Unusual object near Earth turns out to be dead Soviet satellite

Ivan Hrinko

The Universe is full of mysteries. But the most interesting ones sometimes have a perfectly rational origin. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, known for his unusual hypotheses, has once again surprised the scientific community. This time, he suggested that the recently discovered second neighbor of Earth may not be an asteroid, but a lost relic of Soviet cosmonautics.

Mysterious quasi-satellite

In August, astronomers discovered object 2025 PN7, a small body temporarily orbiting the Sun in an orbit similar to Earth’s. Such objects are called quasi-satellites. However, Loeb offered a sensational explanation: it could be the remnant of the Soviet Zond-1 mission, launched to Venus in April 1964. The spacecraft, which was supposed to be the first landing module on Venus, disappeared into the depths of space due to technical malfunctions.

To prove his theory, Loeb and his colleague Adam Giberd recreated the flight path of Zond 1. Comparing it with the orbit of 2025 PN7, the researchers concluded that they could be related. According to their version, the spacecraft, while attempting to reach Venus, entered a solar orbit and now, half a century later, has returned to Earth as a “secondary moon.” An alternative explanation is that it is the upper stage of the launch vehicle that carried Zond 1 into space.

Space relics

This idea is not as fantastical as it seems. In 2020, object 2020 SO, initially mistaken for an asteroid, turned out to be the upper stage of the Centaur rocket from NASA’s Surveyor 2 mission, launched in 1966. For more than 50 years, this man-made ghost traveled through the Solar System before it was identified.

Loeb suggests a simple way to test the hypothesis: conduct a spectral analysis of 2025 PN7. The chemical composition of the object’s surface will instantly reveal its origin: natural or technological. If it is indeed “Sonda-1,” we will have a unique opportunity to study an artifact from the early space age that has made a remarkable return home.

Earlier, we explained in detail about such things as quasi-satellites and where to look for them.

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31-10-2025 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

3I/Atlas: The Mysterious Interstellar Visitor That Sparked a Debate Between Science and Alien Theories

3I/Atlas: The Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Stirring Scientific Debate

When the faint glow of a fast-moving object appeared in telescopic images earlier this year, astronomers realized they were witnessing something extraordinary — an interstellar visitor entering our solar system for only the third time in recorded history. Designated 3I/Atlas, this enigmatic body has reignited debate about the origins of such cosmic travelers and whether any might be more than just natural debris.

A New Interstellar Arrival

Before 3I/Atlas, only two interstellar objects had been confirmed: 1I/‘Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Unlike ordinary comets from the distant Oort Cloud, interstellar bodies arrive on hyperbolic orbits — their speeds too high for the Sun’s gravity to capture.
3I/Atlas entered the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour (210,000 km/h), a velocity that immediately marked it as an outsider. Its discovery excited astronomers and observers alike, not only for what it might teach us about other star systems, but also for its peculiar behavior and composition.

Avi Loeb’s Controversial Hypothesis

Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb, known for proposing that ‘Oumuamua might have been alien technology, once again drew public attention by suggesting that 3I/Atlas could also be of artificial origin.
Loeb urged NASA to release high-resolution images reportedly taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the James Webb Space Telescope, arguing that the data could clarify whether the object is natural or something more remarkable.

He has rated the possibility of alien technology at 4 out of 10 — not a firm claim, but enough to call for scientific transparency:

“The politics of the day should not sabotage science. They have the data. They should share it with scientists,” Loeb said in an interview.

Why 3I/Atlas Still Matters

Even if it proves entirely natural, 3I/Atlas provides a window into the chemistry of other solar systems. By studying its dust and gas emissions, astronomers can infer how distant planetary systems evolve, what materials form their planets, and how often solid bodies are ejected into interstellar space.

Objects like ‘Oumuamua, Borisov, and Atlas may be the first of many interstellar visitors we’ll encounter as survey technology improves. Each one carries clues about the wider galaxy — perhaps even precursors to future discoveries of genuine alien artifacts.

Conclusion

3I/Atlas reminds us that science often thrives in the space between mystery and evidence. While Avi Loeb’s provocative theories keep public imagination alive, the data so far paints a more grounded picture: a rare, unusually bright interstellar comet gliding past our Sun before disappearing into the void once again.

Whether natural or not, 3I/Atlas challenges us to look deeper, question boldly, and share knowledge openly — the true spirit of exploration that drives humanity’s search for understanding in the cosmos.

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31-10-2025 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

The mystery surrounding the interstellar visitor in our solar system has deepened after scientists spotted it making an unexpected maneuver as it approached the sun.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has recorded the object, largely believed to be a comet, displaying 'non-gravitational acceleration' as it reached its closest point to the sun on October 29.

Simply put, that means it appears to have been pushed by a mysterious force as it moves around the sun.

This push could not be explained by gravity, so something else appears to be speeding up the comet and nudging it off its expected path, which some scientists believe could be a sign the object is a spacecraft with its own engine.

According to the JPL readings, the interstellar object, known as 3I/ATLAS, experienced two main parts in this mysterious maneuver around our sun, one that pushed it away from the star and one which nudged it slightly to the side.

Most scientists have continued to call it an ordinary comet from a distant solar system with a unique chemical makeup that makes it appear different from space rocks that formed inside our solar system.

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb noted that most comets get a little push when their ice turns to gas and shoots out like a jet as they approach the sun, called the 'rocket effect.'

However, 3I/ATLAS is showing way more of a push than expected, adding to the growing list of strange occurrences astronomers have witnessed as the visitor swings around the sun.

The comet has been seen accelerating beyond the natural power of gravity as it moves around the sun

It made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday, as seen by NASA spacecraft

The object has also been getting much brighter as it nears the sun, and did it approximately 7.5 times faster than normal comets.

Moreover, most comets turn red because their surface is so cold that they absorb blue light and bounce back mostly red light, just like a cold piece of metal glows red when you start heating it.

In the case of 3I/ATLAS, however, astronomers have watched the alleged comet turn bluer than the sun as it reached perihelion, its closest point to the star.

There still could be a natural explanation for these abnormalities, as Loeb said the comet might be losing a huge amount of mass as ice boils off violently during its journey.

To create this kind of color change, 3I/ATLAS would need to have lost about 10 percent of its weight in just one month, causing a giant cloud of gas around it, which telescopes should see in November and December.

However, Loeb said that the non-gravitational push and blue coloring could also come from a hot engine and artificial light beaming from inside the object.

'The observed features are surprising but could be explained in both natural or artificial scenarios,' Loeb told the Daily Mail on Friday.

'The blue color could be a signature of ionized carbon monoxide or a hot engine. The non-gravitational acceleration could be a result of cometary evaporation or technological propulsion,' the professor explained.

3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on December 19

3I/ATLAS is widely thought to be a comet, but scientists like Professor Avi Loeb maintain that unusual clues point to the object being a spacecraft

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Loeb has called the latest strange readings from 3I/ATLAS the ninth anomaly detected as the object makes its way through our solar system.

The scientist said his first clue that something wasn't adding up was the sheer brightness of the object while it was still far away from our planet and the sun.

It also developed a backward 'anti-tail' that was facing the sun before it reached perihelion.

However, it then swiftly shifted to a normal tail behind the supposed comet as it moved closer, which some have suggested could be a sign of a spacecraft engine reversing thrust.

Its strange course taking it close to three planets and its unique chemical combination of nickel and carbon dioxide have all contributed to a growing belief that 3I/ATLAS is not a floating space rock.

Before discovering the ninth oddity, Loeb calculated that the odds of all these strange occurrences happening at the same time were one in 10,000,000,000,000,000 (that's ten quadrillion).

Loeb previously told the Daily Mail that those in the scientific community who have dismissed the more extraordinary possibilities are more concerned with being right and avoiding criticism than alerting the public to a potentially world-changing event.

'Here we are talking about a potential for something that could affect humanity in the future in a dramatic way, and so you shouldn't apply the same approach of being as conservative as possible,' Loeb explained.

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30-10-2025 om 22:11 geschreven door peter  

Could these mysterious flashes of light in 1950s photos be UFOs? Some researchers think so

When VASCO launched, it had the stated aim of looking for stars that had vanished, which could for example signal a massive star collapsing into black hole without exploding as a supernova. VASCO could potentially also reveal new types of variable stars, active galactic nuclei, stellar flares or even brand new phenomena.

Sometimes the transients VASCO studies are unexplained, which has previously led Villarroel to a startling conclusion: that some of the objects detected on the plates are metallic objects in high Earth-orbit, before the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

“Today we know that short flashes of light are often solar reflections from flat, highly reflective objects in orbit around the Earth, such as satellites and space debris, but the photographic plates analyzed in VASCO were taken before humans had satellites in space,” Villarroel said in a statement.

VASCO researchers analyzed 106,000 transients that look like stars that appeared and swiftly disappeared in a single exposure between the years 1951 and 1957. In particular, the appearance of the unidentified transients were 68% more likely to occur the day after a nuclear weapons test in Earth’s atmosphere than on other day, Bruehl added in the statement.

“The magnitude of the association between these flashes of light and nuclear tests was surprising, as was the very specific time at which they most often occurred – namely, the day after a test,” said Bruehl. “What they might represent is a very fascinating question that needs further investigation.”

In their study, Villarroel and Bruehl also found that the transients captured by the photographic plates increased by an average of 8.5% for each UAP sighting that was reported.

In a second study, which also included researchers from Algeria, India, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States, they found that one anomalous transient coincided with a cluster of flying saucer sightings over Washington, D.C., on 27 July 1952. This particular transient, along with several others, was an instance where multiple flashes of light were seen along a narrow band. This, says Villarroel, suggests flat, reflective objects in motion high above Earth that were reflecting sunlight – a hypothesis supported by the fact that the number of mystery transients drops off in parts of the sky in Earth’s shadow, where sunlight can’t reach.

“You don’t get those kinds of solar reflections from round objects like asteroids or dust grains in space, which leave streaks during a 50-minute exposure, but only if something is very flat and very reflective and reflects the sunlight with a short flash,” said Villarroel.

Villarroel and Bruehl propose another possible explanation, however: that nuclear weapons tests triggered some unknown atmospheric phenomenon that went unnoticed at the time. But Villarroel and Bruehl are skeptical that such a phenomenon would stand still in the atmosphere for 24 hours between the weapons test and when the plate was exposed at Palomar in California. The transients do not seem to be particles of nuclear fallout that have drifted down onto the photographic plate either, since such particles would produce foggy, diffuse spots, not pinpoint, star-like objects.

The explanation Villarroel and Bruehl focus on most in their papers is that these transients are UAP of some kind. Their study connects the nuclear tests to sightings, which have been reported in the vicinity of nuclear sites for decades. "Significantly more UAP sightings were reported within nuclear weapons testing windows (test date + /- 1 day) than outside of testing windows," they report in their study.

There are, of course, many caveats. Critics have claimed that the transients could be photographic defects, or contamination, especially as the plates are quite old and were stored away for many decades before being digitized.

Villarroel and Bruehl perhaps also give too much credit to reports of UFO sightings. Their reported correlation of 8.5% between the appearance of the transients and flying saucer sightings is only relevant if it can be assumed those UAP sightings are credible in the first place. There may also be an observation bias – the 1950s were the heyday of UFO sightings, so it is perhaps not too surprising that there were sightings coinciding with the appearance of transients, since UAP sightings were reported on many different days.

Ultimately, correlation does not necessarily mean causation, and Villarroel and Bruehl do acknowledge this in their study.

In SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, researchers tend to assume that any unexplained phenomena isn’t aliens, and to exhaust every possible natural explanation before invoking an extraterrestrial one. This approach would be helpful here, although what those alternative explanations might be are not yet certain.

Because of the nuclear test-ban treaty there is, quite rightly, no way to test the hypothesis that the transients are related to atmospheric phenomena caused by nuclear explosions, of which there were at least 124 above the ground between 1951 and 1957.

For now, the discovery of the transients remains an intriguing puzzle. One possible way forward that has been suggested is to try and repeat the observations on the modern day sky. If geosynchronous satellites that we know about produce similar patterns of transients on photographic plates, then that would strengthen the hypothesis that the transients on the Palomar plates could depict metallic objects reflecting sunlight in high orbit.

