutable entities under the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Here beneath the palace of the Dali Llama, he joined a priest to explore a system of caves whose walls were adorned with strange symbols and drawings by unknown hands. Following one tunnel down into the darkness, Rampa claimed to have come across a vast cavern with an underground lake and a ceiling so high he could not discern its height as the light did not reach all the way up the soaring chasm above.
Here the walls held mysterious geometric diagrams and diagrams, as well as pictures of giants and machines the likes of which he had never imagined, along with inscrutable writing in some puzzling alien language. They then took a side passageway that wound off and purportedly came to an area with a “black house,” within which were ensconced three sarcophagi apparently made of a smooth black stone similar to obsidian and which were covered with an array of strange symbols and what looked to be a star map of some kind. Within these were the bodies of strange giant beings, which the priest who had accompanied him explained as being the bodies of ancient “gods,” who had come to their world eons before. Rampa would say of these bodies:
I looked again, fascinated and awed. Three gold figures, nude, lay before us. Two male and one female. Every line, every mark faithfully reproduced by the gold. But the size! The female was quite ten feet long as she lay, and the larger of the two males was not under fifteen feet. Their heads were large and somewhat conical at the top. The jaws were narrow, with a small, thin-lipped mouth. The nose was long and thin, while the eyes were straight and deeply recessed. No dead figures, these-they looked asleep.
Things got perhaps even more bizarre yet as they continued their journey through the complex spider web of dank caverns, tunnels, and passageways. Within the oppressive gloom here below the earth Rampa claimed that they came across fantastical creatures the likes of which he had never seen skittering about, as well as a brightly lit room hidden behind a sliding wall panel, which held an array of strange dormant machines with inscrutable purposes he could not fathom. When this tour was finished, Rampa claimed that he had then gained the new ability to look through time, and that he saw visions of the ancient ages when these enigmatic giants he has seen had ruled the earth. As incredible as all of this talk of an ancient race of subterranean giants sounds, it is impossible to verify any of this, no evidence has ever been brought forward other than this account, and there has actually been much debate as to Rampa’s true identity or whether this was all a hoax. We may never know.
Tales of ancient races of enormous stature inhabiting the deep dark places of our world are actually rather numerous, and another tale of subterranean giants comes from the state of Missouri, in the United States. In 1885, the New York Times ran a truly astounding story of an ancient underground city that had been found at a depth of 360 feet during the digging of a shaft for a coal mine near Moberly in Randolph County, Missouri. Two men, a David Coates and Mr. George Keating, then delved down into the depths of the shaft to explore what had been discovered down below, and they would later claim that they had come across an immense underground city which was described as follows:
A hard and thick stratum of lava arches in the buried city, the streets of which are regularly laid out and enclosed by walls of stone, which is cut and dressed in a fairly good, although rude style of masonry. A hall 30 by 100 feet was discovered with stone benches and tools of all descriptions for mechanical service. Further search disclosed statues and images made of a composition closely resembling bronze, lacking luster. A stone fountain was found, situated in a wide court or street, and from it a stream of perfectly pure water was flowing, which was found to be strongly impregnated with lime.
This is already a fairly bizarre thing to find underground in Missouri, but within the nearly impenetrable murk of these corridors the two men claimed to have found the actual remains of the city’s denizens, which had apparently been there in the dark undisturbed for millennia, and were described as being true giants far larger than a normal human being. The bizarre remains were described:
The bones of the leg measured, the femur four and one-half feet, the tibia four feet and three inches, showing that when alive the figure was three times the size of an ordinary man, and possessed of a wonderful muscular power and quickness. The head bones had separated in two places, the sagittal and the coronal suturis having been destroyed. The implements found embrace bronze and flint knives, stone and granite hammers, metallic saws of rude workmanship, but proved metal, and others of similar character, they are no so highly polished, nor so accurately made as those now finished by our best mechanics, but they show skill and an evidence of an advanced civilization that are positively wonderful.
Frustratingly, the article mentions that a follow-up excursion would be launched, but then there is no other word on the alleged discovery. Unbelievably, this ancient underground city of giants in North America was just sort of forgotten in the mists of time. Why should this be? Of course there is the very real possibility that this was a fictionalized fake news story, which were unfortunately rather common in the day, but there have been rumors that the phenomenal discovery was covered-up, perhaps by the Smithsonian. This would be yet another conspiracy painting the Smithsonian as a shadowy organization bent on obfuscating and burying bizarre archeological finds, and if so what happened to those gargantuan bones? No one knows, it was never mentioned again, and the lost underground city of Missouri remains just another weird historical oddity.
The idea of such underground giants can be perhaps best be linked to the Hollow Earth Theory, which more or less states that within our planet rather than layers of rock, crusts, and magma is a lush world full of life and even with its own miniature sun, all of which sits deep within the hollow crust that we walk upon. The idea can trace its roots back to the 17th century, when Edmund Halley proposed in 1692 that the earth consisted of a series of spherical shells that all orbited one another around a hollow core, an idea which he concocted in an effort to explain various mysterious discrepancies in compass readings. Within each of these shells, he theorized, could be areas that were capable of harboring life and even civilization.
The idea caught on, and underwent a sort of evolution, undergoing various additions and iterations until it was no longer a series of layered shells, but simply one vast world lying within a hollow space below us. Indeed, in those days the theory gained such popularity that it was accepted as fact by many, and was even believed by those within the scientific community of the time. The idea that there were two major entrances to this underground realm, located at the North and South Poles, was pursued by some expeditions, the most famous being that of a John Cleves Symmes, Jr. in 1822, who remained a vocal, outspoken proponent of the concept and was thoroughly convinced of the theory's validity up to his death. Although eventually the concept of a Hollow Earth fell out of favor, it has nevertheless been held onto by stubborn believers all the way up to the present day, and there are a surprising number of books and websites devoted to trying to gain credence for it.
Although there are many offshoots of the basic core theory of a hollow Earth, an interesting common detail of many of these ideas is that the animals and people who dwell there are larger than those who inhabit the earth above. The giant people of these civilizations are often described as being the ancestors of ancient peoples, and as being highly advanced, with the technology to tunnel up through the ground where their dwellings and evidence of their existence can be detected by us. According to Hollow Earth “truthers,” these stories of ancient subterranean civilizations and giants can be seen as evidence of their far-out ideology.
64 Radio Telescopes Come Together to act as a Single Giant Observatory
64 Radio Telescopes Come Together to act as a Single Giant Observatory
Located in the Northern Cape of South Africa, the MeerKAT telescope consists of 64 powerful radio antennas dedicated to probing the mysteries of the Universe. This facility is a precursor to the futureSquare Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), which will consist of MeerKAT and the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) in South Africa and the Australian SKA Pathfinder(ASKAP) and Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia. A primary aim of the SKAO is to understand the matter content of the Universe and what mechanisms are driving its evolution and expansion.
The best way to do this is to observe the structure of the Universe on the largest of scales, where astronomers can observe the distribution of galaxies, the nature of gravity, and the role of dark matter and dark energy. To this end, an international team of astronomers has combined the power of MeetKAT’s 64 radio telescopes to detect faint signatures of neutral hydrogen gas across cosmological scales. The resulting accuracy and sensitivity provide a demonstration of what the SKAO will be able to achieve in the near future.
A ‘radio color’ view of the sky above the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope. Credit: Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin), GLEAM Team; ICRAR/Dr. John Goldsmith/Celestial Visions
Radio telescopes are immensely valuable when it comes to cosmology, which is the study of the origin, evolution, and future of the Universe. In particular, radio telescopes can detect radiation at wavelengths of 21 cm, a part of the radio spectrum generated by neutral hydrogen. As the most abundant element in the Universe today, analyzing it in three dimensions allows astronomers to map the total distribution of matter in the Universe. It also permeated the cosmos a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies were only beginning to form.
Because of the lack of visible light in this period, astronomers know it as the “Cosmic Dark Ages,” which was dispelled about 1 billion years after the Big Bang by the earliest galaxies. The study of neutral hydrogen at 21cm wavelength will, therefore, allow astronomers to pierce the veil of the “Dark Ages” and watch as the galaxies we observe today first come together. To accomplish this feat, astronomers need radio antennas that combine immense power and sensitivity that can consistently monitor large sections of the night sky over time.
This is the purpose behind the SKAO, a next-generation array headquartered at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, England. While it is still under construction, observatories like MeerKAT are known as “precursor facilities” that guide the SKAO’s design. By combining its 64 arrays into a single-dish mode, MeerKAT will henceforth operate as an interferometer, where different arrays combine light from distant sources, acting as one giant telescope that can produce images with much higher resolution. As Cunnington explained in a recent release from the University of Manchester:
“However, the interferometer will not be sensitive enough to the largest scales most interesting for cosmologists studying the Universe. Therefore, we instead use the array as a collection of 64 individual telescopes which allows them to map the giant volumes of sky required for cosmology.”
Composite image of the SKA combining all elements in South Africa and Australia.
Credit: SKAO
As they indicate in their paper, the new single-dish mode allowed the international team to create radio intensity maps on a clustering of galaxies recently studied by the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey – an optical survey of galaxies performed by the Anglo-Australian Telescope between 2006 and 2011. By combining the data, they found a strong statistical correlation between the radio maps and the positions of the galaxies surveyed, which demonstrated the MeerKAT’s ability to detect the large-scale cosmic structure and trace the overall matter of the Universe.
In addition to being the first instance where such detections were made using a multi-dish array (operating as individual telescopes), these findings also represent an important milestone in the development of the SKAO. As Cunnington revealed:
“This detection was made with just a small amount of pilot survey data. It’s encouraging to imagine what will be achieved as MeerKAT continues to make increasingly larger observations. For many years I have worked towards forecasting the future capability of the SKAO. To now reach a stage where we are developing the tools we will need and demonstrating their success with real data is incredibly exciting. This only marks the beginning of what we hope will be a continuous showcase of results which advances our understanding of the Universe.”
Dark Triangle Over Fort Myers, Florida June 18, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Triangle Over Fort Myers, Florida June 18, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 18, 2022
Location of sighting: Fort Myers, Florida, USA
A dark triangle craft was seen a few days ago near the ocean area of Fort Myers, Florida. The area is right along side the Gulf of Mexico where many UFOs have been seen over the past few decades. The water is dark and deep, perfect for aliens to have a base below the ocean floor. The circle in the center of the craft is the hump or clear area of the pilot. Undeniable proof that aliens exist and are watching us closely.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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Eyewitness states:
Noticed a UFO in the sky. It did not have any characteristics of a plane, drone, or balloon. The UFO was flying directly over my apartment complex and was turning bright red/orange and then darkened and then was red/orange again. No sound was heard from the object and I have never seen an object like this one in the sky. After being shocked with what I saw, I almost forgot to try and record the UFO. I grabbed my phone and quickly recorded to the best of my ability while the UFO was flying across the sky.
Triangle Over Las Vegas, Nevada On June 10, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Triangle Over Las Vegas, Nevada On June 10, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 10, 2022
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Source: MUFON
Hey all this just in. An eyewitness in Las Vegas caught sighting of a whitish UFO over the city. Similar white UFOs have been seen coming and going from Nellis Air Force Base, where Charles Hall spoke about working with the Tall White aliens. Tall Whites were given a part of US land on the USAF area. The alien base is located behind the old firing range (Area S4)...the same location where I recorded a silver disk on the runway on Google Earth map. This is 100% proof that the Tall White base exists.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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Eyewitness states:
Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 123030 Looked out if my hotel window and saw a glowing triangle shaped object traverse across the sky for more than 30 mins.
Two fighter jets chasing a UFO over Mount Desert Island in Maine
Two fighter jets chasing a UFO over Mount Desert Island in Maine
Fighter jets chasing UFO over Mount Desert Island In Maine on June 20, 2022.
In this short clip we can see two fighter jets chasing a tic tac UFO just before the camera goes out of focus and the object and jets enter the clouds.
I asked the witness if there was an air show and he replied "There was no air show, I heard the planes and looked up, my daughter saw them first."
Two Fighter Jets Spotted Chasing A UFO Over Mount Desert Island In Maine 20-Jun-2022
Two Fighter Jets Spotted Chasing A UFO Over Mount Desert Island In Maine 20-Jun-2022
This UFO sighting video was filmed in Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine. This is the largest island off the coast of Maine. This happened on 20th June 2022.
Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way
Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way
A new project using sonification turns astronomical images from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other telescopes into sound. This allows users to "listen" to the center of the Milky Way as observed in X-ray, optical, and infrared light. As the cursor moves across the image, sounds represent the position and brightness of the sources. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: Spitzer NASA/JPL-Caltech
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the Galactic Center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in the form of ones and zeroes) captured by telescopes in space into images, astronomers create visual representations that would otherwise be invisible to us.
But what about experiencing these data with other senses like hearing? Sonification is the process that translates data into sound, and a new project brings the center of the Milky Way to listeners for the first time. The translation begins on the left side of the image and moves to the right, with the sounds representing the position and brightness of the sources. The light of objects located towards the top of the image are heard as higher pitches while the intensity of the light controls the volume. Stars and compact sources are converted to individual notes while extended clouds of gas and dust produce an evolving drone. The crescendo happens when we reach the bright region to the lower right of the image. This is where the 4-million-solar-mass supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (A-star), resides, and where the clouds of gas and dust are the brightest.
Users can listen to data from this region, roughly 400 light years across, either as "solos" from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope, or together as an ensemble in which each telescope plays a different instrument. Each image reveals different phenomena happening in this region about 26,000 light years from Earth. The Hubble image outlines energetic regions where stars are being born, while Spitzer's infrared image shows glowing clouds of dust containing complex structures. X-rays from Chandra reveal gas heated to millions of degrees from stellar explosions and outflows from Sagittarius A*.
In addition to the Galactic Center, this project has also produced sonified versions of the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, and the "Pillars of Creation" located in Messier 16.
Sound plays a valuable role in our understanding of the world and cosmos around us. Explore how scientists are using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other instruments around the world and in space to study the cosmos through sound at the Universe of Sound website.
This sonification of the Galactic Center, Cas A, and M16 was led by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) as part of the NASA's Universe of Learning (UoL) program. NASA's Science Activation program strives to enable NASA science experts and to incorporate NASA science content into the learning environment effectively and efficiently for learners of all ages. The collaboration was driven by visualization scientist Kimberly Arcand (CXC), astrophysicist Matt Russo and musician Andrew Santaguida (both of the SYSTEMS Sound project.)
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra X-ray Center controls science from Cambridge Massachusetts and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts. NASA's Universe of Learning materials are based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Sonoma State University.
Ever wondered what the music of the spheres would sound like? Hubble brings us cosmic sights, but these astronomical marvels can be experienced with other senses as well. Through data sonification, the same digital data that gets translated into images is transformed into sound.
Elements of the image, like brightness and position, are assigned pitches and volumes. Each translation below begins on the left side of the image and moves to the right. No sound can travel in space, but sonifications provide a new way of experiencing and conceptualizing data. Sonifications allow the audience, including blind and visually impaired communities, to “listen” to astronomical images and explore their data.
NGC 1300
The majestic barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300’s arms hold blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds of star formation, and dark lanes of dust. NGC 1300 is considered to be prototypical of barred spiral galaxies. Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center. In this image, blue and red supergiant stars, star clusters, and star-forming regions are well resolved by Hubble across the spiral arms, and dust lanes trace out fine structures in the disk and bar. Numerous more distant galaxies are visible in the background, and are seen even through the densest regions of NGC 1300.
To represent this image with sound, scientists assigned louder volume to brighter light. Light farther from the center is pitched higher as a counterclockwise radar scans across the galaxy. NGC 1300 resides nearly 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: P. Knezek (WIYN); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
Studied by scientists for decades, the black hole in Messier 87 (M87) gained celebrity status after the first release from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project in 2019. This sonification does not feature the EHT data, but rather looks at data from other telescopes that observed M87 on much wider scales at roughly the same time. This image of a jet emerging from the nucleus of M87 contains three panels that feature: X-rays from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, visible light from Hubble, and radio waves from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile. The brightest region of the image is where the black hole is found, and the structure ejecting from it is the jet, produced by material falling onto the black hole. The sonification scans across the three-tiered image, with each wavelength mapped to a different range of audible tones. Radio waves are mapped to the lowest tones, visible data to medium tones, and X-rays to the highest tones. The brightest part of the image corresponds to the loudest portion of the sonification, which is where astronomers find the 6.5-billion solar mass black hole.
Credits: X-ray (Chandra): NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical (Hubble): NASA/ESA/STScI; Radio (ALMA): ESO/NAOJ/NRAO; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
Welcome to one of the most active galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood, NGC 1569. This starburst galaxy creates stars at a rate 100 times faster than in our own galaxy, the Milky Way! Scientists represented information in this Hubble image with sound to create a beautiful sonification with a bottom to top scan. Brighter light is higher pitched and louder. The three color channels used to process this image are each given their own pitch range, with red representing lower pitches, green in medium pitches, and blue in high pitches.
Credits: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
Stretching over 100,000 light-years across, the galaxy dubbed Hoag’s Object is slightly larger than our own home galaxy, the Milky Way. The blue ring is dominated by clusters of young, massive stars, while the yellow nucleus consists of mostly older stars. In this sonification, a clockwise radar scan transforms data in the image into sound. Bright light is represented with louder volume, and light farther from the center is higher-pitched.
Credits: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
In this Hubble image, a super-hot, massive star is blowing an enormous bubble into space. Fittingly named the Bubble Nebula, this beautiful cosmic object is roughly seven light-years across and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth.
Scanned from top to bottom, color is mapped to pitch in this sonification of the nebula. The bright blue of the bubble can be heard as higher pitches; the red and orange regions’ lower pitches are heard most clearly at the beginning on the left and in the top half of the bubble in the middle. Brightness controls the volume and stars are represented by chimes
Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
This spectacular Hubble image of the Butterfly Nebula shows a colorful view of star death. The "wings" of the butterfly are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000° F (about 20,000° C) that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour (966,000 kph)!
Vertical position is mapped to pitch – meaning that light towards the top of the image is higher pitched. The nebula is played on strings and synthetic tones, while stars are represented by digital harp. Brightness controls the volume, and the tilted hourglass orientation of the nebula produces an overall rising motion, with the prominent iron-rich jet producing a quick rise near the center.
Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. The fuzzy outer region of this nebula is a disk of material embellished with a ring of comet-shaped objects, with their tails streaming away from the central, dying star. The inner nebula's bright central region that resembles a ball of twine is really a bubble of material being blown into space by the central star's intense "wind" of high-speed material.
In this sonification, the image is scanned clockwise like a radar. The radius is mapped to pitch, so light farther from the center is higher pitched. The outline of the nebula’s shell can be heard in the rising and falling of pitch, punctuated by its spokes. Brightness controls the volume.
Credits: NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team (Sylvia Baggett [STScI], Richard Hook [ST-ECF], Zoltan Levay [STScI]);Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
The Crab Nebula is the expanding remnant of a supernova that occurred in 1054 A.D. Modern telescopes have captured its enduring engine powered by a quickly spinning neutron star that formed when a massive star collapsed. The combination of rapid rotation and a strong magnetic field generates jets of matter and anti-matter flowing away from its poles, and winds outward from its equator.
For the translation of these data into sound, which pans left to right, each wavelength of light has been paired with a different family of instruments. X-rays from Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue and white) are brass, optical light data from Hubble Space Telescope (purple) are strings, and infrared data from Spitzer (pink) can be heard in the woodwinds. In each case, light received towards the top of the image is played as higher pitched notes and brighter light is played louder.
Credits: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
The center of our Milky Way galaxy houses a massive black hole surrounded by a dense nest of stars and bright clouds. This image combines observations from the Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer space observatories, and shows energetic regions of starbirth, hundreds of thousands of stars, glowing dust clouds, and intense activity near the galactic core.
The light of objects located towards the top of the image is pitched higher, while the intensity of the light controls the volume. Stars and compact sources are converted to individual notes while extended clouds of gas and dust produce an evolving drone. A crescendo happens at the lower right of the image. This is where the 4-million-solar-mass supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy resides, and where the clouds of gas and dust are the brightest. For more information on this sonification, visit the Chandra Observatory's sonification page
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand, M. Russo & A. Santaguida
Another few Weeks of Observations Could Tell us if the Wow! Signal Repeats
Another few Weeks of Observations Could Tell us if the Wow! Signal Repeats
In the decades-long search for extraterrestrial intelligence, there has never been confirmed evidence of an alien signal. There have, however, been a few tantalizing mysteries. Perhaps the greatest of these is known as the Wow Signal.
Observed on 15 August 1977 by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio University, the signal was a strong, continuous, narrow band radio signal lasting at least 72 seconds. Our knowledge of the signal is limited given the design of Big Ear. Rather than being able to track radio signals like most modern radio telescopes, Big Ear was set to a particular elevation and relied on Earth’s rotation to scan across the sky. The reason the Wow Signal lasts 72 seconds is because that’s how long it took the source to sweep across Big Ear’s observation range.
Big Ear was also a passive telescope. Astronomers simply set it up, and it would run on its own, recording the strength of signals as it goes. Because of this, the signal was only discovered days after the event when recorded observations were reviewed. By the time astronomers could go back to observe the source, the event was long over.
An aerial view of the Big Ear telescope. Credit: Bigear.org / NAAPO
But despite having just one observation, the Wow Signal is considered the strongest candidate for an extraterrestrial signal. Several natural origins have been proposed, but all of them are a bit lacking. The most basic idea is that the signal was of terrestrial origin, perhaps a plane passing overhead, or a radio signal scattered off space debris. But a plane wouldn’t be in range for more than 72 seconds, and there is no record of such a flight. A scattered signal is possible, but the strength of the signal would be unusual, and the frequency of the Wow Signal is within a range where transmissions are restricted.
Several years ago it was proposed that the signal might have been caused by comets that were near the observed area of the sky, but this has since been disproven. While two comets were close to the source location, they weren’t really within the observed range. And comets aren’t likely to emit such a strong narrowband signal.
One interesting aspect of the signal is that its frequency was very close to that of the so-called 21-centimeter line. This is a faint radio emission caused by neutral hydrogen in the universe. Because hydrogen is the most common element in the cosmos, any radio astronomers in the universe would make observations at that frequency. If you wanted to get the attention of alien astronomers, a strong signal near that frequency would be a good way to do it.
Plot of signal strength vs time of the Wow! signal on August 15, 1977. Credit: Maksim Rossomakhin
Given the tantalizing nature of the Wow Signal, there have been several attempts at repeat observations. Several radio telescopes have been aimed at the source over the years, but to no luck. Every observation in that area since has turned up nothing. So what’s an astronomer to do? Well, one way to tackle the problem is to look at what your observations exclude. That’s the idea behind a recent paper on the arxiv.
In this work, the authors argue that the source could be some kind of stochastic repeater. Most repeating sources are periodic. Things like variable stars or fast radio bursts can have a predictable variability. Astronomers have considered this idea, and have made observations that rule out a source with a regular periodicity. A stochastic repeater is a bit different. Rather than having a measurable period, stochastic repeaters repeat somewhat randomly. A good example would be earthquakes. We know where they generally happen, know they will happen again, but predicting exactly when is nigh on impossible. Astrophysical processes can be stochastic in a similar way.
Applying Bayesian statistics to a likely outcome. Credit: Wikipedia
On the face of it, this seems like a silly idea. We’ve never seen the Wow Signal repeat, and we’ve proved it can’t be repeating periodically, but maybe it’s been repeating non-randomly such that we’ve never observed it. It sounds like the authors are arguing that it must be a non-random repeater because we’ve never observed it repeat. But the idea isn’t as silly as it sounds. The authors look at when an unobserved burst might have occurred, and apply Bayesian statistics to calculate when a future burst might occur.
Bayesian statistics is subtle but powerful. It’s more than just calculating the odds of a likely event. It looks at the pattern of events to predict specific outcomes. It takes into account not just how often something has occurred, but how those events changed over time. So, knowing of one burst event, and knowing when other burst events haven’t occurred, the authors calculate the times at which future events are most likely. This is good to know since we can now specifically observe the regions during the most likely event periods. If the Wow Signal was a stochastic repeater, then we’ll likely catch a new event. If we don’t see another event, we can rule out stochastic repeaters as a likely cause.
Mysterious hole on the ocean floor off California's coast
Mysterious hole on the ocean floor off California's coast
On the sea bottom off the coast of central California lies a vast field of mysterious pockmarks.
The field spans about 1,300 square kilometers and there are approximately 5,200 of these strange pits, which on average measure about 175 meters and 5 m deep.
No one knows how these mystery holes appeared, but they likely made their first appearance 400,000 years ago, according to research.
Here Greg Bishop relates the stories behind some of the most famous individuals claiming to have had ongoing communications with alien entities. They include George Adamski, George Van Tassel, Orfeo Angelucci, George Hunt Williamson, Ruth Norman, Allen Noonan, and Paulina Peavy. The conversation also explores the psychic abilities of Ted Owens and Uri Geller, ostensibly associated with UFOs. The sociological and psychological dimensions of this movement are explored.
Sanxingdui Excavation Pits Reveal Sophisticated Ancient Civilization
Sanxingdui Excavation Pits Reveal Sophisticated Ancient Civilization
An advanced 3,000-year-old Chinese culture, whose existence was not known about until the 1980s, has been further revealed by recent excavations. Apparently, the existence of the highly developed southwest Chinese Sanxingdui civilization, in Sichuan province, was omitted from official records, despite hundreds of years of flourishing development! On Monday last, at the Sanxingdui ruins, Chinese archaeologists reported that they have unearthed a treasure trove of artifacts across six sacrificial pits, as reported by the Chinese state news agency Xinhua.
Unprecedented Finds from the Sanxingdui Civilization Site
Since October 2020, the number of artifacts and relics recovered from the Sanxingdui site have reached an astounding total of 13,000.
In the latest Sanxingdui excavations, an area of 1,834 square meters (19,741 square feet) was explored in the sacrificial pit area. The entire sacrificial pit area covers an area of almost 13,000 square meters (139,931 square feet)!
The latest major find was a bronze box decorated with jade. The box had a turtle-back shaped top made of bronze and jade, with turquoise jade embellishments. It also had four dragon-head handles and a few streamers and was likely wrapped in silk and offered as burial sacrifice.
The Sanxingdui bronze chest was described as an “unprecedented discovery” by Li Haichao, a professor at Sichuan University, who is in charge of one of the excavation teams. He added that while the functionality of the vessel remains in doubt “we can assume that ancient people treasured it.”
The latest major find at the Sanxingdui site was a bronze box decorated with jade. The box had a turtle-back shaped top made of bronze and jade, with turquoise jade embellishments. It was likely wrapped in silk and offered as burial sacrifice.
All in all, archaeologists have found 3,155 relatively intact relics at the sacrificial pit site, including 1,238 pieces of bronzeware, 543 gold, and 565 jade artifacts.
A stunning crowned, bronze statue with a snake’s body was also found. According to Ran Honglin, director of the Sanxingdui cultural relics and archaeology research institute, the snake body statue was the most important recent find of all, writes the Global Times .
The bronze statue consists of three distinct sections, with the snake’s body occupying the middle. The figure’s hands are propped up on a bronze drinking vessel called a lei, sitting on a square pedestal. Overall, it is an image of a man with characteristics specific to the Shu kingdom, particularly the protruding eyes. On his head, a vermilion painted zun can be seen, which is the name of another kind of Chinese bronze drinking vessel. Strangely enough, the man’s nose is a pig’s nose.
Such a complex and well-imagined artifact can only point to a vivid imagination and visions of a mystical world by the Sanxingdui people, according to associate professor Zhao Hao from Peking University. He was in charge of the excavations at pit #8, where the pig-nosed bronze statue was found, according to the South China Morning Post .
Among the other recent significant finds, a bronze altar depicting a sacrificial scene that is nearly a meter (3.3 feet) tall was also found in one of the pits. This altar also provides new evidence of the immortal world perspective of the Sanxingdui Shu people. The altar was divided into three sections: the bottom part is a platform featuring beautiful hollow patterns. A muscular person is sitting in the center of each of the three sections from top to bottom.
These nearly 3,000-year-old Sanxingdui bronze heads with gold foil masks look like modern art and say a lot about the advanced metallurgy skills of the Shu people of Sanxingdui.
The Astounding Craftsmanship of Almost-forgotten Sanxingdui
The quality and craftsmanship of the finds at the Sanxingdui ruins indicate a high degree of cultural advancement and sophistication, adding to the mystery and intrigue of this virtually “unknown” civilization.
Sanxingdui, literally meaning Three Star Mound, was accidentally discovered in 1986. And multiple artifact dating has revealed that this civilization existed nearly 3,300 years ago!
The Sanxingdui civilization is viewed to be the same as the ancient kingdom of Shu. In the last two years, Ancient Origins has reported more than once on the finds emerging from this almost-lost Chinese civilization. To date, researchers have remarked on incredible metallurgy skills of the Shu people.
In a recent round of carbon dating on 200 relics, most of the pits were found to be from 1131 to 1012 BC, probably from the late Shang dynasty which lasted from the 16th to the 11th century BC. However, pit number 5 and 6 at the Sanxingdui site were dated to after the Shang dynasty period.
"We had never seen something like these, and we even don't know how to describe their patterns or shapes in short words," Honglin said. "It's also confusing for us to speculate how they were used before further studies. But these artifacts feature a mixture of typical local styles of cultural relics as well as those from the Central China Plains at that time. It demonstrates through close communications, the ancient Shu culture became a key part in early Chinese civilization."
Honglin has also pointed out that these relics are significant for comprehending the diverse nature of Chinese culture and unity in its early days. Full Chinese unification only happened in the Han dynasty (from 202 BC onwards).
The latest round of discoveries at Sanxingdui proves that China was a melting pot of civilizations. For example, the zun drinking vessel motif found on one of the recently unearthed artifacts at Sanxingdui was virtually unknown in the Shu kingdom but dominant in China’s Zhongyuan Central Plains region. Clearly, the zun was a motif borrowed from another civilization as is common in melting pot periods.
Sanxingdui field excavation work is slated for completion in October 2022. However, before that date many more artifacts will be found, telling us more about the roots of the monolithic Chinese civilization we know today.
Top image: Just one of the stunning metal-crafted artifacts recently found in a small portion of the sacrificial pits area at the Sanxingdui site in southwestern China, which had been almost lost to time until the 1980s.
Romania’s Enigmatic Trovants: Living Rocks That Grow and Move!
A spectacular example of the mysterious “living and moving” trovants of Romania, a rare and complex geological formation.
Source: Nicu Buculei / CC BY-SA 3.0
Romania’s Enigmatic Trovants: Living Rocks That Grow and Move!
Roughly six million years ago, paleo-earthquakes created a type of geological phenomenon called trovants. They are also known as the stones of Costesti, after their most famous location in Romania, or the “living stones.” Romania’s rare trovants were formed under highly complex circumstances involving seismic shifts, sand sediment in rivers and rain, and lots of time. And the locals of Costesti, Romania consider them to be alive! Having witnessed them grow, expand, and move over generations the Romanians have turned the trovants into local legends and myths. For geologists, trovants have long been a captivating mystery.
What are Trovants?
Trovants are made up of a hard stone center surrounded by sandstone and vary in size from extremely small and pebble-like trovants to stones weighing several tons. Although most trovants are made from sandstone originally, geologists have also found some made from gravel or gritstone. Trovants are an incredibly exciting and unique type of rock formation found within specific areas of Romania.
How are Trovants Formed?
The name trovant is a synonym from the German word “ Sandsteinkonkretionen” meaning “cemented sand,” which explains how these rocks are made. Trovants can only be formed when sand accrues with sandstone deposits around a hard stone core and is cemented by water that has a high concentration of calcium carbonate . This mixture melds together to make these truly fascinating rocks known by locals as the “growing stones.”
What makes them so exciting is that the locals have witnessed them grow and multiply over the years. Due to the elements it takes for these rocks to be formed, they go through an unusual process that makes the rocks appear to grow and move.