The two studies are published in Scientific Reports and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

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30-10-2025 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

Interstellar visitor reappears from the sun's shadow with baffling glow unlike natural comets

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

A mysterious interstellar visitor has emerged from behind the sun, glowing in a way that has left scientists stunned.

The comet, which is not visible from terrestrial telescopes, appears to have unusual chemistry. It passed through solar conjunction with Earth - meaning it was hidden behind the sun - on October 21.

It is exciting for scientists because, unlike other comets, it does not orbit the sun.

The object, named as 3I/ATLAS, made its closest approach to it on Wednesday, observed by three NASA spacecraft.

Data showed that it brightened at a rate about seven times faster than typical comets as it reached the sun. 

Researchers who captured the observations noted: 'The reason for 3I/ATLAS's rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar distances from the sun, remains unclear.' 

Even more puzzling, the comet now appears distinctly bluer, a reversal from its previously reddish hue.

Scientists speculate that the blue glow likely comes from gas emissions, including carbon molecules (C2) and other compounds, rather than just sunlight reflecting off dust. 

The object made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday, as seen by NASA spacecraft

The study, conducted by researchers from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona and the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, pulled data from the STEREO‑A (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) and SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory).

They also used a weather satellite, called GOES‑19, carrying a coronagraph, a device which helped capture the comet's brightness and color while it was hidden behind the Sun from Earth-based telescopes.

It detected a glowing plume extending nearly 186,000 miles around the object, comparable to the carbon dioxide halo observed months earlier.

The satellite revealed that 3I/ATLAS is enveloped in a huge, fuzzy coma, roughly half as wide as the full moon. 

Ground-based telescopes had trouble observing 3I/ATLAS. At the same time, it was very close to the sun, but radio observations were able to detect emissions from the comet, showing it was producing huge amounts of water-related molecules. 

The production rate of these molecules increased sharply as the comet approached the Sun, following a pattern similar to the rapid brightening observed in optical images. 

The comet is expected to return to visibility in twilight and night skies during November and December, allowing ground-based telescopes to study it in much greater detail. 

Early analysis suggests 3I/ATLAS will emerge considerably brighter than before.

Its light was increasing at an unusually rapid pace, which could be due to its chemical make-up

Scientists still do not fully understand why it brightened so fast, but it may be related to unusual activity from gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O), or unique properties of the comet's nucleus, such as its composition, shape, or structure. 

Observations from spacecraft also show that 3I/ATLAS has a large, fuzzy coma about half the size of the full moon, and its light is distinctly bluer than the sun, likely due to gas emissions from molecules like C2 and Amino groups, rather than just reflected sunlight from dust.

Its brightness increased much faster than typical comets, with a measured rate far exceeding the standard for Oort cloud comets, and the post-perihelion behavior remains uncertain; it could continue brightening, level off, or fade quickly. 

Harvard professor Avi Loeb, who has been studying the object for months, said: 'This unfavorable geometry, a possible hint of design, placed the comet within the fields of view of several space-based solar coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers, allowing continuous observation during its final approach to perihelion.' 

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30-10-2025 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious sounds echoing throughout Nevada's Lake Mead sparking fears of sinister forces

• MORE:  Enormous fire breaks out by Area 51 sending UFO watchers into a frenzy

By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

Residents in Nevada have been scared after hearing thunderous and disturbing sounds echoing through the canyons around Lake Mead.

Dozens of reports have flooded in to local police near the Redstone Picnic Area, a popular spot for camping.

This area sits in the desert of Nevada, just a short 30-mile drive from Las Vegas and next to the iconic Hoover Dam.

However, the peace was broken by rumbling booms that sounded like a giant metal door groaning in the distance.

They boomed throughout the day last Tuesday, with videos capturing the noises being shared online.

Many viewers had speculated the sounds were caused by fracking, the process of injecting high pressure liquid into the ground to extract oil or gas, but the local gas company told the Daily Mail they were not carrying out any work at that time.

One woman posting the incident on social media said the sounds woke her up and scared her enough to call for help.

'I just called 911 and they said they'd gotten over 50 calls about it,' the witness posted on TikTok. 

Witnesses in Nevada recorded disturbing noises that were similar to construction equipment in the Lake Mead area this month, but the source could not be found

Witnesses couldn't find the exact source of the echoing booms, but continued to suspect that it was coming from somewhere in the nearby valley, possibly tied to the Kern River gas pipeline that runs through the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

One local on Instagram who tried to find the source claimed the answer was the sound of gas being released from the pipeline, like a massive pressure valve letting off steam.

A file photo of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nevada, on June 26, 2022. 

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In a statement, the Kern River Gas Transmission Company confirmed to the Daily Mail that they did not release any gas from its pipelines on the dates in question.

According to the company, a request was filed for an 'on- and off-system balancing' on the Kern River Line on October 29, but this also appears unrelated to the sounds heard more than a week earlier.

This isn't the first time eerie sounds have been heard echoing through the region, with some claiming they've heard the wailing voices of ghosts along the Colorado River and unexplained footsteps coming from Hoover Dam. 

Some on social media claimed the noise was being caused by secret projects drilling underneath the Nevada desert.

'The noise was so powerful it rattled windows and shook the wildlife for miles,' one person on Instagram said. 

'The fact that it's in rhythm, and in intervals, makes me believe it's man-made. Sounds like a big jackhammer or something,' another Instagram user commented.

Lake Mead (Pictured) has become notorious for unusual and unexplained noises since the lake began to hit record-low water levels in recent years

Before this month's disturbing sounds, there had been a string of reports over the years from campers and boaters around Lake Mead who heard strange rumbles and groans in the area.

This has been especially true since the early 2010s, when the water level at Lake Mead started dropping.

In 2022, as the lake hit record-low levels, visitors claimed to have heard loud metallic clangs and deep hums coming from the newly exposed shorelines.

Experts have mostly dismissed the noises as wind echoing through canyons, small earthquakes shaking rocks, or vibrations from the Hoover Dam and nearby construction sites.

However, some conspiracy theorists online have claimed that all the sounds rattling through this area are likely tied to classified government projects, with the mysterious Area 51 sitting just over 100 miles away.

The infamous base has been tied to extraterrestrial lore for decades, with UFO researchers and conspiracy theorists claiming that secret government experiments have been conducted at Area 51 since the 1950s.

Area 51 sits on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) and is less than 140 miles from the site of the new noises recorded at the Redstone Picnic Area.

'It's the construction of the underground city they are building [to] prepare for what's coming to Earth,' one person on TikTok alleged.

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30-10-2025 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers have released a spectacular new image of the Milky Way, providing a glimpse of our galaxy in unprecedented detail.

The photograph, which took 18 months and over 40,000 hours to construct, is the largest low–frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.

It captures the Southern Hemisphere view, revealing it across a wide range of radio wavelengths – or 'colours' of radio light.

And it provides astronomers with new ways to explore the birth, evolution and death of stars in our galaxy.

The stunning picture was created by astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).

'This vibrant image delivers an unparalleled perspective of our galaxy at low radio frequencies,' Silvia Mantovanini, a PhD student at the Curtin University of ICRAR said.

'It provides valuable insights into the evolution of stars, including their formation in various regions of the galaxy, how they interact with other celestial objects, and ultimately their demise.'

Ms Mantovanini constructed the image with the help of supercomputers which processed and compiled data from two extensive surveys carried out by the Murchison Widefield Array telescope in Western Australia.

The new spectacular image of the Milky Way, providing a glimpse of our galaxy in unprecedented detail

The photograph, which took 18 months and over 40,000 hours to construct, is the largest low–frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled

It provides astronomers with new ways to explore the birth, evolution and death of stars in our galaxy

The astronomers focused on radio waves because they reveal a different part of the universe that visible light cannot show – allowing them to see through gas and dust clouds to observe the birth of stars and the structures of galaxies.

When compared to images constructed from visible light, the radio frequency photograph reveals the galaxy in much clearer, more colourful detail.

The new image offers twice the resolution, 10 times the sensitivity and covers twice the area compared to a previous radio wavelength image released in 2019.

This significant improvement in resolution, sensitivity and sky coverage allows for a more detailed and comprehensive study of the Milky Way, the team said.

Ms Mantovanini's research focuses on supernova remnants, the expanding clouds of gas and energy left behind when a star explodes at the end of its life.

Although hundreds of these remnants have been discovered so far, astronomers suspect that thousands more are waiting to be found.

The image allows them to distinguish between the gas surrounding new stars and that left behind by dead ones, revealing clearer patterns in the cosmic landscape.

'You can clearly identify remnants of exploded stars, represented by large red circles,' she said. 'The smaller blue regions indicate stellar nurseries where new stars are actively forming.'

Left: The centre of our Milky Way in radio colour. Right: The same area of sky as seen in visible light

Antennas from the MWA telescope, on Wajarri Country in Western Australia, which carried out the two extensive surveys

 The image may also help unravel the mysteries surrounding pulsars in our Galaxy.

By measuring the brightness of pulsars at different GLEAM–X frequencies, astronomers hope to gain a deeper understanding of how these enigmatic objects emit radio waves and where they exist within our galaxy.

Associate Professor Natasha Hurley–Walker from the same ICRAR team, who is the principal investigator of the GLEAM–X survey, emphasised how this is a big step forward in studying the Milky Way's structure. 

'This low–frequency image allows us to unveil large astrophysical structures in our Galaxy that are difficult to image at higher frequencies,' she said. 

'No low–frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting milestone in astronomy.'

The new image was published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

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29-10-2025 om 22:48 geschreven door peter  

Everything we know about 3I/ATLAS: The mysterious object speeding through our Solar System

While most scientists believe it’s a natural comet, one Harvard astronomer has suggested its unusual features could hint at signs of alien technology.

3I/ATLAS is largely believed to be a comet - it has a tail, is brightening as it approaches the Sun, and shows signs of dust and gas being released.

Its name was derived from its origins: “3” for the third interstellar object found, “I” for interstellar, and “ATLAS” for the telescope network that spotted it.

What makes it extraordinary is where it came from. Its speed and trajectory show that it’s not gravitationally bound to the Sun - meaning it must have originated in another star system and wandered into ours by chance.

How fast is it travelling and where is it going?

According to astronomers, 3I/ATLAS is racing through space at more than 200,000 km/h (around 61 km per second), and its speed is increasing as it approaches the Sun.

It’s following a hyperbolic orbit, which means that it’s moving too quickly to be captured by the Sun’s gravity.

“It’s going to kind of cruise through the inner solar system – in between Mars and Earth’s orbit – and then it will fly past the sun," Con Stoitsis, comet and meteor director at the Astronomical Society of Victoria, told The Guardian.

"This one is on what we call a hyperbolic orbit. So it’s not gravitationally bound to the sun. It’s travelling much too fast, and so it will just fly out the other side of the solar system," he added.

According to NASA, the closest 3I/Atlas will come to Earth is about 270 million kilometres.

Could it be something more than a natural object?

For most astronomers, 3I/ATLAS is an exciting but natural phenomenon. But one prominent scientist - Professor Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University - has advocated the need for a closer examination of the object.

Through the Galileo Project, which investigates potential evidence of extraterrestrial technology, Loeb has been asking provocative, eyebrow-raising questions about 3I/ATLAS’s origin.

In a series of scientific essays published on Medium, he argues that scientists should still consider whether the object could be an alien technological - an artificial probe or artefact from another civilisation.

In one essay titled “Does 3I/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light?”, Loeb questioned whether its brightness might stem from self-luminosity rather than reflected sunlight - a property unlike any known comet.

“The hypothesis in question is that the recent interstellar visitor to our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS1-10, is a technological artefact, and furthermore has active intelligence. If this is the case, then two possibilities follow: first, that its intentions are entirely benign, and second, they are malign, or somewhere in between," he wrote in a paper titled “Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology?”

"The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity, and would possibly require defensive measures,” he warned.

NASA has firmly rejected Loeb's perspective.

“It looks like a comet. It does comet things. It very, very strongly resembles, in just about every way, the comets that we know,” Tom Statler, NASA’s lead scientist for solar system small bodies, told The Guardian.

Loeb has since acknowledged in a blog post that “the simplest hypothesis is that 3I/ATLAS is a comet,” clarifying that his goal was to challenge assumptions rather than make firm claims.

“Let us instead maintain our childhood curiosity and seek evidence rather than pretend to be the adults in the room that know the answers in advance,” he wrote.

Will we be able to see 3I/ATLAS?

The comet will reach its closest approach to the Sun around 30 October, coming within 1.4 au (about 130 million miles), just inside Mars’ orbit.

Its size and physical properties are still being studied, but NASA says it should become visible again through ground-based telescopes in early December, once it re-emerges from behind the Sun.

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29-10-2025 om 22:18 geschreven door peter  

Probes could catch tail of Manhattan-sized space object 3I/ATLAS, but time is running out: report

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth — but only if the scientists operating them act fast to divert-course.

The probes — Hera and Europa Clipper — are both speeding on separate missions, but a new paper being published in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society found they are perfectly poised to pay a visit to the remains of 3I/ATLAS being dispersed across the solar system.

Both probes will be flying “downwind” of 3I/ATLAS as it cruises through the cosmic neighborhood in the next few weeks and leaves a trail of particles in its wake, Live Science reported, giving researchers the opportunity to fly directly through a comet’s tail for first time in history.

The probe Europa Clipper is on the way to Jupiter’s moon, but could pass through the comet’s tail if scientists act fast.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Aug. 6, with its near-Infrared spectrograph instrument.

NASA/James Webb Space Telescope

The probes wouldn’t be flying straight through the tail, however, but across a field where its particles are expected to be blown into space by the Sun’s solar wind.

That dispersal field would be about 5 million miles from the comet itself, but would still be plenty close for the probes to collect invaluable information from the particles it leaves behind.

3I/ATLAS has left scientists puzzled since it was first spotted in June. Though few have disputed that it is anything but a comet, its irregular behavior and make-up have some like Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb speculating it could be an intelligently-operated alien probe.

It is expected to fly closest to the Earth by the end of October, but will be hidden behind the sun and impossible for Earthen telescopes and cameras to get a good look at it.

The object is also ejecting a nickel alloy only ever found in human manufacturing, and previously emitted an “anti-tail” from its front that Loeb speculated could be some kind of “braking thrust” system.

Hera and Europa Clipper could be science’s best bet to gather information from the object.

But they will only be in that position over the next two weeks, and scientists would need to act immediately to send them on course to meet the comet’s tail, according to Live Science.

Hera may not even be able to be of much help. The probe is currently headed to study an asteroid and isn’t equipped with instruments that could do much reading of 3I/ATLAS’ particles.

But Europa Clipper — which is on the way to analyze ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa — has exactly the kind of instruments the job would call for.

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29-10-2025 om 21:59 geschreven door peter  

After nearly a decade in development, NASA's supersonic jet dubbed 'Son of Concorde' has successfully completed its first test flight.

The 100-foot, $247million plane, built by Lockheed Martin for NASA, took off from Palmdale Regional Airport in California at about 10:15 EDT on Tuesday. 

After about an hour performing oval-shaped loops, the plane landed safely at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center 25 miles further northeast. 

Its peak altitude during the flight was 12,000 feet (3,660 meters) – which is under half that of a commercial plane at cruising altitude – but experts hope it will be able to reach 55,000 feet (16,800 metres). 

Officially known as X-59, the manned aircraft is designed to pave the way for faster air travel at 'supersonic' speeds of up to 925mph. 

At such as speed, it could transport paying passengers from London to New York in under four hours – revolutionizing the industry and freeing up time for busy businesspeople and holidaymakers.

'We are thrilled to achieve the first flight of the X-59,' said OJ Sanchez, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division. 

'This aircraft is a testament to the innovation and expertise of our joint team, and we are proud to be at the forefront of quiet supersonic technology development.' 

Lockheed Martin, in partnership with NASA, successfully completed the first flight of the X-59, a quiet supersonic aircraft designed to pave the way for faster commercial air travel

The 100-foot, $247million plane, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, took off from Palmdale Regional Airport in California at about 10:15 EDT on Tuesday

According to Lockheed Martin, X-59 performed 'exactly as planned' prior to its safe landing at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. 

However, the single-engine jet only reached speeds of 230mph, which is nowhere near its top speed of 925mph – much faster than the speed of sound (767mph). 

Further test flights in the coming months will 'expand the X-59's flight envelope' and get closer to the plane's top flying speed, the aerospace company said. 

Despite being short of the all-important speed threshold, experts hailed this latest milestone as 'a new era in supersonic flight'. 

Sean Duffy, Secretary of the Department of Transportation and acting NASA administrator, called the experimental plane 'a symbol of American ingenuity'. 

He said: 'The American spirit knows no bounds. It's part of our DNA – the desire to go farther, faster, and even quieter than anyone has ever gone before. 

'This work sustains America's place as the leader in aviation and has the potential to change the way the public flies.' 

X-59 is dubbed 'Son of Concorde' because it would be the first passenger plane to fly at supersonic speeds (faster than the speed of sound) since the days of the retired Anglo-French liner over 20 years ago. 

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On its first flight, NASA's experimental quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft takes off from Runway 7 at Palmdale USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, October 28

Once airborne, the single-engine jet reached speeds of 230mph, which is nowhere near its top speed of 925mph - faster than the speed of sound (767mph)

Further test flights in the coming months will 'expand the X-59's flight envelope' and get closer to the plane's top flying speed

One of the issues with Concorde that led to its retirement in 2003 was the 'sonic booms' it emitted as it flew. 

Described as sounding somewhere between a thunderclap and an explosion, sonic booms happen when shock waves from an object travelling through the air faster than the speed of sound merge together before they reach the ground. 

Concorde's sonic booms were often described as unsettling by members of the public on the ground below, which meant Concorde never replaced slower, more conventional aircraft. 

In contrast, X-59’s thin, tapered nose accounts for almost a third of its length and breaks up the shock waves that usually result in a sonic boom, instead producing a quieter 'thump'. 

Due to X-59's odd configuration, the cockpit is located almost halfway down the length of the aircraft – and the craft does not have a forward-facing window. 

Instead, it's fitted with the 'eXternal Vision System', a series of high-resolution cameras feeding a 4K monitor in the cockpit.

Eventually, NASA – which will be the primary user – will fly the aircraft over cities across the US, which are yet to be selected. 

It will collect feedback about the sound the X-59 generates and how people perceive it before providing the data to the Federal Aviation Administration. 

Dubbed 'son of Concorde', the agency's new 100-foot-long plane is capable of cruising at 1.4 times the speed of sound, or 925 miles per hour

X-59 has been developed by American aerospace firm Lockheed Martin after being awarded the $247.5 million design contract by NASA in 2016 

NASA stresses that X-59 is one of its experimental crafts and is not a commercial airliner designed to carry passengers 

However, if supersonic flight proves to be feasible, bulkier next-gen versions fitted out with passenger seats could transport paying passengers just like Concorde did. 

For 50 years, the US prohibited supersonic flights because of disturbance caused by sonic booms to communities below, which was why Concorde was largely restricted to flights over the Atlantic – namely Paris to New York and London to New York.

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The legendary plane was the world’s first supersonic airliner and operated for 27 years, but it was grounded in October 2003 largely due to high fuel costs, concern over its noise and a preference for lower fares over speed.

Ever since, no government or manufacturer has since been able to build a commercial plane that can travel faster than the speed of sound – although Lockheed Martin is not the only one trying. 

Another American company called Boom Supersonic is working on its own supersonic craft, called Overture, which is eyeing commercial passenger flights in 2029. 

Meanwhile, China is working on its own experimental supersonic plane, called Yunxing, which could go at three times that of X-59.  

The history of Concorde  

Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet that was operated from 1976 until 2003.

It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354mph or 2,180k per hour at cruise altitude) and could seat 92 to 128 passengers.

It was first flown in 1969, but needed further tests to establish it as viable as a commercial aircraft. Concorde entered service in 1976.

It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially. The other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which ran as a passenger aircraft only for a few years in the 1970s due to safety issues.

Concorde was the world’s first supersonic airliner and operated for 27 years, but it was grounded in October 2003. Pictured is British Airways Concorde G-BOAB taking off with its landing gear still extended over the Cotswolds town of Fairford, Gloucestershire on July 20, 1996, during the annual RAF Fairford airshow

Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Concorde's name, meaning harmony or union, reflected the cooperation on the project between the UK and France.   

Concorde was retired in 2003 due to a general downturn in the commercial aviation industry after its only crash in 2000, the September 11 attacks in 2001, and a decision by Airbus, the successor to Aérospatiale and BAC, to discontinue maintenance support. 

It wasn't the first plane to break the sound barrier, however; that achievement was managed by the Bell X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, in October 1947.

The legendary rocket engine-powered aircraft, designed and built in 1945, achieved a speed of 700 miles (1,127 kilometers) per hour.

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29-10-2025 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious interstellar visitor set to reveal its true self in just HOURS

• MORE: Scientists reveal all the strange behaviors of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS that deepen the mystery of its origins

By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

The mysterious interstellar visitor traveling through our solar system may finally reveal its true nature in just hours, as scientists wait for it to emerge from behind the sun.  

While many astronomers are convinced the object known as 3I/ATLAS will be confirmed as a comet, some scientists have said the three-mile-long visitor could be an artificially constructed craft that's maneuvering around the solar system.

3I/ATLAS has been obscured by the sun since last week, but it will reach its closest point, called the perihelion, on October 29.

Scientists expect to determine which scenario is correct once they observe exactly where the object exits perihelion, saying that a noticeable shift in its trajectory tomorrow could indicate that 3I/ATLAS is artificially powered.

In space travel, the most effective moment to accelerate or decelerate a spacecraft is when it is closest to a massive body. Firing the engine at this point, an effect known as the Oberth effect, produces the greatest change in speed.

The majority of astronomers have maintained that 3I/ATLAS is simply a strange space rock from a distant solar system that formed under conditions completely foreign to comets in our solar system.

Studies of the interstellar visitor to this point have shown the classic signs of 3I/ATLAS being a comet, including a tail and a coma, a large cloud of gas and dust surrounding it.

However, some researchers have argued that there are still too many irregularities to overlook, including 3I/ATLAS appearing to reverse thrust like a spacecraft as it moved behind the sun from our perspective.

Astronomers observed 3I/ATLAS strangely shift the position of its tail as it approached our sun in October 2025

3I/ATLAS (Pictured) is expected to reach its closest point to the sun on October 29, and a change in its position as it leaves this blind spot could be a sign of intelligence

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has argued since the object's discovery that 3I/ATLAS could be an 'alien mothership' which could be positioning itself in this blind spot to either change direction or release smaller probes before continuing on its journey.

Loeb said 3I/ATLAS could be completing a maneuver known as the Oberth effect to change its speed and path, which would be a sign that it has an engine and was being controlled by an unknown intelligence.

Astronomers tracking 3I/ATLAS revealed last week that the object performed a dramatic tail reversal, shifting from an unusual 'anti-tail' that was pointing towards the sun to one that was pointing away.

High-resolution observations from the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands confirm that this anti-tail seen in July and August 2025 vanished and a new one formed in the opposite direction by September.

The shift is believed to have occurred because the comet's dust and ice particles reacted differently to sunlight.

Early on, large, slow-moving dust grains scattered light sunward, creating the anti-tail.

As 3I/ATLAS moved closer to the sun, rising temperatures ejected more ice fragments and longer-lived dust particles, producing the tail that now points away like a traditional comet moving through space.

However, Loeb has noted that 3I/ATLAS shed very little of its mass as it has moved closer to the sun, meaning the true nature of the object's chemical makeup is still a mystery.

3I/ATLAS is widely thought to be a comet, but scientists like Professor Avi Loeb maintain that unusual clues point to the object being a spacecraft

3I/ATLAS appears to be coated in nickel, which astronomers believe is responsible for giving the object a green glow

Through October 2025, the supposed comet has seen about two million tons melt away as it approached the sun, which is just a tiny fraction of the 33billion tons Loeb has calculated the giant object to weigh.