These trovants or living and moving geological formations are located near Ulmet in the Buzăului Mountains of Romania.
Do These Strange Geological Formations Really Grow?
The answer is yes, for all intents and purpose they do grow, but trovants grow in a very specific, unique way.
When there is unusually heavy rainfall in the areas trovants are found, they tend to absorb minerals in the rain. Along with the formation of the sand and sandstone deposits already present as the shell of the rock, a chemical reaction begins putting immense pressure on the inside of the trovant.
This pressure from a chemical reaction expands the trovant outwards from its core towards its outer crust, making the rock itself grow. On the surface of the rocks, small deposits are pushed outwards adding to the rockface, leading to their name “the growing stones.”
Overall, trovant growth is a rather slow process and the rate of growth is only around 4-5 centimeters (1.6-2 inches) in 1,000 years.
But over the millions of years the rocks have been “growing” some truly beautiful and particularly interesting formations have been created.
Bubbles or Boulders: What do Trovants Look Like?
Trovants tend to be spherical due to the seismic activity they have experienced and rather smooth individually, not unlike rocks that are shaped by erosion. However, trovants are different because the opposite process is what gives the rocks their unique appearance. The trovants look like bubbles some of them with platforms that look like they are growing from a root system. These trovants tend to be fixed in place.
Over the years geologists have cut open numerous trovants to see what they are made of and found that not unlike tree rings, these geological formations also have multiple ringed, elliptical layers inside. This is because the rocks effectively grow through bubbling outwards when rained on. And under those conditions they pick up further deposits of sand from their area and continue to “grow” slowly over years. This explains the layers the geologists noticed within the trovants they cut open.
Trovants on the move in Romania’s Trovants Museum Natural Reserve?
One other interesting thing about trovants is that they move. I’m sure you have heard of the moving rocks of Death Valley. No? Well, you should look into it if you like mysterious rocks.
Trovants also move, albeit super slowly, but they do travel to some extent. Because these rocks are picking up surrounding sand when it rains, they are effectively changing the landscape and creating a path for themselves that allows them to dislodge and move small distances over significant periods of time.
Tourism and protection
Due to the fascinating nature of trovants they have become a tourist attraction within Romania. To give protection to these rocks “The Trovants Museum Natural Reserve” was created in 2004.
The rocks are so unique that they have come under the protection of UNESCO and have a foundation to protect them from the issues tourism can cause to public archaeological and geological sites. In the past, the locals often sold the smaller trovants to tourists, which in the long term could cause a problem to the trovant landscape.
Although found in over 20 places in Romania some trovants have only been discovered after the sand has been taken from the area for building tombs and making souvenirs.
Conclusion
So trovants aren’t technically alive, this isn’t some horror movie waiting to happen. However, these rocks do change over exceptionally long periods of time.
Although not strictly alive, trovants have some characteristics of something that is living. Although not sentient, these rocks do grow and move.
It is not surprising that they have become the stuff of myth to the locals over the centuries. They are the closest thing to living we can consider rock to be and have been around much longer than any human on the planet, thus having encountered more “life” than all of us!
Top image:A spectacular example of the mysterious “living and moving” trovants of Romania, a rare and complex geological formation.
290 miljoen jaar oude fossielen van bomen gevonden in Brazilië
Wetenschappers hebben in de zuidelijke Braziliaanse deelstaat Paraná fossielen van bomen gevonden die naar schatting 290 miljoen jaar oud zijn. Het gaat om een bos van 164 fossielen van een uitgestorven soort lycofyten, die zich voortplanten via sporen.
Het gefossiliseerde bos werd eind 2018 per ongeluk ontdekt, bij een geologisch onderzoek voor de aanleg van een weg naar een fabriek. Daarna startten wetenschappers van de universiteiten van Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul (zuidelijke Braziliaanse deelstaat) en de universiteit van Californië in Davis (VS) een onderzoek. De resultaten van dit onderzoek verschenen in februari in het vaktijdschrift “Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology”.
Volgens Thammy Mottin, geoloog van de universiteit van Paraná, is het “de belangrijkste ontdekking in het zuidelijke halfrond” wat de hoeveelheid en de staat van de fossielen betreft. Eerder deden wetenschappers al gelijkaardige ontdekkingen in het zuidelijke halfrond, met name in Rio Grande do Sul en in Argentijns Patagonië, maar daar ging het om kleinere vondsten.
De fossielen zijn “een venster naar het verleden” voor het bestuderen van de evolutie van planten. “Deze planten, waarvan de leeftijd op 290 miljoen jaar is geschat, zijn zeer primitieve levensvormen in de geschiedenis”, aldus Mottin. “Het bos, dat groeide in de buurt van waar nu de plaats Ortigueira ligt, toont hoe de eerste planten zich hebben verspreid, hoe ze verdeeld waren in de ruimte en hoe hun interacties waren met andere levensvormen”.
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Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?
Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?
The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” by Garrett Serviss. In that story, Martians attack Earth, killing tens of thousands and destroying New York City. Earth retaliates and sends an armada to Mars. While travelling, the armada comes across an asteroid that the Martians are mining. The asteroid is a rubble pile of gold nuggets.
A conversation breaks out among the crew.
“Phew! Won’t we be rich?” exclaimed a voice.
“How are we going to dig it and get it back to earth?” asked another.
“Carry it in your pockets,” said one.
“No need of staking claims here,” remarked another. “There is enough for everybody.”
Their conversation was a prescient hint of things to come.
The idea to mine asteroids incubated in the background until more modern times, when the realities of the space-faring age brought the idea into focus.
Starting in the 2000s, asteroid mining—or at least its potential—gained momentum. Private companies were starting to send spacecraft into Earth orbit, though it was tentative at first. People started to wonder about mining asteroids. Who owned them? How could it be done?
Japan’s Hayabusa brought a sample of asteroid Itokawa back to Earth in 2010. Wealthy people formed companies with the intent to mine asteroids. In 2015, the US Congress passed the Space Act that gave US companies the right to mine asteroids and other bodies in space, though it stopped short of claiming sovereignty over any bodies in space.
Companies popped up and talked about mining asteroids. They calculated the value of asteroids and started developing robotic explorers to operate on asteroids. One company called the Asteroid Mining Corporation worked with a Japanese University to develop the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorers (SCAR-E).
An illustration of SCAR-E, the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorers being developed by AMC and Tohoku University. Image Credit: AMC/Tohoku University.
The initial fervour of the past couple of decades has died down, but the idea is still there. And as our knowledge of asteroids grows and our space-flight capabilities advance, the idea of asteroid mining will never disappear.
There are a number of reasons why asteroid mining is desirable. The materials in asteroids represent an enormous financial value, which always attracts capitalist activities. Some materials needed for our modern technological devices are in short supply on Earth but are available on asteroids. And mining on Earth carries an environmental burden that mining on dead asteroids doesn’t.
One day asteroid mining might be possible, profitable, or even necessary. We’re not there yet, but scientists are still thinking ahead about how it could work, even though there are a whole host of obstacles in the way. We’re accustomed to spacecraft being launched on far-flung missions into the Solar System. But space travel is complicated, risky, and expensive. Even sampling asteroids is challenging.
Artist concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. Asteroid sampling is only in its infancy, so asteroid mining is barely past conception. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
How can asteroid mining be brought out of the realm of science fiction and into reality?
In a new paper, a trio of researchers suggest that some of the obstacles could be overcome by using Mars orbit as a base of operations.
NEO asteroids are not the target. Their number and their value are limited. At some point in our asteroid-mining, space-faring future, we’ll want to develop the asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. There’s nearly-immeasurable wealth and resources there. The asteroid Davida alone may be worth 27 quintillion US dollars. One calculation says there’s $100 billion dollars in mineral wealth for every person on Earth in the main asteroid belt.
This poster shows 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter (orbits not to scale). The images in the outermost circle of this infographic were captured with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The asteroid sample features 39 objects larger than 100 kilometres in diameter, including 20 larger than 200 kilometres. The poster highlights a few of the objects, including Ceres (the largest asteroid in the belt), Urania (the smallest one imaged), Kalliope (the densest imaged) and Lutetia, which was visited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. Image Credit: ESO
The main obstacle, according to the paper, is the energy required to reach the main belt and rendezvous with asteroids. In spaceflight that energy is quantified as Delta V, where V is velocity and Delta is change. Launching and maneuvering require changes in delta-v, and those changes require energy. “Most MBAs are energetically too hard to reach with present technology from low Earth orbit. An alternative is to use Mars orbit as a base from which to conduct MBA research, prospecting, and mining.”
Even the easiest-to-reach MBA is difficult to reach from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) because of the delta-v. The Near-Earth Asteroids are much easier to reach in comparison. It requires “… a minimum delta-v ~7 km s-1 to rendezvous from low Earth orbit (LEO) with the easiest to reach MBA, compared with ~4 km s-1 needed for the easiest to reach near-Earth asteroids (NEOs) from low Earth orbit.”
It follows that reaching MBAs is easier if you start from Mars orbit. The delta-v will be far lower. The difference between ~7 km s-1 and ~4 km s-1 might not sound like much, but the fuel requirements scale exponentially with delta-v.
The team wrote some code that allows them to find the delta-v needed to reach and rendezvous with any asteroid in the main belt from either Earth or Mars orbit. For Mars, they use Phobos’ orbit, which is about 9,000 km (5,600 miles) above the planet, and for Earth they used LEO. “We used PARC (Python Asteroid Rendezvous Code) to investigate whether Phobos-like orbits around Mars at altitudes of ~9000 km are more energetically favourable and useful locations from which to dispatch missions to MBAs.”
The short answer is “Yes they are.”
This figure from the paper compares the delta-v needed to reach asteroids from LEO (top) to the delta-v needed to reach asteroids from Mars Phobos Orbit (bottom.) Image Credit: Taylor et al. 2022.
The available mass in the MAB and the MC (Mars Crosser) asteroid populations dwarfs that of the NEO asteroids. So in terms of large-scale delta-v needed to reach more resources, the Phobos Mars Orbit idea wins again. “Most known MBAs + MCs are bigger than the largest NEO, (1036) Ganymed, at ~50 km diameter. Therefore, the accessible mass of MBAs + MCs increases more quickly than an equivalent number of NEOs at a given delta-v requirement.”
This figure from the study shows the distribution of accessible asteroid mass in MBAs + MCs and NEOs from LEO and PMO. Image Credit: Taylor et al. 2022.
In the figure above, the large asteroids Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta skew the results a little. They require a large delta-v to reach, though it’s still lower from PMO than from LEO. “But operationally it is the low delta-v tails that are of particular interest,” the authors write.
The authors point out that for a particular delta-v, more MAB material is accessible from PMO. In fact, it’s not even close. “We find that PMO provides access to ~7 x 1015 tonnes of material within ?v -1,” they write. Over 99.9% of that material is in MABs and MCs, while the insignificant remainder is in LEOs. On the other hand, “From LEO, only ~3 x 106 tonnes of material are accessible within ?v -1 and are entirely found in NEOs.”
Of course, there’s more to mining MBAs from Mars Phobos Orbit than just the ?v required to get there. The effort to even get equipment to MPO requires fuel and resources and time. The authors acknowledge that, and emphasize that their study is focused on reaching asteroid resources from an already established base. There are all kinds of other variables depending on the mass of the equipment sent to asteroids, where and how it’ll be processed, what will be done with the waste, and where the extracted resources will go.
The Asteroid Psyche is an m-type asteroid, meaning it contains higher proportions of metals like iron and nickel than other classes of asteroids. Its varied surface suggests a dynamic history, which could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, and a lost rocky mantle. NASA’s Psyche mission should reach Psyche in 2026. Data from that mission will tell us more about the mineral value of asteroids in the MAB. Image Credit: Screenshot courtesy of NASA
One team of researchers can’t answer all these questions. Their paper simply shows how it takes fewer resources to reach the bulk of the Solar System’s asteroidal material from MPO than it does from LEO. Whether or not asteroid mining ever makes sense depends on a whole bunch of factors.
That’s where the Phobos delta-v penalty comes in. It’s the price a spacecraft pays to maneuver in and out of orbit around Mars. The planet’s gravity well extracts its own price.
“Whether the Phobos delta-v penalty is economically disadvantageous depends on the masses to be moved, both of raw and beneficiated (refined) ore, and of mining and processing equipment,” the authors explain. “If the beneficiating equipment is massive then the simplified raw material gathering spacecraft that will undertake the Phobos to asteroid journey may be of significantly lower mass.”
Mining the MAB wouldn’t happen in a vacuum (sorry.) Facilities on Mars would likely be part of the endeavour. Maybe the structural materials in the asteroids, like iron, would be used to manufacture other facilities in the MAB or in Mars orbit. But none of these considerations changes the raw fact that more MAB material is within reach from MPO than from LEO. “We find that there is a far larger population of known asteroids accessible to current technology from Phobos orbit than from low Earth orbit, by a factor of 300 in number and a factor 109 in mass for a delta-v of 4 km s-1,” the paper concludes.
Phobos itself could play an advantageous role, according to the authors.
“Phobos is a convenient site for emplacing massive ore-refining equipment. Phobos has properties that aid in extracting ore from raw asteroid material, as it provides some gravity, an inertial platform, and radiation shielding. Phobos may then serve as a useful forward operating base for the exploration and mining of the Main Belt.”
The ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter captured this image of the Martian moon Phobos. The authors of a new study suggest Phobos could be a base of operations for mining in the asteroid belt. Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
If this idea ever comes to fruition, then it’s likely that Mars itself will be a part of it. “The presence of large-scale operations in Mars orbit may also lead to routine access to Mars’ surface,” they write.
The rest is left to our imaginations. Would human beings lead the mining operation? If so, then Mars could act as a kind of lifeboat in case of problems. Evacuating a damaged mining spacecraft and landing on Mars, where we can extract oxygen, fuel, and water, and store food and other supplies, seems like a natural emergency backup plan.
Or maybe there’d be very little need for flesh and blood humans. Maybe robots could do most of the work. Robotic technology is growing in leaps and bounds and there’s no reason to think it won’t keep advancing.
Asteroid mining is really in-situ resource utilization writ large. If humanity is ever going to expand out into the Solar System, the resources in the MAB will play a role. Only time will reveal exactly what that role is.
Newly Found Black Hole Eats One Earth Per Second! - Mr. Scientific Must Video
Newly Found Black Hole Eats One Earth Per Second! - Mr. Scientific Must Video
Astronomers have detected the fastest-growing black hole. The new supermassive black hole is known as J1144. J1144 is 3 billion times more massive than the sun, it swallows up an Earth-size chunk of matter every second
Sagittarius A* is located at the center of our galaxy, it has a diameter of 44 million kilometers. J1144 is not only 500 times bigger than Sagittarius A*, but also 7,000 times brighter than our entire galaxy.
Astronomers believe that something catastrophic happened long time ago. Perhaps two big galaxies crashed into each other merging the Black holes located at their center. Also funneling a whole lot of material towards it.
New Linda Moulton Howe: Tall White Aliens Are Our Allies & Hybrid Greys & Blonde Nordics
New Linda Moulton Howe: Tall White Aliens Are Our Allies & Hybrid Greys & Blonde Nordics
TOPICS: Which E.T.s Claim They Are Closest Genetically to Human Descendants? US Space Force – USS Curtis LeMay – USS Hoyt Vandenberg, “tip of the spear” – USS Roscoe Hillenkoetter – Tall Nordics near Sirius A & Sirius B – Tall White Pales live near 82 G Eridani where numerous earth-like planets reside Inside US Space Force source details interactions with humans Linda’s brother Jim Moulton fallen ill, but recovering at home Highly placed source:
Original greys are very ancient race spanning millions of years Blonde Nordics are oldest race from Sirius B system Tall whites or “tall pales” working with us from “Creech Air Force Base” near Las Vegas, – Working on Security Access Protocols Hybrid greys “Our true allies are the tall whites” “Nordic types claim we humans are their closest descendants” “..directly related” “These 3 et species occupy the majority” “I don’t believe we originated from Earth” “Alliances exist…Eliminating the Trantalod insect..species”
“AI biological cloned Grey are…abducting humans and other species” “Temporal technology..used by Trantaloid species” USS Hoyt Vandenberg stationed in Procyon system USS Roscoe Hillenkoetter investigating radio signal source We have had teleportation since 1971 The main purpose of Apollo was to investigate alien sites
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Secrets of The Black Knight Satellite, Its Sending a Signal & Its Been Decoded, Billy Carson via Leak Project
Secrets of The Black Knight Satellite, Its Sending a Signal & Its Been Decoded, Billy Carson via Leak Project
Awesome talk. William, Son of Cars, is such an interesting guy. His genuine enthusiasm and intelligence is really endearing, and his endless energy even gives Rex a run for his money. I gotta see this documentary. One thing confused me though – if it’s been seen to make course corrections on multiple occasions, implying it’s still functioning, then why is it sending signals to where Epsilon Bootes used to be 13000 years ago? Wouldn’t it be updating that star’s location? Or… maybe we’re wrong about our calculations? Richard Wilson
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UFO Fleet Over Queens, New York On June 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Queens, New York On June 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 19, 2022
Location of sighting: Queens, New York, USA Source: MUFON
A person was driving along the southbound in New York when she noticed a fleet of glowing objects in the distance. UFOs do visit New York frequently. For instance on Aug 23, 1974 singer John Lennon and his wife were in the penthouse apartment patio when they noticed some strange lights hovering in place not far off. New York...it attracts all intelligent species...the biggest city in America. Even aliens want to visit.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Traveling over Whitestone bridge southbound, ufo spotted in western sky 6-8 stationary very bright objects in a cluster. The objects would then change formation in the blink of an eye. One object moved diagonally while others stayed stationary.
Black Craft Over Parker, Colorado On June 9, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black Craft Over Parker, Colorado On June 9, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 9, 2022
Location of sighting: Parker, Colorado, USA Source: MUFON
A person was parked and noticed a black object moving about the sky over Colorado last week. The object was silent and moving about as if it were watching the cars on the road below. Colorado is notorious for its UFO sightings, but 95% of them are of a white sphere craft. This is highly rare in the area. Most UFOs come and go from the Rocky mountain ridges, where there are several entrances to a tunnel that leads to an underground base about 5km below the base of the mountains.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
My apologies for the camera shaking. I zoomed in on an iPhone and the sun was in my face so I was pointing my phone not knowing if I was actually capturing anything on camera. This object hovered for minutes before going straight south, then up and down. After another few minutes of hovering, it went straight west at very high speeds.
Strange phenomenon appears in the skies over US and New Zealand
Strange phenomenon appears in the skies over US and New Zealand
On Sunday morning, June 19th, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral (0427 UT) carrying a Globalstar communications satellite. Within hours, people around the world started seeing strange things in the sky.
Almost two hours after launch, the upper stage of the Falcon 9 rocket deployed the Globalstar satellite; the smoke ring Wood saw was the "puff" of separation. At the time, the rocket was more than 1100 km high, so people were able to see it across much of North America.
An hour after the smoke ring, things got really strange. Sky watchers in New Zealand saw this:
Image credit: Twinkle Dark Sky Tours.
Photographer Alasdair Burns of Twinkle Dark Sky Tours on Stewart Island said to Spaceweather, "It looked like a beautiful galaxy, it was a very slowly rotating spiral that started small and gradually expanded."
There has been much discussion on the web about a covert payload hitchhiking on this Falcon 9 rocket. Analysts believe that a clandestine satellite may have been released about 10.5 minutes after launch.
Former U.S. government insiders brought together by rock star Tom DeLonge team up to reveal what the government knows about UFOs. This groundbreaking effort is led by Luis “Lue” Elizondo. See more in Season 1, Episode 1, “The UFO Insiders.”
SpaceX launches three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours
SpaceX launches three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours
SpaceX has successfully completed three Falcon 9 launches in just over 36 hours, highlighting the company’s continuous push towards ever-higher launch cadences in 2022.
In February, shortly after a NASA oversight panelist revealed that SpaceX was targeting 52 launches in 2022, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company’s goal was for “Falcon [to] launch about once a week” throughout the year. In October 2020, continuing a tradition of extremely ambitious SpaceX launch cadence targets, Musk had also tweeted that “a lot of improvements” would need to be made to achieve his goal of 48 launches – an average of four launches per month – in 2021. Ultimately, SpaceX fell well short of that target, but did set a new annual record of 31 launches in one year, breaking its 2020 record of 26 launches by about 20%. However, perhaps even more important than the new record was the fact that SpaceX was able to complete six launches in four weeks at the end of 2021.
That impressive and unexpected achievement would turn out to be an explicit sign of things to come in 2022.
SpaceX’s successful completion of three launches in 36.5 hours is merely an extension of that feat. In the same four-week period at the end of 2021, SpaceX completed three of those six launches in 69 hours. Two months later, SpaceX did it again, launching three Falcon 9 rockets from all three of its Falcon launch pads in 67 hours.
More importantly, SpaceX has also managed to sustain an average cadence of more than one Falcon launch per week throughout the first half of 2022, completing its 26th launch of the year on June 19th with another two launches planned before the end of the month. SpaceX has actually sustained that cadence for even longer. Beginning on November 24th, 2021, SpaceX has now completed 32 Falcon 9 launches in less than seven months.
The company’s latest hat-trick or triple-header began on Friday, June 17th, when Falcon 9 booster B1060 lifted off at 12:09 pm EDT from SpaceX’s NASA Kennedy Space Center LC-39A pad, helped carry another 53 Starlink V1.5 satellites into space, and became the first Falcon booster to launch and land 13 times. Starlink 4-19 was also SpaceX’s 49th dedicated Starlink launch, SpaceX’s 50th consecutively successful Falcon booster landing, and 100th successful Falcon booster reuse.
Falcon 9 B1060 lifts off for the 13th time.(Richard Angle)
22 hours later, a second Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Vandenberg Space Force Base SLC-4E pad at 7:19 am PDT, Saturday, June 18th carrying the first of three SARah radar satellites for Germany and an unspecified number of rideshare payloads. For the third time this year, booster B1071 successfully boosted back to shore and touched down at SLC-4E’s LZ-4 landing pad shortly after liftoff.
Fog made Falcon 9’s SARah-1 launch virtually invisible, but the landing was not. (SpaceX)
Finally, at 12:27 am EDT on Sunday, June 19th, a third Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station LC-40 pad carrying a single spare Globalstar-2 communications satellite and, apparently, several secret rideshare payloads. Falcon 9’s Globalstar launch occurred just over 14 hours after SARah-1, breaking SpaceX’s record time between two orbital launches.
Falcon 9’s 3rd launch in 36 hours.(Richard Angle)
Globalstar FM15 was also SpaceX’s 26th launch of 2022, averaging one launch every 6.5 days in the first half of the year. June isn’t over, however, and SpaceX still has plans to launch Starlink 4-21 on June 25th and the SES-22 geostationary communications satellite on June 28th. If both launches avoid delays, SpaceX will end the first half of 2022 with 28 successful orbital launches. Perhaps even more significantly, after another two launches in the last days of June, SpaceX will have launched 17 times in a single quarter – equivalent to 68 launches per year if sustained for four quarters. In the history of spaceflight, a single rocket family has never successfully launched more than 61 times in one year.
A week after rolling a different ‘test tank’ from its South Texas Starship factory to nearby launch and test facilities, SpaceX has moved a second test tank to the pad.
Hearkening back to a period in 2020 where SpaceX built and tested six different Starship test tanks in a period of six months, the company appears to be preparing to test another batch of tanks in the hopes of qualifying Super Hea
vy booster design changes and clearing the way for a significant upgrade to all Starship tank domes. The sequencing of the latest tank raises some questions, however.
The top of the structural test machine aka “Can Crusher” was lifted onto test tank B7.1 today.
Known unofficially as the “EDOME” tank in reference to a cryptic label on the side of one of its halves, the first new test tank’s purpose is much more cut and dry. While its steel rings appear to be unchanged from current Starship and Super Heavy prototypes, the tank’s two domes share almost nothing in common with the dozens of domes SpaceX has built and tested over the last three years of development. The new domes are much simpler and should be easier to manufacture than the domes SpaceX is familiar with. Thanks to their more spherical shape, they should also be more efficient, allowing future Starship tanks to store a bit more propellant while taking up the same amount of vertical space. SpaceX has yet to begin testing the EDOME tank since its June 8th rollout and does not appear to be much closer to starting 12 days later.
On June 16th, SpaceX rolled a second test tank to the launch site, which eventually joined the EDOME tank at a staging area that used to be a Starship landing pad. Whereas the EDOME tank is more of a generic test article, the second tank – known as B7.1 – is specifically designed to test Super Heavy booster design changes.
B7.1 is a bit like a miniature Super Heavy. Its three-ring top section is mostly similar to the top section of a booster and is reinforced with dozens of external stringers. Oddly, it is missing cutouts for grid fins, and the tank’s forward dome does not have the reaction frame those hypothetical grid fins would anchor to. On the tank’s bottom half, the same stringers are present, and the tank features a new design that squeezes four slightly shorter rings into the same height as three. The Super Heavy thrust dome those rings enclose is also a new design that expands the number of central Raptor engines from 9 to 13.
It’s unsurprising that SpaceX wants to test those significant design changes. SpaceX did technically conduct a similar test in mid-2021 with a test tank known as BN2.1, but that tank featured a thrust dome with room for 9 older Raptors that would have generated about ~1700 tons of thrust. B7.1’s testing will go a step further than BN2.1 and use a structural test stand that should allow SpaceX to simulate the compressive forces Super Heavy boosters might experience in flight, adding another dimension of stress on top of the 13 hydraulic rams that will simultaneously subject the test tank to the equivalent of ~3000 tons (~6.6M lbf) of thrust.
What is surprising, however, is the fact that SpaceX has waited so long to build and test a tank like B7.1. SpaceX has already completed an entire Super Heavy booster (B7) with all the design changes B7.1 is meant will test and recently installed 33 new Raptor 2 engines on that prototype. A second upgraded booster, B8, is also nearly finished. In that sense, B7.1 is quite unusual and feels more like a reluctant afterthought than part of a methodical development process. If B7.1 suffers an unintentional failure during testing, SpaceX could be forced to abandon two nearly-finished Super Heavy boosters, wasting months of assembly and testing and rendering prototypes that are likely worth tens of millions of dollars all but useless.
B2.1 demonstrates how the ‘can crusher’ uses giant ropes and hydraulics to apply immense compressive forces to Starship tank prototypes. (NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal)
The design changes B7.1 is meant to test are not exactly radical, but it’s still unclear why SpaceX has chosen to conduct those tests after building two entire Super Heavy boosters. Earlier on in Starship development, SpaceX regularly used test tanks to qualify significant design changes before applying those changes to full prototypes, limiting the amount of resources that could be wasted on any unproven prototype. Thankfully, Super Heavy Booster 7 may have already completed similar Raptor thrust simulation tests on the same test stand B7.1 was recently installed on, meaning that SpaceX’s confidence may have been well-placed. However, if the first use of the ‘can crusher’ stand on a Super Heavy test tank finds any problems or ends in failure, B7 and B8 could still be easily rendered unusable or incapable of flight, significantly delaying Starship’s first orbital launch attempt.
Lately, SpaceX has been focused on preparing Starship S24 and Super Heavy B7 for static fire tests that could eventually qualify the pair to support the first orbital test flight. It’s not clear if or when SpaceX will be able to set aside time and evacuate Starbase’s busy orbital launch site to test B7.1 or the EDOME tank.
Astronomers Watched a “Near-Sun” Comet Disintegrate as it Flew too Close to the Sun
Astronomers Watched a “Near-Sun” Comet Disintegrate as it Flew too Close to the Sun
Comets that venture close to the Sun can transform into something beautiful, but sometimes they encounter incineration if they get too close. Of the various types of comets that orbit close to the Sun, astronomers had never seen the destruction of the type classified as “near-Sun” comets. But thanks to a variety of telescopes on summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai?i, scientists have now captured images of a periodic rocky near-Sun comet breaking apart. They say the disintegration of this comet could help explain the scarcity of such periodic near-Sun comets.
Astronomers have certainly witnessed other types of comets disintegrating in the solar corona. For example, early this year — after putting on a spectacular show — Comet Leonard broke apart after perihelion (its closest point to the Sun) in January, 2022. Comet Leonard was considered a Sun-grazing comet, the most commonly known comets that make close passes of the Sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft has detected about 4,000 Sun-grazers since it launched in 1995.
But there are also near-Sun, Sun-skirters and Sun-divers. However, the nomenclature and difference between them all is not clearly defined, says Karl Battams, from the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. Battams tracks Sun-grazing comets with data from SOHO, particularly those that belong to the ‘Kreutz’ family of comets, named after Heinrich Kreutz, a nineteenth-century astronomer who calculated many of their orbits.
It’s hard to make out, but the dot in the cross-hairs is a comet streaming toward the Sun. This image is from 2015, and the comet is the 3,000th one discovered by SOHO since it was launched. Image: SOHO/ESA/NASA
“There’s no clearly defined separation between what we would classify as a near-Sun versus Sun-grazing comet,” Battams said via email. But he was part of a group of astronomers that drafted some guidelines in a 2018 survey paper.
They proposed clear definitions for comets, based on how close they get to the Sun: near-Sun comets should encompass all objects that come within the orbit of Mercury, about .3 AU. Sunskirters are defined as objects that pass within 33 solar radii of the Sun’s center, equal to half of Mercury’s perihelion distance, and the commonly-used phrase Sun-grazers to be objects that reach perihelion within 3.45 solar radii. Finally, comets with orbits that intersect the solar photosphere are termed Sun-divers.
But, says Battams, the definitions can still be confusing because all Sun-grazing comets are near-Sun comets, but not all near-Sun comets are Sun-grazing comets.
The near-Sun comet that was recently observed while breaking apart, named 323P/SOHO, is a short-period ‘near-Sun’ (but NOT Sun-grazing) comet that experienced a different environment to the Kreutz Sun-grazers.
Near-Sun object 323P/SOHO observed by the Subaru Telescope on December 21, 2020 (left) and CFHT on February 11, 2021 (right). 323P/SOHO on its way to perihelion is seen as a point source in the center of the left image; after the perihelion, the comet has developed a long narrow tail as seen in the right image. (Credit: Subaru Telescope/CFHT/Man-To Hui/David Tholen)
“Instead of plunging deep into the corona and getting ripped apart or vaporized,” said Battams, “it has been getting slowly baked with repeated passes in a toasty environment, leading to a slow-but-steady demise. Probably many of the non-Kreutz that SOHO sees are undergoing this process, but this is the first time we’ve been able to definitely say that this is what’s happening.”
Battams, who was not involved in the ground-based study of this comet, said this first- of-its-kind observations for this class of comet is an important result for telling us about the evolution and end stage of comets in that “near-Sun” region. An outstanding question is that there are far fewer observed near-Sun objects than models show there should be.
Comet 323P/SOHO was discovered in 1999 with SOHO, and is a relatively small comet, with a nucleus of only about 172 meters (560 ft) in diameter. It rotates quickly, at 0.522 hr., the most rapid rotation of every known comet in the Solar System. Its orbital period is just over four years, so it has come close to the Sun several times. Plus, on its final pass, it came perilously close to the Sun, with a perihelion of only 0.04 astronomical units. While a larger comet could perhaps survive such a close approach, smaller comets that come that close are skirting with eventual doom.
Because comets like 323P pass so close to the Sun, they are difficult to spot and observe. To study this object, an international group of astronomers from Macau, the US, Germany, Taiwan, and Canada used multiple telescopes including the Subaru Telescope, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), the Gemini North telescope, Lowell’s Discovery Telescope, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Convex shape model of the nucleus of 323P/SOHO in three orthogonal views. The left and middle panels show edge-on views of the nucleus that are 90° apart from each other, with its spin axis (the Z-axis) pointing upwards, while the nucleus is viewed in a pole-on configuration (the line of sight along the negative Z direction) in the right panel. Credit:Man-To Hui/David Tholen)
Observations with the Surbaru telescope, which has a wide field of view, marked the first time 323P/SOHO was captured by a ground-based telescope. With this data, the researchers were able to better constrain the orbit, and they knew where to point the other telescopes when 323P/SOHO started to move away from the Sun again.
To their surprise the researchers found that 323P/SOHO had changed remarkably during perihelion. In the Subaru Telescope data, 323P/SOHO was just a dot.
“However, in our post-perihelion observations, it developed a long, narrow tail mimicking a disintegrating cometary debris cloud,” the authors wrote in their paper.
They also found that 323P/SOHO’s color is unlike anything else in the Solar System. They says observations of other near-Sun comets are needed to see if they also share these traits.
The researchers said they believe that the intense radiation from the Sun caused parts of the comet to break off due to thermal fracturing, similar to how ice cubes crack when you pour a hot drink over them. This mass loss mechanism could help explain what happens to near-Sun comets and why there are so few of them.
The researchers hope to spot whatever remains of the comet on its next perihelion in order to learn more about it. But it will likely plunge into the Sun on one of the next close passes.
David Wilcock & Corey Goode: The Cosmic Secret Documentary
David Wilcock & Corey Goode: The Cosmic Secret Documentary
Author David Wilcock and an array of researchers, scientists and archaeologists offer their perspectives on humanity’s long-lost cosmic origins.
For time immemorial we have looked to the stars for answers to unlock our past. We have interpreted prophecy with the hope of predetermining our future, and yet questions remain. Who are we? Why are we here and what is our destiny? In “The Cosmic Secret,” David Wilcock & Corey Goode, along with researchers, scientists, and archeologists, try to answer these very questions.
What's Killing The Cattle In The USA? Three Theories And One Stands Out!!
What's Killing The Cattle In The USA? Three Theories And One Stands Out!!
What’s Killing The Cattle In The USA?
1. It is suggested heat is the cause of this, but if so, why hasn’t it happened like this before? Seems highly unlikely and unreasonable.
2. Zetatalk suggests these are methane deaths.
What would cause such a thing like this?? Maybe the cause was something like release of methane but I checked the last 9 days in that area. It hasn’t been any major earthquake around the zone. Would the zetas care to comment on this subject? [and from another] What’s killing the cattle in the USA? [and from another]
This week, temperatures reached up to 108 degrees Fahrenheit with little cooling factor from wind.
The clues as to what killed mass numbers of cows in Kansas is their behavior just before death. If overheated, they would not group together as this prevents cooling by wind. Grouping together is something the cows would do in the dead of Winter if trying to get warm. Why would a herd mass by the fence, as though trying to get away from something offensive? Methane deaths in sheep and antelope and especially fish and birds are of record during the 7 of 10 Plate Movements, and the entire Mainland of the US is being shifted westward at this time. These were methane deaths. https://zetatalk.com/ning/30ju2022.htm IITM: Now the methane theory seems more plausible, but it also FALSE! The reason being, is that the methane would have affected other animals, insects, birds etc… NO MASSIVE BIRD DIE-OFF, WHICH WOULD HAVE LIKELY HAPPENED AT THE SAME TIME. IF THE METHANE WAS LOW LEVEL, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN OTHER ANIMALS DEAD TOO. 3. What is the next theory to consider? Well… there are a few clues… i) the animals died near the fence. ii) only one species died iii) no humans died iv) there are several assaults against the food supply v) the elite want humans to eat bugs So the next reasonable theory is that this is a manmade cause of death. The military already have into use, microwave weapons, which they use to get crowds to disperse… but what if they can also use that same technology to CORRAL humans or cows into a gathered space? This event can have a two-fold purpose:
As a practice test for future events to now target cattle, as part of the food scarcity plan.
As a practice test for future events, to cattle humans into contained areas for mass disposal.
They call it ‘non-lethal’… do you believe they can’t turn up the juice?
Plane Investigates UFO Fleet And Gets Abducted! Tacoma, Washington June 17, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Plane Investigates UFO Fleet And Gets Abducted! Tacoma, Washington June 17, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 17, 2022
Location of sighting: Tacoma, Washington, USA Source: MUFON
Guys, this just in from Washington state. An eyewitness recorded a UFO fleet appearing in the sky over the water of Narrows Channel, which means these UFOs were appearing one by one before they shot off, or went down into the water. These UFOs are huge, about the size of two 747 jets and they are waiting for the whole group to gather before they leave. They are coming from an underwater alien base, 5km below the floor of the Narrows Channel. Awesome catch, rare sighting indeed! 100% proof that aliens live on this planet with us! What really makes this a doubly rare sighting is that fact that I see an small plane pass the UFOs and disappears near a UFO! A pilot investigated them close up, but looks like a public single engine aircraft got abducted in the process. Taken to the aliens home planet for further study.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was 10:30 on. The Sun had set a couple hours before, much lower in the trees. The moon was behind me and it was almost a new moon (no moon.) I often watch the sunset and had watched it this night. Later, after darkness fell, I looked out of my window and noticed some blue, glowing orbs high in the sky. I got my phone and immediately went out in the deck to start filming. My 7 year old grandson came out with me to watch them. Some faded out and then began to glow again. A plane began to fly toward it, entered a small cloud and did not emerge. This is on one of the videos. The positioning of these lights would be over the water above the Narrows Channel between Tacoma, WA and Gig Harbor, WA.
Diamond looking UFO over Morro Bay, California TODAY
Diamond looking UFO over Morro Bay, California TODAY
This bright unidentified flying object was filmed over Morro Bay, CA today (19th June 2022).
Witness report:
Thought it was a Father’s Day ballon at first then noticed how bright light reflected from object. Object seemed to elevate in altitude and was nearly impossible to find in sky until light reflected from surface.
Hey check this out. Two long metallic objects are seen on Mars sticking out off a huge rock. NASA tries to say these are metallic minerals that are visible due to the rock around them wearing away from windblown sand. However that is not the case here. What we see are two metal arms sticking out of an actual alien under that rock. I believe if you lift up this huge rock, you will find the remainder of the creature. I think something threw this huge rock on purpose to kill the alien creature attacking it. This creature has an exoskeleton...an outer skeleton like an insect would have. Thus, this is an intelligent insect species that was attacking and was killed here.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
NASA States:
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spotted these finger-like rocks with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on May 15, 2022, the 3,474th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. These likely formed as groundwater trickled through rock in the ancient past, depositing mineral cements over time; many years later, when the rock was exposed to the atmosphere, wind eroded the softer material around the cemented portions. The rocks were found on Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that Curiosity has been climbing since 2014.
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UFO Creates Wormhole In Sky Over Salem, Wisconsin, USA June 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Creates Wormhole In Sky Over Salem, Wisconsin, USA June 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Below the UFO is enlarged and has added shadow to bring out the detail of the UFO.
Date of sighting:June 19, 2022
Location of sighting: Salem, Wisconsin, USA
Email report
This UFO created a glowing ring around it in the night sky which may have been a cloud, or caused by its propulsion system slowing down or speeding up to quickly...revealing the wormhole it came from or was about to shoot into. Wisconsin in near the great lakes, which is a hotspot for UFO activity and is known for having incredible depth to them...which aliens love for making their bases deep under the lakes floor to stay out of the prying eyes of humans.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Looked like a moving star. Stopped then created a smoking ring and kept moving. Saw what looked like a moving star. It was moving then stopped for a second and saw a beam come from center and split into into two that went outward to make a partial circle and created a smoke ring and the object kept moving in almost a zig zag pattern.
Glowing Craft Seen Over Saint Michaels, Maryland On June 18, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Craft Seen Over Saint Michaels, Maryland On June 18, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 18, 2022
Location of sighting: Saint Michaels, Maryland, USA Email report
Hey this just in. An eyewitness in Maryland saw a glowing craft with three lights on holding position in the sky, then shooting away. The craft was silent as it moved. UFOs come in all shapes, sizes and colors. But one thing they all have in common, they leave us stunned after we see them. It changes us forever, changes how we see the world around us, changes how we see our own existence and that of the universe. We live in an amazing place and time.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
A large object, with 3 lights (non pulsating) appeared stationary, then began moving west/south-west in a very slow pace, before disappearing. Total observation time was under a minute. Lights may have simply turned off or object moved due South, where lights were no longer visible, however the lights were so bright, we should have been able to still make something out. It did not make noise. It did not have the traditional red or green starboard and port airline lights. 3 large solid lights only.
China has claimed that it may have received a message from an alien civilisation using its $180 million Sky Eye telescope, according to reports.
Sky Eye, a 1,640-foot-diameter telescope based in China's Guizhou province, has detected unusual electromagnetic signals that scientists claim could have alien origins.
The news was revealed in a report by Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, based in Beijing.
But according to Bloomberg, Science and Technology Daily deleted the report shortly after it was posted, although it's uncertain why.
China claims to have received a message from an alien civilisation, mysterious radio signals suggest (file photo)
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, is based in a natural basin in Guizhou
The FAST telescope
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, is a telescope in Guizhou, China.
With a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), it's the world's largest full dish radio telescope.
It's based in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Guizhou.
It was launched in September 2020 specifically to search for alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets – planets outside our solar system.
'Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of life beyond Earth, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery,' Bloomberg says.
'The news had already started trending on social network Weibo and was picked up by other media outlets, including state-run ones.'
The Science and Technology Daily report cited Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of China and the University of California, Berkeley.
The team detected two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while processing data collected in 2019, and found another suspicious signal in 2022 while observing exoplanets – planets outside our solar system.
Zhang said the suspicious signals could also be some kind of radio interference, so further investigation is required.
MailOnline has contacted the National Astronomical Observatory of China for comment.
Currently, no life beyond Earth has ever been found, but this does not mean that the universe is lifeless other than on Earth, according to NASA.
The US space agency says: 'While no clear signs of life have ever been detected, the possibility of extraterrestrial biology – the scientific logic that supports it – has grown increasingly plausible.'
Due to its size, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, has one of the best chances of discovering alien life.
It was launched in September 2020 specifically to search interstellar communication signals that suggest alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets.
As its official name suggests, FAST has a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), making it the world’s largest full dish radio telescope.
The dish-like telescope, as large as 30 football fields, costed 1.2 billion yuan (about $180 million)
Engineers work at the control centre for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) on February 3, 2021 in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China
It's able to scan twice the sky area covered by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the previous record holder for the largest single-aperture radio telescope in the world.
FAST can deliver readings between three and five times more sensitive than those from Arecibo Observatory, which is why scientists have been hopeful the telescope could lead to a breakthrough in the search for alien life.
A 65-person village was destroyed before construction of FAST began, and more than 9,000 people in the surrounding countryside were forced to relocate to create a three-mile radius around the telescope without any electromagnetic interference.
According to government officials, each person was given the equivalent of $1,800 in compensation for the relocation.
ALIEN LIFE MAY BE TOO SCARED OF 'DANGEROUS' HUMANS, EXPERT CLAIMS
Sci-fi films and TV shows have routinely depicted a brutal race of aliens visiting Earth in their spaceships and enslaving unfortunate Earthlings.
But according to one expert, extraterrestrial life may actually be too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans to want to come here.
Dr Gordon Gallup, a biopsychologist at the University of Albany, argues that humans are 'dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war'.
As an example, Dr Gallup cites 'the total destruction of the highly advanced Aztec and Inca civilizations' and the subsequent genocide of the native people, their temples and buildings destroyed and their wealth and natural resources stolen.
For this reason, aliens with the technological capability of making a visit to Earth – if they exist – are likely inclined to stay away for fear of death and genocide, according to Dr Gallup.
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China claims to have caught signals from extraterrestrial civilizations
China claims to have caught signals from extraterrestrial civilizations
China’s Sky Eye
As shown in a report by the country Science and Technology Daily, China’s gigantic Sky Eye observatory may have picked up signals of alien civilizations. The news and posts about this finding subsequently appeared to be erased.
The world’s largest radio telescope, Sky Eye, had detected narrow-band electromagnetic signals, which were different from those previously captured, according to the report, which quotes Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatory, and also the University of California, Berkeley.
However, the news already had gained traction on the social network Weibo and was picked up by several other media outlets, including government ones, it is unclear why the study was evidently taken offline by the Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s science and technology ministry.
Sky Eye, which has a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet) and is located in China’s southwestern Guizhou region, formally commenced a search for alien life in September 2020. According to the paper, the team discovered two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while processing data acquired in 2019, and another suspect signal in 2022 from observation data of exoplanet targets.
According to Zhang, China’s Sky Eye is particularly sensitive to the low-frequency radio band and plays a crucial role in the hunt for extraterrestrial civilizations.
However, the odd signals might possibly be radio interference, requiring additional research, he warned.
In this Exopolitics Today interview, Laura Eisenhower, the great granddaughter of President ‘Ike’ Eisenhower, discusses how she got involved in UFO and esoteric related topics. She discusses her family background and the meetings Ike had with different extraterrestrial groups, especially with Valiant Thor.
Laura explains how Ike was betrayed by the MJ-12 Group which made agreements with a negative extraterrestrial group without his approval that led to him being on the verge of authorizing the US Army to invade Area 51 to take control of classified extraterrestrial projects. She also explains an attempt by the Deep State/Cabal to recruit her to go to Mars 2006, where she would have been prevented from taking part in the great awakening happening right now on Earth. Laura shares her many insights into metaphysics, astrology, key figures in her spiritual work, and humanity’s great awakening.
A Rare Repeating Fast Radio Burst Gives Astronomers a Chance to Study These Mysterious Objects
A Rare Repeating Fast Radio Burst Gives Astronomers a Chance to Study These Mysterious Objects
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are among the most mysterious astronomical phenomena facing astronomers today. While hundreds of bursts have been detected since the first-ever recorded detection of an FRB in 2007 – the Lorimer Burst – astronomers are still unsure what causes them. Even more mysterious, some have occasionally been found to be repeating in nature, which has fueled speculation that they may not be natural in origin (i.e., possible alien transmissions?). Astronomers are naturally very excited whenever a repeating FRB is found, as it gives them the chance to examine them closer.
In a recent survey, an international team of scientists used three major telescopes worldwide to study a repeating FRB (known as FRB 190520) that was first observed in 2019. According to their observations, this particular FRB is not just a repeating source from a compact object but a persistent one that emits low-level bursts of radio waves between larger ones. These findings raise new questions about the nature of these mysterious objects and how they can be used as tools to probe the space between stars and galaxies.
FRBs are short-lived, intense blasts of radio energy that typically last for a few milliseconds and are never heard from again. The first FRB was detected in 2007 by Duncan Lorimer, an astronomer at West Virginia University (hence the name “Lorimer Burst “) and several hundred have been detected ever since. Whereas most FRBs detected have been one-off events, a few have been repeating in nature and have even been traced back to their sources.
Because of these efforts, astronomers have found a strong link between repeating FRBs and magnetars, a highly-magnetized type of neutron star. Combined with global coordination efforts, astronomers have gathered a huge amount of data on these transient objects to the point that their transient nature is no longer impeding research into them.
Two of a Kind
FRB 190520 was first noticed by scientists at China’s FAST array on May 20th, 2019, after sifting through data obtained in November of that year. Follow-up observations conducted with FAST immediately afterward showed that this source was repeating in nature. In 2020, observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) pinpoint the object’s location, while visible-light observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii showed that this placed it in the outskirts of a dwarf galaxy nearly 3 billion light-years from Earth.
The data obtained with the VLA also determined that the object constantly emits weaker radio waves between bursts. These observations provided the first information about the environment and distance of an FRB, which constituted a major breakthrough in the study of these objects. However, the combination of repeating bursts and persistent radio emissions from a compact region meant that this discovery was only the second of its kind. As Caltech astronomer (and study co-author) Casey Law explained, the only other object of this kind was FRB 121102, which was spotted in 2016.
“These characteristics make this one look a lot like the very first FRB whose position was determined — also by the VLA — back in 2016,” she said. “Now we have two like this, and that brings up some important questions.” The differences between these two sources and all others detected to date strengthen the possibility that there may be two distinct types of FRBs, something astronomers have long suspected.
Possible Explanations
The team proposed that these results could indicate one of two things. First, there’s the possibility that there may be different mechanisms producing the two types of FRBs observed (single events and repeating) or that the objects producing them may be at different stages in their evolution. As noted, the leading candidates for FRBs are thought to be neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields – called magnetars. But after examining FRB 190520, they came to the tentative conclusion that it may be a “newborn” neutron star.
Essentially, this means that the neutron star is still surrounded by dense clouds of dust and gas, which are the remains of the star’s outer layers that were ejected when it went supernova. The presence of this material, they claim, would explain the effect the source’s radio waves had on the surrounding environment. Like pulsars, FRBs affect the dust and gas that lies between star systems and galaxies, which astronomers can study to learn more about the material. For instance, when radio waves pass through space containing free electrons, higher-frequency waves travel faster than low-frequency waves.
The region of FRB 190520 with the VLA image of the Fast Radio Burst alternating between the object bursting and not bursting. Credit: Niu, et al.; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; CFHT
This effect is known as “dispersion” and can be measured to determine the density of electrons in interstellar or intergalactic space. In instances where the density of electrons in the intervening space is known, FRBs can also be used to determine the distance between a source and Earth. When the team attempted to make distance measurements based on the dispersion effect FRB 190520 had on the surrounding gas and dust, the results indicated a distance of roughly 8 to 9.5 billion light-years. However, independent measurements based on the source’s Doppler shift produced an estimate of almost 3 billion light-years.
This explanation has multiple implications for the study of FRBs. For one, it demonstrates that repeating bursts could be characteristic of younger neutron stars and that these FRBs dwindle with age as the gas and dust clouds surrounding them dissipate. Second, it raises questions about how useful FRBs could be in determining the distances between celestial objects and the density of the space between them. Said Aggarwal:
“This means that there is a lot of material near the FRB that would confuse any attempt to use it to measure the gas between galaxies. If that’s the case with others, then we can’t count on using FRBs as cosmic yardsticks.”
While it is clear that many questions remain about the sources and mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts, the progress being made in this field is astounding. Only fifteen years ago, astronomers had observed one for the first time and didn’t realize they came in two distinct forms. Today, FRBs are being detected and tracked by the hundreds, and astronomers are getting closer to determining the key characteristics of both types. In this sense, the field of FRB research is right up there with research into Gravitational Waves (GW), infrared astronomy, exoplanet studies, astrobiology, and others that are progressing by leaps and bounds!
Crashed Extraterrestrial Vehicle Retrieval Manual in Governmental The Majestic Documents: Origins and Impact Today
Crashed Extraterrestrial Vehicle Retrieval Manual in Governmental The Majestic Documents: Origins and Impact Today
Dr. Robert Wood and Ryan Wood have been investigating leaked Majestic Documents since 1994 when the former was given a leaked copy of an apparent official document used by military personnel for retrieval operations of crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. Dr. Wood had only a year earlier retired from a 43 year career with McDonnell Douglas/Douglas Aircraft company as an aerospace scientist on projects such as the Project Nike anti-missile defense system. He was helped in his document investigation by his son Ryan – who currently runs an alternative energy company. After a rigorous forensic investigation they concluded the SOM document was authentic. Over the subsequent years the Woods team have investigated many official documents that have security classifications such as MAJIC, MJ-12, MAJESTIC, JEHOVAH, and UMBRA.
Dr. Robert Wood and Ryan Wood have been investigating leaked Majestic Documents since 1994 when the former was given a leaked copy of an apparent official document used by military personnel for retrieval operations of crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. Dr. Wood had only a year earlier retired from a 43 year career with McDonnell Douglas/Douglas Aircraft company as an aerospace scientist on projects such as the Project Nike anti-missile defense system. He was helped in his document investigation by his son Ryan – who currently runs an alternative energy company. After a rigorous forensic investigation they concluded the SOM document was authentic.
Over the subsequent years the Woods team have investigated many official documents that have security classifications such as MAJIC, MJ-12, MAJESTIC, JEHOVAH, and UMBRA. These have been compiled on a website created by Ryan called MajesticDocuments.com. He cited many Majestic Documents in his groundbreaking 2005 book, Majic Eyes Only, where he examined 74 crash retrieval cases.
In their first joint interview with Dr. Michael Salla, the Woods discuss how they got involved in researching the Majestic Documents, the contents of key documents for understanding UFO history. Especially significant was their research into the Burned Memo document which they concluded is linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for his efforts to declassify the UFO topic.
These have been compiled on a website created by Ryan called MajesticDocuments.com. He cited many Majestic Documents in his groundbreaking 2005 book, Majic Eyes Only, where he examined 74 crash retrieval cases. In their first joint interview with Dr. Michael Salla, the Woods discuss how they got involved in researching the Majestic Documents, the contents of key documents for understanding UFO history. Especially significant was their research into the Burned Memo document which they concluded is linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for his efforts to declassify the UFO topic. More information about Dr. Robert Wood and Ryan Wood is available at MajesticDocuments.com
Strange Disney Movie Proves In 1959 They Were Able To Move a Hurricane!
Strange Disney Movie Proves In 1959 They Were Able To Move a Hurricane!
In 1959 They Were Able To Move a Hurricane! A Walt Disney Presentation? BEOFRE we look to ‘Space Force’ lets analyze our past. Can you handle the truth? Examine the Past, Before we move Forward. #SpaceForce #Nasa #Dorian2019
The Banned Disney UFO Documentary: Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland
The Banned Disney UFO Documentary: Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland
“Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland” BANNED DISNEY UFO DOCUMENTARY In March of 1995, without warning, Disney aired a family special. the documentary was so controversial that it was pulled from the airwaves and banned from ever being shown again. Robert Urich, the legendary Jim Street in S.W.A.T. (1975), is the host of this voyage around the UFO’s and its mystery.
From New Tomorrowland, in Disneyland, Urich talks about UFO, contacts, evidence of it arrives, abductions, military documents, and other things that surround this controversial thematic. From the 30′s years ahead, the UFOs always have been there very close to us, every day, every time. Exist the aliens?,in truth, they come to planet Earth? Could it be a fiction created by the military?
And the last and most important question: if they exist, would they will be our friends…or our enemies? Written by Chockys
NASA Lies Again Announcing Formation of Committee To Investigate UFOs! UFO Sighting News.
NASA Lies Again Announcing Formation of Committee To Investigate UFOs! UFO Sighting News.
NASA was created on July 29, 1958 in order to hide the existence of aliens from the public. Yeah its different than you thought, but its 100% true.
This week NASA announced that its assembling a team to research the possibility of UFOs existing. Thats like asking a lion to kindly watch over and protect your baby lamb for a few days while you are away. The truth is NASA will create the UFO committee the same way and purpose that NASA itself was created for...to hide the truth about the existence of aliens from the public, but all the while drop feeding worthless scientific facts to the public which is meant to appease the curiosity of the public.
I can give you a list of ten astronauts who each say they saw a UFO and give you word for word what they say about it. So if you want to go and believe a fake committee that is being created to discredit and disinform the public about the truth, go right ahead. However for over 64 years NASA has lived up to its public nickname, Never A Straight Answer.
There is one and only one way for the truth to come out. For the public to hunt it down, grab it, and drag it out into the public square for all to see (Social Media). Only the public can reveal the truth, only the public has the trust of other people. The other countries around the world lost trust in America after the fake moon landings to make the USA appear as a world power...which by the way, are listed as fakes in lots of student history books worldwide.
Hey, I found this huge wall that crosses the right side of the south pole on Mars. The wall measures 250km long and about 45km tall. The ruler to get those measurements are on the bottom of the photo, placed there by NASA so you know its accurate. There are also a lot of other structures, a city, some 30km alien ships in craters, some square bases in craters and more. So many things in this photo, but understand, it was colorful, but I changed the photo into black and white so that I could see the structures better. Otherwise, it would be impossible to see.
In a ten minute video, I revealed more than NASA did in the last 50 years! Do you still believe NASA offering to help research UFOs is a true offer of help from them? Because if you do, then I got a 30km aliens ship on Mars I want to sell you.
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Space Relic Uncovered at UFO Crash Site
Space Relic Uncovered at UFO Crash Site
Ancient Astronaut Theorists travel to central New Mexico to examine a UFO crash site related to Roswell, in this clip from Season 15, “The Relics of Roswell.”
Civilizations Don’t Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
Civilizations Don’t Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave themain sequence and become a red giant. It’ll expand and transform into a glowering, malevolent ball and consume and destroy Mercury, Venus, Earth, and probably Mars. Can humanity survive the Sun’s red giant phase? Extraterrestrial Civilizations (ETCs) may have already faced this existential threat.
Could they have survived it by migrating to another star system without the use of spaceships?
Universe Today readers are well-versed in the difficulties of interstellar travel. Our nearest neighbouring solar system is the Alpha Centauri system. If humanity had to flee an existential threat in our Solar System, and if we could identify a planetary home in Alpha Centauri, it would still take us over four years to get there—if we could travel at the speed of light!
It still takes us five years to get an orbiter to Jupiter at our technological stage. There’s lots of talk about generation starships, where humans could live for generations while en route to a distant habitable planet. Those ships don’t need to reach anywhere near the speed of light; instead, entire generations of humans would live and die on a journey to another star that takes hundreds or thousands of years. It’s fun to think about but pure fantasy at this point.
This is an image of the Nauvoo generation ship from “The Expanse.” Generation ships are the stuff of science fiction, for now. Image Credit: Legendary Television Distribution.
Is there another way we, or other civilizations, could escape our doomed homes?
The author of a new research article in the International Journal of Astrobiology says that ETCs may not need starships to escape existential threats and travel to another star system. They could instead use free-floating planets, also known as rogue planets. The article is “Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization: implications for SETI and SETA.” The author is Irina Romanovskaya. Romanovskaya is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Houston Community College.
“I propose that extraterrestrial civilizations may use free-floating planets as interstellar transportation to reach, explore and colonize planetary systems,” Romanovskaya writes. And when it comes to the search for other civilizations, these efforts could leave technosignatures and artifacts. “I propose possible technosignatures and artifacts that may be produced by extraterrestrial civilizations using free-floating planets for interstellar migration and interstellar colonization, as well as strategies for the search for their technosignatures and artifacts,” she said.
It’s possible that rogue planets, either in the Milky Way or some of the other hundreds of billions of galaxies, carry their own life with them in subsurface oceans kept warm by radiogenic decay. Then if they meet a star and become gravitationally bound, that life has effectively used a rogue planet to transport itself, hopefully, to somewhere more hospitable. So why couldn’t a civilization mimic that?
We think of free-floating planets as dark, cold, and inhospitable. And they are unless they have warm subsurface oceans. But they also offer some advantages. “Free-floating planets can provide constant surface gravity, large amounts of space and resources,” Romanovskaya writes. “Free-floating planets with surface and subsurface oceans can provide water as a consumable resource and for protection from space radiation.”
An advanced civilization could also engineer the planet for an even greater advantage by steering it and developing energy sources. Romanovskaya suggests that if we’re on the verge of using controlled fusion, then advanced civilizations might already be using it, which could change a frigid rogue planet into something that could support life.
The author outlines four scenarios where ETCs could take advantage of rogue planets.
The first scenario involves a rogue planet that happens to pass by the homeworld of an ETC. How often that might occur is tied to the number of rogue planets in general. So far, we don’t know how many there are, but there are certainly some. In 2021, a team of researchers announced the discovery of between 70 and 170 rogue planets, each the size of Jupiter, in one region of the Milky Way. And in 2020, one study suggested there could be as many as 50 billion of them in our galaxy.
Where do they all come from? Most are likely ejected from their solar systems due to gravitational events, but some may form via accretion as stars do.
Another source of rogue planets is our Solar System’s Oort Cloud. If other systems also have a cloud of objects like this, they can be an abundant source of rogue planets ejected by stellar activity. Romanovskaya writes: “Stars with 1–7 times solar mass undergoing the post-main-sequence evolution, as well as a supernova from a 7–20 times solar mass progenitor, can eject Oort-cloud objects from their systems so that such objects become unbound from their host stars.”
But how often can an ETC, or our civilization, expect a rogue planet to come close enough to hitchhike on? A 2015 study showed that the binary star W0720 (Scholz’s star) passed through our Solar System’s Oort Cloud about 70,000 years ago. While that was a star and not a planet, it shows that objects pass relatively close by. If the studies that predict billions of free-floating planets are correct, then some of them likely passed close by, or right through, the Oort Cloud long before we had the means to detect them.
The Oort Cloud is a long way away, but a sufficiently advanced civilization could have the capability to see a rogue planet approaching and go out and meet it.µ
Zooming out; the inner solar system (upper left), the outer solar system (upper right), the orbit of Sedna (lower right) and the inner edge of the Oort cloud (lower left). Image credit: NASA
The second scenario involves using technology to steer a rogue planet closer to a civilization’s home. With sufficient technology, they could choose an object from their own Oort Cloud—assuming they have one—and use a propulsion system to direct it towards a safe orbit near their planet. With sufficient lead time, they could adapt the object to their needs, for example, by building underground shelters and other infrastructure. Maybe, with adequate technology, they could alter or create an atmosphere.
The third scenario is similar to the second one. It also involves an object from the civilization’s outer Solar System. Romanovskaya uses the dwarf planet Sedna in our Solar System as an example. Sedna has a highly eccentric orbit that takes it from 76 AUs from the Sun to 937 AU in about 11,000 years. With sufficient technology and lead time, an object like Sedna could be turned into an escape ship. The author notes that “Civilizations capable of doing so would be advanced civilizations that already have their planetary systems explored to the distances of at least 60 AU from their host stars.”
Artist’s conception of Sedna, a dwarf planet in the solar system that only gets within 76 astronomical units (Earth-sun distances) of our Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
There are lots of potential problems. Bringing a dwarf planet from the distant reaches of the Solar System into the inner Solar System could disrupt the orbits of other planets, leading to all sorts of hazards. But the dangers are mitigated if a civilization around a post-main sequence star has already migrated outward with the changing habitable zone. Romanovskaya discusses the energy needed and the timing required in more detail in her article.
The fourth scenario also involves objects like Sedna. When a star leaves the main sequence and expands, there’s a critical distance where objects will be ejected from the system rather than remain gravitationally bound to the dying star. If an ETC could accurately determine when these objects would be ejected as rogue planets, they could prepare it beforehand and ride it out of the dying solar system. That could be extraordinarily perilous, as periods of violent mass loss from the star creates an enormous hazard.
Three rings of ejected gas sail away from an aging star named V Hydrae, seen in this false-colour radio image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile. Image Credit: ALMA
In all of these scenarios, the rogue planet or other body isn’t a permanent home; it’s a lifeboat. “For all the above scenarios, free-floating planets may not serve as a permanent means of escape from existential threats,” the author explains. “Because of the waning heat production in their interior, such planets eventually fail to sustain oceans of liquid water (if such oceans exist).”
Free-floating planets are also isolated and have fewer resources than planets in a solar system. There are no asteroids to mine, for example, and no free solar energy. There are no seasons and no night and day. There are no plants, animals, or even bacteria. They’re simply a means to an end. “Therefore, instead of making free-floating planets their permanent homes, extraterrestrial civilizations would use the free-floating planets as interstellar transportation to reach and colonize other planetary systems,” writes Romanovskaya.
In her article, Professor Romanovskaya speculates where this could lead. She envisions a civilization that does this more than once, not to escape a dying star but to spread throughout a galaxy and colonize it. “In this way, the parent-civilization may create unique and autonomous daughter-civilizations inhabiting different planets, moons or regions of space.”
“A civilization of Cosmic Hitchhikers would act as a ‘parent-civilization’ spreading the seeds of ‘daughter-civilizations’ in the form of its colonies in planetary systems,” she writes. “This applies to both biological and post-biological species.”
Artist’s rendering of an Earth-sized rogue planet approaching a star. Credit: Christine Pulliam (CfA)
Humanity is only in the early stages of protecting ourselves from catastrophic asteroid impacts, and we can’t yet manage our planet’s climate with any degree of stability. So thinking about using rogue planets to keep humanity alive seems pretty far-fetched. But Romanovskaya’s research isn’t about us; it’s about detecting other civilizations.
All of this activity could create technosignatures and artifacts that signified the presence of an ETC. The research article outlines what they might be and how we could detect them. Rogue planets used as lifeboats could create technosignatures like electromagnetic emissions or other phenomena.