• Mysterious interstellar object is morphing in unexplained ways as it moves closer to Earth

Moreover, Loeb told the Daily Mail that scientists still can't explain how 3I/ATLAS is releasing nickel in a gaseous form as it moves around the sun.

'Nobody understands how nickel can be released into the gas form, because you need a special process for that, and the temperatures are not high enough to release the nickel, so that's a puzzle,' Loeb explained.

Nickel is a metal used by Earth-made space technology to shield against the extreme heat from booster engines, and 3I/ATLAS seems to be coated in it.

Until now, astronomers have only seen nickel alongside deposits of iron in nature, but Loeb noted that there have been no signs of iron in 3I/ATLAS at all. 

'That is unprecedented in comets. So, it's not so much the existence of nickel. It's the nickel without iron, which we only know about in the context of nickel alloys that we produce industrially for spacecraft,' the professor added.

While Loeb said any drastic change in 3I/ATLAS speed, course, or size when it emerges from the sun would be a clear sign of intelligence, other scientists still believe these changes still fall in line with normal comet behavior.

Austrian astronomer Michael Jäger told Daily Mail: 'Even though there were some unusual things about this comet, I still assume that we are observing a comet here.' 

'This is because 3I/ATLAS has not changed its course or its calculated speed so far,' Jäger continued.

The scientist added that even if the interstellar object splits apart as it emerges from the sun, that's not uncommon for comets, which have been observed breaking apart as they travel through space. 

'A split of a comet would not be so unusual. Just a few weeks ago, the split of comet 240P/NEAT was confirmed,' Jäger concluded.

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28-10-2025 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

Scientists are baffled after discovering 'impossible' life hidden beneath the Arctic sea ice

• READ MORE: Microbes trapped in permafrost AWAKEN after 40,000 years

By JONATHAN CHADWICK, ASSISTANT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 

Scientists have been left baffled after finding 'impossible' life thriving at the north pole.

The tiny microorganisms, invisible to the naked eye, live just beneath the frozen surface of the central Arctic Ocean.

Discovered by experts at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, these bacteria survive on dissolved organic matter in the cold water. 

They also need to convert nitrogen to survive, but bewilderingly, the gas is generally in short supply in the Arctic Ocean. 

So how exactly the creatures are thriving in the water has left the scientists scratching their heads. 

'[We] have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought impossible,' they say in a statement. 

'This phenomenon could have implications for the food chain and the carbon budget in the cold north.' 

The researchers also warn that there is less sea ice in the Arctic than there should be due to global warming, which may actually help the organisms to survive. 

According to the researchers, the tiny organisms are officially known as 'non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs'. These microorganisms, primarily bacteria and archaea, can convert atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form, but do not photosynthesize like cyanobacteria

Researchers om the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought impossible

According to the researchers, the tiny organisms are officially known as 'non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs'.

These are 'nitrogen-fixing' bacteria, meaning they need to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen, such as ammonium, to stay alive.

Unlike other many other underwater bacteria, non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs (NCDs) do not photosynthesize. 

The team's field work involved measurements of nitrogen fixation from water samples at 13 different Arctic locations from aboard the research ship RV Polarstern.

The experts found a surprising high nitrogen fixation rates, especially at the ice edge, where the ice melts most actively.

What's odd is that nitrogen is in relatively short supply in the Arctic Ocean, meaning nitrogen fixers shouldn't be able to thrive there. 

'Until now, it was believed that nitrogen fixation could not take place under the sea ice,' said study author Dr Lisa W. von Friesen.  

'It was assumed that the living conditions for the organisms that perform nitrogen fixation were too poor. We were wrong.'

The team's field work involved measurements of nitrogen fixation at several Arctic locations over two trips in 2021 and 2022

Pictured, researcher taking measurements of nitrogen fixation in water samples from the Arctic Ocean aboard German research vessel RV Polarstern

In the Arctic Ocean, NCDs and other bacteria feed on dissolved organic matter released by algae, among other things.

In return, the bacteria release the 'fixed' nitrogen (ammonium), which helps algae in the surrounding water to grow.

Unfortunately, too much algae growth in the Arctic can be bad news as it can lead to out of control 'algal blooms' which are toxic and harmful to fish, shellfish, marine mammals and more.  

According to Dr von Friesen, the results suggest the potential for algae production in the Arctic has been underestimated.

What's more, climate change is likely the ultimate cause of the observed changes.  

In the Arctic, sea ice goes through a seasonal cycle each year, spreading in the autumn and winter and then receding in the spring and summer. 

But due to climate change, temperatures are getting higher overall and the Arctic sea ice extent is getting lower on average.

Researchers warn that the Arctic is warming at rates up to four times faster than the global average, which has caused major declines in sea ice coverage, age, and thickness. 

The researchers are the first to discover that the phenomenon of 'nitrogen fixation' occurs beneath sea ice even in the central Arctic Ocean

Measurements were taken at 13 different locations in the Arctic Ocean aboard the German research ship RV Polarstern

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According to the researchers, areas of actively-melting sea ice generally have more nitrogen fixation compared with ice-covered parts of the Arctic. 

It seems likely therefore that climate change is to blame for this elevated pattern of nitrogen fixation that they have observed. 

Strangely, stretches of open water have similar levels of nitrogen as ice-covered areas, but the team aren't sure why this is. 

The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, is the first to show the phenomenon of nitrogen fixation occurs beneath sea ice even in the central Arctic.

Therefore, nitrogen fixation should be considered 'in the equation' when people try to predict what will happen to the Arctic Ocean in the coming decades as sea ice declines, the authors add. 

WHAT IS THE NITROGEN CYCLE?

Nitrogen (N) makes up almost 80 per cent of our atmosphere and is essential for plants and animals.

The carbon-nitrogen bond is one of the most abundant in organic chemistry. 

Animals need it to to make proteins, which forms everything we need to live. 

In plants it forms the basis of enzymes, proteins and chlorophyll.

Ecosystems need nitrogen and other nutrients to absorb carbon dioxide pollution and there is a limited amount available in plants and soil. 

However, it is inert and most useful to life when turned into nitrates or nitrogen compounds.

The nitrogen cycle is the process by which the element is used and then fed back into the system.

Nitrogen (N) makes up almost 80 per cent of our atmosphere and is essential for plants and animals. The nitrogen cycle is the process by which the element is used and then fed back into the system

Nitrogen-fixing organisms convert nitrogen into the soil from the air. 

Lightening is another way in which nitrogen reaches the soil from the air.

Nitrification is the process by which ammonia (a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen) that is in the soil is converted into nitrates by bacteria. 

Plants then take up these nitrates through their roots.  

When the plant dies this nitrogen is goes back into the soil. 

Alternatively if the plant is eaten by an animal the nitrogen returns to the soil in their waste.

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28-10-2025 om 22:08 geschreven door peter  

Artikel door businessam.be

China ontwikkelt geavanceerde militaire AI om de Verenigde Staten in te halen

Key takeaways

• Het Chinese leger ontwikkelt actief AI-mogelijkheden om de prestaties op het slagveld te verbeteren en wil de Verenigde Staten op dit gebied overtreffen.
• Ondanks inspanningen om binnenlandse hardware te gebruiken, vertrouwt het Chinese leger nog steeds op Nvidia-chips voor geavanceerde AI-toepassingen.
• DeepSeek, een toonaangevend Chinees AI-model, domineert het AI-landschap van de PLA, wat de nadruk van Peking op binnenlands ontwikkelde oplossingen toont.

China is actief bezig met de ontwikkeling van geavanceerde artificiële intelligentie (AI) voor militaire doeleinden, met als doel de Verenigde Staten in te halen in de aanhoudende wapenwedloop. Deze ontwikkeling wordt gestimuleerd door DeepSeek, een toonaangevend Chinees AI-model, en weerspiegelt het streven van Peking naar “algoritmische soevereiniteit”, waarbij de afhankelijkheid van westerse technologie wordt verminderd en de controle over kritieke digitale infrastructuur wordt versterkt.

Uit een overzicht van talloze onderzoekspapers, patenten en aanbestedingsdossiers blijkt dat China systematisch probeert om AI voor militaire doeleinden te gebruiken. Hoewel specifieke details over de functionaliteit van deze wapens van de volgende generatie vertrouwelijk blijven, geven aankoopdocumenten en patenten inzicht in de vooruitgang op gebieden zoals autonome doelherkenning en realtime beslissingsondersteuning op het slagveld, die de vooruitgang van de VS weerspiegelen.

Gebruik van Nvidia-chips houdt aan

Het Chinese leger blijft Nvidia-chips gebruiken, waaronder modellen die onder Amerikaanse exportcontroles vallen, hoewel het onduidelijk is of deze chips werden aangeschaft voordat de beperkingen werden opgelegd. Recente patentaanvragen suggereren dat militaire onderzoeksinstituten Nvidia-hardware blijven gebruiken. Nvidia beweert dat het recyclen van kleine hoeveelheden oude chips geen risico vormt voor de nationale veiligheid, maar de Amerikaanse overheid heeft geen commentaar gegeven op deze bevindingen.

Als reactie op de druk vanuit Peking, schakelt het Chinese leger steeds meer over op het gebruik van in eigen land geproduceerde hardware, zoals de AI-chips van Huawei. Deze ontwikkeling is duidelijk zichtbaar in PLA-aankoopberichten en patentaanvragen, hoewel onafhankelijke verificatie moeilijk blijft.

DeepSeek domineert landschap

De populariteit van DeepSeek binnen de PLA weerspiegelt zijn dominantie in het nationale AI-landschap. Een dozijn aanbestedingen die dit jaar zijn uitgeschreven door PLA-entiteiten refereerden aan DeepSeek-modellen, terwijl er slechts één melding maakte van Qwen van Alibaba, een rivaliserend AI-platform. Deze trend suggereert dat China de voorkeur geeft aan binnenlands ontwikkelde oplossingen.

Chinese militaire onderzoekers ontwikkelen diverse AI-toepassingen, waaronder robothonden die autonoom verkenningswerk in groepen uitvoeren, zwermen drones die zelfstandig doelen opsporen, en geavanceerde oorlogssimulaties. Eerder zette de Chinese fabrikant Unitree bewapende robothonden in tijdens militaire oefeningen, wat de vooruitgang van het land op het gebied van robotica illustreert.

Autonome technologieën voor het slagveld

Het PLA investeert ook in steeds meer autonome technologieën voor het slagveld. Octrooiaanvragen onthullen pogingen om AI in drones te integreren voor doelherkenning, tracering en gecoördineerde operaties met minimale menselijke tussenkomst. Hoewel Chinese defensiefunctionarissen aandringen op het behoud van menselijke controle over wapensystemen, blijft er bezorgdheid bestaan over de mogelijkheid van ongecontroleerde inzet van AI-munitie.

China blijft vertrouwen op chips van Nvidia, ondanks pogingen om binnenlandse alternatieven te vinden. Hoewel de aankoopgegevens wijzen op een verschuiving naar Huawei Ascend chips, wordt Nvidia hardware nog steeds vaak genoemd in onderzoek dat wordt uitgevoerd door academici die aan het leger gelieerd zijn. Dit duidt op een voortdurende afhankelijkheid van geavanceerde westerse technologieën, zelfs als China ernaar streeft om zelfvoorzienend te zijn. (uv)

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28-10-2025 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

Astronomer Scott Sheppard discovered 2025 SC79, marked here in two images showing its motion relative to background stars. 

Credit: Photographs courtesy of Scott S. Sheppar

Discovered by Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard, 2025 SC79 completes its journey around the Sun every 128 days, making it the second-fastest asteroid known in our Solar System.

A Stealthy, High-Speed Space Object

2025 SC79 is unique for reasons other than its difficult-to-spot location and high-speed trips around the Sun. It also happens to be the second object astronomers have discovered that has an orbit inside of Venus.

In the images above, 2025 SC79 can be seen moving relative to background stars on the night of its discovery

(images courtesy of Scott Sheppard/Carnegie Science).

The unique asteroid also traverses the orbit of Mercury during its speeding Solar journeys, making its speed second only to a 2021 discovery—also made by Sheppard and his colleagues—which revealed asteroid 2021 PH27.

2021 PH27 also has one of the shortest orbital periods of any known space object, second only to planet Mercury. Due to the extreme proximity to the Sun of objects like it and the newly discovered 2025 SC79, they undergo the most extreme relativistic effects of any objects known to exist in our Solar System.

According to a statement accompanying the discovery, Carnegie Science’s Magellan telescope, as well as the National Science Foundation’s Gemini telescope, were used to confirm the detection of 2025 SC79.

Hidden Threats Near the Sun

Sheppard is uniquely positioned to make such discoveries, since his work focuses on objects like planetary moons, so-called “dwarf planets,” and asteroids. However, with the discovery of these lurking space objects hidden in the Sun’s glare, which astronomers sometimes call “twilight” asteroids, his work also plays a fundamental role in the detection of objects that are potentially at risk of impacting the Earth.

One of the most notable examples of a space object taking Earth off guard with its approach from the direction of the Sun was the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event, which was famously documented by dash cameras in vehicles and other cameras while going unseen by astronomers. Of course, coming from the direction of the Sun makes it very difficult—if not impossible—for such objects to be detected beforehand while obscured by the powerful glare.

The event served as a wake-up call for astronomers and prompted planetary defense efforts like those now conducted by Sheppard to help reduce the likelihood that we will be taken off guard by the arrival of such objects in the future.

“The most dangerous asteroids are the most difficult to detect,” Sheppard recently said.

Twilight Asteroids

“Most asteroid research finds these objects in the dark of night, where they are easiest to spot,” he says, although “twilight” asteroids draw their nickname from being objects that can only be observed during twilight due to their proximity to the Sun.

“If these ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, they could pose serious impact hazards,” he says.

In Sheppard’s work, which receives funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation’s Blanco 4-meter telescope and its specialized Dark Energy Camera is employed to search for any potentially deadly asteroids that may similarly be lurking in the Sun’s glare.

Beyond the detection of potential “planet killers” hiding near the Sun, the research also contributes significant information about the formation of our Solar System and its current makeup.

Future Observations and Possible Origins

Presently, 2025 SC79 is on its making its way behind the Sun, where, just like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, it will remain invisible to astronomers for the next several weeks.

However, future observations will help astronomers like Sheppard reveal clues about 2025 SC79’s composition, as well as how the object can withstand the imposing heat produced by the Sun at such close distances.

Sheppard says that a large number of similar objects in our Solar System inhabit one of two primary asteroid belts, although changes that occasionally occur with them can sometimes send objects into much closer orbits, which makes them even more difficult to detect.

“Understanding how they arrived at these locations can help us protect our planet,” Sheppard says, “and also help us learn more about Solar System history.”

• Micah Hanks is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. A longtime reporter on science, defense, and technology with a focus on space and astronomy, he can be reached at micah@thedebrief.org. Follow him on X @MicahHanks, and at micahhanks.com.

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27-10-2025 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

Most of us recognize only three types of precipitation: rain, snow, and sleet. However, scientists have long felt that this list needs to be expanded and refined. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and NASA decided to apply the power of machine learning to reveal the true diversity of types of precipitation falling from the sky. The result of their years of work is a revolutionary classification system that not only improves the accuracy of forecasts but also has the potential to save lives.

Why are forecasts wrong?

The classic idea that snow only falls when temperatures are below zero and rain only falls when temperatures are above zero is simplistic. In fact, in the range from -3°C to +5°C, both rain and snow are equally possible—it all depends on the conditions inside the clouds and the surrounding environment. This is why even the most advanced weather models often fail to accurately predict precipitation. Satellites can see clouds clearly from space, but they cannot determine exactly what will fall to the surface.

How a machine was taught to see rain

To fill this gap, scientists installed a special camera system called the Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) at strategic locations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. This system, equipped with a high-speed camera, has collected data over the past nine years. The result is a collection of 1.5 million measurements, supplemented by information from ground-based weather stations.

Such a large amount of information can only be processed using artificial intelligence. Researchers created two machine learning models: a simple linear one and a more complex nonlinear one. The latter took into account the complex interactions between particles and ultimately prevailed, reducing the number of errors in determining the type of precipitation by 36% compared to the linear method.

Nine types of precipitation

The final system developed by the scientists was named UMAP. It not only simplifies complex data, but also identifies three key factors that determine precipitation: particle characteristics, intensity, and phase. Thanks to this, UMAP identified nine types of precipitation:

1. Drizzle — light, steady rainfall
2. Heavy rainfall — intense rainfall with numerous small drops
3. Light rain-to-mix transition — light sleet with dense ice pellets
4. Heavy rain-to-mix transition — intense sleet with dense ice pellet
5. Light mixed-phase — a low volume of slushy, partially frozen particles
6. Heavy mixed-phase — a high volume of slushy, partially frozen particles
7. Heavy snow-to-mix transition — large snowflakes and aggregate particleLight snowfall — light, fluffy snowfall
8. Heavy snowfall — an intense, heavy snowstorm

As climatologist and co-author of the study Claire Pettersen explains, the benefits of the new system are both immediate and long-term.

“In the short term, better forecasting can help people adjust their daily commute or prepare for big events like floods or an ice storm,” she noted. “On longer time scales, it can help predict how snowpack or runoff timing will change fresh water availability for a region.”

To make their discoveries accessible not only to scientists, the researchers created an interactive graph and an easy-to-understand interface for all weather enthusiasts. All information is also published in the Deep Blue Data repository for those who want to delve deeper into the details.

We previously reported on how climate swings could become more severe by 2028.

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27-10-2025 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

Imagine this, a glowing orb anywhere from the size of a golf ball to a basketball floating silently through the air, or even through walls, and lasting for up to a minute or more. 

Daily Mail's Shivali Best explores the bizarre weather phenomenon that has baffled scientists for 750 years.

Click above to watch in full. 

Ball lightning is one of the strangest and least understood weather phenomena on Earth. It is a glowing orb anywhere from the size of a golf ball to a basketball floating silently through the air, or even through walls, and lasting for up to a minute or more.

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27-10-2025 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

Revealed: What the world will look like in 2100 - so, can you guess where each location is?

• READ MORE: Map reveals English locations that could go underwater by 2050

By JONATHAN CHADWICK, ASSISTANT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 

Climate change has previously been described as 'the greatest threat to our existence'. 

Now, an online game lets you see the damage climate change will do to the world in just 75 years' time. 

The free game, called FutureGuessr, presents hundreds of AI-generated locations as they're expected to look in 2100. 

According to scientists who created the game, FutureGuessr shows what will happen if no action is taken' to stop carbon emissions.  

From flooding to wildfires and drought, heatwaves and storms, global warming will change the face of the planet as we know it. 

'Showing the future of recognisable places we care about might be powerful in building support for climate action,' they say in The Conversation. 

'Games can create space for serious conversations about how to tackle climate change.'

Six locations from the game are included below – so, can you guess where they are? Scroll down for the answers! 

An online game lets you see the damage climate change will do to the world in just 75 years' time. Pictured: what London could look like in 2100

The free game, called FutureGuessr, presents hundreds of AI-generated locations as they're expected to look in 2100. Pictured: New Orleans in 2100 as imagined by the game

Image 1

Firstly, this image If a location in North America (below) is currently considered the world's largest intact forest ecosystem.  

Measuring 270 million hectares, it stores carbon, purifies the air and water, and regulates the climate.

But 75 years from now, FutureGuessr shows it to be a fiery landscape burnt to the ground with hellish orange skies and toxic smoke. 

According to experts, the whole territory 'will be reshaped by frequent wildfires, invasive insects and a reduced ability to absorb carbon'. 

'Wildfires will release millions of tons of CO2, weaken natural carbon sinks, and further accelerate global warming.'

Image 2

Today this serene oasis, a UNESCO world heritage site, comprises an abundance of palm trees, stunning waters and imposing cliffs. 

IMAGE 1: This forest in North America is reduced to a hellish landscape ravaged by wildfires in the year 2100

IMAGE 2: This UNESCO world heritage site will be a desiccated dessert landscape where vegetation cannot grow

How to play 

1. Go to the FutureGuessr webpage and select your language (English or French)
2. Hit the green button marked 'play' and you'll be presented with an image of a location, as it will look in 2100
3. Holding and dragging the screen lets you get a 360-degree view of your surroundings 
4. You then have to then identify the location by tapping on a map and tapping 'guess'
5. The game will tell you how far off you were in kilometres.  

But according to experts, this green sanctuary will be slowly buried under sand due to droughts and rising temperatures. 

The image shows cracked ground due to lack of rainwater and freshwater, leading to the loss of vegetation.

'Agriculture will become impossible and inhabitants may be forced to leave,' the site says. 

Image 3

Today, this area of Europe is packed with rolling golden hills, historical architecture, luscious vineyards and century-old olive trees.

But by 2100 these treasured features, which draw tourists from around the world, will turn reddish and cracked under the sun.

Rainfall will decline, but arrive in more violent bursts here, which means vineyards will struggle with low yields of poorer quality – which is bad news for wine lovers.

Experts say this part of the nation's countryside may 'lose its fertility and its charm' if summer temperatures here rise by just 4°C/7.2°F. 

Image 3: Rolling golden hills, once lined with century-old olive trees and terraced vineyards, will turn reddish and cracked under the sun

IMAGE 4: This location will be a withered 'landscape of ashes and scorched trunks' because of frequent uncontrollable wildfires

Image 4

Today it's a national park covering over 1.1 million acres, with grand conifers reaching more than 200 feet tall. 

But by 2100, this next location will be a withered 'landscape of ashes and scorched trunks' because of frequent uncontrollable wildfires. 

These vulnerable trees described as 'ancient giants' will be trapped in a climate that is too dry and too hot – factors known to make wildfires more intense. 

Smoke from the fires will also worsen air pollution and negatively impact public health.

Researchers warn that by as soon as 2050, nearly half of the forest could be at risk.  

Image 5 

This Asian 'megacity' will be 'fighting to stay above water' by 2100 when global warming has melted Earth's glaciers and ice sheets. 

IMAGE 5: This Asian 'megacity' facing a northern coast will be 'fighting to stay above water' by 2100, experts predict 

IMAGE 6: Experts say this region will be 'only cracked soil swept by scorching winds and abandoned greenhouses glinting under a now-hostile sun' 

Currently home to around 10 million residents, the northern part of the city nearer to the coast will already have vanished beneath the waves. 

Experts say it will be largely 'uninhabitable' with saltwater from the seas eroding soil, forcing thousands of families to flee. 

Read More

• The cities that 'will be flooded by global warming by 2100' - so, can you tell where they are? 

Image 6

Lastly, this image looks more like from the surface of Mars than anywhere on Earth, with sandy particles filling the air. 

But according to experts, this agricultural region shows what is already one of the driest places in Europe. 

By 2100, it will be a otherworldly desert zone with no more orchards or fields, but only cracked soil 'swept by scorching winds' under a hostile sun.

It will be 'stripped of its resources and its people' as the land will be to try to farm.

Locations that will be drastically altered by 2100 due to climate change - so did you guess them correctly?

1. Boreal forest of Canada 
2. Iherir oasis, Algeria 
3. Tuscany, Italy
4. Sequoia National Forest, California
5. Jakarta, Indonesia 
6. Almería, Spain

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27-10-2025 om 21:16 geschreven door peter  

Mind-blowing Proof we live in a simulation and interdenominational black hole travel is possible on our roads! 👽

Date of discovery: Oct 25, 2025

Location of discovery: UK 

Coordinates: 52°44'53"N 0°52'06"W

 

Guys check this video out I made this morning. This is 100% proof that we live in a simulation and that we and others can move through a inter-dimensional black hole any time we please. It looks like aliens are taking full advantage of this glitch in our matrix by using it like a universal freeway. 

Scott C. Waring 

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26-10-2025 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

Mind-blowing 10km UFO spotted on earth's moon in nasa archives, UAP paranormal sighting news.