An ETC could use solar sails to control a rogue planet or use them on a spaceship launched from a rogue planet once they have reached their destination. In either case, solar sails produce a technosignature: cyclotron radiation. Maneuvering either a spacecraft or a rogue planet with solar sails would produce “… cyclotron radiation caused by the interaction of the interstellar medium with the magnetic sail.”
Infrared emissions could be another technosignature emitted as waste heat by an ETC on a rogue planet. An excessive amount of infrared or unnatural changes in the amount of infrared could be detected as a technosignature. Infrared could be emitted unevenly across the planet’s surface, indicating underlying engineering or technology. An unusual mix of different wavelengths of electromagnetic energy could also be a technosignature.
The atmosphere itself, if one existed, could also hold technosignatures. Depending on what was observed, it could contain evidence of terraforming.
For now, astronomers don’t know how many rogue planets there are or if they’re concentrated in some areas of the galaxy. We’re at the starting line when it comes to figuring these things out. But soon, we may get a better idea.
The Vera Rubin Observatory should see first light by 2023. This powerful observatory will image the entire available sky every few nights, and it’ll do it in fine detail. It houses the largest digital camera ever made: a 3.2 gigabyte CCD.
In Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is under construction at Cerro Pachon. This image shows construction progress in late 2019. The VCO should be able to spot rogue planets that approach our Solar System. Image Credit: Wil O’Mullaine/LSST CC BY-SA 4.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62504391
The Vera Rubin will be especially good at detecting transients, that is, anything that changes position or brightness in a couple of days. It’ll have a good chance of spotting any interlopers like rogue planets that might approach our Solar System.
There’s a strong possibility that some of those rogue planets will exhibit unusual emissions or puzzling phenomena. Scientists will probably puzzle over them as they did over Oumuamua.
Maybe another civilization more advanced than us has already faced an existential threat from their dying star. Maybe they made a Herculean effort to capture a rogue planet and engineer it to suit their needs. Maybe they’ve already boarded it and launched it towards a distant, stable, long-lived yellow star, with rocky planets in its habitable zone. Maybe they’re wondering if there’s any life at their destination and how they might be received after their long journey.
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INTERSTELLAIR REIZEN ZONDER STERRENSCHIP: ALIENS DOEN HET MISSCHIEN!
INTERSTELLAIR REIZEN ZONDER STERRENSCHIP: ALIENS DOEN HET MISSCHIEN!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Mogelijk reizen aliens niet met sterrenschepen, maar op complete, maar eenzame planeten door de interstellaire ruimte.
Met dat idee komt professor Irina Mullins in het International Journal of Astrobiology op de proppen. “Ik stel voor dat buitenaardse beschavingen ook gebruik kunnen maken van weesplaneten (planeten die niet gebonden zijn aan een ster, maar eenzaam door de ruimte dwalen, red.) als interstellaire transportmiddelen om andere planetaire systemen te bereiken, verkennen en koloniseren.” Dat lijkt misschien een beetje vergezocht, maar er zit een fascinerende gedachtengang achter die ook weer heel interessante implicaties kent. Bijvoorbeeld voor onze zoektocht naar buitenaards leven.
Op reis Aliens kunnen verschillende redenen hebben om hun thuisplaneten te verlaten. Uit nieuwsgierigheid bijvoorbeeld: omdat ze benieuwd zijn naar wat er buiten hun eigen stelsel te vinden is. Of uit noodzaak: omdat een existentiële dreiging – ziekte, klimaatverandering, oorlog, een stervende moederster, etc. – hen dwingt om uit hun vertrouwde omgeving weg te vluchten. Met name in het laatste scenario lopen (ook geavanceerde) aliens echter waarschijnlijk al snel tegen problemen aan, zo schrijft Mullins. “Ze zouden waarschijnlijk op serieuze of onoverkoombare problemen stuiten wanneer ze een ruimtevaartuig willen gebruiken om grote populaties over interstellaire afstanden te transporteren.”
Weesplaneet Het zette Mullins aan het denken. Want hoe zouden geavanceerde beschavingen zich anders kunnen verplaatsen? “En toen bedacht ik dat buitenaardse beschavingen een lift konden krijgen van weesplaneten die door hun planetaire systeem trekken,” zo vertelt ze aan Scientias.nl.
Meeliften op zo’n weesplaneet heeft verschillende voordelen ten opzichte van een sterrenschip. “Weesplaneten kunnen constant zwaartekracht, maar ook veel ruimte en grondstoffen bieden,” zo schrijft Mullins. Denk onder meer aan water aan of net onder het oppervlak van weesplaneten: aliens kunnen het consumeren of gebruiken – bijvoorbeeld door een onderzees habitat te creëren – om zich te beschermen tegen eventuele gevaarlijke straling afkomstig uit de ruimte.
Een lift vinden Maar om mee te kunnen liften op zo’n weesplaneet – en gebruik te kunnen maken van alles wat zo’n planeet te bieden heeft – moet je er natuurlijk eerst wel op zien te komen. Dat kan op verschillende manieren, zo schrijft Mullins. Zo kunnen aliens simpelweg wachten tot zo’n weesplaneet door hun planetaire systeem reist. “Wetenschappelijke studies suggereren dat het aantal weesplaneten weleens groter kan zijn dan het aantal sterren in de Melkweg. Dat vergroot de kans dat weesplaneten door de buitenste regionen van planetaire systemen reizen.” Wanneer aliens die buitenste regionen van hun stelsel gekoloniseerd hebben, hoeven ze met hun ruimtevaartuigen maar een kleine afstand te overbruggen om zo’n passerende weesplaneet te koloniseren.
Heft in eigen hand Het nadeel van die aanpak is natuurlijk wel dat je maar af moet wachten wanneer zo’n weesplaneet op komt dagen. En dat is zeker in het geval van een existentiële dreiging niet ideaal, zo erkent Mullins. Geavanceerde beschavingen kunnen het heft dan ook in eigen hand nemen en op zoek gaan naar een nabije weesplaneet en de koers daarvan aanpassen. “Geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen kunnen ook technologieën gebruiken om passerende weesplaneten richting hun planetaire systeem te sturen, zodat hun soort naar de passerende weesplaneet kan reizen.”
Een weesplaneet maken Een andere mogelijkheid is dat aliens naar een (dwerg)planeet in hun eigen planetaire stelsel reizen en deze vervolgens losmaken van de invloed van de moederster, zodat de planeet transformeert tot weesplaneet. “Ze (de aliens, red.) kunnen dan geavanceerde aandrijfsystemen en zwaartekrachtsslingers gebruiken om Sedna-achtige objecten (Sedna is een dwergplaneet aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel, red.) uit hun eigen planetaire systemen te slingeren.” Het is een aanpak die echter alleen voor de geavanceerdere buitenaardse beschavingen is weggelegd. “Met de aandrijfsystemen die daarvoor nodig zijn, zouden de aliens eeuwen voorlopen op onze ruimtetechnologie.”
Een duwtje van de moederster Dwergplaneten kunnen overigens ook door de moederster zelf uit hun planetaire systemen worden gegooid. En wel wanneer zo’n moederster stervende is en transformeert tot een rode reus of supernova. In dat geval is er voor eventuele aliens in het hart van het planetaire stelsel overigens genoeg reden om zich uit de voeten te maken. In theorie zouden ze daarbij relatief dicht bij huis over kunnen stappen op een object met een zeer excentrische (ovaalvormige) baan. Dat object voert ze dan naar de buitenste regionen van hun planetaire stelsel waar ze over kunnen stappen op een dwergplaneet die dan in een later stadium door de stervende moederster uit het planetaire systeem wordt geslingerd en zo een weesplaneet wordt.
Transportmiddel, geen thuis In sommige van de hierboven beschreven scenario’s zijn geavanceerde aandrijfsystemen nodig, in andere niet. Maar in alle scenario’s is het resultaat hetzelfde: de buitenaardse beschavingen eindigen op een planeet die eenzaam door de ruimte dwaalt. Zo’n planeet moeten we echt zien als een alternatief voor het interstellaire sterrenschip en niet als een nieuw thuis, zo benadrukt Miller. Want weesplaneten zijn op lange termijn weinig gastvrij. “Door de afnemende hitteproductie in hun binnenste zullen zulke planeten er niet in slagen om hun met vloeibaar water gevulde oceanen (als die er zijn) te handhaven. Daarnaast hebben weesplaneten minder grondstoffen te bieden dan planetaire systemen. Daarom zouden buitenaardse beschavingen ze ook niet tot hun permanente thuis maken, maar enkel gebruiken als een interstellair transportmiddel waarmee andere planetaire systemen bereikt en gekoloniseerd kunnen worden.”
Sturen Eenmaal op zo’n weesplaneet is het natuurlijk wel zaak dat de aliens uiteindelijk bij een nieuw thuis aanmeren. “Aliens kunnen hun weesplaneet in de interstellaire ruimte sturen door gebruik te maken van aandrijftechnologieën, wellicht aangevuld met zwaartekrachtsslingers,” vertelt Mullins aan Scientias.nl. “Of ze moeten gewoon wachten tot hun weesplaneet een ander planetair systeem op eigen houtje weet te bereiken.”
Aanneembaar scenario? Of aliens zich werkelijk – hun weesplaneet al dan niet bijsturend waar nodig – door het universum verplaatsen, blijft natuurlijk gissen. Maar voor Mullins is het zeker geen ondenkbaar scenario. “Wetenschappelijke studies vertellen ons dat het onmogelijk is om schepen te bouwen waarmee complete beschavingen tussen de sterren kunnen reizen,” zo vertelt ze aan Scientias.nl. “We weten dat sterren sterven als ze ouder worden. We weten dat mensen instinctief hun hachje willen redden en andere beschavingen zouden er ook zo in kunnen staan. Dus wanneer hun moedersterren stervende zijn, zullen geavanceerde intelligente soorten zoeken naar ontsnappingsmogelijkheden. Omdat grote sterrenschepen geen optie zijn, zullen ze naar andere methoden zoeken.” En weesplaneten – of door de aliens tot weesplaneet gemaakte dwergplaneten – zijn dan een logische optie. “Weesplaneten met al hun grondstoffen en oceanen gevuld met water, bieden alles wat buitenaardse wezens tijdens hun interstellaire reizen nodig hebben.”
Op zoek Voor Mullins zijn aliens die meeliften op een weesplaneet dus een reële mogelijkheid. En wat haar betreft, vullen we onze zoektocht naar intelligent buitenaards leven (ook wel aangeduid als SETI) spoedig aan met een zoektocht naar migrerend intelligent leven (Mullins noemt dat: SMETI). “Wetenschappers zoeken traditioneel naar technosignaturen (sporen van buitenaardse technologieën die hinten op de aanwezigheid van intelligent leven, red.) in de leefbare zone van planetaire systemen met daarin een ster die vergelijkbaar of kleiner is dan onze zon. Dat zijn aantrekkelijke plaatsen voor leven. Maar na zestig jaar zoeken hebben we nog steeds niets gevonden. Sommige wetenschappers denken dan ook dat naarmate buitenaardse beschavingen geavanceerder worden, deze hun technologieën zo gebruiken dat ze meer opgaan in hun omgeving en op interstellaire afstanden lastiger detecteerbaar worden.” Maar wanneer zo’n beschaving (noodgedwongen) koers zet naar andere planetaire systemen, moeten er technologieën gebruikt worden die een stuk opvallender zijn en daarmee zou het ook iets gemakkelijker moeten zijn om die aliens op te zoeken.
Alleen moeten we dan wel op een andere plek gaan zoeken; niet nabij zonachtige sterren, maar bijvoorbeeld juist aan de rand van planetaire systemen, alwaar aliens wellicht bezig zijn om een dwergplaneet los te maken van de moederster of juist wachten op een langs scherende weesplaneet. Daarnaast zouden ook door sterren ingevangen weesplaneten goede plaatsen kunnen zijn om op zoek te gaan naar sporen van leven. Net als de omgeving van stervende sterren; daar kunnen zomaar op een dwerg- of weesplaneet gevluchte aliens worden aangetroffen, zo is de gedachte. Het maakt de traditionele zoektocht naar buitenaards leven niet overbodig, zo benadrukt Mullins, maar kan gezien worden als een aanvulling daarop. “Ik zou willen zeggen dat mijn onderzoeksartikel een oproep is om het SETI-programma uit te breiden.”
Ten slotte kan het onderzoek ook implicaties hebben voor ons mensen, want Mullins presenteert een vorm van transport die niet alleen interessant kan zijn voor eventuele aliens, maar waar ook wij (of beter gezegd: ons nageslacht) bij gebaat zou kunnen zijn. “Net als buitenaardse wezens kan de mensheid weesplaneten gebruiken om andere planetaire systemen te bereiken,” stelt Mullins. “Dat zou dan wel iets voor de verre toekomst zijn; wanneer onze ruimtevaarttechnologie veel verder ontwikkeld is.”
Hubble-telescoop ontdekt geïsoleerd en op drift geslagen zwart gat in ons Melkwegstelsel
Naar schatting ‘dwalen’ er zo’n 100 miljoen zwarte gaten rond in ons Melkwegstelsel, maar gezien zwarte gaten geen licht uitzenden, is het extreem moeilijk om ze op te sporen. Dat er nu eentje gevonden werd dat zich met een snelheid van 150.000 kilometer per uur - volledig geïsoleerd - voortbeweegt doorheen ons sterrenstelsel, is vrij uniek.
Het was de Hubble-telescoop van het Amerikaanse en Europese ruimtevaartagentschap NASA en ESA, die het zwarte gat kon detecteren. Deze telescoop heeft al wat prestaties op zijn naam staan, maar slaagt er nu ook voor het eerst in om een (geïsoleerd) zwart gat te vinden dat niet vergezeld wordt door een ster die er rond cirkelt.
Hoe het zwarte gat gevonden werd? Twee onafhankelijke Amerikaanse onderzoeksteams ontdekten dat de ruimte rond het zwarte gat enigszins vervormd was - opnieuw een onzichtbaar verschijnsel. Het licht van een verre ster werd door deze vervormde ruimte echter ook lichtjes afgebogen, en dat is wél waarneembaar. Door de afwijkingen in het licht van deze ster te meten, konden de astronomen enkele eigenschappen van het zwarte gat achterhalen.
Het zwarte gat in kwestie bevindt zich op zo’n 5.000 lichtjaren - de afstand die licht in een periode van één jaar aflegt in een vacuüm - van de aarde. Dat is wel een eindje. Op basis van hun bevindingen schatten astronomen dat het dichtstbijzijnde zwarte gat zo’n 80 jaar van onze aardbol verwijderd is. De dichtstbijzijnde ster is dan weer vier jaar van ons verwijderd. Het licht dat deze ster ‘s nachts geeft, brandde eigenlijk vier jaar geleden al.
Sterrenverslinders
Een zwart gat is wat overblijft na de explosie van een ster, een ster die zwaarder is dan de zon. Tijdens zo’n explosie produceert de ster eventjes zoveel licht als het hele sterrenstelsel waartoe het behoort. Om daarna voor eeuwig zwart te worden. Daarom werden zwarte gaten voor 1964 ‘bevroren sterren’ genoemd. Verder nog wordt de kern van de explosie zo compact dat een zwart gat ontstaat. Omdat er niets aan de zwarte gaten kan ontsnappen - er kan alleen maar wat invallen – groeien ze doorheen de tijd in massa. Zo werd er in september 2019 nog een ster geregistreerd die door zo’n superzwaar zwart gat aan flarden werd gescheurd.
Ook licht ontsnapt niet aan zwarte gaten, in welke golflengte dan ook. Vandaar de naam “zwart gat”. Het object zelf is niet te zien, alleen de straling eromheen.
Astronomen ontdekken snelgroeiend zwart gat dat elke seconde het equivalent van onze aarde opslokt
Astronomen hebben het snelst groeiende zwart gat van de laatste negen miljard jaar ontdekt, zo heeft de Australian National University (ANU) bekendgemaakt. Geen wonder dat het zo snel groeit, het zou elke seconde het equivalent van maar liefst een hele aardbol opslokken.
Het zwarte gat is immens groot, heeft de massa van drie miljard zonnen en het slokt nog elke seconde andere hemellichamen op, aldus het door astronomen van de ANU geleid internationaal team dat het object vond. Volgens hoofdonderzoeker Christopher Onken (ANU) gaat het om een “zeer langverwachte, alsook onverwachte speld in de hooiberg”.
Het zwart gat heeft een visuele magnitude van 14,5. Het is volgens het onderzoeksteam 500 keer groter dan het zwarte gat in ons sterrenstelsel. Iemand met een degelijke telescoop op een donkere plaats moet het gemakkelijk kunnen zien.
Co-auteur Christian Wolf noemde het recordbrekende object een "buitenbeentje. Wij hebben er vrij veel vertrouwen in dat dit record niet zal worden gebroken. Er is eigenlijk geen ruimte meer over voor zulke immense objecten om zich te verschuilen."
“Nu willen we weten waarom dit zwarte gat zo anders is - is er iets catastrofaal gebeurd? Misschien zijn twee grote sterrenstelsels met elkaar in botsing gekomen en is daarbij een heleboel materiaal naar het zwarte gat geleid om het te voeden”, besluit Onken.
Sterrenverslinders
Een zwart gat is wat overblijft na de explosie van een ster, een ster die zwaarder is dan de zon. Tijdens zo’n explosie produceert de ster eventjes zoveel licht als het hele sterrenstelsel waartoe het behoort. Om daarna voor eeuwig zwart te worden. Daarom werden zwarte gaten voor 1964 ‘bevroren sterren’ genoemd. Verder nog wordt de kern van de explosie zo compact dat een zwart gat ontstaat. Omdat er niets aan de zwarte gaten kan ontsnappen - er kan alleen maar wat invallen – groeien ze doorheen de tijd in massa.
Ook licht ontsnapt niet aan zwarte gaten, in welke golflengte dan ook. Vandaar de naam “zwart gat”. Het object zelf is niet te zien, alleen de straling eromheen.
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This is What the Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Look Like
This is What the Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Look Like
If you wanted to do a forensic study of the Solar System, you might head for the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. That’s where you can find ancient rocks from the Solar System’s early days. Out there in the cold vacuum of space, far from the Sun, asteroids are largely untouched by space weathering. Space scientists sometimes refer to asteroids—and their meteorite fragments that fall to Earth—as time capsules because of the evidence they hold.
The asteroid Psyche is especially interesting, and NASA is sending a mission to investigate the unusual chunk of rock. In advance of that mission, a team of researchers combined observations of Psyche from an array of telescopes and constructed a map of the asteroid’s surface.
Astronomers divide asteroids into three categories. Carbonaceous or C-type asteroids are the most common type. They make up about 75% of known asteroids and contain large amounts of carbon. The carbon makes them dark, and they have low albedoes. Silicaceous or S-type asteroids are the second most common type. They make up about 17% of known asteroids and are mostly made of iron and magnesium silicates.
Metal or M-type asteroids are the rarest types of asteroids and make up about 8% of known asteroids. They appear to contain more metal than the other asteroid types, and scientists think they’re the source of iron meteorites that fall to Earth. M-type meteorites were one of the earliest sources of iron in human history.
King Tut was buried with an iron dagger made from an M-type meteorite. Image: Daniela Comelli/Polytechnic University of Milan
Psyche (16 Psyche) is an M-type asteroid. It’s also called a dwarf planet because it’s about 220 kilometres (140 mi) in diameter. It’s referred to as 16 Psyche because it was the 16th minor planet discovered. (Larger asteroids like Psyche are also known as minor planets.) Psyche is sometimes called the ‘Gold-mine asteroid’ because of the wealth of iron and nickel it contains. Though to be clear, nobody thinks it’s rich in gold.
Visible light images of Psyche don’t tell us much. The European Southern Observatory’s VLT captured some pictures of the asteroid, but they didn’t reveal any detail.
The Very Large Telescope captured this image of 16 Psyche in August 2019. Image Credit: By ESO/Vernazza et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS) – Cropped from Kalliope and Psyche, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111158926
Psyche’s history is a history of uncertainty. For a long time, astronomers thought it was the exposed iron core of a much larger body. In this hypothesis, a powerful collision or series of collisions stripped away the body’s crust and mantle. The larger body would’ve been fully differentiated and measured something like 500 km (310 miles) in diameter. With the crust and mantle gone, only the iron-rich core remained.
That idea fell out of favour as time passed and astronomers continued observing it. Evidence showed that it wasn’t dense enough to be solid iron and is likely porous.
Other researchers suggested that Psyche was disrupted somehow and then re-accreted as a mix of metals and silicates. One study indicated that Psyche isn’t as metal-rich as thought and is more of a rubble pile. In that scenario, collisions with more common C-type asteroids deposited a layer of carbon and other materials onto Psyche’s surface.
The most exotic idea behind Psyche’s origins is the Ferro-volcanic idea. A 2019 study presented evidence that Psyche was once a molten blob. In that scenario, the outer layers cooled and formed stress cracks, and the buoyant molten core erupted as iron volcanoes.
This graphic of 16 Psyche is from a 2021 study. It’s a smoothed, contour-filled optical albedo map with labelled topographical and albedo features. It shows some of the asteroid’s surface features like the depressions Eros, Foxtrot, and Panthia. Names with question marks are indeterminate features. The three blurred white spots are optical bright spots, and the white circles are radar echo centers. Image Credit: Michael K. Shepard et al., Asteroid 16 Psyche: Shape, Features, and Global Map (2021), figure 10. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abfdba#psjabfdbaf9, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113172869
The only way to find out for sure what Psyche is is to go and look at it. So that’s what NASA is doing.
The mission is called Psyche and is scheduled for launch sometime in Fall 2022. The spacecraft will rely on solar-electric propulsion and a gravity-assist maneuver with Mars to arrive at Psyche in 2026. It’ll spend 21 months studying the asteroid and will follow four separate orbital paths, each successive one closer than the previous. As it moves closer to the asteroid, it’ll focus on different scientific objectives.
A team of researchers constructed a new map of Psyche’s surface to help prepare for the mission. The map is in a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. The title is “The Heterogeneous Surface of Asteroid (16) Psyche,” and the lead author is Saverio Cambioni from MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).
“Psyche’s surface is very heterogeneous,” Cambioni said in a press release. “It’s an evolved surface, and these maps confirm that metal-rich asteroids are interesting enigmatic worlds. It’s another reason to look forward to the Psyche mission going to the asteroid.”
In this study, the authors used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to better look at 16 Psyche. ALMA is a radio telescope composed of 66 high-precision antennae. The separate antennae operate together as an interferometer with a high resolution. ALMA operates at wavelengths sensitive to the temperature and some electric properties of materials on Psyche’s surface.
“The signals of the ALMA antennas can be combined into a synthetic signal that’s equivalent to a telescope with a diameter of 16 kilometres (10 miles),” said co-author Katherine de Kleer, an assistant professor of planetary science and astronomy at Caltech. “The larger the telescope, the higher the resolution.”
The new map is based on two types of measurements. One is thermal inertia, which is how long a material takes to reach the temperature of its environment. Higher thermal inertia means it takes longer.
The second is the dielectric constant. The dielectric constant describes how well a material conducts heat, electricity, or sound. A material with a low dielectric constant conducts poorly and is a good insulator and vice versa.
The researchers took the ALMA observations of thermal inertia and dielectric constant and ran hundreds of simulations to see which combinations of materials could explain them. “We ran these simulations area by area so we could catch differences in surface properties,” Cambioni says.
Pure iron has an infinite dielectric constant. By measuring the dielectric constant on Psyche, the researchers could map the surface and locate regions richer in iron. Iron also has high thermal inertia because it’s so dense. So combining thermal inertia and dielectric constant measurements gives a good idea of which surface regions on Psyche are rich in iron and other metals.
This figure from the study shows the thermal inertia (L) and dielectric constant (R) of 16 Psyche’s surface as measured by ALMA. Image Credit: Cambioni et al. 2022.
The researchers call a curious feature on Psyche the Bravo-Golf region. That region has a systematically lower thermal inertia than the highland regions. The Bravo-Golf region is the depression just to the right of the asteroid’s prime meridian in the image below.
This figure from the paper combines thermal inertia with elevation. The low-elevation Bravo-Golf region is visible. Image Credit: Cambioni et al. 2022.
Why does a low-elevation area have lower thermal inertia? Other studies show that the region is also radar-bright. Why is that? The researchers came up with three possibilities.
The lowlands could be metal-rich but covered with fine, porous regolith that lowers their thermal inertia compared to the highlands covered in coarser regolith. Thermal inertial increases with particle size. In this scenario, finer-grained regolith would’ve pooled in the lowlands.
“Ponds of fine-grained materials have been seen on small asteroids, whose gravity is low enough for impacts to shake the surface and cause finer materials to pool,” Cambioni said. “But Psyche is a large body, so if fine-grained materials accumulated on the bottom of the depression, this is interesting and somewhat mysterious.”
The second hypothesis is that the surface material covering the lowlands is more porous than the highlands. Thermal inertia decreases as rock porosity increases. Impact fractures could make the lowlands more porous too.
The third hypothesis is that the lowlands have more silicate-rich materials than the highlands, giving them a lower dielectric constant than some areas of the highlands. The idea is that the Bravo-Golf depression could’ve been formed by an impact with a silicate-rich impactor and left silicate-rich residue behind.
This figure from the study illustrates the three scenarios that might explain the low-thermal-inertia detected in the Bravo-Golf region. Image Credit: Cambioni et al. 2022.
Overall, the study shows that 16 Psyche’s surface is covered in a large variety of materials. It also adds to other evidence showing that the asteroid is metal-rich, though the abundance of metals and silicates varies significantly in different regions. It also suggests that the asteroid might be a remnant core of a differentiated body that lost its mantle and crust long ago. “In conclusion, we provide evidence that Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid whose surface is heterogeneous, shows both metal and silicate materials, and appears evolved by impacts,” the authors conclude.
Simone Marchi is a staff scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and a co-investigator on NASA’s Psyche mission. Marchi wasn’t involved in this study but commented on its significance in a press release. “These data show that Psyche’s surface is heterogeneous, with possible remarkable variations in composition. One of the primary goals of the Psyche mission is to study the composition of the asteroid surface using its gamma rays and neutron spectrometer, and a colour imager. So, the possible presence of compositional heterogeneities is something that the Psyche Science Team is eager to study more.”
This animation from the paper shows thermal inertia on 16 Psyche’s surface. The low-elevation Bravo-Golf region is of particular interest. Credit: Cambioni et al. 2022.
It’ll be up to NASA’s Psyche mission to confirm these findings more rigorously.
But sending a spacecraft all the way to Psyche to understand it in more detail is about more than just Psyche itself.
If Psyche is the remnant core of a rocky, differentiated planetesimal, it’ll reveal something about our planet and how differentiated bodies form. Will it contain some of the same light elements that we expect are in Earth’s core? Earth’s core isn’t dense enough to be pure iron and nickel. Scientists think it contains lighter elements like sulphur, silicon, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.
The Psyche mission will also determine whether the asteroid formed under conditions more oxidizing or more reducing than Earth’s core. That will tell us more about the solar nebula and the protoplanetary disk.
People sometimes refer to Psyche as the Gold Mine Asteroid because it’s so metal-rich. An object its size would contain an enormous amount of iron, though that value is unlikely to be realized or accessible any time soon.
But if knowledge is as valuable as iron, then 16 Psyche might still be a gold mine.
Andromeda Tore Apart and Consumed a Neighbor Galaxy
Andromeda Tore Apart and Consumed a Neighbor Galaxy
Things may seem quiet and peaceful in the Andromeda Galaxy when you gaze at it in the sky. However, if you know what to look for, there’s evidence of a violent rumble in this galaxy’s past. That’s the takeaway from research by Ivanna Escala, an astronomer at Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena. She found telltale clues for a merger a few billion years ago. That’s when Andromeda actively cannibalized another galaxy.
Collisions between galaxies create tidal artifacts with all sorts of shapes. This new work from Ivanna Escala found conclusive evidence that Andromeda’s Northeast, West, and Southeast shelfs and Giant Stellar Stream are the result of a collision with another galaxy. Studying these tidal features can teach us about how galaxies grow and evolve over time as they accrete new material. This composite image of 12 galaxy mergers is courtesy of NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), K. Noll (STScI), and J. Westphal (Caltech).
Mergers Make Galaxies
When galaxies collide (and wouldn’t that be a great movie title?), they basically gobble up material from whatever is around—the galaxies themselves, globular clusters, nebulae, whatever’s in the way. They also shove material around rather violently at times. That produces profound disturbances in the wake of the collision. If you look at the sites of galaxy clashes, you can find knots of star birth, for example. They boil up as material is compressed and shocked by the forces of the collision into active star formation regions.
Collisional Pileups
It also creates stellar associations called tidal features. They can look like streams or arcing shells of stars moving along in the wake of the collision. Sometimes they create “pileups” that look like ripples (or arcs of ripples) similar to when you toss a rock into a pond. If you know how to interpret those clues, you can figure out something about the collisions that caused them.
That’s what Escala and her team did. “The remnants of each crash can be identified by studying the movement of the stars and their chemical compositions,” she explained. “Together this information serves as a kind of fingerprint that identifies stars that joined a galaxy in a collision.”
Diving into Andromeda’s Past
The Andromeda Galaxy is about 10 billion years old. By comparison, the Milky Way Galaxy is about 13.6 billion years old. Like most other galaxies, Andromeda grew by multiple collisions with smaller protogalaxies and subsequent mergers with larger ones. The Milky Way is currently gobbling up at least one dwarf galaxy and also formed by mergers.
The trick to figuring out the merger history is, as any crime scene detective knows, buried in the details. Astronomers look at the chemical components of stars and figure out which are native to the galaxy and which are not. Stellar motions can reveal intruders. If the merger is particularly violent, streams of stars and gas and dust will form observable features.
Digging Into Andromeda’s Stars
Escala and her collaborators looked deep into Andromeda at a feature called the Northeast Shelf. They analyzed 556 red giant branch stars within it. “We performed the first detailed characterization of the chemical composition and geometric motion of the stars in this region of our neighboring galaxy, demonstrating conclusively that the NE shelf is a tidal shell predominately composed of debris from the aftermath of a collision,” Escala explained during a press conference at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Pasadena, CA.
This image shows NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images of a small part of the giant stellar stream of the Andromeda Galaxy. The stream is a long structure thought to be the remains of a companion galaxy torn apart by the Andromeda Galaxy’s gravity and engulfed in it. By studying details of the stars in the stream, astronomers can determine the chemistry and ages of the stars in each part of the Andromeda Galaxy.
They also showed that this ledge is part of a multi-shell system, along with the galaxy’s west and southeast shelves. The material in these regions is consistent with that of Andromeda’s Giant Stellar Stream, created during the recent large collisions. It’s likely that all those tidal features could have come from the same source. “Our results are in line with modeling that predicted the Giant Stellar Stream is the first loop of material from a collision and the NE shelf is the second layer wrap-around,” Escala concluded. The wrap-around she mentions points toward multiple encounters during the collision/cannibalization event.
Gravitational interactions at the time shaped the streams. The analysis done by Escala and her team is an important step toward confirming predictions about this galaxy’s violent past. Collisions are an important part of that history. More evidence about these actions gives a deeper understanding of the many features left behind long after the merger ends.
The discovery of at least two rocky 'super-Earths' orbiting a nearby dwarf star could provide vital clues in the search for extra-terrestrials, astronomers say.
While the worlds are unlikely to be habitable for life as we know it, the star and its exoplanets are among the closest multi-world systems to Earth, at just 33 light-years away.
This makes the system an excellent target for further investigation, in part because it could contain more planets, including the potential for one in the habitable zone.
'There are many multi-planet systems hosting five or six planets, especially around small stars like this one,' said astrophysicist Avi Shporer, of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
'Hopefully we will find more, and one might be in the habitable zone. That's optimistic thinking.'