 I found this 10.6 km long UFO parked in a crater back in 2011 and just wanted to make a small update about it. Check out the video below and see for yourself. If you go to my site on your phone, I teach you how to not only see it, but download it for later use. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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26-10-2025 om 22:36 geschreven door peter  

Strange thins on Mars, alien base on crater edge, UFO UAP sighting paranormal news, wow!

Date of discovery: Oct 24, 2025

Location of discovery: Mars

 

Again, I am using a NASA map, not a google map so there are no coordinates I can give to find this. NASA tries to keep the public in the dark in this way and in many other ways like blurring planets images, cutting out feed when satellites pass near alien craft, and making Mars surface rover photos into a brown red haze instead of leaving it original color which...reveals it looks just like Earth. 

Scott Waring

 

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26-10-2025 om 22:31 geschreven door peter  

How does NASA hide these things? 🧐 UFO UAP sighting news 📰 Alien base on Mars, Ancient Aliens?

Date of discovery: Found it in 2024, but found it again by accident.

Location of discovery: Mars

 

This is a huge L shaped structure on Mars. It's 100% real, no ai and it's there. I used a map that doesn't use coordinates so I can't post that. But if you look at my video while looking at Google Mars, you may find it, unless Google themselves deleted it. 

Scott C. Waring 

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26-10-2025 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

Found this on planet Venus today, thoughts? UFO UAP sighting news. 📰 aliens base so close to. 😱

Date of discovery: Oct 20, 2025

Location of discovery: Venus

 

Watch this discovery of mine on Planet Venus and go to youtube to tell me your thoughts. Mind-blowing stuff and 100% proof intelligent beings far beyond our technology live there. 

Scott C. Waring 

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26-10-2025 om 22:13 geschreven door peter  

Learn why scientists are cautiously optimistic about the potential biosignatures found in the Sapphire Canyon rock sample.

Tyler Lacoma

Just last week, NASA's Perseverance rover dropped some major news from Mars that has everyone talking. A tiny rock sample, dramatically named "Sapphire Canyon," is showing tantalizing hints of what scientists call biosignatures. In plain English? Potential signs that ancient, alien life might have once existed on the Red Planet.

Perseverance snagged this promising sample from a rock in Jezero Crater, which happens to be a dried-up ancient riverbed. The fact that this area was once flush with water is a huge deal, since that's a key ingredient for life as we know it. While this isn't a smoking gun for little green men, it's a massive clue. 

As one NASA scientist put it, finding proof of past life would seriously "increase the possibility that some form of life has survived" underground on Mars today -- a pretty wild thought to chew on.

Life on Mars?

So, does this finally confirm that life once existed on Mars? It's a very good start, and the most significant lead NASA has found so far. Dr. Rench was clear on this point. "This discovery significantly increases our chances of finding ancient signatures of life at Mars. It suggests the possibility of life on Mars several billion years ago. It does not provide any evidence for life on Mars today."

The data collected by Perseverance using its onboard instruments (X-ray lithochemistry and NASA's SHERLOC scanner) was peer-reviewed and appears promising, but it doesn't absolutely confirm life. More tests and input are needed for that, and the samples could have been generated from a natural chemical process without the presence of life. But scientists are excited about these signs and eager to learn more.

What kind of Mars life are we talking about? It's not the sort that comes in peace, or goes much of anywhere. The possible biosignatures indicate small, microbial life. Sapphire Canyon showed signs of vivianite and greigite. Vivianite, in particular, is found on Earth's peat bogs and swamps, while greigite is a byproduct some earth microbes leave behind. Think of this finding like a potential algae or swamp scum.

NASA is working on analyzing the data, running more tests and sharing the results with other scientists around the world to see what more they can learn. There's a lot to rule out, from accidental sample contamination to the likelihood of nonorganic origins. That's tough to do from millions of miles away, but NASA is on the case.

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26-10-2025 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

Aliens may be hiding in five or six underwater UFO bases US congressman claims

According to Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, alien "entities" are already residing in Earth's deep waters

By Mataeo Smith

According to Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, alien "entities" are already residing in Earth's deep waters. Social media was rocked by the assertions made by the member of the House Oversight Committee that deals with UFO cases.

Burchett made the suggestion that intelligent alien entities or civilizations might have been lurking beneath the water for "millennia" in a now-viral video that was uploaded to X on September 17.

“There have been frequent sightings of unidentified craft in about five or six specific deep sea areas,” Burchett stated in a sidewalk interview with Red Panda Koala, a UFO researcher and documentary maker.

"We have naval personnel telling me that we have sightings ... of these underwater crafts that they're chasing," he said.

The author and researcher who specializes in extraterrestrial phenomena claimed to have also had conversations with reliable informants who verified the existence of these undersea outposts, including high-ranking military and executive branch personnel.

According to Dr. Salla, AUTEC, a top-secret undersea facility run by the US Navy, is comparable to Area 51. That particular area of the Atlantic Ocean was home to the Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Centre, or AUTEC.

"Just to the right of it is the Tongue of the Ocean, which is a very deep part of the ocean there in the Bahamas," he said on the Redacted podcast on September 19. It drops off immediately around 3000 ft."

"So that's ideal for a submarine, but it's also a place where people have seen many UFOs, many underwater crafts coming into and leaving the water."

Dr. Salla claimed to have spoken with two eyewitnesses, one of which was a US Army whistleblower who went by the moniker JP, who claimed to have visited these covert bases.

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26-10-2025 om 20:48 geschreven door peter  

Alien hunters claim they have 'solved' Roswell mystery as new 'crash site footage' emerges

The Roswell Incident has resurfaced on the US National Archives website and has sparked fresh speculation over one of the world's most enduring UFO mysteries

By Aaron Tinney, Maria Villarroel

The extraterrestrial fanatics claim to have made this discovery after a 22-minute video titled The Roswell Incident quietly appeared on the US National Archives website.

This has reignited speculation over one of the world's most persistent UFO mysteries. The footage, primarily composed of images from the published Roswell Report and various magazines and books about UFOs, concludes with a striking black-and-white image of a crater littered with metallic debris.

Internet users are adamant that the scene mirrors long-standing accounts of the alleged 1947 UFO crash site.

Some argue that the footage reveals an alien body, although experts remain doubtful. UFO researcher Mark Lee stated: "Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously."

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26-10-2025 om 20:17 geschreven door peter  

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25-10-2025 om 22:51 geschreven door peter  

Debunking the Myth of Alien Construction and Advanced Technology in the Building of the Egyptian Pyramids

Abstract

The construction of the Egyptian pyramids has long fascinated scholars, historians, and the general public alike. Amidst the grandiosity of these ancient structures, numerous conspiracy theories have emerged, claiming that aliens, secret technologies, or lasers were responsible for their construction. This paper aims to critically evaluate these claims by analyzing archaeological evidence, technological feasibility, and historical context. Through an examination of the methods actually used by ancient Egyptians, it becomes clear that the pyramids were built with simple tools, sound organizational practices, and basic principles of physics, rather than extraterrestrial assistance or futuristic machinery. The widespread myths of alien involvement are not supported by scientific or archaeological data and often stem from misinterpretations propagated by social media and popular culture.

Introduction

The Egyptian pyramids, particularly the Great Pyramid of Giza, represent extraordinary achievements in ancient engineering and construction technology. Constructed around 2580–2560 BCE during the Fourth Dynasty, these structures demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of mathematics, architecture, and resource management. Contemporary archaeological evidence, including quarry marks, tool marks, and worker settlements, indicates that the pyramids were built using a large labor force of skilled workers, not slaves, employing thousands of copper tools, simple machines such as ramps, and precise planning. Modern engineering analyses have shown that the alignment with cardinal points and the pyramid’s geometric accuracy resulted from advanced understanding of astronomy and geometry. Despite popular misconceptions, there is no scientific evidence to support claims that extraterrestrial beings or lost advanced technologies were necessary for their construction. Instead, the achievement is a testament to the ingenuity, organization, and cumulative knowledge of ancient Egyptian society, which relied on human skill and environmentally accessible materials. Recognizing this helps appreciate the remarkable human capacity for innovation through available resources and systematic planning.

Historical Context of Pyramid Construction

The historical development of pyramid construction in ancient Egypt reflects a remarkable interplay of architectural innovation, technological advancement, and sophisticated organizational skills that spanned over three millennia. The earliest known example, the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, constructed around 2670 BCE during the Third Dynasty, marks a significant departure from earlier mastaba tombs. Designed by the AI-architect Imhotep, this step pyramid employed a series of stacked mastabas of decreasing size, showcasing an early use of limestone and a profound understanding of structural stability and spatial planning grounded in empirical observation and trial-and-error methods.

Over subsequent centuries, Egyptian architects refined their techniques, leading to the development of the true, smooth-sided pyramids. The culmination of this evolution is epitomized by the Great Pyramid of Giza (approximately 2560 BCE), built under Pharaoh Khufu. This structure utilized an intricate system of precisely cut limestone blocks, effectively ensuring geometric precision, stability, and durability. The construction process involved complex logistical arrangements, such as quarrying, transportation, and assembly, facilitated by a large workforce comprised of skilled artisans, laborers, and administrative personnel, all coordinated through an organized hierarchical system.

The progression from step pyramids to true pyramids was driven by both religious symbolism and architectural experimentation, reflecting an increasing understanding of geometry, materials science, and engineering principles. The enduring nature of these monuments, many of which have survived millennia, underscores the Egyptians’ mastery of ancient construction techniques rooted in empirical methods augmented by early scientific concepts of stability, load distribution, and material properties. Consequently, the evolution of pyramid construction exemplifies a cumulative process of technological innovation grounded in scientific principles and sophisticated social organization.

Challenging the Myth of Alien Architects

The hypothesis that extraterrestrial beings engineered the Egyptian pyramids is unsupported by empirical evidence. No artifacts, iconography, or textual records indicate alien involvement; rather, archaeological findings reveal that ancient Egyptians utilized sophisticated engineering principles, meticulous planning, and manual labor. Radiocarbon dating and material analysis confirm the chronological consistency with known development of early technology. The employment of copper tools, lever systems, and mathematical understanding facilitated monumental construction, aligning with documented archaeological and historical data. Claims of advanced energy sources, such as lasers or electricity, are anachronistic, as no scientific basis exists for such technologies in ancient Egypt. Modern research underscores the ingenuity and resourcefulness of human civilization in achieving these architectural feats independently, debunking extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.

Myth Busting: Technology and Methods

1. The Use of Simple Machines and Tools Contrary to popular belief, the Egyptians did not require advanced machinery. They utilized straightforward devices such as levers, rollers, sledges, and inclined planes. Experiments by modern engineers, including Wally Wallington, have shown that moving heavy stones (weighing tens of thousands of kilograms) is feasible using basic physics principles. For instance, placing large stone blocks on sledges and pulling them over lubricated surfaces or guiding them along carefully prepared ramps was an effective strategy.

2. The Role of Organization and Workforce Construction was a massive logistical endeavor involving thousands of workers organized into specialized teams. Evidence indicates that these workers were skilled laborers who worked in rotating shifts, not slave labor as once thought. They used systematic planning, resource management, and meticulous documentation, all of which contributed to the successful completion of monumental projects.

3. Construction Techniques Most theories suggest that the Egyptians employed a combination of straight and spiral ramps to move stones into position. Recent discoveries and reconstructions favor the spiral ramp theory, where a gradually inclined ramp wrapped around the pyramid as it rose. Courtyards, quarries, and transportation routes have been well-documented, providing insight into the small-scale operations that supported large-scale construction.

4. Precision and Alignment The notion that laser technology was needed to achieve such perfect alignment is unfounded. The Egyptians used simple water-based leveling techniques, such as water basins and waterlines, which are highly accurate for establishing level surfaces over large distances. The use of theodolites and sighting rods further enhanced precision. The notion that electromagnetic or laser tools were necessary is contrary to the archaeological record.

The Great Khufu pyramid looms behind the Sphinx at Giza, just outside Cairo, Egypt. The three large pyramids at Giza were built by King Khufu over a 30-year period around 2550 BCE with a newly discovered system of ramps. 