The discovery of at least two rocky 'super-Earths' (pictured in an artist's impression) orbiting a nearby dwarf star could provide vital clues in the search for extra-terrestrials, astronomers say
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED 'SUPER-EARTHS'
HD 260655b
Average temperature: 816° Fahrenheit
Orbit time: Circles star every 2.8 days
Size: About 1.2 times as big as Earth
Mass: Twice as massive and slightly denser than Earth
Composition: Terrestrial/rocky
HD 260655c
Average temperature: 543° Fahrenheit
Orbit time: Circles star every 5.7 days
Size:About 1.5 times as big as Earth
Mass:About three Earth masses but a bit less dense
Composition:Terrestrial/rocky
Even though the star HD 260655 is cooler and dimmer than our sun, the proximity of the planets to the red dwarf means the worlds would be way too hot for life.
HD 260655b has an average temperature of 816 degrees Fahrenheit (435 degrees Celsius), while HD 260655c is milder but still a fiery 543 degrees Fahrenheit (284 degrees Celsius).
'We consider that range outside the habitable zone, too hot for liquid water to exist on the surface,' said astronomer Michelle Kunimoto, of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Nevertheless, scientists are excited about this system because the proximity and brightness of its star will give them a closer look at the properties of the planets and signs of any atmosphere they might hold.
'Both planets in this system are each considered among the best targets for atmospheric study because of the brightness of their star,' said Kunimoto.
'Is there a volatile-rich atmosphere around these planets? And are there signs of water or carbon-based species? These planets are fantastic test beds for those explorations.'
The new planetary system was initially identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that is designed to observe the nearest and brightest stars, and detect periodic dips in light that could signal a passing planet.
In October 2021, Kunimoto, a member of MIT's TESS science team, was monitoring the satellite's incoming data when she noticed a pair of periodic dips in starlight, or transits, from the star HD 260655.
She ran the detections through the mission's science inspection pipeline, and the signals were soon classified as two TESS Objects of Interest, or TOIs — objects that are flagged as potential planets.
The process of classifying and subsequently confirming new planets can often take several years, but for HD 260655 that process was shortened significantly with the help of archival data.
The fully integrated Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in 2018 to find thousands of new planets orbiting other stars
Soon after Kunimoto identified the two potential planets around HD 260655, Shporer looked to see whether the star was observed previously by other telescopes.
As luck would have it, HD 260655 was listed in a survey of stars taken by the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES), an instrument that operates as part of the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
HIRES had been monitoring the star, along with a host of other stars, since 1998, and the researchers were able to access the survey's publicly available data.
In the end, this collaborative effort quickly confirmed the presence of two planets around HD 260655 in about six months.
The team then looked more closely at TESS data to pin down properties of both planets, including their orbital period and size.
They determined that the inner planet, dubbed HD 260655b, orbits the star every 2.8 days and is about 1.2 times as big as the Earth.
The second outer planet, HD 260655c, orbits every 5.7 days and is 1.5 times as big as the Earth.
From the archival data, researchers were then able to calculate the planets' mass and density.
They found the inner planet is about twice as massive and slightly denser than Earth, while the outer planet is about three Earth masses but a bit less dense. Both planets, based on their density, are likely terrestrial, or rocky in composition, the astronomers said.
So far, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in our Milky Way galaxy, with experts especially interested in finding terrestrial, or rocky, worlds like Earth, Venus, and Mars.
NASA's 'planet hunter,' spacecraft, is equipped with four cameras that will allow it to view 85 per cent of the entire sky, as it searches exoplanets orbiting stars less than 300 light-years away.
By studying objects much brighter than the Kepler targets, it's hoped TESS could uncover new clues on the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
Its four wide-field cameras will view the sky in 26 segments, each of which it will observe one by one.
In its first year of operation, it mapped the 13 sectors that make up the southern sky, and scoured the northern sectors the following year.
Since it was launched in 2018, TESS has found over 170 confirmed exoplanets, and has a catalogue of over 4,700 yet to be verified.
It has also discovered other strange phenomena including supernova and triple star systems since it was launched.
Tess is 5 feet (1.5 meters) wide and is shorter than most adults.
The observatory is 4 feet across (1.2 meters), not counting the solar wings, which are folded for launch, and weighs just 800 pounds (362 kilograms).
NASA says it's somewhere between the size of a refrigerator and a stacked washer and dryer.
NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
The US space agency has added another 65 exoplanets to the online NASAExoplanet Archive, bringing the grand total to 5,005.
Exoplanets found so far include small, rocky worlds like Earth, gas giants many times larger than Jupiter, and 'hot Jupiters' in scorchingly close orbits around their stars.
However, NASA stresses that 5,005 is only 'a tiny fraction' of all the planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, which could number hundreds of billions.
NASA confirms there are more than 5,000 planets beyond our solar system including several 'hot Jupiters', 'super-Earths' and 'mini-Neptunes'. An artist's impression of the variety of different exoplanets are depicted here
HOW MANY EXOPLANETS ARE THERE?
An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most orbit other stars, but free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, orbit the galactic center and are untethered to any star.
5,005 exoplanets have been confirmed since the first exoplanet discoveries in the early 1990s, as of March 22, 2022.
The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, rather than terrestrial, according toNASA's online database.
The closest exoplanet is called Proxima Centauri b, around 4.2 light years away from our Sun.
'It's not just a number,' said Jessie Christiansen, research scientist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
'Each one of them is a new world, a brand-new planet. I get excited about every one because we don't know anything about them.'
The majority of exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, rather than terrestrial, according to NASA's online database.
The archive records exoplanet discoveries that appear in peer-reviewed, scientific papers that have been confirmed using multiple detection methods or by analytical techniques.
Among the most recently confirmed exoplanets are K2-377 b, a 'super Earth' with a mass of 3.51 Earths that takes 12.8 days to complete one orbit of its star.
Another, called TOI-1064 b, is a 'potentially rocky world larger than Earth, according to NASA.
Most exoplanets are found by measuring the dimming of a star that happens to have a planet pass in front of it, called the transit method.
Another way to detect exoplanets, called the Doppler method, measures the 'wobbling' of stars due to the gravitational pull of orbiting planets.
The more than 5,000 exoplanets confirmed in our galaxy so far include a variety of types - among them a mysterious variety known as 'super-Earths' because they are larger than our world and possibly rocky
NASA's milestone comes 30 years after the first exoplanets were discovered, back in 1992.
THREE 'EXOPLANETS' ARE ACTUALLY STARS
Scientists have been examining the thousands of exoplanet discoveries confirmed within the Milky Way Galaxy, and three of them have turned out to be stars.
A team from MIT in Cambridge looked through planets discovered using the NASA Kepler Space Telescope, double checking the measurements to see which match known planet sizes.
They identified three objects that are simply too big to be planets, based on new, more accurate measurements taken by the European Space Agency Gaia telescope.
In January that year, Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two rocky planets orbiting PSR B1 257+12, a pulsar in the constellation Virgo. A further planet was discovered in the system in 1994.
Finding just three planets around this spinning star essentially opened the floodgates for exoplanets, said Wolszczan, who still searches for exoplanets as a professor at Penn State.
'If you can find planets around a neutron star, planets have to be basically everywhere,' he told NASA. 'The planet production process has to be very robust.'
Some of the exoplanets that have been discovered since, such as Kepler 16-b, orbit two stars at once, like the planet of Tatooine in 'Star Wars'.
Around 200 light years away, Kepler-16b weighs about a third as much as Jupiter and has a radius three-fourths that of Jupiter, making it similar to Saturn in both size and mass.
Another exoplanet called WASP-121b, around 850 light years from Earth, is an example of a 'hot Jupiter' – a Jupiter-like giant gas planet on a close orbit around its parent star.
WASP-121b has one of the shortest orbits detected to date, circling its star in just 30 hours.
It is tidally locked, meaning the same side always faces its star, while its colder 'night' side is turned forever toward space.
Gliese 486b, meanwhile, is an example of a 'super Earth' – a planet larger than Earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
Some exoplanets orbit two stars at once, like the planet of Tatooine in the 1977 film 'Star Wars' (pictured)
Artist's impression of exoplanet Kepler-16b, the most 'Tatooine-like' planet yet found in our galaxy. Kepler-16b is depicted as a small black circle circling two stars. The largest of the two stars, a K dwarf, is about 69 per cent the mass of our sun, and the smallest, a red dwarf, is about 20 per cent the sun's mass
Gliese 486b is the only planet so far detected orbiting the small star and has a radius 1.3 times larger than the Earth but is 2.8 times more massive.
The planet has an iron-silicate composition similar to the makeup of Earth but is much hotter, with a surface temperature of 802°F (428°C), according to a 2021 study.
GJ 367 b, meanwhile, is exposed to a huge amount of radiation, due to its small distance to its star – about 620,000 miles – which it orbits in just eight hours.
With a diameter of 5,560 miles, GJ 367 b is slightly bigger than Mars (4,200 miles) but has the makeup of Mercury.
NASA said its James Webb Space Telescope (depicted here in space) will capture light from atmospheres of exoplanets to read which gases are present to potentially identify tell-tale signs of habitable conditions
Scientists are still trying to learn more about what exactly exoplanets and their atmospheres are made up of.
NASA said its James Webb Space Telescope will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets to read which gases are present to potentially identify tell-tale signs of habitable conditions.
The $10 billion (£7.4 billion) observatory, which launched on Christmas Day, will explore the universe in the infrared spectrum, allowing it to gaze through clouds of gas and dust where stars are being born.
EXOPLANETS HAVE 'EXOTIC' ROCKS THAT CAN'T BE FOUND IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Rocky planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, are composed of 'exotic' rock types that don't even exist in our planetary system, a 2021 study shows.
Researchers have used telescope data to analyse white dwarfs – former stars that were once gave life just like our Sun – in an attempt to discover secrets of their former surrounding planets.
Roughly 98 per cent of all the stars in the universe will ultimately end up as white dwarfs, including our own Sun.
The experts found that some exoplanets have rock types that don't exist, or just can't be found, on planets in our solar system.
These rock types are so 'strange' that the authors have had to create new names for them – including 'quartz pyroxenites' and 'periclase dunites'.
Some 4,374 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,234 systems since the first exoplanet discoveries in the early 1990s.
The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, rather than terrestrial, according to NASA's online database.
Two New Rocky Planets Discovered Close to the Solar System
Two New Rocky Planets Discovered Close to the Solar System
TESS has struck paydirt again. NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft has found two new super-Earths orbiting a star only 33 light-years away. These are two of the closest rocky planets ever found.
The star’s name is HD 260655. It’s a bright M dwarf star, sometimes called a red dwarf. Both planets are rocky super-Earths, and though the word “Earth” is suggestive, neither world is likely to support life due to their extremely high temperatures. But scientists still think they’re worthy of further observations.
A new paper titled “The HD 260655 system: Two rocky worlds transiting a bright M dwarf at 10 PC” announced the discovery. The lead author is Rafael Luque of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain, and the University of Chicago. The journal Astronomy and Astrophysics will publish the paper, but it’s currently available online at the pre-press site arxiv.org.
HD 260655b is closest to the star with an orbital period of 2.7 days. Its radius is 1.2 Earth radii, and its mass is 2.14 Earth masses.
HD 260655c has an orbital period of 5.7 days. Its radius is 1.5 Earth radii, and its mass is 3.09 Earth masses.
Their temperatures are almost certainly too high to support any life. Planet b’s temperature is approximately 435 Celsius (816 Fahrenheit), and planet c’s temperature is about 284 Celsius (543 Fahrenheit.) Those temperature estimates are dependent on any atmospheres the planets may have.
Their potential atmospheres are part of what makes these planets interesting.
“The HD 260655 system presents a unique opportunity for comparative planetology studies of rocky worlds.”
From “The HD 260655 system: Two rocky worlds transiting a bright M dwarf at 10 PC.”
When the James Webb Space Telescope begins science operations (soon, people, soon), it’ll have the capability to examine the atmospheres of exoplanets like these. The results will show us how different rocky planets can be from each other and will provide clues to how rocky planets form.
The opportunity to study two rocky planets in the same system is too good to pass up.
“Multiplanetary systems offer a unique opportunity for characterization via comparative planetology, as they have formed within the same protoplanetary disk,” the authors write. And since the host star is so small, only about 0.4 solar masses, the super-Earths exhibit more influence on it. This makes measuring the planets’ masses and densities easier.
The star is a red dwarf, and it’s much dimmer than a star like our Sun. But for its type, HD 260655 is pretty bright. “It is among the brightest early-type M dwarfs in the sky, with an apparent magnitude in the J band of 6.7 mag.,” the authors write. The J-band is in the near-infrared, part of the electromagnetic spectrum that James Webb is designed to observe.
And at only 33 light-years away, the JWST easily has the power to examine the planets’ atmospheres spectroscopically. The telescope’s Near-Infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) can perform three types of spectroscopic observations in the NIR. It can obtain the spectra of over 100 targets simultaneously in one of its modes. Combined with its other instruments and modes, no exoplanet atmosphere will be safe. Certainly none at this distance anyway.
But decisions on which planets are suitable for atmospheric characterization by the JWST come down to specific metrics. The authors computed two values for these rocky exoplanets and compared them to their peers in NASA’s Exoplanet Archive. The values are the Transmission Spectroscopy Metric (TSM) and Emission Spectroscopy Metric (ESM.) Both planets are in the top quartile of desirable targets for JWST spectroscopy. HD 260655 b is among the top 10 terrestrial planets for atmospheric characterization. (Note that in this metric, the inner planet (HD 260655 b) is considered a terrestrial planet and the outer planet (HD 260655 c) is regarded as a super-Earth/sub-Neptune.)
This figure from the study shows the Transmission Spectroscopy Metric (TSM) for both rocky super-Earths compared to their peers in NASA’s Exoplanet Archive. These numbers place both targets in the top quartile in their respective categories, making them excellent candidates for follow-up spectroscopy with the JWST. Image Credit: Luque et al. 2022.
For these reasons, the team behind this discovery says that the pair of super-Earths are among the top 10 terrestrial exoplanet candidates for atmospheric characterization. There’s no certainty that the planets have atmospheres, but there’s some reason to believe they do. Because even though they were discovered with TESS, which detects exoplanet transits, the team used data from other ground-based facilities to learn as much as possible.
The team measured the wobble exhibited by the star as the orbiting planets tugged on it. Those measurements reveal the planets’ masses. By combining their masses with their sizes, the researchers found their densities. That led to the conclusion that they’re rocky planets. It also means that if the planets do have atmospheres, they’re likely not extended hydrogen atmospheres.
This figure from the study shows HD 260655 b and c in the context of other transiting exoplanets with well-known masses. Planets orbiting red dwarfs are shown in orange, while others are in grey. It also shows theoretical models for their internal compositions. Image Credit: Luque et al. 2022.
The team surmised that the inner planet, HD 260655 b, has a bulk density composition in perfect agreement with Earth’s. But planet c is different. “HD 260655 c is more consistent with an internal composition void of iron and fully made of silicates if it is assumed to be free of volatiles,” the paper states. The team says that the density difference between the planets is either due to different concentrations of volatiles or to observational uncertainties.
Another interesting fact about these planets concerns what exoplanet scientists call the small planet radius gap. It’s an “… observed scarcity of planets with radii between 1.5 and 2 times Earth’s radius,” as Wikipedia defines it. Scientists think that the gap could be due to photoevaporation. Different researchers have defined the gap differently in terms of planet radii, but both planets in the system are less than 1.5 Earth radii. This suggests that both worlds have lost their atmospheres, which is expected for planets this close to their stars.
The two grey lines represent the small planet radius gap as defined by different researchers. Both HD 260655 b and c are in the gap, meaning they’ve likely had their atmospheres stripped away by the star. Image Credit: Luque et al. 2022.
This paper shows that planet c’s atmosphere, if it had one, was likely a Hydrogen/Helium atmosphere that was stripped away. But if they’re wrong about the composition, and it’s more like Earth’s, then it may have held on to a water-dominated atmosphere.
Planet b is different. Since it’s so much closer to its star, it’s unlikely to have much of an atmosphere. In both cases, if the planets have atmospheres, they’re highly unlikely to have extended hydrogen atmospheres.
These planets are not targets in the search for life. They’re too hot. But they’re scientifically desirable targets in other ways. “The HD 260655 system presents a unique opportunity for comparative planetology studies of rocky worlds,” the authors write. As pointed out earlier, they’re both prime targets for follow-up spectroscopy with the JWST. “These follow-up observations will improve our knowledge about the formation and evolution history of the system,” the authors write. Those observations could “… open a new observational avenue to study the magnetic fields of low-mass stars and their imprint in planetary systems.”
An artist’s conception of a superflare event on a dwarf star. Image credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
Evidence from HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) shows that 40% of red dwarfs host Earth-like planets in their habitable zones. The problem is that red dwarfs can flare violently, rendering their habitable zone uninhabitable, or so we think. But we just don’t have a complete picture.
So while these two planets are far too hot for surface water and life, astronomers can use them to learn more about all those other planets orbiting all those other red dwarfs.
Richard Dolan on USOs consistently seen in Earth's bodies of water
Richard Dolan on USOs consistently seen in Earth's bodies of water
We live in a world of deceptive narratives coming from the very sources we were once taught to trust. One of those narratives deals with UFOs.
Something completely left out of our public discussion of the UFO phenomenon are those objects consistently seen in Earth's bodies of water.
These UFOs/USOs flying into and out of the oceans, unknown craft that are able to travel underwater, so it’s quite possible that there are some UFO/USO (whether of extraterrestrial origin or military) bases hidden deep within the oceans.
Another remarkable detail, most of these underwater bases are located off coast and connected via tunnels with a base on land which indicates that such secret underwater bases are built by governments or certain organizations who are working together with extraterrestrials.
Unidentified Submersible Objects (USOs) have been with us for as long as airborne UFOs have. We need to recognize and understand this.
What better place to have an impenetrable base than deep within the oceans of the planet.
Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe aliens might’ve crashed landed in Russia based on mind boggling evidence, in this clip from Season 15, “The Relics of Roswell.”
Astronomers Caught Betelgeuse Just Before it Started Dimming and Might Have Seen a Pressure Wave Rippling Through its Atmosphere
Astronomers Caught Betelgeuse Just Before it Started Dimming and Might Have Seen a Pressure Wave Rippling Through its Atmosphere
A couple of years ago, Betelgeuse generated much interest when it started dimming. That caught the attention of astronomers worldwide, who tried to understand what was happening. Was it about to go supernova?
Evidence showed that dust was the most likely culprit for the red supergiant’s dimming, though there are still questions. A new study shows that the star was behaving strangely just before the dimming.
The optical dimming that Betelgeuse—or Alpha Orionis—exhibited in late 2019 and early 2020 was unprecedented. Betelgeuse often undergoes periodic optical dimming, which happens in timescales of ~300-500 days and ~2000 days. But the Great Dimming, as it came to be known—when the star dimmed to about two-thirds of its normal brightness— was the faintest that the star had become in almost 200 years of observations.
Researchers got to work generating possible explanations for the dimming. Some hypothesized that dust caused the dimming, others hypothesized that a reduction in photosphere temperature caused it, and some thought both played a role.
Astronomers continued studying it, and evidence showed that temperature decrease alone couldn’t be the culprit. Episodic mass loss was proposed as the cause, paired with a rise in large grain dust in the line of sight. Others argued that large inhomogeneities in the photosphere caused the dimming. Another suggested a critical shift in Betelgeuse’s pulsation dynamics caused the Great Dimming. If feedback from UT readers is any indication, there’s still confusion around the cause of the dimming event.
Betelgeuse, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA
But there were really two dimming events, and that’s helped create some of the confusion. The scientific community has settled on dust as the cause of the first dimming. “We know the first dimming event involved a dust cloud,” said Dr. Meridith Joyce from The Australian National University in 2020.
According to Dr. Joyce, the second dimming event had a different cause: “We found the second smaller event was likely due to the pulsations of the star.”
Now a new paper presents observations of Betelgeuse just before the Great Dimming. Its title is “SPATIALLY RESOLVED OBSERVATIONS OF BETELGEUSE AT ?7 MM AND ?1.3 CM JUST PRIOR TO THE GREAT DIMMING.” The Astrophysical Journal will publish it, but for now, it’s available on the pre-press site arxiv.org. The authors are Dr. Lynn D. Matthews of MIT’s Haystack Observatory and Andrea Dupree from the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The paper is based on observations of Betelgeuse with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array.
“Our measurements suggest recent changes in the temperature and density structure of the atmosphere,” the authors write. The star’s photosphere “… is ~20% dimmer than in previously published observing epochs between 1996–2004.” This is … lower than previously reported temperatures at comparable radii and >1200 K lower than predicted by previous semi-empirical models of the atmosphere.”
Betelgeuse is known for pulsating, as it swells and shrinks symmetrically. These are Hubble images of the star from 1998 and 1999. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
The researchers also found that the measured brightness temperature was cooler than expected and that there were “… no obvious signatures of giant convective cells or other surface features.” The star’s brightness profile was also more complex than a uniform elliptical disk (A uniform elliptical disk is a tool astrophysicists use to characterize the mean properties of a star.) Their observations were from about six weeks before ultraviolet measurements found increases in electron density in Betelgeuse’s southern hemisphere, coupled with a large-scale outflow.
So what does all that mean?
“We discuss possible scenarios linking these events with the observed radio properties of the star, including the passage of a strong shock wave.”
Researchers in the astrophysical community have postulated that a shock wave could’ve caused the Great Dimming. A 2021 paper found that Betelgeuse’s photosphere experienced successive shock waves in February 2018 and January 2019, with the initial shock amplifying the second one. Other research showed that a shock wave passed through the southwestern portion of Betelgeuse’s chromosphere between 2019 September and November. Since the photosphere is under the chromosphere, it’s reasonable to think that the two shock waves are related.
This diagram of a star’s layers shows how the photosphere is below the chromosphere. The photosphere is the lowest layer of a star’s atmosphere and the lowest observable layer. Image Credit: ESA
The researchers say they can’t conclude that their observations are directly responsible for the Great Dimming, even though their data suggests “… recent changes in the density and/or temperature structure of the atmosphere…” But a large-amplitude shock or pressure wave passing through Betelgeuse’s atmosphere could cause changes in density and temperature.
The authors are cautious and inconclusive, but they do point out that the pressure wave they observed could’ve caused Betelgeuse’s Great Dimming. “Such an event may be linked to a largescale mass ejection from the star that has been postulated as an explanation for the steep decline in optical magnitude associated with the Great Dimming.”
There’s no question that Betelgeuse will explode as a Type IIP supernova, likely in the next 100,000 years or so. It’s the 10th brightest star in the night sky and is giving astronomers an opportunity to study intensely the behaviour of a star as it approaches its cataclysmic end.
The familiar constellation of Orion. Orion’s Belt can be clearly seen, as well as Betelgeuse (red star in the upper left corner) and Rigel (bright blue star in the lower right corner). Credit: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection NASA
This study won’t be the final word on Betelgeuse and its dynamic behaviour. The star is still up there, anchoring the Orion the Hunter’s right shoulder. Generations and generations of astronomers are bound to keep watching it.
If humanity lasts long enough, our distant descendants will get to watch it explode.
Hey guys hope all is well with all of you worldwide. I wanted to make this into HD since I found it back in 2011 and it really needed updating its graphics quality.
The two objects in the photo are a shiny dome in the center of a crater and an old mans face right next to it. The old man must have been very important, maybe the leader of the colony in this crater and as a monument to his great leadership, they made this face near the city...even bigger than the city itself. The face resembles a humanoid being. They...look...like...us! Still scared of them? Nothing like in the movies huh?
The dome over the city is perfectly placed at the center of the crater. The dome has an outer reflectiveness like that of a mirror, which is proof that the aliens living inside were worried about the suns light being too bright.
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China's Sky Eye telescope detects possible alien signals, then China suddenly deletes report
China's Sky Eye telescope detects possible alien signals, then China suddenly deletes report
According to Dailymail, China has claimed that it may have received a message from an alien civilization using its Sky Eye telescope, according to reports.
Sky Eye, a 1,640-foot-diameter telescope based in China's Guizhou province, has detected unusual electromagnetic signals that scientists claim could have alien origins.
Professor Zhang Tongjie, chief scientist of the China Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group of the Department of Astronomy and Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group of Beijing Normal University, revealed that his team used the "Chinese Sky Eye" to discover several cases of possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the earth.
Zhang Tongjie said that these are several narrow-band electromagnetic signals different from the past, and the team is currently working on further investigation.
The news was revealed in a report by Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, based in Beijing, but according to Bloomberg, Science and Technology Daily deleted the report shortly after it was posted, although it's uncertain why.
UFO SIGHTING (Triangular Shaped UFO Over Grand Prairie Texas!)
WITNESS DESCRIPTION
I’m not sure where to begin. But at approximately 8:28 PM June 4 I walked off the porch after talking to my mom and looked up into the sky for some reason and saw this massivecraft just hovering motionlessly with no sound probably 5 miles northeast of me and at an elevation of definitely 20-30,000 feet at least. Like what. I immediately yelled to my mother sitting 10 feet away to come stand exactly where I am on our sidewalk underneath the tree and look up at what I’m seeing over our and the tree in the backyard. At 8:29 PM I pulled out my iPhone and began recording and documenting everything I saw. I captured the object on film for 49 seconds. Me and my mom observed this thing for approximately three minutes before it disappeared when an airliner breached the horizon/ the airspace. One of my questions about tonight is how long was it there for before I noticed it? So I will describe what I saw the best I can. It was definitely triangular in shape. It had texture and depth to it like edges and geometric angles but triangular from what I could see in elevation and distance. It was a dull black gray but there were variations between where the gray and the black were that made me feel like it had dimensional depth to its structure. It had no operational lighting like aircraft have. Me and my mother both observed that it had what appeared to be some kind red light that would blink on and off and shade in intensity randomly for no reason. I don’t feel this had anything to do with the propulsion system. It was just a random red light on the right hand side of the craft kind of in the middle but towards the back. As we observed it hovering for three minutes it made no sounds. And in that three minutes we saw no air travel which is strange on a Saturday considering I live 10 miles away from an international airport in Dallas Fort Worth. And there’s also love field to the east of me. So it hovered for three minutes undisturbed in commercial airspace and made no sound. It moved once and drifted upwards to the right about half an inch from my perspective. It made no sound. I saw no exhaust. But me and my mother both noticed that it had this white ring or aura around it. Like it was circulating around the craft like a halo. I don’t believe it was a reflection of light. I believe the craft is generating it. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. As stated above after about three minutes we’re both sitting there looking at it and talking completely in awe, an airplane we can hear approaching comes up over our house/vantage point and then this object goes from sitting absolutely still and accelerates faster than any aircraft taking off from a runway, in the sky from a dead stop. This defies physics as I know them. Objects do not behave like that in space or on on earth. And when it departed it didn’t just zip away, it looks like it accelerated out into the distance and fell but almost curved. As I filled this out I saw something that described it like a falling leaf. But it was not headed towards the ground it went away but around if that makes sense. Considering its velocity from a dead stop it was covering massive distances to the naked eye. Whatever this craft was it was massive. Considering where I was standing and it’s distance from me, as well as elevation, this thing on film appeared small but it was big considering how far away it was in elevation. My mom thought it was a drone and I’m like that’s not a drone I fly those. For that thing to have been a drone it would’ve had to been the size of my house to be that visible in the sky from a couple miles away. I mean this thing had to have been 100 feet or more. Definitely more. I don’t know it was crazy big. And it was triangular in shape. But looking at it with that white circular halo it almost looked like it shifted shapes kinda as we watched. Like blurred morphing edges and energy. And when I go back and look at the video and Screenshots it does change shape. I’m not sure what else to say I’m still kind of in shock because this thing defies all modern physics that I know of. When I immediately saw the object I tried to rationalize it and explain it but I couldn’t.
Highly Reflective UFOs Over Henderson Colorado.
Extremely reflective UFOs witnessed and REC over Henderson Colorado. Video source MUFON Case # 122475
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
UFO Captured On Camera Traveling At Hype Speed During Slow Motion Video. May 13, 2022
This footage was captured at Moore Park Beach, A coastal rural town in Queensland, Australia on May 13, 2022. This object was sighted when the witness was filming the rain in "Slow Motion" mode on his phone and giving that this UFO was traveling super fast on slow mode just imagine how this object would have been moving at normal speed, It would have been unseen to the eye. What could this object be? Well, judging from the distance this would have to be a fairly large object as it flying behide the trees not in front and the speed and movement was incredible.
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."
China has claimed that it may have received a message from an alien civilisation using its $180 million Sky Eye telescope, according to reports.
Sky Eye, a 1,640-foot-diameter telescope based in China's Guizhou province, has detected unusual electromagnetic signals that scientists claim could have alien origins.
The news was revealed in a report by Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, based in Beijing.
But according to Bloomberg, Science and Technology Daily deleted the report shortly after it was posted, although it's uncertain why.
China claims to have received a message from an alien civilisation, mysterious radio signals suggest (file photo)
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, is based in a natural basin in Guizhou
The FAST telescope
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, is a telescope in Guizhou, China.
With a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), it's the world's largest full dish radio telescope.
It's based in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Guizhou.
It was launched in September 2020 specifically to search for alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets – planets outside our solar system.
'Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of life beyond Earth, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery,' Bloomberg says.
'The news had already started trending on social network Weibo and was picked up by other media outlets, including state-run ones.'
The Science and Technology Daily report cited Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of China and the University of California, Berkeley.
The team detected two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while processing data collected in 2019, and found another suspicious signal in 2022 while observing exoplanets – planets outside our solar system.
Zhang said the suspicious signals could also be some kind of radio interference, so further investigation is required.
MailOnline has contacted the National Astronomical Observatory of China for comment.
Currently, no life beyond Earth has ever been found, but this does not mean that the universe is lifeless other than on Earth, according to NASA.
The US space agency says: 'While no clear signs of life have ever been detected, the possibility of extraterrestrial biology – the scientific logic that supports it – has grown increasingly plausible.'
Due to its size, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, has one of the best chances of discovering alien life.
It was launched in September 2020 specifically to search interstellar communication signals that suggest alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets.
As its official name suggests, FAST has a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), making it the world’s largest full dish radio telescope.
The dish-like telescope, as large as 30 football fields, costed 1.2 billion yuan (about $180 million)
Engineers work at the control centre for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) on February 3, 2021 in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China
It's able to scan twice the sky area covered by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the previous record holder for the largest single-aperture radio telescope in the world.
FAST can deliver readings between three and five times more sensitive than those from Arecibo Observatory, which is why scientists have been hopeful the telescope could lead to a breakthrough in the search for alien life.
A 65-person village was destroyed before construction of FAST began, and more than 9,000 people in the surrounding countryside were forced to relocate to create a three-mile radius around the telescope without any electromagnetic interference.
According to government officials, each person was given the equivalent of $1,800 in compensation for the relocation.
ALIEN LIFE MAY BE TOO SCARED OF 'DANGEROUS' HUMANS, EXPERT CLAIMS
Sci-fi films and TV shows have routinely depicted a brutal race of aliens visiting Earth in their spaceships and enslaving unfortunate Earthlings.
But according to one expert, extraterrestrial life may actually be too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans to want to come here.
Dr Gordon Gallup, a biopsychologist at the University of Albany, argues that humans are 'dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war'.
As an example, Dr Gallup cites 'the total destruction of the highly advanced Aztec and Inca civilizations' and the subsequent genocide of the native people, their temples and buildings destroyed and their wealth and natural resources stolen.
For this reason, aliens with the technological capability of making a visit to Earth – if they exist – are likely inclined to stay away for fear of death and genocide, according to Dr Gallup.