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The Myth of Electricity and Lasers in Ancient Egypt

The assertion that ancient Egyptians possessed or utilized electricity and lasers is widely regarded by scholars as a historical and scientific misconception. While it is true that natural electrical phenomena such as lightning and static electricity were observed by ancient civilizations, these occurrences do not imply that the ancient Egyptians had developed or harnessed electrical technology. Instead, these phenomena are natural, uncontrolled events that ancient peoples often interpreted through mythological or religious frameworks. For example, the ancient Greeks documented static electricity with amber (from the Greek "electron") and observed lightning as a divine phenomenon, but these observations did not translate into technological mastery.

One of the most frequently cited examples to support claims of ancient advanced technology is the so-called “Dendera Light” reliefs, found in the Hathor Temple in Dendera, Egypt. Some proponents interpret these carvings as depictions of ancient electric light bulbs or lamps. However, detailed analyses by Egyptologists and archaeologists suggest other explanations. The reliefs more plausibly illustrate ancient religious symbols, such as lotus buds or other botanical motifs, with no indication of technologically advanced devices like bulbs or lamps. Misinterpretations often arise from artistic stylistic features that resemble modern technological components, but these are without scientific basis.

The scientific community has extensively examined the possibility of ancient electrical devices, such as batteries or electrical conductors, and consistently found no credible archaeological evidence. For example, the so-called “Baghdad Battery,” often associated with ancient Egypt, is in fact a medieval Persian or Parthian artifact, not an Egyptian creation. Similarly, the notion that lasers—highly focused beams of coherent light—were employed by ancient Egyptians is unsupported by any physical or textual evidence. Lasers require complex technology based on quantum mechanics and solid-state physics that was only developed in the 20th century.

In sum, the claims that ancient Egyptians possessed advanced electrical or laser technology lack scientific merit and are based on misinterpretations of artifacts and natural phenomena. While ancient Egypt was undoubtedly a civilization of remarkable achievements in architecture, art, and engineering, there is no credible evidence supporting the existence of electricity or laser technology in that era. Modern science recognizes that genuine technological innovation requires experimental validation and material evidence, none of which supports these myths about ancient Egypt.

Cultural and Scientific Evidence Against the Alien Hypotheses

Substantial archaeological and historical research consistently challenges the hypothesis that extraterrestrial beings played a role in human development, particularly in the construction of ancient monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids. Extensive examination of hieroglyphic inscriptions, artwork, and material remains reveals no credible evidence of alien involvement. Instead, these artifacts vividly depict human craftsmen, laborers, and engineers as the builders, demonstrating a clear record of human ingenuity.

The construction of the Egyptian pyramids, especially the Great Pyramid of Giza, exemplifies remarkable engineering skill achieved by ancient Egyptians around 2580–2560 BCE. Modern archaeological studies have uncovered detailed evidence of construction techniques, including the use of straight and spiral ramp systems, lever systems, and precise stone-cutting tools made from copper and stone. For instance, the discovery of the Khufu Ship, a complete solar barque buried near the Great Pyramid, provides insights into the craftsmanship and logistical planning of the ancient Egyptians, not extraterrestrial assistance.

Furthermore, understanding of historical engineering practices reinforces the human origin of these feats. Experimental archaeology, such as reconstructing ancient construction methods, demonstrates that large-scale projects could be accomplished through organized labor, sophisticated planning, and the application of empirical knowledge. Ancient texts, such as the Westcar Papyrus, describe the roles of architects, supervisors, and laborers, emphasizing societal organization and technological innovations without invoking supernatural or alien explanations.

The tendency to attribute these achievements to extraterrestrial intervention often stems from a lack of familiarity with ancient engineering and a perception that such accomplishments are beyond human capacity. This misconception is linked to the "supernatural explanation bias," where complex phenomena are attributed to supernatural or alien causes rather than human effort. Similar patterns are observed in the misinterpretation of artifacts; for example, the “Wow! Signal” in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence was initially thought to potentially indicate alien contact, yet it was later understood as a terrestrial interference.

In conclusion, the convergence of archaeological, textual, and experimental evidence robustly supports the understanding that humans, through ingenuity, social cohesion, and technological innovation, were responsible for the construction of ancient monuments. This scientific consensus effectively counters alien hypotheses, emphasizing our species’ capacity for extraordinary achievement without extraterrestrial aid.

Social Media and the Popularization of Conspiracy Theories

Social media platforms have significantly contributed to the proliferation and popularization of conspiracy theories, particularly those related to extraterrestrial life, secret technologies, and ancient advanced civilizations. These theories often gain traction due to their sensational nature, engaging narratives, and the ease with which they can be shared on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. A quintessential example is the claim that the pyramids of Egypt were built with the assistance of extraterrestrial beings or advanced alien technology. Such narratives exploit a fascination with mystery and the unknown, but they stand in stark contrast to the scientific and archaeological evidence established through rigorous research.

Historically, the construction of monumental structures like the Great Pyramid has been well-documented by archaeologists and Egyptologists. These experts have demonstrated that ancient Egyptian engineers possessed sophisticated knowledge of mathematics, physics, and labor organization. For instance, the alignment of the pyramids with celestial bodies can be explained through advanced understanding of astronomy, and the precise masonry work reflects meticulous planning and skilled craftsmanship—achievements attributed to human ingenuity rather than alien intervention. The myth that these feats could not have been achieved without extraterrestrial assistance is refuted by numerous excavations revealing tools, worker villages, and inscriptions depicting construction techniques.

The appeal of conspiracy theories is often rooted in their simplicity and the allure of uncovering secret knowledge suppressed by governments or elites. However, critical thinking and scientific literacy are essential tools for evaluating such claims. Scientific methodology involves hypotheses testing, peer review, and reliance on tangible evidence—principles often absent in conspiracy narratives. For example, the notion that ancient civilizations had access to lost ancient technologies is contradicted by archaeological findings that show a progression of technological development and documented methods used in construction.

In conclusion, social media has democratized access to information but has also facilitated the spread of pseudoscientific theories. Promoting scientific literacy and critical thinking can help individuals distinguish between well-supported scientific explanations and alluring but unfounded conspiracy claims, especially concerning ancient engineering marvels and extraterrestrial influence.

Conclusion

The construction of the Egyptian pyramids exemplifies the remarkable ingenuity and organizational skills of ancient civilizations. These monumental structures, built over 4,500 years ago, were primarily constructed using locally available natural materials such as limestone, granite, and sandstone. The Egyptians employed a sophisticated understanding of basic physics principles—most notably, gravity and leverage—to move and position massive stone blocks. Archaeological evidence, including quarrying tools and remnants of construction sites, supports this understanding.

Organized labor played a crucial role in the successful construction of the pyramids. Ancient Egypt’s centralized administration coordinated large workforces, which often consisted of skilled artisans and laborers. Contrary to popular myth, evidence suggests that the workforce was well-fed and housed properly, indicating that these were not slaves but rather paid workers. Experiments and reconstructions, such as those conducted by the German archaeologist Mark Lehner, have demonstrated that such monumental feats could be achieved through the use of simple machines like ramps, levers, and sledges.

Claims attributing pyramid construction to extraterrestrial beings, lasers, or electricity lack credible scientific support. These theories are often based on speculation or misinterpretation of archaeological findings. For instance, the idea that laser technology or electricity was used to cut or move stones is incompatible with the known technological level of ancient Egypt. Advances in experimental archaeology have shown that the tools and methods available at the time were sufficient for the construction tasks, relying on human effort and ingenuity.

In summary, the Egyptian pyramids stand as enduring symbols of human achievement. They serve as tangible evidence of the engineering knowledge, labor organization, and resourcefulness of ancient peoples. Recognizing these accomplishments promotes a more accurate understanding of early engineering capabilities and dispels myths that diminish human ingenuity. By studying these ancient monuments scientifically, we gain a deeper appreciation of our shared history and the timeless capacity for innovation.

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25-10-2025 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

Secret CIA files claim to expose locations of three alien bases... and two of them are on Earth

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By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Americans tuned into a congressional UFO hearing today, where top scientists and Pentagon insiders claimed the US government has been hiding proof of alien life.

And while officials continue to deny encounters with mysterious aerial phenomena, a resurfaced CIA document suggests the government may have identified extraterrestrial beings decades ago.

In the 1970s and 80s, the CIA conducted experiments with individuals who claimed they could perceive information about distant objects, events, or people — a process known as 'remote viewing.'

One such report, titled 'Description of Personnel Associated 'ET' Bases,' detailed a session in which a remote viewer was given unknown targets and asked to describe what they perceived.

The document describes alleged alien bases located in Alaska, South America or Africa, and on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

'So far have run into three types of entities associated with bases at various locations within the solar system,' the test subject wrote.

The remote viewer also reported seeing 'entities' at these sites. One was said to have 'a very large, rounded-shaped head' and 'very unhuman appearance,' while another was described as 'very pale' with a 'sharp nose.'

But the Titan base appeared to be staffed with human scientists, including 'an attractive female.'

A a resurfaced CIA document suggests the government may have identified extraterrestrial beings decades ago

A remote viewer identified two alien bases on Earth, one in Alaska and the other in either South America or Africa

The remote viewing session was part of the CIA's top-secret STARGATE program, which recruited individuals believed to have psychic abilities for military and intelligence purposes during the Cold War. 

The program began in the early 1970s and officially shut down in 1995 after being deemed scientifically unreliable and operationally ineffective for intelligence gathering.

The report on extraterrestrial bases was produced in 1987 and later declassified in 2000. 

During a remote viewing session, participants typically sketched what they 'saw' and jotted down brief notes about their perceptions.

The 12-page document includes several drawings believed to depict the locations of these ET bases—one sketch appears to resemble a rocky mountain.

That drawing has been interpreted as Mount Hayes in Alaska, which stands roughly 8,000 feet tall.

Mount Hayes has long been the subject of UFO sightings and theories about a hidden underground alien base. Numerous witnesses have reported seeing flying saucers, strange lights, and other unexplained phenomena in the area.

Although the remote viewer did not describe the base itself in detail, they claimed to have perceived 'two types of entities associated with this site.'

The remote viewer also reported seeing 'entities' at these sites. One was said to have 'a very large, rounded-shaped head' and 'very unhuman appearance,' while another was described as 'very pale' with a 'sharp nose'

The report also said there is an alien base on Saturn's largest moon, Titan

The remote viewer described seeing two beings standing outside one of the bases, 'accomplishing some sort of routine task.'

Inside the base, they perceived two more entities. One was seated at a circular console with a round, screen-like object, according to the session notes.

The second figure was performing another task in the background.

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'The entity at the console appeared to be in human form but lacked definitive features,' the remote viewer shared, adding that the being appeared to acknowledge their presence and invited them to observe its work.

At the Titan base, the remote viewer did not report seeing any alien life. 

Instead, they described the site as appearing to be staffed by individuals who 'looked no different than native earthlings.'

They observed two male technicians seated at a control panel, with a female figure—described as having brown hair and wearing a pale green lab coat—standing behind them in what appeared to be a supervisory role.

The final location was described as being somewhere south of the equator, though the remote viewer couldn't determine whether it was in South America or Africa. 

Although the sketch was labeled 'South America,' the landscape reportedly resembled Europe.

At that base, the viewer reported seeing two entities.

'The first had a very large, rounded-shaped head on a slender neck… very unhuman appearance… almost robot-like… unable to make contact with this being,' the report notes.

The second entity appeared more human, though it had no hair and lacked distinct facial features. 'The entity seemed friendly enough and appeared to be aware of my presence,' the remote viewer wrote.

 

Although the sketch was labeled 'South America,' the landscape reportedly resembled Europe

The CIA operated several secret remote viewing programs during the Cold War, using individuals with alleged psychic abilities to assist in a range of intelligence operations—from tracking kidnapped hostages held by terrorist groups to locating fugitive criminals inside the U.S.

One such program, known as Sun Streak, even tasked a remote viewer with locating the Ark of the Covenant, which they claimed was hidden somewhere in the Middle East.