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14-06-2022
Disk Falls, Stops, Spits Out Smaller Object, Lake Elsinore, California June 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Disk Falls, Stops, Spits Out Smaller Object, Lake Elsinore, California June 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 8, 2022
Location of sighting: Lake Elsinore, California, USA
Source: Email
Guys, check this out. This eyewitness was recording the sky as some objects were both falling and rising in different locations. First we notices inside the red circle...an object is falling, stops, then spits out another object, which then turns and heads straight to the ground below. The object that stops, is a visible dark disk for about 3 seconds before it creates a cloud cloak all around it. UFOs do make clouds as I have said on many occasions. This is clearly a UFO dropping of people and supplies and awaiting return of similar items over an alien base. The base may only be a few hundred people or it could be a larger base of tens of thousands. One thing is undeniable...there is an alien base 4-6km below Lake Elsinore.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Email states:
I usually take time lapse videos of the sunrise in the mornings over Lake Elsinore California . I usually take the video from my second story window. On this morning I recorded what looked like something dropping out of the sky and turning into a cloud then another what appeared to be a UFO appears above that cloud, then that cloud shoots what looks like a cloud covering the UFO or cloaking it with the cloud substance! Whatever dropped those two unidentified objects went through the clouds and continued toward the Earth too! Unfortunately to be able to see it clearly you will have to zoom in to see what I am talking about. I circled where in the video that I'm talking about and where the UFO will be found. At least this is what I think is a UFO being cloaked by a cloud!
Here is an amazing capture during Apollo 10 mission. In the NASA archives there is this great photo of an alien craft in Earths orbit. The craft has a raised center dome in the craft, and the front 80% is a disk, while the back 20% is flat, which indicates it the back of the ship, compounded by the fact that the thin rounded side is facing the Earth, I have easily determined which is the front and which is the back side of this craft. Its hard to believe that such obvious evidence is right in front of us in NASA photos, in easy reach of the public, and yet, 99.9% of the Earths population will never see any of this evidence. This NASA photo is 100% evidence that earth is being visited by alien from another world.
This is a photo of Ceres, given to the public on the NASA. There is a very tall building and thin structure that looks like a great wall. The shadow really gives away its incredible hight. Built next to a small crater, this structure may have once been an alien outpost on this dwarf planet.
This is the same planet with the glowing white structures, click here to see them in high detail.
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UFO and Extraterrestrial Secrecy
UFO and Extraterrestrial Secrecy
During a recent interview, Jeremy Corbell talks about UFO secrecy. Understand that throughout modern UFO history the highest number of close encounters with true UFO/UAP have been in relation to our military operations globally. With an increased frequency.
Our service members have been silenced. Silenced not only by a necessary strategic defense methodology - but also by unintentional mechanisms of bureaucracy. The bottleneck is real when it comes to UFO reporting in our government.
But is it possible that now with the US congress UFO hearing, the Pentagon UFO report, the uptick of daily UFO reports from the mainstream media including the many interviews with well known UFO researchers, we come to the point that a path has been forged towards discovery and UFO transparency?
Discovery and UFO transparency?
Taking into account that the US has been conducting intensive research into the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon since 1947 through various projects with overwhelming evidence that craft of extraterrestrial origin and aliens of extraterrestrial origin are real, which till now they keep it secret for the public, so a path has been forged towards discovery and UFO transparency? It is not going to happen!
I recommend you to read a recent article including official documents and images from Linda Moulton Howe, titled:
Below a small summary from Linda's article which proves that the US has already obtained a lot of information that Extraterrestrial UFOs and Aliens are real.
In 1947, an aircraft of extraterrestrial origin crashed in the desert of New Mexico. One alien of extraterrestrial origin survived the crash.
Established in 1947: Air Force initiated created a program to investigate incidents involving UFOs. The program was operated under three different code names: GRUDGE, SIGN and finally BLUE BOOK.
In 1949, another alien aircraft crashed in the United States and was recovered partially intact by the military.
Established in 1949: Project BANDO Project to collect and evaluate medical information from the surviving aliens creature and the recovered alien bodies.
Established in 1953: Project GLEEM, A reporting system for UFO sightings and incidents
Established in 1954: Project SIGMA: Originally established as part of Project Gleem in 1954. Became a separate project in 1976. Its mission was to establish communication with aliens.
In 1958, the United States recovered a third Alien aircraft from the desert of Utah.
Established in 1966: Project AQUARIUS Project AQUARIUS replaced the 1953, Project GLEEM Reports collected under Project Aquarius were considered actual sightings, of alien aircrafts or contacts with alien life forms. Most reports were made by reliable military and defense department civilian personnel.
Established in 1968: Project POUNCE: Evaluation of all UFO/IAC information pertaining to space technology. PROJECT POUNCE continues.
Established In 1972: Project SNOWBIRD. Its mission was to test fly a recovered Alien aircraft.
Two UFO sighting within ten minutes over Kansas City YESTERDAY
Two UFO sighting within ten minutes over Kansas City YESTERDAY
Strange UFO activity in the sky above Kansas City in Missouri. This happened on 13th June 2022.
Witness report:
The ufo mad a laugh humming g mix with buzzing sound, flew very low and was extremely large. The ufo was also followed by Blackhawk military helicopter which makes me believe it could be man made, and after the incident we had two flyover by military
Ruimtetelescoop Gaia toont meest gedetailleerde kaart van onze Melkweg tot nu toe
Het Europees Ruimteagentschap ESA onthult vandaag de nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten van haar Gaia-missie. Het doel van deze ruimtetelescoop is om de meest nauwkeurige en complete kaart te maken van onze Melkweg. Heel wat nieuwe gegevens zijn hier nu aan toegevoegd en dat zorgt voor nieuwe fascinerende inzichten in het sterrenstelsel waarin wij leven. Van vreemde ‘sterbevingen’ tot het DNA van de Melkweg.
Martijn Peters
Al sinds 2014 brengt de Gaia-satelliet de hemel in kaart. Hiermee tracht ESA om beter te begrijpen hoe ons eigen sterrenstelsel in elkaar zit en hoe miljarden jaren van evolutie dit teweeg hebben gebracht. Al deze informatie gebruiken de wetenschappers om de meest nauwkeurige en complete multidimensionale kaart van de Melkweg mee samen te stellen.
De verzameling van gegevens, dataset nummer 3, die het ruimtevaartagentschap vandaag vrijgaf bevat nieuwe en verbeterde informatie over bijna 2 miljard sterren. Onder andere over hun chemische samenstelling, temperatuur, kleur, massa, leeftijd ... Maar evengoed over met welke snelheid zo’n 33 miljoen sterren naar ons toe of van ons weg bewegen. Wetenschappers ontdekten heel wat van deze nieuwe gegevens door het sterrenlicht op te splitsen zoals de kleuren in een regenboog. In 2016 en 2018 werden de vorige twee datasets vrijgegeven met daarin vooral informatie over de posities, afstanden, bewegingen langs de hemel, en kleuren van sterren. Maar Gaia keek niet enkel naar de sterren die rondzweven in ons eigen sterrenstelsel. De ruimtetelescoop levert ook de grootste catalogus tot nu toe van dubbelsterren (2 sterren die om elkaar heen bewegen), duizenden planetoïden en planeetmanen, en object ver buiten onze Melkweg waaronder miljoenen andere sterrenstelsel.
Eén van de meest verrassende ontdekkingen van Gaia is dat het observatorium in staat is om sterbevingen te detecteren. Want oorspronkelijk was Gaia hier niet voor gebouwd. Die sterbevingen zijn minuscule bewegingen aan het oppervlak van een ster die wat weg hebben van tsunami’s en de vorm van een ster veranderen. Hierdoor zijn ze moeilijker waar te nemen. Gaia vond sterke sterbevingen bij duizenden sterren, ook bij de sterren die er maar zelden één hadden.
“Sterbevingen leren ons veel over sterren, met name over wat er binnenin allemaal gebeurt. Gaia opent een goudmijn voor de ‘asteroseismologie’ van massieve sterren,” zegt Conny Aerts van de KU Leuven in België, die deel uitmaakt van de Gaia Collaboration. Eerder ontdekte Gaia trouwens al dat sterren wel eens zwellen en krimpen, maar daarbij hun vorm blijven behouden.
DNA liegt niet: ons melkwegstelsel is een prachtige smeltkroes van sterren
Waar sterren van gemaakt zijn leert ons iets over hun ontstaansplek en hun reis daarna, en dus over de geschiedenis van de Melkweg. De chemische samenstelling van een ster is een beetje zijn DNA. Het geeft wetenschappers cruciale informatie over de oorsprong ervan.
Zo bevatten sommige sterren bijvoorbeeld meer “zware metalen” dan andere. Tijdens de oerknal werden alleen lichte elementen gevormd (waterstof en helium). Alle andere zwaardere elementen – door astronomen metalen genoemd – vormen zich binnenin de sterren. Sterft een ster, dan komen deze metalen vrij en belanden ze in al het gas en stof tussen de sterren waaruit nieuwe sterren ontstaan. Veel geboortes en overlijdens van sterren zorgt dus voor een omgeving rijk aan metalen.
Dankzij Gaia weten we dat sommige sterren in ons sterrenstelsel zijn gemaakt van oermaterie (waterstof en helium), terwijl andere, zoals onze zon, gemaakt zijn van materie die is verrijkt door voorgaande generaties sterren. Hoe dichter bij het centrum en het vlak van onze Melkweg, hoe rijker de ster aan metalen. Meer nog, Gaia heeft op basis van hun chemische samenstelling ook sterren ontdekt die oorspronkelijk uit een ander sterrenstelsel kwamen.
“Ons melkwegstelsel is een prachtige smeltkroes van sterren,” zegt Alejandra Recio-Blanco van het Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Frankrijk. “Deze diversiteit is uiterst belangrijk, want ze vertelt ons het verhaal van de vorming van ons melkwegstelsel. Het laat ook duidelijk zien dat onze zon, en wij, allemaal deel uitmaken van een steeds veranderend systeem.” Gaia lever hiervoor het bewijs met de grootste chemische kaart van ons sterrenstelsel tot kleinere sterrenstelsels om ons heen.
Gaia is nog zoveel meer dan een kaart vol sterren
Naast het vastleggen van het DNA en de bevingen van sterren heeft Gaia nog meer gezien tijdens haar speurtocht door onze hemel. Er zijn ook een nieuwe catalogi met meer dan 800.000 dubbelsterren en 156.000 planetoïden in ons zonnestelsel. Gaia levert ook informatie over 10 miljoen veranderlijke sterren, mysterieuze objecten tussen sterren, en over quasars en sterrenstelsels buiten onze eigen kosmische omgeving.
“In tegenstelling tot andere missies die specifieke objecten bestuderen, is Gaia een ‘survey-missie’. Dat betekent dat Gaia, terwijl ze de hele hemel met miljarden sterren meerdere malen afspeurt, onvermijdelijk ontdekkingen zal doen die andere, meer specifieke missies zouden missen. Dit is een van de sterke punten, en we kunnen niet wachten tot de astronomische gemeenschap in onze nieuwe gegevens duikt en nog meer over ons sterrenstelsel en zijn omgeving te weten komt dan we ons hadden kunnen voorstellen,” zegt Timo Prusti, wetenschappelijke projectmedewerker voor Gaia bij ESA.
We kunnen niet wachten tot de astronomische gemeenschap in onze nieuwe gegevens duikt en nog meer over ons sterrenstelsel en zijn omgeving te weten komt dan we ons hadden kunnen voorstellen.
Timo Prusti, ESA
Belgische bijdrage
Ook heel wat Belgische wetenschappers hielpen trouwens mee aan dit onderzoek. Hun gespecialiseerde expertise speelde een belangrijke rol bij het analyseren van de enorme hoeveelheid aan gegevens. Astronomen van de KU Leuven, de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, de Université libre de Bruxelles, de Universiteit Antwerpen en de Université de Liège hebben allemaal aan dit werk bijgedragen.
Met de waarnemingen van de Gaia-telescoop, heeft de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België (KSB) nauwkeurige banen kunnen berekenen voor zo’n 150.000 asteroïden in onze Melkweg. Op basis van die banen kan de positie van een asteroïde beter berekend worden en kunnen astronomen met meer zekerheid zeggen waar die de aarde zal passeren.
Het valt soms voor dat zo’n asteroïde een ster bedekt, waardoor zijn schaduw vanop de aarde te zien is. Maar waar die schaduw precies zou komen, kon niemand met zekerheid voorspellen. Vaak zat er een speling van enkele honderden kilometers op. Doordat de KSB nu voor 150.000 asteroïden de baan heeft kunnen berekenen, wordt het voorspellen van zo’n bedekking veel nauwkeuriger. Hierdoor kan aan het publiek kenbaar gemaakt worden waar en wanneer een asteroïde een ster zal passeren en kunnen geïnteresseerden hun telescoop klaarzetten om het fenomeen te zien gebeuren. Voor astronomen zijn deze waarnemingen overigens erg nuttig. Als voldoende mensen het tijdstip van verdwijnen en terugkeren van de ster doorgeven, kunnen wetenschappers de fysieke eigenschappen van de asteroïde bepalen.
Maar de vaststelling van de banen van asteroïden kan ook een hoger doel dienen. “Als ooit een asteroïde gevonden wordt op een ramkoers naar de aarde, zullen we zo beter in staat zijn om een strategie te bepalen om het gevaar af te wenden”, klinkt het bij het ESA en KSB.
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13-06-2022
Doorcam Records UFO And Flashing Lightings On Ground, June 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Doorcam Records UFO And Flashing Lightings On Ground, June 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 12, 2022
Location of sighting: Frederick, Maryland, USA
Watch this UFO recorded by Ringcam and you will see it turn while flashing lights are seen on the ground, possibly reflecting the crafts brightness or even electrical devices turned on and off by the UFO which has been proven to happen in some UFO reports. The object looks like a tilted disk and moves extremely fast and passed in front of the Ringcam at 2:12 AM.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I caught the video on my ring video which is set up to detect motion, the object was extremely fast changed direction slightly while in flight and did not make a sound as it travel a distance of over a mile in less than 5 seconds. I am not sure but there seems to have been a bright reflection on the roofs of cars approximately 400 feet from me as the object passed over head which gives credence to this being a physical object that was giving off intense light and rapidly changing direction as it flow over my house early this morning.
NASA (Never A Straight Answer) plans to join UFO research efforts
NASA (Never A Straight Answer) plans to join UFO research efforts
NASA plans to join UFO research efforts with 'open mind' The study would try to scientifically examine identifying available data, ascertain how to best collect future data, and how NASA can use these data to move scientific understanding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
And of course how could it be otherwise, NASA came up with their "Never A Straight Answer" and stated that UFOs almost certainly are not alien visitors buzzing Earth's skies, but that NASA is still financing a study that will look at unexplained sightings with an open mind.
During a presentation on Thursday to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science, said the study would try to scientifically examine what the federal government calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
The study, which is to cost less than $100,000 and begin in the fall, “will focus on identifying available data, how to best collect future data and how NASA can use these data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward,” Zurbuchen said during a telephone news conference on Thursday afternoon.
Zurbuchen said that examining UFO reports could be “high-risk, high-impact kind of research,” possibly uncovering some entirely new scientific phenomenon — or possibly coming up with nothing new or interesting at all.
Bearing in mind that for so many years NASA has been covered up everything that points to the existence of UFOs not from earth and extraterrestrial intelligent life then it is remarkable that NASA plans to join UFO research which is more than suspicious, because NASA does nothing without an underlying agenda.
Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon
Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon
Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, author, and science educator. He is featured in the UFO/UAP documentary “A Tear in the Sky,” now available on all VOD and digital platforms.
Circular Shaped UFO with Multicolour Bright Lights Sighted over Orangeburg in South Carolina
Circular Shaped UFO with Multicolour Bright Lights Sighted over Orangeburg in South Carolina
This brightly lit object was sighted on January 6, 2022 over Orangeburg in South Carolina. The witness noticed this object when he went out for a smoke of the front yard of his house. The craft was pulsating multicolour lights and looked like circular shaped. It was cruising slowly in the sky until it disappeared out of view.
"Went out for a smoke and took pictures of the front yard, as I see frequent UFO activity and like to record proof. I have seen many UFOs that were far off but this was the first time anything has come so close. The craft came from the tree line pulsing multicoloured lights. After a few seconds, two orbs came out of it and began to pulse/blink red. It was like they were trying to memos a large aircraft. However, I worked on C-17s in the Air Force and I know that this no aircraft."
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were brought to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were brought to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago
What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along? According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth—in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymir modern-day Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian city of Kish used to be, archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet, the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
The Sumerian king list states that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur.
Jushur’s successor is called Kullassina-bel, but this is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”. Thus, some scholars have suggested that this may have been intended to signify the absence of a central authority in Kish for a time.
This ancient document is believed to precede the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
Five thousand years since, humans have developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species have still not.
No other species on earth can attribute such unique achievements in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species of the earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
It has been a short period of time, most likely a few million years since the first hominid walked on Earth. Precisely this is one of the biggest scientific questions of all times: Why have only our species emerged to this truly advanced technological intelligence?
Evidently, there is nothing more advanced than humans on planet Earth.
While there are different ‘intelligent’ species on Earth, none of them makes use of technology like us.
Just imagine for a second, if for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there. Many experts agree that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Many scientists agree that humans, in addition to their intelligence, are not very capable to occupy a wide range of environments. In other words, we are very limited when it comes to our planet.
In addition to our fascinating intelligence, biologists have also noticed contrasts between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Many scientists agree that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby horse when born is able to walk and function almost independently, but this a human baby cannot do, which makes us quite helpless. In other words, we are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Many researchers agree that there are many vulnerabilities that accompany our intelligence.
Humans on earth eventually became bipeds, which freed up our superior extremities allowing us to manipulate objects, create tools and much more. But for all this, experts believe that our species has paid an expensive price. Lumbar pain a sign that according to many experts could tell us a lot about our species. Curiously, other animals on Earth do NOT have this problem. It’s as if only humans are affected by some of these problems.
So what does all of this mean? According to one expert, it means that we are the aliens we’ve we been looking for all along.
A new theory proposed by Dr. Ellis Silver states that there are several tell-tale signs present in the human race that suggest human beings did not evolve ALONGSIDE other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories for and mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book, leading environmentalist and ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver goes through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more said Dr. Ellis in an interview.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity, adding to the mysteries, Dr. Ellis also indicates that it is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So where do we come from? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth— in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
According to Dr. Ellis, there are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis explains: “This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Furthermore, as noted by Robert Sepher, according to modern DNA sequencing, it is demonstrated that humanity as we know it, isn’t just ONE single ‘race’ that descended from the same ancestor in Africa, but a hybridized species, with a far more enigmatic truth behind it all.
Many questions have been raised in the discussion about Rh negative blood. If mankind did, in fact, evolve from a mutual ancient African ancestor, theories state that everyone’s blood would be compatible, but regrettably, this is not the case. This raises numerous questions that science alone has not been able to fully answer. Where did Rh-negative blood come from? And why is it that a Rh-negative mother carrying Rh positive children tries rejecting her own offspring? Is it possible that this can be explained by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t in fact one race, but a hybridized species.
The book was written by Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History tells us more about the enigmatic blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia suggest mankind is, in fact, a hybridized species, the author suggests that highly advanced civilizations have been on Earth before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe, as mysteriously, history tells us.
Sepehr argues that for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity, we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past. –
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene.
It is often said that the first question a human ever asked was, “Hi, I’m Adam … what’s your name?” Many believe the second-oldest question is, “Which came first … the chicken or the egg?” While the debate on the answer to the first will probably never end, the answer to the second may have been determined by a new study (really!) which resolved the poultry paradox with science.
Place your bets - chicken or egg?
“Little is known about the early history of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), including the timing and circumstances of its introduction into new cultural environments. To evaluate its spatio-temporal spread across Eurasia and north-west Africa, the authors radiocarbon dated 23 chicken bones from presumed early contexts.”
The study, published in the journals Antiquity and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and led by Professor Joris Peters from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, set out to prove or disprove the commonly held idea that wild chickens were domesticated in either China, India or southeast Asia 10,000 years ago, and were brought to Europe more than 7000 years ago. These dates were easily accepted because domesticated chickens are everywhere and seemingly everyone in every culture eats their meat and their eggs – making them the world’s most domesticated animal. That made it easy for the geographically dispersed research team to collect chicken remains from more than 600 sites in 89 countries – not just bones but also records of burial locations and historical data. Carbon dating of the bones fried the previous chicken domestication estimates.
“Of the 23 dated chicken bones, only five were consistent with their reported stratigraphic phasing. The radiocarbon dates associated with the remaining 18 were more recent than their reported dates.”
Not only were they “more recent,” they were much more recent – bones from Greece thought to date to 1250–1100 BCE were determined to be “post-1954.” That put the researhcers on alert and they used modern chicken bone comparisons to change the date on other alleged Bronze Age fossils. Upon completion of the carbon dating, the first confirmed evidence for a close relationship between humans and chickens came from complete skeletons placed alongside Bronze Age human burials in Dasikongcun, China (1320–1046 BCE), and Ban Non Wat, Thailand (800 BCE). You don’t need a calculator to do the math – that’s nearly 7,000 years after the previously accepted date of 10,000 years ago for the first domesticated chickens in China.
What about Europe and Africa?
“Radiocarbon dating also helped establish age of 23 of the earliest-known chickens in western Europe and northwest Africa. The results show that domesticated chickens arrived in Europe only about 2800 years ago and took another 1000 years to reach the colder climates in the continent’s north.”
The study found chickens in Italy by the eighth century BCE and on the Balearic Islands off eastern Spain between the eighth to sixth century BCE – it’s believed they arrived via early Greek, Etruscan and Phoenician maritime trade routes across the Mediterranean. Moving inland, a skeleton from the Czech Republic and data from Bulgaria show their arrival in the sixth to fifth centuries BCE, with the same time period for France and southern Britain. It looks like chickens didn’t appreciate cold weather -- it took almost 1000 years longer for their arrival in Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia and Iceland around 800 CE. It appears chickens arrived on the Horn of Africa (the Somali Peninsula in east Adrica) between the ninth and sixth centuries BCE and spread very slowly – not arriving in the north-west until the first century BCE and possibly as late as the medieval period around 500 CE.
Who won?
“The expansion of the Roman Empire helped to popularise chickens and eggs as foodstuffs.”
While their domestication in China and southeast Asia is directly attributable to rice farming and the availability of dried rice for feed, the study credits the Romans for spreading the world’s favorite breakfast dish and dinner meat. Which brings us back to the question: which came first – the chicken or the egg? If we’re talking food, the egg wins – the study shows that chickens were used for ceremonial purposes before being eaten, while humans saw how easily animals ate eggs and followed suit by consuming the eggs of wild chickens, ducks, geese, ostriches, quails and many other larger birds.
What answer did Adam get? That’s for another study to solve.
Military bases, with their secretive natures and security clearances, often seeming to operate in the dark beyond the public eye, have always drawn to them tales of conspiracies. It sometimes seems that there is not a single military base that doesn't have at least some dark rumors swirling about it involving strange experiments, UFOs, and aliens. For the most part these just remain lore and more or less urban legends, but they become more interesting when actual people who were supposedly there step forward to talk about the outlandish things they've seen at such places. One such very odd case comes from a witness who claims to have had several surreal encounters with aliens in secret underground facilities beneath two U.S. military bases.
The report in question was released by the radio station KPFA-FM, in Berkeley, California, during a 4-hour show on UFO phenomena. The station itself is part of the Pacifica Foundation, which was founded in 1947 and is a non-profit organization that owns several non-commercial, largely non-censored, alternative listener-supported radio stations. These stations are known for being rather off the grid and the last bastion for free speech and activism, as well as pioneers of First Amendment rights, so it makes sense that they might be more inclined to open up about their more fringe experiences on such a station. According to UFO researcher Elaine Douglass, in this case, KPFA-FM had acquired tapes of an interview taken in April of 1981 with a man who claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, former Green Beret, military medal-holder, and construction contractor who had done work at military facilities such as Nellis, Scott, Edwards, and Andrews Air Force Bases, and had quite the tale to tell. According to him, he had had two separate encounters with alien beings there, the first being at Edwards Air Force Base, in the Antelope Valley of Southern California.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, and is involved in all manner of research and development of flight technology, as well as testing and evaluating aerospace systems from concept to combat. Many experimental aircraft are tested here, with some historic occasions such Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier carried out at the base. According to this witness, it also has an expansive underground network of tunnels and labs that are up to top-secret research involving crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft and aliens.
On the tape, the witness claims that the underground facilities he had seen during his contract work were “definitely not normal military structures,” and that they featured very thick concrete walls, unorthodox oval door ways with doors that electronically slid open and shut, and arrays of bizarre equipment the likes of which he had never seen. He describes various laboratories and high-security areas he was not allowed to access, the whole place giving off a sinister vibe and feeling very much like a place he didn’t feel welcome in. The size of the facility itself he could not say, but he estimated, judging by the time it took them to get from the top of the elevator to the bottom, that it went at least 30 stories down. It was as he walked the halls with his colleague that they wandered into an area they felt they were perhaps not supposed to be in, and that was when they had their bizarre encounter with an alien. The witness says:
We were walking down a hall, and these doors opened and there was a very particular person or things that caught my eye for an instant. This man was over seven feet tall. I’d say between 8 and 9 to 10 feet, wearing a lab jacket and talking to two human engineers. This man’s arms were almost down to his knees! It threw me into shock. It was definitely not human. He had big slanted eyes. A big head. Fingers were extremely long. Greenish skin. I saw him for just a few seconds. Three-quarters of its face is what I saw and I said, this guy would make a hell of a basketball player! And then the doors closed. Security saw us and told us to get out of there. The next day I walked off the job. After that I said, ain’t nobody pulling the blanket over my head anymore. l know what’s going on now. l know what I saw at Edwards is real. Somebody’s playing games with us.
The witness’s second encounter allegedly happened at the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately 150 miles north of Los Angeles. The base was originally called the Naval Ordnance Test Station, and is involved in a variety of research, testing and evaluation programs for the U.S. Navy. The sprawling site covers a massive 1,100,000 acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island, has 19,600 square miles of restricted and controlled airspace, and according to the witness it also has a vast secret underground facility holding aliens and alien tech. It was as he was doing work there with some colleagues that he purportedly saw aliens for the second time in his life, and he explained of what happened:
They security thought we had left–me and two other guys. But we decided to stay over and finish this job. We walked past a hangar and we could see through a window,” the witness said. One of the guys I was with, Paul, he saw them first. He said, ‘Come here! Hurry up! I want to show you something!‘ And we looked in the window and there are these four little grey guys about 3 feet tall. Right then, security saw us and they told us, ‘We thought you guys left.’ And they escorted us and said, ‘You’re not allowed around this hangar. This hangar is off- limits to everybody. You’ll get yourself shot.‘ And it messed with Paul’s mind so much that every chance he got he snuck over there. He finally got caught and was kicked off the base. About three months later they found him mysteriously dead in Orange County. This kind of put a scare in me. I know why not to mess with something.
The witness insists that his story is true, and apparently throughout the interview seems very sober and sincere. When the segment was originally aired on the KPFA-FM UFO program it generated so much interest that were planning on broadcasting it again, but shortly before they were to do this they allegedly got a message from the KPFA-FM program producer Ralph Steiner, somberly stating, “Do not re-broadcast the tape. Persons whose testimony is on the tape have been threatened and their lives are in danger.” Was the radio station silenced, and if so by who? There is very little to verify any of this, and it could all very well be someone playing a hoax and having a laugh at everyone's expense, but it does certainly add to the already rich lore of secret, ominous military bases and their supposed bizarre dealings with extraterrestrials.
One of the more unusual ancient Egyptian pharaohs was Akhenaten – the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty who reigned for seventeen years during the early to mid-1300s BCE. Akhenaten’s short time on the throne nonetheless had some major and historical accomplishments – he changed his name to Amenhotep IV, was married to Nefertiti, probably fathered Tutankhamun, and abandoned Egypt's traditional polytheism and introduced a monotheistic religion worshiping the god Aten. Oh, and he had an elongated skull that may have been found in 1907. Because Akhenaten’s history was seemingly wiped out after his death – and Egypt’s religion returned to polytheism, some have suggested there may have been something unusual about him that a DNA test on his mummy could possibly prove – that he was an alien.
“Unlike the rest of the pharaohs who ordered artists to sculpt and paint his figure with large shoulders and a narrow waist, he ordered that he be represented as he was. This has allowed Egyptologists to know exactly what his appearance was; bulging belly, narrow body and very long and thin limbs . All crowned with a large and elongated head.”
Does that description sound like an alien?
A recent article in UFO Spain (in Spanish) brings to light the question of why the mummy thought to belong to Akhenaten has not been studied further … especially with the possibility that it might contain alien DNA. While ancient Egyptians may have performed the childhood head-binding that resulted in elongated skulls in adults, historians have never been certain that the large heads of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and many of her children, including Tutankhamun, were due to the painful practice or something else. One sign often attributed to Egyptians having elongated heads are the statues and artwork depicting people wearing large cone-shaped headgear. In 2019, a study revealed a probable cause – two mummies found in graves in Akhetaten had wax cones on their heads that were held in place by the headgear. Why? Either as fertility devices or as part of their outfits as dancers.
What about Akhenaten and Nefertiti -- he was a male, she had plenty of children and both had real elongated heads?
Good question. Many Egyptian scholars believe Akhenaten’s unusual head and body shapes were due to a genetic abnormality. Early diagnoses pointed to Frölich's syndrome, which can cause obesity, delayed sexual development, atrophy of the gonads, and altered secondary sex characteristics. While Akhenaten had a feminine appearance and a big belly, Frölich's syndrome also causes infertility and he had many children. That led to researchers suspecting Marfan syndrome, which can cause a sufferer to be taller than average, have a long, thin face, an elongated skull, overgrown ribs, a large pelvis, enlarged thighs and spindly calves – all descriptions of Akhenaten. In addition, Marfan syndrome has a 50% chance of being passed on to the next generation. However, while he had an elongated skull, DNA tests on Tutankhamun in 2010 were negative for Marfan syndrome.
Which brings us back to DNA testing Akhenaten’s mummy for Marfan, Frölich … or alien DNA. UFO Spain offers this speculation:
“Furthermore, Nefertiti and her children also had elongated skulls. This has led to a theory; there may have been extraterrestrial DNA in Egypt, or at least past lineages. This hypothesis gains strength when the history of Egypt is analyzed and it is realized that the only reign that practically mysteriously disappeared from the records was that of Akhenaten. It is not known if he was killed or if he fled, since there is no way to clarify it.”
Bust of Nefertiti
In 1907, Edward R. Ayrton found a mummy in tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings. Genetic tests in 2010 confirmed that the person was both the son of Amenhotep III and the father of Tutankhamun, and the age at the time of his death was consistent with that of Akhenaten. However, the results have been disputed. Why? What if the tests showed alien DNA? Could the Egyptian government – or some other world powers – be covering it up? After all, ancient Egyptians seem to have tried to wipe the existence of Akhenaten out of their own history. Nefertiti, who also had an elongated skull, was believed by some to have been Akhenaten’s sister before becoming his wife and Tut’s mother. A mummy thought to be hers was found but never confirmed and her history has all but disappeared as well. Another coverup?
Would another modern and more extensive DNA test on the mummy believed to be Akhenaten answer the question of its possible alien origin? Maybe. Will it ever happen? Many people have kept Akhenaten’s origin secret for thousands of years. There is obviously a reason why.
A memorable scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the one where Dr. Miles Dyson, a cybernetics expert, the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 (T-800) played by Arnold Schwarzenegger cuts into his arm and removes its skin to show its mechanical insides and convince Dyson it is indeed a Terminator. Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991 and the movie partly takes place in 2029 – the year the T-800 and T-1000 are sent from. It is now 2022. While we’re a long way from making Terminators (hopefully), tissue engineers at the University of Tokyo have successfully covered a three-jointed, functioning robot finger with lab-grown human skin. Is it too early to call Sarah Connor?
Is it time to point fingers - real and robotic?
“These findings show the potential of a paradigm shift from traditional robotics to the new scheme of biohybrid robotics that leverage the advantages of both living materials and artificial materials.”
In a new study, published in the journal Matter, Tokyo University researchers explain what most people already knew – humans prefer robots that look like them. While firms like Boston Dynamics have successfully created robots that move like living dogs and humans, they still look like mechanical machines. That’s because the most difficult organ of the human body to replicate is the skin – the feeling, flexible covering that keeps everything inside protected while moving seamlessly with the mechanical parts and healing itself after injuries. It’s the holy grail with nails and the researchers decided that it was time to adopt a “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach by ditching the quest for artificial human skin and instead growing the real deal in a way that can be used as a robot package.
“The finger looks slightly ‘sweaty’ straight out of the culture medium. Since the finger is driven by an electric motor, it is also interesting to hear the clicking sounds of the motor in harmony with a finger that looks just like a real one.”
Study co-author Professor Shoji Takeuchi admits what the team created is only a finger … but what a finger it is. To achieve the bond between living cells and robotic metal, the team submerged their well-designed robotic finger in a cylinder filled with a solution of collagen and human dermal fibroblasts, the two main components of the skin’s underlying connective tissues. That was the secret to fitting the skin seamlessly to the finger – the mixture shrank and tightly bonded to the finger bot. This formed the base foundation for the top coating of human epidermal keratinocytes, which make up 90% of the outermost layer of skin and give it its self-healing properties. The end result was a robotic finger with the texture, moisture-retaining properties and protection of human skin.
According to the press release, the lab grown skin stretched and bent but did not break as it matched the movement of its robotic exoskeleton. For a creepy factor, the skin could be lifted and stretched with a pair of tweezers, then snapped back and repelled water. (Photos here.) And then came the Terminator effect.
IMAGES: KAWAI ET. AL.
IMAGE: KAWAI ET. AL.
“When wounded, the crafted skin could even self-heal like humans’ with the help of a collagen bandage, which gradually morphed into the skin and withstood repeated joint movements.”
So, we ask again … IS it time to call Sarah Connor? Not quite … but keep her number handy. Takeuchi admits that, while impressive, the lab grown robotic skin is much weaker than its homegrown counterpart. It also requires assistance to feed it nutrients and remove waste. Finally, it needs fingernails, hair follicles and sweat glands – not just for their cosmetic value, although that’s important for humans to accept humanoid robots, but to replace the artificial feeding, circulation and protection the scientists still had to provide for the skin.
How far away are we from this being a robot's hand?
“I feel like I'm gonna throw up.”
“I think living skin is the ultimate solution to give robots the look and touch of living creatures since it is exactly the same material that covers animal bodies.”
Does the thought of human skin covering a robot make you feel like Dr. Mike Dyson in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day“ (the first quote) or Dr. Shoji Takeuchi in his lab at the University of Tokyo?
The UFO subject can, at times, be a strange one. On other occasions it can be sinister. But, what about downright fatal? In other words, mysterious deaths and getting too close to the truth of the UFO phenomenon. That's the theme of today's article. We'll begin with a man named Danny Casolaro. It was the summer of 1991 – specifically August 1 of that year – when the body of a middle-aged man was discovered in a hotel room in the Martinsburg, West Virginia Sheraton Inn. His body was lying in the shower. It was a grim sight for the maid that made the discovery. The man, it seemed, had committed suicide: his wrists were cut deep, something which effectively meant that without anyone to help him, the man was doomed. And, he was. It didn’t take more than a few moments for hotel staff to figure out who, exactly, the man was. He was identified by the person on the front-desk as Danny Casolaro. For around a year and a half leading up to the point of his reported suicide, Casolaro had been looking into a powerful group of people who sound very much like candidates for a New World Order. Casolaro termed this group, “The Octopus.” Appropriately, but unfortunately and tragically, the Octopus soon got its tentacles into Casolaro and dragged him down to an untimely death.
On the Area 51 angle, things got even more controversial. Casolaro was told that a secret group, known as Majestic 12, oversaw at Area 51 the wreckage and alien bodies said to have been found in New Mexico in the summer of 1947 – the legendary Roswell affair, of course. For the record, the Majestic 12 issue has been an integral one to the field of Ufology for decades. For some UFO investigators, Majestic 12 is the real deal. For others, though, it’s nothing but government disinformation designed to confuse the Roswell incident even further. Unfortunately, Casolaro did not live to see the truth of the Octopus unveiled – by himself, he hoped. The matter of his death in August 1991 ensured that. While Casolaro’s death could have been due to suicide – certainly, that’s what it looked like – there were solid and valid reasons to suggest that his death was due to something very different. At the time of his passing, Casolaro was certainly not in a state of woe or depression. It was the exact opposite: he was energized by new leads, and new revelations, in his quest to find the truth of the Octopus, its activities, and its motivations. The mystery remains exactly that: a mystery.
Note: As this map was created by the U.S. government, it is in the public domain
Now, let's jump back to the 1960s and a journalist named Dorothy Kilgallen, who had an interest in the UFO subject. For Kilgallen, it was when she started to dig into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - at Dallas’ Grassy Knoll - that things began to get dicey for her. She was particularly interested in the connections between JFK’s alleged murderer, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Dallas strip-club-owner, Jack Ruby; a man who knew all the influential, powerful, and murderous characters – including the Mob - who called Dallas their home. When Oswald was shot and killed by Ruby on November 24, 1963, Kilgallen really sat up, suspecting that Oswald had been killed to prevent him from revealing what he knew of the complexities surrounding the president’s death.
Things got even more intriguing when Kilgallen got her hands on an advance copy of the controversy-filled Warren Report that investigated the death of JFK. How she got a hold of that is still a much-debated issue for those who haven’t given up on the matter of who was behind the president’s killing. Kilgallen even managed to secure an interview with Ruby, himself. Kilgallen was no fool: she knew that, by that time, her life was in a fair degree of danger. Kilgallen’s hairdresser, Marc Sinclaire, made no bones about it: “Her life had been threatened.” The threats became more and more. Then, on November 8, 1965, Kilgallen was found stone cold dead. As well as looking deep into the JFK assassination, Kilgallen was also tied to the UFO mystery. There’s little doubt at all Dorothy Kilgallen had an interest in the UFO phenomenon; in 1954, she said, in a press article, that: “Flying Saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of the world military heads next summer.” If such a thing went ahead, it was carefully hidden to the media and the public.
(Nick Redfern) Marilyn Monroe murdered for what she knew about UFOs?)
Sadly, Kilgallen died at a young age and under suspicious circumstances. Was it an accidental case of Kilgallen being fatally fueled by too much booze and too many pills? A suicide? Or, a skillful murder made to look like one of the two scenarios above? Just like Marilyn Monroe’s death, the questions – even now, decades later - are many, but the answers are sorely lacking. The mystery remains. As does Kilgallen’s involvement in controversies of the UFO kind. And, talking about Marilyn, what about her link to the UFO phenomenon? Murders made to look like suicides and accidents. Classified government documents fallen into the wrong hands. Stolen diaries; some of them burned and shredded for fear of what, one day, they might reveal. Powerful people with dangerous agendas. Famous faces. The Feds prowling around. Hollywood conspiracies. CIA agents keeping watch. Frightened people with secrets to hide. Wild sex. Drugs. Crazy parties and flowing booze. And, an incredible story of UFOs, aliens, Roswell, Area 51, Flying Saucers, and the death of a beautiful, but tragically scarred, icon. They all appear in the final years of Marilyn's life.
In 1955, one of the most controversial of all the many and varied UFO books published in the fifties was released – and, for the UFO field, to a distinct fanfare. Its title was The Case for the UFO. The author was Morris K. Jessup. His book was a detailed study of the theoretical power-sources for UFOs: what was it that made them fly? How could they perform such incredible, aerial feats, such as coming to a complete stop in the skies, hovering at incredible heights? Jessup believed that the vitally important answers lay in the domain of gravity. Or, as he saw it: anti-gravity. Jessup may well have been onto something, as it wasn’t long at all before the world of officialdom was on Jessup’s back – specifically senior figures in the U.S., Navy. And it was one particularly intriguing office of the Navy that was watching Jessup – a “special weapons” division. Clearly, someone in officialdom was interested in, and perhaps even concerned by, Jessup’s findings and theories.
In the early evening of April 20, 1959, the lifeless body of Morris Jessup was found in his car, which was parked in the Matheson Hammock Park in Miami, Florida. The car’s engine was still running and a hosepipe, affixed to the exhaust, had been fed through the driver’s side window. Jessup was dead from the effects of carbon-monoxide. Jessup’s body was found by a man named John Goode, who worked at the park. Shocked at the sight before him, Goode quickly called the police, who arrived in no time at all. While it certainly looked as if Jessup had killed himself, not everyone was quite so sure that things were as clear cut as that. The window through which the hose was stuffed with a couple of towels, to prevent air from getting in and carbon-monoxide from getting out. Curiously, Mrs. Jessup - Rubeye – confirmed that the towels were not theirs.
Why, if Jessup took his own life, did he not take towels from the family home? What would have been the point of buying new towels? And, if he did buy such towels, where was the receipt from the store they were purchased from? It certainly wasn’t in the car, or in any of Jessup’s pockets. Equally suspicious is the fact that on the very night before his death, Jessup was in a very upbeat, fired-up mood: he spent more than an hour chatting on the phone with a good friend, Dr. Manson Valentine, expressing his enthusiasm for his latest work and plans for further investigations. Jessup even told Valentine that they should have lunch together the next day, as Jessup had something incredible to reveal. Valentine never got to see what it was that Jessup had uncovered – and he never saw Jessup again, either. Suicide or murder? The jury still can’t make its mind up, decades later.
May 22, 1949 was the date on which the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, died. Specifically at 1:50 a.m. As will quickly become apparent, the circumstances surrounding Forrestal’s final hours are swamped in controversy. All that we know with absolute certainty is that in the early hours of the 22nd, Forrestal’s body was found on a third-floor canopy of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland. Did he take a fatal leap out of the window of the 13th floor of the hospital, his mind in turmoil and suicide on his mind? Was it an accident? Or, was Forrestal assassinated? For years, there have been rumors to the effect that Forrestal lost his life to an assassin - and because of what he knew of UFOs. And what he might have been on the verge of revealing what he knew. Ufology: sometimes it just might be deadly. Consider that when you do your next investigation into the subject of aliens and UFOs.
Keyhole: Unlocking the Secret Geometry of the UFO Enigma
Keyhole: Unlocking the Secret Geometry of the UFO Enigma
In my latest book Ancient Alien Ancestors, I present several discoveries one of which I want to go over briefly. I say ‘discovery’, implying, more or less, that I went through a process of research and tracked it down.
It kind of happened that way but not quite. I had been studying the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt for a long time, but the Byzantine nature of the puzzle started causing me an overload. The enigmas of that edifice are many, entangled and impossibly complex. Stopping short of a mental meltdown, I let it go for a while.
One morning I woke up with the compelling thought to experimentally shift the prime meridian from Greenwich 0 to Giza, 31 E longitude. That made Giza the new 0 longitude (actually, Giza/Nile River delta). I did not plot out this scenario; the idea came to me first thing when I woke up.
Next, I got a map and looked at Mississippi River delta, 89 W longitude. Then I added 31 to that and came up with 120 degrees! That is a very significant number in geometry, especially when we are talking about the Earth and the Great Pyramid.
The Greenwich prime had obscured that fact, and nobody was pointing out this exact relationship between the Nile and Mississippi deltas. They both sit on 30 N latitude, precisely 120 degrees apart.
Now consider that the Nile flows from south to north; the Mississippi from north to south. I realised they were inverted mirror images of each other. Something was going on with this. I also realised it was a very big anomaly. So is the 30 N latitude which is seldom mentioned.
I then found that the Tigris-Euphrates was exactly 15 degrees east of Giza; the Yangtze delta 90 E degrees also and both on the 30 N parallel. The question that popped into my head: what is behind these rivers flowing into deltas, all along a single northern latitude around the globe?
I know of no geological dynamics that logically explains this and I have never heard a geologist try. Erosion, deposition, floods – they are all random processes. Then there was the fact that the earliest civilisations emerged in these river valleys on 30 N latitude. Another anomaly.
When a whole bunch of facts added together turns up an enigma, people either dig for the answer or chalk it up to ‘coincidence’. A quaint shallow concept that explains nothing unless one has a simple mind. It reveals a bias toward thinking the universe is based on random variables… dumb! You can check the foregoing in my book.
Prime Meridian experimentally shifted from Greenwich 0 to Giza.
Anomalies as Clues to the Bigger Picture
What is an anomaly? Basically anything that does not fit the model, or expectations, “something that deviates from what is standard, normal,” says the dictionary.
I realised, after many decades studying anomalies, that they are the Achilles heel of modern science and academia. When these ‘experts’ are confronted with a serious anomaly (i.e. the Great Pyramid), they abandon the scientific method, circle the wagons, and become babbling morons. The nonsense spouted on how this massive, precision-engineered edifice was built is quite shocking. We are given to believe it was built by people using hammer-stones, wooden sledges and ropes.
They present a scenario that is so improbable that it short-circuits even normally rational minds. People using Stone Age technology could not build such a sophisticated edifice. Our scholars are either stupid or just plain liars. Never mind, the Egyptians somehow did it, case closed. Minds shut, anomaly disposed of, everybody goes home. Problem is, the anomaly and the response to it are like a computer virus. It grows, spreads and starts causing fragmentation and loss of system integrity.
Already a substantial number of people around the world utterly reject the orthodox theories. Get enough of these anomalies piling up and credibility and trust become real issues. We are approaching that watershed critical mass point now.
UFOs exist, but then again they don’t, because they shouldn’t according to the laws of physics. Anomalies. Nothing in our rule-based 3D material dimension can appear and disappear in an instant.
In addition, it is impossible to see events in the future because it has not yet happened in linear time, right? Wrong.
Paranormal, psi, psychic phenomena occur and have been scientifically observed in controlled settings. Scientist Russell Targ noted his experiences while carrying out research into such phenomena in the following quote.
“Stanford Research Institute (SRI) conducted investigations into the human mind’s capacity for expanded awareness, also called remote viewing, in which people are able to envision distant places and future events and activities. For two decades SRI’s research was supported by the CIA and other government agencies. I was co-founder of this once secret program which began in 1972.” (See ‘The Scientific and Spiritual Implications of Psychic Abilities’, www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psycho10.htm.)
Since these phenomena do exist but shouldn’t by the rules that supposedly govern the dimension we live in, they are anomalies. As such, official science shows them the backdoor and politely asks them to leave and not return. Yet, the fact they exist puts us in a paradoxical position.
We seem to be living in a Universe that is, in reality, much more complex and inexplicable. Nonetheless, these anomalies must be explained and accounted for.
Quantum Nature of Reality
Now our view of normal starts getting twisted out of shape. As shown above, scientific investigations have proven that paranormal phenomena are real (that was one study, there are more.) However, we have to keep in mind that these things are weird only in the context of the rules defined by physicists. They have a model of the cosmos and our place in it. That model is predicated on there being an external universe that exists independent of our observations. In that model objects exist in three-dimensional space.
In fact, that description is not the newest upgrade. There is the quantum-view, the 2.0 version, now held by many scientists. The foregoing was actually the mechanical model from Newton that existed until Einstein blew it up.
In his relativity model, the space/time continuum is an interdependent whole. We cannot have space without time and objects need both to exist and move about. It is a package deal. Quantum mechanics came along and changed everything. There is no external universe made of solid objects existing in space independent of our observations.
What actually exists is an unexplainable paradox. Our observations change the underlying conditions of the universe. We are in an entangled presence. No pure objectivity is possible because our very observation changes the field.
Objects are vibrating fields comprised of waves of energy. Well, that is unless they are particles comprised of quantum units. We have a situation where the smallest foundational components of the observable universe are called wavicles.
Moreover, experiments demonstrate that quanta of light that are sent off in opposite directions maintain their connection to one another. Each photon is affected by what happens to its twin, even millions of kilometres away, if one gets bumped the other feels it.
Physicist David Bohm conducted those experiments. Now, we are starting to talk about a universe in which UFOs and psi phenomena can and do exist. This is good for me because I have been studying such things for 40 years now, with people thinking I was a fringe dweller, or worse.
You have no doubt seen and pondered holograms, those two-dimensional graphics that appear be three-dimensional. They may hold the key that opens the door and helps explain anomalies. Here is a definition of what is behind a hologram.
“The Holographic Principle holds that the information which describes all of the particles of matter and vibrations of energy in the bulk of the sphere fundamentally ‘lives’ at the boundary of the sphere.”
In plain English, the form of a 3D object is fully embedded in every point on a two-dimensional surface. Holograms form when a beam of light hits a plate and sends off refracted interference patterns. They contain the image of the hologram. It only exists as a field of light in space that appears to have three dimensions. So much for the technical explanation. We both know what they look like and they are essentially illusions.
There is no 3D object floating in space. But knowing that does not change the fact that we see an object floating in space. Odd, yes, and welcome to the paranormal dimension of the holographic universe.
All this is relevant to my research and thinking about ‘Ancient Aliens’. For me, this whole process started back in the late 1960s. I was living in Scandinavia and had an encounter with a UFO. It surprised me to the bone. Then and there my worldview shattered, and I had to try and explain it. Shortly thereafter Erich von Däniken’s book Chariots of the Gods? came out. I got a copy and was enthralled by the possibilities he suggested.
We forget, at least those my age do, that those were the heady days of the Space Race, men setting foot on the Moon, UFO flaps as headline stories for two decades and so on. All of a sudden this new book comes out intimating that perhaps Earth was visited by extra-terrestrials in the past. Maybe these ancient enigmas found all over the Earth such as pyramids had an explanation – ancient astronauts.
That proposition dovetailed into images of our astronauts in spacesuits climbing into a capsule before launch. ‘Star Trek’ and decades of sci-fi novels and films reinforced the concept of long-distance space travel in (hardware) 3D spaceships.
An archetype started forming. UFOs were advanced spacecraft piloted by aliens who were physical like us… but different. The simple formula was ancient astronauts had landed their ships on Earth, bio-engineered humans and departed.
In 1970 I recall what NASA promised. The next phase of space exploration was setting up a lunar colony. After that, manned Mars missions. The whole fictional environment of sci-fi was being spun as if it was real science.
Here we are almost 50 years later waiting for the still promised lunar mission. It keeps getting postponed every few years. Why? In fact, NASA never really explained why they pulled the plug on the lunar mission back then.
I suspect that some goo-goo got splattered all over the walls of Mission Control. They learned some things, quite a few actually, from the early manned missions. Unpleasant things about human beings in gravity-free habitats quickly losing muscle mass; unable to sleep; an entire list of nasty side effects, in fact.
I investigated the situation because I did not think NASA was passing the smell test. Liar, liar, pants on fire. (NASA: Never A Straight Answer.) The longer and deeper I thought about it, more and more reality floated up to the surface.
It seems there are some real intractable problems with extended space flight. The kind that bursts bubbles and makes you stop and think. Example: A trip to Neptune compromises the astronaut’s ability, in deep space, to communicate with Mission Control on Earth. Why? It takes eight minutes for a signal to travel that far. That means about 20 minutes turnaround time in an emergency. That won’t work. Extrapolate that scenario to interstellar space. We just hit the ‘Star Trek’ kill switch.
Nobody is going to be sent out on a suicide mission costing hundreds of millions of dollars. We will never be that far out on the edge of the solar system and forget about interstellar space travel. That was pure fantasy.
I know this sounds strange coming from an Ancient Alien theorist. But facts are facts, and they threw me for a loop when first discovered. With the deleterious health side effects coupled with the above, extended space travel is caput.
Is NASA informing the public of these naughty little details? Of course not! I could add the problems with a fail-safe oxygen generating system but that’s overkill.
This impacted my whole psychology about ancient aliens and modern UFOs. I realised that any alien civilisation in our Universe or dimension would be confronted by the same problems. In my latest book I went over this, however I think I was a bit too optimistic in my conclusions.
Returning to the 1970s momentarily, I was struggling to understand the encounter I had in 1968. There was also a very high-level scientist who had a similar experience and was also a UFO researcher. His name was Jacques Vallee [see article on page 45 of this issue].
Vallee had been on the team that developed the first prototype of the Internet. He had done design for NASA. I mean one smart guy. After years of researching the phenomenon, Vallee was not happy with the aliens-in-hardware-spacecraft model. That was the prevailing thinking back then among the research community.
He wrote a book explaining his objections, Passport to Magonia. That was followed by a radical proposition: the aliens were not from our dimension, but they entered and left it at will. They had been engaged in this activity in the remote past up to the present day. This became the Interdimensional Parallel Universe theory, hotly disputed by many researchers at the time.
I was at a crossroads when that came out and stirred up a huge controversy. I had studied the phenomenon, all the anomalies, and simply could not figure it out. In fact, I got to the point of being turned off by the politicking among researchers. That is when I chose to drop the modern UFO phenomenon and focus on the mysteries of ancient history. I reasoned that perhaps Vallee was correct.
There were lots of strange stone megaliths scattered all over the planet. I could not imagine how aliens from another dimension could manipulate them or why they would feel compelled to. I decided consciously (half-informed) to pursue the enigmas of the past. My working hypothesis was that an advanced ET civilisation had seeded the Earth, visited and bioengineered humanity into a hybrid race, implanted much knowledge in the Sumerians, and history unfolded.
My approach was a hybrid of its own. I discovered a paper written by two eminent scientists, Sir Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel [see Will Hart’s article “The Scientific Case for Alien Intervention” in New Dawn 167]. I was convinced they were onto something with Directed Panspermia. They laid out a bold refutation of Darwin’s doctrines and a good case for alien intervention.
I still think their approach has a core of valid facts, and their work raises many serious questions about evolution. Beyond that, how life emerged on planet Earth.
Erich von Däniken was a popular writer, but these two were scientists. I steered a middle course. Everything proceeded fairly smoothly for a while. Then in recent years psychological dissonance started to hit me. It took decades to go through hundreds of ancient sites and many thousands of artefacts to come to it.
The problem was that if aliens had come to Earth in spacecraft, why had I not seen one depiction of them? I mean the craft they arrived in and left, that is. You would expect that the Sumerians, who claimed they lived with the Annunaki, would have carved one on a stelae somewhere. They carved plenty of depictions of the gods. All these anomalies, evidence of ancient high technology, yet not one spaceship… it did not add up.
Graphic representation of the original layout of the Nintoku-tenno-ryo Kofun (mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku) with numerous smaller ones (located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan).
What I was finding instead were artefacts that suggested perhaps a portal of some kind was used. That mainly came in the last few years when I found out two things I had never noticed before or had but was focused on other priorities.
That was 1) the keyhole pattern found worldwide, and 2) the trapezoid embedded in a wide variety of ancient artefacts.
Step-by-step, as I needed it, new data came streaming in bringing fresh insights. I discovered and visited Japan to see their Keyhole Kofun. Massive structures surrounded by moats, hiding in plain sight. The Japanese do not promote them as a tourist attraction. In fact, a veil of tight security and secrecy surrounds them. The Royal Family owns and controls the main ones. Incredibly, there are an estimated 150,000 Kofun spread around the country. Even archaeologists get the ‘no trespass’ turnaround.
Kofun-like structure recently discovered on planet Mars.
Indeed, here is a very deep level anomaly. Keyhole structures resembling those in Japan have been found in the Arabian Desert. I have found the pattern at sites around the world. Perhaps the most surprising is the obvious keyhole design of St. Peter’s Square.
At the same time I was running into trapezoid windows, doorways, cave entrances, everywhere I looked. Snap! It dawned on me in a flash. The Keyhole Kofun had a trapezoidal lower section and a circular section above that.
Time rolled by and a bigger bolt hit me. This one was a bit of a shocker. I was looking at some ‘pyramids’ and suddenly noticed… those are not pyramids. They were not designed using a square base surmounted by four inward leaning triangles. None of them came together to a point on top.
Structures in Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia, with distinctive keyhole design. These mysterious structures are estimated to be at least 9,000 years old.
A square base was surmounted by four trapezoids. The structures were truncated to accommodate a platform on top that held a solar temple. We had Westernised these structures and had triangles and pyramids in our minds. But they were not there, like the holographic images.
You cannot understand why the ancients built them by studying the geometry of triangles and true pyramids. The trapezoid is an embedded feature of ancient sites all over the globe. It isthe geometry we should have been investigating.
What was the message the ancients were trying to pass along to us in those shapes? Think of another trapezoid, circle combination, this one small. The ankh! Especially those from 1st dynasty Ancient Egypt which had a pure trapezoid under a perfect circle. That was later changed to a stem underneath a loop.
The message has to do with the nature and structure of the space/time continuum we inhabit. Keyhole. Just like the phi code was embedded in ancient buildings, including the pyramids. Today, scientists and programmers are rediscovering it. Now phi is embedded in algorithms in a zillion software applications.
That ratio is a very deep secret related to how the universe design’s structures. At this point I have abandoned the hardware archetype. Don’t get the wrong idea; the concept was not that important in my latest book. One of my objectives in the volume is to present the best UFO evidence and integrate Ancient Aliens with the modern UFO phenomenon. The phenomenon forms a continuum.
I feel compelled to examine the possibilities of interdimensional transit. I wonder what conditions would have to exist to facilitate it. I am taking the keyhole and trapezoid shapes and trying to pierce that veil as well. The title of my next book is going to be Alien Presence…
New Laura Eisenhower: Ding Dong The Alien Greys Are Gone!
New Laura Eisenhower: Ding Dong The Alien Greys Are Gone!
As we the peopled take our planet back there is great news coming in hot this week from Earth Emissary for the Galactic Federation of Worlds that the grey alien species who have abducted and taken genetic materials from humans are finally GONE! In this broadcast much is shared on this subject and others of equal importance.
This ring cam caught a energy entity as it passed the front door. The cam was set to person only, meaning it would not record anything else that passes the door, however the ring cam recognized this as a person and warned them that they were being recorded. There exists a species of alien so advanced that they are pure energy. They are only visible in the sky at night, glowing while excited, usually in groups of 8-50. Yes I have seen them, my whole family saw such entities, however video doesn't record them very well, being just energy...city lights make them harder to see on camera. However the door cam used infrared, which allows 100% clear and focused view of this entity. Its rare that an energy entity gets seen. They do have curiosity about us, and when we see them, often they will toy with us, sticking around for a few minutes. 100% proof of energy entities in our world.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Ring camera outside my front door, ring is set to person only. Second time my ring has picked this up around 3am.
Mysterious Object Over New South Wales in Australia on June 2, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Object Over New South Wales in Australia on June 2, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:June 2, 2022 Location of sighting: New South Wales, Australia
A shiny object in the sky reveals a disk that is tilted to one side. The object is hard to see unless it tilts the right way, and even then its always white or metallic in color. The UFO looks very similar to the UFOs at the Rocky Mountains, Denver sightings. These UFOs are the most common worldwide and although they have a simple outer design they are 100% alien and can travel at the speed of light.
Sphere Following Space Station, NASA Cam, June 10 2022 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Sphere Following Space Station, NASA Cam, June 10 2022 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Guys, was at the hospital for about 12 hours, mother-in-law who lives with me fell down and had a second stroke. I drove her to the hospital and she seems to be getting better, but hard to tell. Anyways...been trying to post, now I'm back. I may have day where I'm not posting.
I caught this yesterday but was unable to post it. It looks like a sphere and it has a blur around it...similar to what UFOs often cause when recorded on camera. Now I thought it could be dragon capsule, but there was none docking that I know of and a dragon capsule should be focused not blurry. This is really an odd one. Its directly off the NASA live cams and may even still be there, IDK.
To me, this is absolute alien technology...a real alien craft following the space station.
“Aliens Are In Contact With Their Hybrid Offspring From Out Of Space”
“Aliens Are In Contact With Their Hybrid Offspring From Out Of Space”
Anthropologists state that alien phenomenons have increased massively globally. There is so much mystery revolving aliens experimenting, reproducing and even living side by side humans!
I discovered this human like face on the Planet Mercury on June 26, 2011. I was looking through Mercury photos when I came across this face. As you know if you frequent my site, I like to search for faces on alien planets and moons. Why? Because It's the closest thing to meeting them. So I search.
This face is no longer there. NASA has deleted the photo and scrubbed it from the NASA site. However you still have the screenshots that I have saved here to remind NASA that committing fraud by hiding information from the public...is a felony offense.
I see here that the face is a humanoid male who looks to be about 35 years old. However aliens will age differently of course. The nose, eyes, cheeks, forehead and mouth all point to being related to humans on Earth. Maybe these people were responsible for us exiting on Earth.
Today I found some interesting ancient alien artifacts in a Mars photo. The most outstanding artifact is a statue of a elephant-like creature with a short trunk. It is sitting down and turned looking to the left.
There is also a huge face with thick lips, open mouth and a round nose, two eyes.
I also found a broken sword, its handle is still intact, and it still has part of the blade on it but its broken off, missing about 60% of the blade.
There were also some small structures. The structures had doorways about 12 cm tall, which fits with all the small statues we have been finding on Mars. Proof of life on Mars, without a doubt.
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Sphere Following Space Station, NASA Cam, June 10 2022 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Sphere Following Space Station, NASA Cam, June 10 2022 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Guys, was at the hospital for about 12 hours, mother-in-law who lives with me fell down and had a second stroke. I drove her to the hospital and she seems to be getting better, but hard to tell. Anyways...been trying to post, now I'm back. I may have day where I'm not posting.
I caught this yesterday but was unable to post it. It looks like a sphere and it has a blur around it...similar to what UFOs often cause when recorded on camera. Now I thought it could be dragon capsule, but there was none docking that I know of and a dragon capsule should be focused not blurry. This is really an odd one. Its directly off the NASA live cams and may even still be there, IDK.
To me, this is absolute alien technology...a real alien craft following the space station.
NASA's Perseverance Studies the Wild Winds of Jezero Crater
NASA's Perseverance Studies the Wild Winds of Jezero Crater
Perseverance Views Dust Devils Swirling Across Jezero Crater: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its navigation camera to capture these dust devils swirling across Jezero Crater on July 20, 2021, the 148th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI. Download image ›
The rover’s weather sensors witnessed daily whirlwinds and more while studying the Red Planet.
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet’s surface. Not only did the rover detect hundreds of dust-bearing whirlwinds called dust devils, Perseverance captured the first video ever recorded of wind gusts lifting a massive Martian dust cloud.
A paper recently published in Science Advances chronicles the trove of weather phenomena observed in the first 216 Martian days, or sols. The new findings enable scientists to better understand dust processes on Mars and contribute to a body of knowledge that could one day help them predict the dust storms that Mars is famous for – and that pose a threat to future robotic and human explorers.
“Every time we land in a new place on Mars, it’s an opportunity to better understand the planet’s weather,” said the paper’s lead author, Claire Newman of Aeolis Research, a research company focused on planetary atmospheres. She added there may be more exciting weather on the way: “We had a regional dust storm right on top of us in January, but we’re still in the middle of dust season, so we’re very likely to see more dust storms.”
Perseverance made these observations primarily with the rover’s cameras and a suite of sensors belonging to the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA), a science instrument led by Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología in collaboration with the Finnish Meteorological Institute and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. MEDA includes wind sensors, light sensors that can detect whirlwinds as they scatter sunlight around the rover, and a sky-facing camera for capturing images of dust and clouds.
“Jezero Crater may be in one of the most active sources of dust on the planet,” said Manuel de la Torre Juarez, MEDA’s deputy principal investigator at JPL. “Everything new we learn about dust will be helpful for future missions.”
Frequent Whirlwinds
The study authors found that at least four whirlwinds pass Perseverance on a typical Martian day and that more than one per hour passes by during a peak hourlong period just after noon.
The rover’s cameras also documented three occasions in which wind gusts lifted large dust clouds, something the scientists call “gust-lifting events.” The biggest of these created a massive cloud covering 1.5 square miles (4 square kilometers). The paper estimated that these wind gusts may collectively lift as much or more dust as the whirlwinds that far outnumber them.
Perseverance Views Wind Lifting a Massive Dust Cloud: This series of images from a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a gust of wind sweeping dust across the Martian plain beyond the rover’s tracks on June 18, 2021 (the 117th sol, or Martian day, of the mission). The dust cloud in this GIF was estimated to be 1.5 square miles (4 square kilometers) in size; it was the first such Martian wind-lifted dust cloud of this scale ever captured in images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI. Download image ›
Why Is Jezero Different?
While wind and dust are prevalent all over Mars, what the researchers are finding seems to set Jezero apart. This greater activity may be linked to the crater being near what Newman describes as a “dust storm track” that runs north to south across the planet, often lifting dust during the dust storm season.
Newman added that the greater activity in Jezero could be due to factors such as the roughness of its surface, which can make it easier for the wind to lift dust. That could be one explanation why NASA’s InSight lander – in Elysium Planitia, about 2,145 miles (3,452 kilometers) away from Jezero Crater – is still waiting for a whirlwind to clear its dust-laden solar panels, while Perseverance has already measured nearby surface dust removal by several passing whirlwinds.
“Perseverance is nuclear-powered, but if we had solar panels instead, we probably wouldn’t have to worry about dust buildup,” Newman said. “There’s generally just more dust lifting in Jezero Crater, though average wind speeds are lower there and peak wind speeds and whirlwind activity are comparable to Elysium Planitia.”
In fact, Jezero’s dust lifting has been more intense than the team would have wanted: Sand carried in whirlwinds damaged MEDA’s two wind sensors. The team suspects the sand grains harmed the thin wiring on the wind sensors, which stick out from Perseverance’s mast. These sensors are particularly vulnerable because they must remain exposed to the wind in order to measure it correctly. Sand grains blown in the wind, and likely carried in whirlwinds, also damaged one of the Curiosity rover’s wind sensors (Curiosity’s other wind sensor was damaged by debris churned up during its landing in Gale Crater).
With Curiosity’s damage in mind, the Perseverance team provided an additional protective coating to MEDA’s wires. Yet Jezero’s weather still got the better of them. De la Torre Juarez said the team is testing software changes that should allow the wind sensors to keep working.
“We collected a lot of great science data,” de la Torre Juarez said. “The wind sensors are seriously impacted, ironically, because we got what we wanted to measure.”
More About the Mission
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
THESE 2 EXPERIMENTS COULD ENABLE HUMANS TO LIVE AND WORK SAFELY ON THE MOON — AND MARS
JOANNA THOMPSON
THESE 2 EXPERIMENTS COULD ENABLE HUMANS TO LIVE AND WORK SAFELY ON THE MOON — AND MARS
On June 2, the space agency revealed it is funding two science projects under the umbrella of its ambitious Artemis Program to send humans back to the Moon by the end of the decade. One will probe the mysteries of lunar geology — particularly, the ancient volcanic activity that shaped the riven and pock-marked orb we see today. The other will test how the Moon’s gravity and radiation affect living cells — crucial health information to enable humans to live and work safely on the Moon for extended periods of time.
Both of these experiments, which will be shot into space by commercial launch companies, promise to deliver data that will be crucial to meet Artemis’s goal of establishing a lunar habitat for humans by 2030. But beyond that, the information NASA and the project scientists glean can also help design future crewed lunar missions — and perhaps even crewed missions further afield in space.
The experiments are part of NASA’s Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) initiative, which invites outside organizations and companies to pitch NASA ideas and tech to take to the Moon. In total, the program will award up to $2.6 billion-worth of contracts split up between each selected experiment.
Here’s what we know about each project so far:
CAN HUMANS LIVE WITH LUNAR RADIATION?
The Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (aka LEIA, as in princess) is a rather unglamorous and small gadget filled with sensors and live yeast. The research team plans to send LEIA via a CubeSat (also not glamorous) all the way down to the surface of the Moon. There, it will monitor how radiation and lunar gravity affect the yeast’s cells over an extended period of time.
This experiment replicates a fundamental approach to seeing how different environments affect a living organism’s health, ability to reproduce, and evolution that is commonly used in Earth’s labs. For life on the Moon, testing a very simple model lifeform like this will provide crucial observations to enable more permanent human dwellings.
Perhaps the biggest challenge of living in space, including on the Moon, would be that humans will have to endure continuous exposure to radiation at levels not experienced naturally on Earth. Radiation exposure, as we all know, can have significant long term effects on health.
"We really know so little about the long term effects of chronic medium-dose radiation," says Corey Nislow, a molecular biologist at the University of British Columbia. Nislow is not involved with the LEIA experiment, but his team has a similar yeast-based radiation monitoring project that will launch to space aboard Artemis I in the latter half of 2022.
Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is a common model organism for studying DNA damage in humans. That's because, at the most basic molecular level, yeast cell biology is remarkably similar to human cell biology.
"YOU CAN PROBABLY MAKE A LIST OF TEN SUBCATEGORIES OF DNA REPAIR, AND ALL OF THEM ARE CONSERVED BETWEEN YEAST AND HUMAN CELLS," SAYS NISLOW.
We know that radiation in space is bad news: It hits DNA like a wrecking ball that sizzles skin, impairs motor functions, and even causes cancer. On Earth, the most dangerous doses of radiation from space are blocked by our planet's atmosphere and magnetic field before they can reach the surface. The Moon, like Mars, has very little atmosphere to shield it from harmful solar winds and cosmic rays. Researchers aren’t completely sure how Moon-related doses of radiation will affect our DNA.
The yeast cells aboard LEIA and experiments like Nislow’s will give scientists a better idea of which genes are most vulnerable to radiation damage. This, in turn, will help them develop effective drug treatments to minimize its effects on human astronauts over a prolonged period — an absolutely crucial step toward Artemis's long-term goal of getting to Mars.
"Currently, you would reach the maximum tolerated radiation exposure just on the trip to Mars," Nislow says.
"We need to get our brains wrapped around the potential damage we're facing."
EXPLORING VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ON THE MOON
The Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (or Lunar-VISE, for short) is a two-part mission consisting of a stationary lander equipped with a camera and a rover designed to study the Moon’s geology.
“Most of the volcanic activity on the Moon happened billions of years ago,” Kerri Donaldson Hanna, a planetary geologist at the University of Central Florida and lead researcher on the project, tells Inverse.
“But there is evidence in a couple of locations on the surface that suggest that there could have been volcanic activity maybe a billion years ago.” In cosmic terms, fairly recent.
Lunar-VISE promises to explore one of these weird lunar locations for the first time: The Gruithuisen Domes. These bubble-like features — named for German astronomer Franz von Gruithuisen — are a bit of a Moon mystery. They closely resemble domes that form on Earth when thick, viscous magma bubbles up from between two seismic plates and is quickly doused by lots of liquid water. But the Moon is pretty much bone-dry and geologically dead, so nobody’s sure how the Gruithuisen Domes got there.
“THAT TELLS US THAT SOMETHING INTERESTING IS GOING ON IN THE INTERIOR THAT WE DON’T FUNDAMENTALLY UNDERSTAND,” DONALDSON HANNA SAYS.
Lunar-VISE’s mobile rover will roam around the top of one of the domes for about ten Earth days (equivalent to one lunar day), analyzing dust samples as it goes. The composition of this Moon dirt should give scientists a better picture of how the domes formed, including how old they are and whether they were the product of some exotic type of lava.
Both Lunar-VISE and LEIA will be delivered to the Moon via NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partnership, which currently consists of 14 private spaceflight companies, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin Space.
The payloads are supposed to leave Earth sometime in 2026, but it is too early to say what spaceflight company will take them to their new lunar home. The timeline is also a small reminder of how far we are from settling humans off-Earth. Nislow’s experiment has already been held back by delays to the Artemis I launch, which may have a knock-on effect on future launches.
In the meantime, the Lunar-VISE and LEIA teams are prepping to make sure their instruments pass weight, size, and cost muster for launch day.
“In the next month or so our team will start working with NASA to define what those requirements are,” says Donaldson Hanna.
“We’re certainly excited to start doing all the fun stuff,” she adds.
Disclosure Of Classified X Documents And Archaeological Aztec Origin Objects Found In Ojuelos De Jalisco, Mexico.
Disclosure Of Classified X Documents And Archaeological Aztec Origin Objects Found In Ojuelos De Jalisco, Mexico.
The Aztecs came long after the Maya. The Mexican government had agreed to disclose to the public several archaeological objects that have remained hidden for decades, from the time they were discovered. A helmet-shaped head of Alien, etched in stone tablets of gold and silver, which can be recognized in engraved details – how astronauts that traveling in space ships with other ships scenes actually looks like. Also you can observe comets and planets there.
The Mexica or Aztecs were a people of the Nahuatl culture that existed in the area of Mesoamerica from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. These people are called themselves Mexica (pronounced meshicas) or tenochcas (inhabitants of Tenochtitlan). The Aztec word meaning ‘from Aztlán’ and was their tribal name. In just 70 years, the owners would greatest empire that had existed in Mesoamerica. A lost culture and never seen until now. They are objects filled with details of the lives of these characters in our remote distant and forgotten history, which until now had remained hidden.
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Several families of Ojuelos city in the province of Jalisco, Mexico, have been collecting for about 50-60 years a total of 400 artifacts extraordinary, with the dream of one day open his own museum, and publicize to the the public such an amazing objects.
HERE SOME OF THE APPROXIMATELY 400 OBJECTS FOUND
Prints, sculptures, rings, pendants. It seems that this former American culture had contact with eyes elongated creatures who lived with them over time and represented their craft in the skies. The same figures Alien contacted many say seeing them today. Or at least it seems. Conclusions. Scientific analysis by Ma Luisa Trujillo of the two objects found: Based solely on the interpretation of all we have, chemical analysis, we can infer that the person who drew up the pieces did not know the process covers and glazes as is now known, whereby the characteristics do not match 100% with some type of nail Today, we might think that used in the composition principles of stoneware but at a lower temperature which completely changes the finish. Covers or stoneware glazes give good results with oxidizing or reducing atmospheres, generally used to initiate a reducing atmosphere and at the end a neutral or oxidizing atmosphere on assessed pieces oxidizing atmosphere was used.
NASA is commissioning a study team to start early in the fall to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective. The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.
The limited number of observations of UAPs currently makes it difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety. Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA’s goals to ensure the safety of aircraft. There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin.
“NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do.”
The agency’s independent study team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, who is president of the Simons Foundation in New York City, and previously the chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will serve as the NASA official responsible for orchestrating the study.
“Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can,” said Spergel. “We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.”
The study is expected to take about nine months to complete. It will secure the counsel of experts in the scientific, aeronautics, and data analytics communities to focus on how best to collect new data and improve observations of UAPs.
“Consistent with NASA’s principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, this report will be shared publicly,” said Evans. “All of NASA’s data is available to the public – we take that obligation seriously – and we make it easily accessible for anyone to see or study.”
Although unrelated to this new study, NASA has an active astrobiology program that focuses on the origins, evolution, and distribution of life beyond Earth. From studying water on Mars to probing promising “oceans worlds,” such as Titan and Europa, NASA’s science missions are working together with a goal to find signs of life beyond Earth.
Furthermore, the agency’s search for life also includes using missions such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and Hubble Space Telescope, to search for habitable exoplanets, while the James Webb Space Telescope will try to spot biosignatures in atmospheres around other planets – spotting oxygen and carbon dioxide in other atmospheres, for example, could suggest that an exoplanet supports plants and animals like ours does. NASA also funds space-based research that focuses on technosignatures – that is signatures of advanced technology in outer space -- from other planets.
Learn more about NASA’s astrobiology program online at:
NASA, DARPA, MIT Scientists Met to Discuss "Anti-Gravity" Tech
NASA, DARPA, MIT Scientists Met to Discuss "Anti-Gravity" Tech
It's the "Woodstock of gravity-modification research."
A number of NASA, DARPA, MIT and Air Force scientists met on Zoom in November to discuss something usually reserved for fringe theorists and cranks: how to defeat gravity, The Debrief reports.
The inaugural Alternative Propulsion Energy Conference (APEC) was formed to give scientists a chance to discuss taboo — and, to be fair, often far-fetched — ideas that fall outside the confines of mainstream science.
In other words, it's the "Woodstock of gravity-modification research," as Ron Kita, the founder of a venture called Chiralex that's working on "gravitational shielding" materials, called it in a quote for the event's homepage.
All told, the event is eyebrow-raising.
"The Alt Propulsion community is highly intersectional, and we’re sandwiched between the aerospace, defense, electrical engineering, physics, UFOs, and 'frontier science' cultures," conference moderator and organizer Tim Ventura told The Debrief.
"We have folks from all of these cultures who visit the conference and present, and despite the fact that these various communities don’t always agree on some topics. We’ve been able to avoid conflict," he added.
Despite the odd topic, 16 out of 71 attendees at the November event were current or former NASA scientists and engineers, according to The Debrief, and 14 more were affiliated with reputable institutions including MIT and Harvard.
The topic of UFOs apparently made a big splash at November's conference. The topic has made a significant pop-culture resurgence this year, with military pilots openly talking about encounters and the Pentagon teasing a long-awaited report on the matter that was ultimately released in June.
"In the past, everyone had an awareness of UFOs, but they weren’t highly relevant because they aren’t well understood," Ventura told The Debrief, saying that the scientific community is exploring the topic more seriously than ever.
Despite their best efforts, though, gravity remains undefeated — though it's probably good that a few researchers are finding time to entertain long-shot conversations about how that might change.
Workers pressure wash the logo of NASA on the Vehicle Assembly Building before SpaceX will send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2020.
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WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - NASA said on Thursday it plans to assemble a team of scientists to examine "unidentified aerial phenomena" - commonly termed UFOs - in the latest sign of the seriousness with which the U.S. government is taking the issue.
The U.S. space agency said the focus will be on identifying available data, the best ways to gather future data and how it can use that information to advance scientific understanding of the issue. NASA tapped David Spergel, who formerly headed Princeton University's astrophysics department, to lead the scientific team and Daniel Evans, a senior researcher in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, to orchestrate the study.
A team of scientists is due to be convened by the fall, then will spend roughly nine months developing a public report on its findings, Evans said. NASA will spend "anywhere from a few tens of thousands of dollars" to no more than $100,000 on the effort, Evans added.
The announcement comes a year after the U.S. government issued a report, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in conjunction with a Navy-led task force, detailing observations mostly by Navy personnel of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," or UAPs. Two Pentagon officials testified on May 17 at the first congressional hearing on UFOs in a half century.
"We're looking at the Earth in new ways, and we're also looking the other way, at the sky, in new ways," Thomas Zurbuchen, the chief of NASA's science unit, told reporters on a conference call. "What we're really trying to do here is start an investigation without an outcome in mind."
U.S. officials have described UAPs as a national security issue, which NASA echoed.
"Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety. Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA's goals to ensure the safety of aircraft," NASA said in a news release.
Last year's report said U.S. defense and intelligence analysts lacked sufficient data to determine the nature of UAPs observed by military pilots including whether they are advanced earthly technologies, atmospherics or of an extraterrestrial origin. The two Pentagon officials last month acknowledged many observations remain beyond the government's ability to explain.
NASA said in a news release: "There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin."
The agency's involvement is aimed at providing more data, with an aim to leverage NASA's scientific talent, satellites and sensors otherwise tasked with monitoring Earth's climate or observing atmospheric conditions, Zurbuchen said.
"The first step is to figure out what data is at hand," Evans said.
NASA's involvement in Pentagon efforts to characterize UAPs has been previously acknowledged by U.S. officials.
The Pentagon has made public some video of enigmatic objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technology and lacking any visible means of propulsion or flight-control surfaces.
Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Will Dunham
Awell preserved mummified creature has been discovered on Mars. The image was taken by the Mast camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3474 (2022-05-15T10:52:45.000Z).
The creature lies against a ridge and it looks like it dragged itself there before it died.
The hind legs are clearly visible as well as its head. It seems as the body is wrapped with some kind of fabric.
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Saucer-shaped craft with antenna on top that collects lightning during thunderstorm filmed in Missouri
Saucer-shaped craft with antenna on top that collects lightning during thunderstorm filmed in Missouri
During a severe electrical thunderstorm on June 7, 2022 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, a photographer while filming the thunderstorm, noticed a huge saucer-shaped object in the center of the thunderstorm.
The object appears to have a strange antenna on top of it that collects lightning, which is easily recognizable as lightning bolts are connected to the antenna.
Since it seems that the vapor clouds are influenced by the shape of the object, I suppose that the object is not a natural cloud, but a solid craft created by intelligent design whether man-made or of alien origin.
It is often said that UFOs use lightning to recharge their batteries. Could these images be proof of it?
Footage of the thunderstorm with saucer shaped craft starts at about the 3.05 mark in the video.
The Alien Abduction: Pascagoula man says he had an encounter with aliens
The Alien Abduction: Pascagoula man says he had an encounter with aliens
The Pascagoula Abduction was an alleged UFO sighting and alien abduction in 1973, in which Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed they were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula, Mississippi.
On the evening of October 11, 1973, 42-year-old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker told the Jackson County, Mississippi Sheriff's office they were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi when they heard a whirring/whizzing sound, saw two flashing blue lights, and observed an oval shaped object 30–40 feet across and 8–10 feet high.
Parker and Hickson claimed they were "conscious but paralyzed" while three "creatures" with "robotic slit-mouths" and "crab-like pincers" took them aboard the object and subjected them to an examination.
After so many years of keeping it a secret from his own family, Calvin Parker's declining health has given him a reason to write a book and leave his legacy. Calvin Parker is now ready to tell the story of the event that would change his life forever.
In a recent interview with Fox10news, Parker said he’s glad the government is starting to talk about UFO’s, but he believes the government is still afraid to tell the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrials, it’s going to cause panic. But Parker thinks if they just tell the truth, people can handle it. Whether it’s good or bad, just tell it like it is.
There’s even been some politicians who have contacted Parker about this. Parker can’t call them by name because I’ve been sworn to secrecy. But he knows that they exist. he knows that one day, sooner or later, it’s gonna come out.
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Slowly moving unknown elongated force blocks a solar flare
Slowly moving unknown elongated force blocks a solar flare
Asolar flare is partially blocked for a while by an unknown elongated force in front of it.
Normally a solar flare shoots into space in its entirety, but this flare is blocked by something in front of it, making it appear that only a part of the flare can move around an unknown elongated force before shooting into space.
It appears that the elongated force is moving slowly through the solar flare, suggesting it could be a very large cigar-shaped spacecraft.
It Was Definitely A UFO That Shut Down Our Missiles - Aliens Stop Nukes?
It Was Definitely A UFO That Shut Down Our Missiles - Aliens Stop Nukes?
UFOs or UAPs deactivating nuclear missiles: According to Luis Elizondo “There does seem to be some sort of congruency or some sort of intersection between these UAP or UFO sightings and our nuclear technology, whether it’s nuclear propulsion, nuclear power and generation, or nuclear weapons systems. Furthermore, those same observations have been made overseas in other countries. They too have had the same incidents, so that tells us this a global issue.
Now in the US, we’ve had incidents where these UFOs/UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline their nuclear capabilities. One of the most famous cover-up cases was the UFO that shutdown nuclear missiles at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967.
Former Air Force captain 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 in the first public UFO hearing in more than 50 years and 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 that he reported the event at the time, has spoken about it repeatedly, and reported it to the government's UFO task force in 2021 and the response he 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",' Robert Salas 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, the 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.
An old footage shows that indeed a UFO deactivates a nuclear missile.
In the next two videos, Nick Pope investigates the story of nuclear missiles shutting down unexpectedly at the same time UFOs appear above an Air Force base as well as former AATIP director Luis Elizondo says that UFOs have taken U.S. nuclear capabilities ‘offline.'
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Multiverse and Black Holes
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Multiverse and Black Holes
Congress held its first public hearing on UFOs in over 50 years, signaling how lawmakers are pressuring military leaders to take the issue more seriously.
Now one of these issues refers to a video from July of 2019 that captured through night vision goggles and a single lens reflex camera multiple objects, initially identified as UAPs, harassing Navy ships participating in Naval Exercises off Sothern California were according to a report drones and not otherworldly UFOs that swarmed Navy ships off California and it even happened again off another coast.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss not only about the open UFO hearing, but also about a Multiverse and Black Holes.
On May 17, congressman Mike Gallagher inquired about the Wilson documents to Pentagon representatives. The Wilson memo (or documents) mention a top secret UFO back-engineering program discussed by Astrophysicist Dr Eric W. Davis, a Pentagon consultant who worked on many black projects.
This simple inquiry could force the hand of the DOD to reveal the presence of such a program.
Other people of note inside this video: Luis Elizondo from AATIP, investigative journalist Ross Coulthart and astronaut Edgar Mitchell.
Man Claims He Was Hypnotised And Almost Adducted By Aliens!
Man Claims He Was Hypnotised And Almost Adducted By Aliens!
John describes his encounter years back when he witnessed an alien ship! He then claims he was hypnotised and almost adducted! Anna also explains the time she experienced an alien sighting when she was young.
The military’s UFO database currently has information from over 400 documented events
The military’s UFO database currently has information from over 400 documented events
A Navy intelligence official told senators at a congressional hearing that a database of UFO reports now includes nearly 400 encounters, up from 143 analyzed in a study issued about a year ago.
According to the military’s 2021 report, no proof of aliens was discovered. Even while there are events that cannot be explained, Scott W. Bray, the deputy director of Naval Intelligence, told legislators that they have not discovered anything “non-terrestrial in origin.”
He said that none of the reported objects attempted to speak with US aviators and that no attempt was made to connect with them since they all looked to be unmanned.
According to Bray, reports of unidentified flying objects, also known as unexplained aerial phenomena or UAPs by the military, have been growing. He attributed the increase to better sensors, an increase in drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and “aerial clutter” such as Mylar balloons.
According to Bray, incidents in the 2021 report extend back to 2004 and were based on both sensor data and views by military aviators.
MAccording to Ray many of the more recent submissions lack sensor data because they were from people coming forward with older stories that they opted not to disclose at the time. He also added that that shows that the military’s efforts to de-stigmatize such reports are bearing fruit.
Bray also said that navy and air force crews now have step-by-step protocols on their kneeboard, in the cockpit, for reporting UAPs.
Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind. Said that the endeavor was vital, he observed that suspicion about UFOs certainly drove pilots to avoid reporting them or to be mocked if they did.
Transparency vs. confidentiality
The Pentagon’s senior intelligence official, Ronald S. Moultrie, testified at Tuesday’s session, which was the first public hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years. In the hearing, he underlined the opposing requirements for transparency and secrecy.
Moultrie mentioned that he enjoys science fiction and that they want to know what’s out there just like every other person wants to know what’s out there. However, he said that his main priority was to keep US military people and sites secure.
In his introductory notes, Moultrie commented that they are also cognizant of their commitment to preserving sensitive sources and procedures. Their objective is to achieve that delicate balance – one that allows them to keep the public’s trust while preserving those capabilities critical to the support of the military men.
They don’t want prospective enemies to know exactly what we see or comprehend, Moultrie added later in the interview, which was followed by a secret closed-door session.
Moultrie told legislators that as the initiative proceeds forward, a significant focus would be on strengthening coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration and other government agencies.
Bray agreed with Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, that streamlining the civilian reporting procedure would be beneficial. While some civilian reports have been included in the military’s database, the great majority have originated from within the military.
It was the first congressional hearing on the issue since then-Rep. Gerald Ford’s campaign resulted in an Air Force study and hearing in 1969.
Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
This new Unidentified Aerial Phenomena video was released 27 May. It was recorded from an Apache helicopter training mission in southern Arizona in April 2019. In the video the student says, “is that 3 very fast moving jets?” and the instructor says “probably A-10s or F-16s.” I flew in this area during my own F16 training and give my initial analysis of the speeds of the objects if they are 1 or 2 miles away.
The inside story on how 62 students witnessed the same UFO experience at school
The inside story on how 62 students witnessed the same UFO experience at school
The origins of 62 children’s claims of seeing a UFO landing outside their school remain unknown.
The children said they saw a disc-shaped aircraft drop from the sky and land in the fields outside their Zimbabwean school three decades ago.
The story has grabbed the curiosity of UFO enthusiasts because of the large number of people who claim to have seen the same thing.
The majority of UFO sightings happen in the West, and this one in Africa helped bring more attention to it when it occurred.
Even now, 28 years later, several of the children insist that they saw a UFO on September 16, 1994.
Ariel Phenomenon, a new documentary film, has given the witnesses the opportunity to share their version of events.
Many people, however, deny that the children saw an alien spacecraft and believe that the accusations are just an instance of mass paranoia unfolding.
In the documentary, the now-adult children testify about what they witnessed.
They also express their struggle to be heard and believed while being doubted along the road.
Randall Nickerson, the film’s director, told The Sun that the eyewitnesses must be given an opportunity to be heard and their experiences must not be ignored.
Nickerson has added that they have to be able to be honest about other people’s experiences because maybe they don’t understand what is going on.
It is vital at this moment, as we are witnessing more and more as our technology advances. It’s something we’ll have to communicate about and look into, and Ariel is a big part of it.
When the tragedy occurred, the students at the rural Ariel School were on their morning break.
At 10 a.m., faculty members were holding a meeting inside and were not present to witness the tragedy.
Former students said the landing lasted around 15 minutes and that they observed an object fall from the skies onto a field beyond the school’s playground.
Some of the children fled as soon as they saw the spacecraft land.
Others claimed to have seen alien humanoids leave the craft, which eyewitnesses reported as being shaped like a silver disc.
Following the purported sighting, reports of the incident spread, and BBC War Correspondent Tim Leach documented it.
When the youngsters offered their versions of what transpired that day, they were between the ages of six and twelve.
Dr. John Mack of Harvard University, a psychiatry expert, learned about the incident and wanted to examine the witnesses.
Dr. Mack concluded that the children’s accounts were credible after conversing with them.
The children claimed to have seen at least one UFO and alien figure, and they even drew what they witnessed.
UAP Encounters and Videos Revealed by Homeland Security Agent
UAP Encounters and Videos Revealed by Homeland Security Agent
Robert “Bob” Thompson, a former top CBP agent, describes in detail his attempts to construct a reporting system for contacts with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). This happened while he was serving as a federal agent with US Customs and Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector Special Operations Group in an exclusive article published on May 27th by the defense and technology news site.
The authors of The Debrief’s bombshell article, Tim McMillan, Christopher Plain, and Micah Hanks share Thompson’s story and reveal for the first time the video which was captured by a U.S. Army AH-64 “Apache” attack helicopter revealing 3 fast-moving objects execution maneuvers that seemingly defy all explanations.
The video (available to watch below!) is also reported as revealing “inexplicable movements by the objects, implying that the video likely constitutes the first publicly accessible footage obtained by advanced military sensor systems that show UAP plainly displaying very unorthodox flying characteristics.”
Thompson served in the Arizona Air Coordination Center, which functioned as the principal center of Air Operations within the Tucson Sector, from 2020 to 2021, according to an official news release from The Debrief. Along with his professional responsibilities, he spent time investigating UAP sightings he heard about within the agency, including gathering films and photographs acquired by sophisticated government systems. His boss requested him to write a report explaining why state security agencies wanted to take UAP seriously. After informing the DHS aviation community of his interest in UAP encounters, numerous DHS and National Guard pilots started sharing their UAP contacts, including incidences captured with advanced imaging systems on various aircraft.
One of these films, shot by an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in November 2018, contains 3 fast-moving objects flying in a loose triangle configuration that abruptly begin to spin into each other as if revolving around an unknown axis while maintaining a constant eastward track. The event and footage are being made public for the first time.
Chris Lehto, a former US Air Force F-16 pilot with a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Science, was also interviewed for the Debrief. He decided after reviewing the film that the things seen are definitely out of the ordinary. The objects complete a 360-degree turn in less than three seconds, exhibiting a turn rate that is an order of magnitude quicker than one of the world’s fastest turning airplanes.
Chris Lehto, a former US Air Force F-16 pilot
Thompson sent the video, along with many others, to UFO researcher Andy Marcial, who maintains the NY UAP Discussions Instagram account. Marcial later revealed in The Debrief piece that he was amazed when Thompson contacted him with the clip. However, it was something that people needed to see.
On Saturday, May 28th, the footage will be studied and presented at the UFO Disclosure Symposium. The event will include a live internet and in-person media press conference with analysts, footage holders, and industry professionals discussing and answering questions about the findings. Paul Hynek, Dr. Travis Taylor (astrophysicist), and Dr. Avi Loeb (Harvard physicist and professor) will be among the analysts.
Members of the United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation convened legislative hearings with top military officials on May 17, 2022, to explore military reports of inexplicable aerial phenomena. Several movies were exhibited that were captured by US military cameras and monitored by very advanced sensors. This latest release by Thompson and Marcial demonstrates that the United States is ready to engage in serious debates about UAP and the potential concerns they may represent to national and homeland security. Perhaps in the near future, we will see these tapes and the people involved testifying in another senate session. As we proceed towards the uncertain yet fascinating future of the UAP enigma, only time will tell.
Reflective UFOs appeared in a tight cluster over Lansing, Michigan 25-May-2022
Reflective UFOs appeared in a tight cluster over Lansing, Michigan 25-May-2022
Check out this UFO footage filmed over Lansing, Michigan on 25th May 2022.
Witness report:
Reflective objects appeared in a tight cluster, roughly 1 – 2 miles north of my position on top of Granger Landfill. These objects quickly gained altitude, moving approximately 2 – 3 miles in 5 seconds. When I first witnessed the objects gaining altitude, I reach for my phone and accessed my camera, within the time frame, they had moved from the treeline to where the video begins. These were flying at various altitudes, hovering at times.
Boomerang shaped UFO hovered and moved slowly – Montgomery, Indiana
Boomerang shaped UFO hovered and moved slowly – Montgomery, Indiana
This bright boomerang shaped object was filmed over Montgomery in Indiana. This happened back in 15th June 2018 but it was just recently published online.
Witness report:
A boomerang shaped object that appeared to be dull silver / geay was moving slowly across the sky. It seemed to hover for a short period, then started moving again in the same direction that it came from. It was a very sunny afternoon with no cloud cover. We were in the middle of a soybean farm at a small racetrack. I have about 4 minutes of video that I took with my phone. The object was bery far away, but I was able to zoom in and capture it. I had to keep moving my phone to try to get it centered on the screen. It was hard to see it on the screen because the sun was high in the sky, and it was hard for me to see my phone screen.
Here’s one interesting footage of a bright lights making maneuvers in the sky above Daytona Beach in Florida on 28th May 2022.
Witness report:
My wife and I had just stepped out of our condo when we observed lights hovering in the sky, in a V shape formation. The lights were glowing and would turn off and on, reappearing elsewhere in the sky. I managed to obtain video and a still shot of the objects using my cell phone. Attached is a video of what we observed along with a still shot. According to social media, news outlets were reporting that these objects were being seen all over Florida for the past 1-2 hours, prior to my wife and I seeing them. I am a retired 30 year Police Officer and have served in 2 branches of the military. I know what I saw…..and have never seen anything like this before.
UAP footage shot by a US Army helicopter has just been made public
UAP footage shot by a US Army helicopter has just been made public
During a training exercise in Arizona in 2018, UAP obtained a video from an Army Apache Attack Helicopter.
In the year 2018, on November 6th, the pilots of a US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter were participating in a military drill in Arizona when they saw three unidentified aircraft phenomena, or UAPs, doing abnormal maneuvers in the air not that far away and not very up in the sky.
At least, that’s the tale that accompanied the newest piece of what used to be known as a UFO video released to YouTube on Friday in the AMs by the science, defense, and technology website The Debrief, in conjunction with the commencement of a UFO Disclosure Symposium that weekend in Vernal, Utah.
The video was shot from an airfield on the desert floor, looking up, where 3 UFOs can be seen traveling throughout the sky at what appears to be a quick rate.
One of the pilots questioned if those were three incredibly fast jets up there, to which another pilot replied that they were most likely A-10s or F-16s.
The 3 beams of light appeared to dance around each other as they move, defying known physics for a mechanical aircraft.
Former US Air Force F-16 fighter pilot Chris Lehto told The DeBrief that the circle-dance maneuver is just not conceivable. They do a full 360-degree turn in under 3 seconds.
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