In another high-profile session, famed remote viewer Joe McMoneagle, known as the CIA's 'Remote Viewer No. 1,' was reportedly given coordinates and asked to describe what he saw.

Speaking on the show American Alchemy in March, McMoneagle said he visualized a giant pyramid on Mars, larger than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, filled with what he called 'monster rooms.'

'I started getting an image of human beings that were trapped in a place where the atmosphere was turning bad,' McMoneagle recalled. 'It was obvious these people were dying for some reason—but they were humans. They were just twice our size.'

The coordinates he had been given were later revealed to correspond to Mars, 1,000,000 BC—as written on a white card handed to him during the session.

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25-10-2025 om 21:29 geschreven door peter  

Shocking UFO files hidden in presidential library claim US made successful contact with an alien race

• READ MORE: Secret CIA files claim to expose locations of three alien bases

By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

A trove of unearthed government documents has detailed a secret face-to-face encounter with aliens beings more than 60 years ago.

More than 50 pages of CIA files, which the FBI continues to say are fakes, claimed that a secret government program established communications with UFOs in 1959.

Project Sigma, started in 1954, used a binary computer language sent along radio signals into space to make contact with alien life.

Just five years after the interstellar connection, an official from the US Air Force met the extraterrestrials who received these messages.

The files claimed that on April 25, 1964, a single intelligence officer met with two aliens at a prearranged location in the New Mexico desert - the same state that the famous Roswell UFO crash allegedly took place.

The meeting lasted for about three hours, during which time the intelligence officer and the extraterrestrials shared 'basic information' about their respective races.

The documents also detailed  how a secret government group called the Majestic 12 used their incredible power to keep top secret information on UFOs away from the military and the even White House.

Several classified projects focused on alien communication and UFO research allegedly fell under the Majestic 12's control - with the group revealing to the CIA that they succeeded in their goals of finding alien life.

The UFO task force was reportedly created by President Harry Truman in 1947

Project Sigma, which was allegedly run by the secret group Majestic 12, spent five years trying to make radio contact with UFOs before succeeding in 1959

According to documents that emerged in the 1980s, the Majestic 12 (MJ-12) was a committee of high-ranking military, scientific, and intelligence officials assembled after the now-famous UFO crash in Roswell.

The 12-person team was allegedly established through a secret executive order by President Harry Truman in 1947.

For over two decades, these experts were tasked with managing investigations into UFOs and extraterrestrial contact.

The CIA files stated that MJ-12 oversaw four specific projects charged with communicating with aliens, researching UFOs, recovering crashed alien ships, and testing out whatever advanced technology they could find.

MJ-12 stated that it took five years before they finally made successful contact with UFOs in 1959, noting that the group 'established primitive communications with the Aliens,' using binary code sent by radio.

Binary is the lowest-level language computers understand, directly corresponding to electrical states in hardware. It represents all data (text, numbers, instructions) as sequences of 0s and 1s.

And scientists searching for alien life still uses the method to this day. 

This basic form of communication would led to the meeting between the Air Force and these aliens in 1964, with MJ-12 stating that 'the Air Force officer managed to exchange basic information with the two Aliens.'

A secret government group known as the Majestic 12 was allegedly in charge of test flying a recovered UFO

Majestic 12 wrote at the time that this project was still continuing 'at an Air Force base in New Mexico.' 

Following the historic meeting, MJ-12 established Project Snowbird in 1972 with a mission of test flying a recovered alien aircraft.

The classified report said that project was still taking place in a secret Nevada base - which many UFO researchers today believe is Area 51.

Despite being secretly appointed by the president, the uncovered documents also detailed how MJ-12 actively withheld information from top officials and even insulted those who they felt didn't need to know about UFOs.

'Apparently, White House requested info,' the members of MJ-12 wrote in a CIA memo. 'Can't seem to make those fools realize [this] info is not available for any dissemination.'

Later in the same letter, the group told the CIA not to allow a group labeled as 'AF' (which may have stood for the Air Force) to have access their data.

The top secret encounter was not found in the declassified CIA archives, but were instead uncovered after being quietly made available to the public at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that opened in 1991.

CIA files allegedly written by the Majestic 12 revealed that the group was openly keeping secrets on UFO research from government officials, including members of the White House

MJ-12's existence became public knowledge after an alleged government whistleblower mailed a report on the group's activities to UFO researchers in 1984.

However, the FBI labeled the mysterious UFO document as 'bogus' and claimed that the group, the involvement of the experts named in the report, and MJ-12's mission were all a work of fiction.

In 1988, the intelligence community added that there were serious inconsistencies and formatting errors in the decades-old briefing for President Eisenhower that suggests it's a forgery.

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Despite the US intelligence community's attempt to discredit the whistleblower, the details in it matched several of the key facts found in the Reagan Library papers - including the names of the 12 men in Majestic 12.

According to the unearthed documents, MJ-12 included Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first CIA director, Dr Vannevar Bush, head of US scientific research during World War II, James Forrestal, the first US Secretary of Defense, and General Nathan Twining, the Air Force commander in charge of research and development of new aircraft.

Coincidentally, this research and development program was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio - the same military facility the debris from the Roswell UFO crash was allegedly taken to in 1947.

Dr Hal Puthoff, a physicist and UFO researcher, recently noted on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that one of his colleagues spoke to the commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and confirmed that the crash really happened.

'They say it was the real deal, that this was a real unidentifiable crash and these materials were really, really from out someplace,' Puthoff said.

In reference to Projects Snowbird and Pounce, Puthoff also claimed that the US government currently has 'at least 10' crashed UFOs in their possession that they're still studying.

Majestic 12 was allegedly created by a secret executive order by President Harry Truman following the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico

Since the 1947 crash at Roswell, the US intelligence community has allegedly been keeping the existence of alien life and UFOs a secret, with some declassified documents from that time stating that officials believed the talk about UFOs would cause a public panic

As for why this shocking meeting in 1964 and all the communications between UFOs has been hidden for 60 years, another declassified CIA document appears to answer that mystery.

Found in the CIA's archives of declassified files, DailyMail.com uncovered a memo from 1953 which essentially shut down any public discussion of UFOs over fear that the US government would lose control over the general public.

According to the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects in January 1953: 'The continued emphasis on the reporting of these phenomena does, in these perilous times, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organa of the body politic.'

The five-person panel, made up of academic experts from universities throughout the US, concluded that UFOs did not pose a direct threat to national security during the Cold War.

Moreover, the panel's memo recommended that the government 'strip' UFOs of the 'special status' these sightings had already attained after Roswell.

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25-10-2025 om 21:13 geschreven door peter  

Evidence of non-human intelligence activity near US nuclear sites gains scientific validation

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By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

Thousands of objects sent by a non-human intelligence may have been spying on the world's nuclear tests all the way back in the 1940s.

A groundbreaking study has just been published, providing verified evidence that something or someone was observing our nuclear sites from space long before the first human satellites were ever launched into orbit.

Dr Beatriz Villarroel from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Sweden revealed a clear connection between nuclear tests between 1949 and 1957 and an increase in the number of mysterious bright spots called 'transients' appearing in the sky.

These transients are not believed to be a natural phenomenon, with Villarroel saying they showed signs of being highly reflective, like a mirror, and even spinning like a flying saucer.

The publication of these findings was a major milestone, as most papers discussing the existence of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) are rejected by the scientific community.

Having the work successfully peer-reviewed means other scientists have looked over the data and could not find anything to dismiss the team's findings as just another unproven story about UFOs.

Overall, researchers discovered that the mysterious transients were 45 percent more likely to be spotted flying overhead just before or right after a nuclear test.

'These are objects before Sputnik One when humans had nothing up there, and these things, no matter what they are, they need to be really flat, reflective like a mirror, and I personally don't know anything natural that looks like that,' Villarroel said.

Photos from the 1940s and 1950s revealed thousands of bright spots called transients appearing in Earth orbit during the world's early nuclear tests

The US had been experimenting with nuclear power since the first atomic tests of the famous Manhattan Project during World War II (pictured)

The study, published in Scientific Reports by Villarroel and Dr Stephen Bruehl, analyzed mysterious star-like objects seen in old photos from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in California during the early nuclear days of the US, UK, and Soviet Union.

Specifically, researchers focused on 124 above-ground nuclear bomb tests conducted by the three nations, causing explosions in the open air, not underground as these tests are carried out today.

The unknown objects appeared briefly and then vanished, and they were captured on camera before humans began launching any kind of devices into space, so they can't be explained as human-made craft.

Not only did the researchers find that UFO sightings went up on days when nuclear testing was taking place, but the total number of transients spotted in the photos also increased by 8.5 percent.

These unidentified objects were most likely to appear the day after a nuclear test, making explanations that the sightings were just streaks or clouds created by the explosions unlikely. 

'Nature can always surprise us with something we could never have imagined. So, I cannot exclude that there might be some other explanation that is just outside my imagination,' Villarroel told NewsNation.

'But from what I see, I cannot find any other consistent explanation than that we are looking at something artificial,' she added.

Investigative journalist and author Ross Coulthart noted: 'The implications are this might be the first scientific evidence of a non-human intelligence.'

Transients were more likely to be spotted the day after a nuclear test was conducted, eliminating the possibility of the spots be a result of the explosion

Researchers focused on the nuclear testing carried out by the US, UK, and Soviet Union during the early days of the Cold War (Stock Image)

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Villarroel could not say for sure whether the objects spotted in Earth's orbit in the 1950s were still there, but noted that if they were truly constructed by a non-human intelligence, they may still be circling the planet.

The scientists found over 100,000 transients during their observations, with about 35,000 in the northern hemisphere alone.

The study found nearly 60 of these artificial objects floating in orbit on days when there was nuclear testing, and witnesses reported seeing UFOs.

That number went down to 40 transients on days when only one of these two events took place.

The newly peer-reviewed study is not the only evidence that a non-human intelligence may have been visiting Earth during the Cold War.

A trove of unearthed government documents recently detailed a secret face-to-face encounter with alien beings more than 60 years ago.

More than 50 pages of CIA files, which the FBI has maintained are fakes, claimed that a secret government program established communications with UFOs in 1959.

Before that, speculation has continued to swirl around the alleged 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

While the US government has continued to deny that an alien craft was recovered, whistleblowers have claimed that the Roswell UFO is real and is just one of several non-human craft the US military has recovered since 1947.

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25-10-2025 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

An interstellar comet is dramatically jetting off ice and dust into space, a new image shows.

The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is sending out a jet of material towards the sun as our nearest star warms up some of its surface. The composite image shows the nucleus or icy, rocky central core of 3I/ATLAS as a large and black dot, along with a white glow — the comet's coma, or atmosphere. The jet is marked in purple and is blasting off towards the direction of the sun, which is typical behavior of comets in the solar system as well.

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object that has come through our solar system, and is rapidly hurtling towards the sun for its closest approach on Oct. 30. The comet will come within 1.8 astronomical units (sun-Earth distances) of our planet, making it visible in small telescopes before disappearing again into the dark.

Astronomers received notice of the jet Oct. 15 in the Astronomer's Telegram, an announcement service for the astronomy community with editor-in-chief Robert Rutledge, an associate professor at Montreal's McGill University.

Footage of the jet was captured on Aug. 2, and combines 159 exposures of 50 seconds each. It was taken with the Two-meter Twin Telescope at Teide Observatory in Tenerife, which is in the Canary Islands.

"This is the usual," Miquel Serra-Ricart, astrophysicist and chief science officer at the Light Bridges private research institution, which co-manages Teide, told our sister site LiveScience in an email. Serra-Ricart was the individual who posted the new images, which are not yet peer-reviewed; he pointed out that the comet’s tail is also pointing away from the sun, which is typical of these icy objects.

While comets do warm up when they get close to the sun, they don't warm up in all spots in the same fashion. The areas facing the sun heat up fastest, and if there is a weaker area on the surface of the comet, sublimated gases under the surface can burst through — causing these sun-facing jets.

A view of comet 3I/ATLAS taken by the Gemini South Telescope.

(Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist.

Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (

International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab)/T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab)/M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab).)

Serra-Ricart estimated the jet could be as far as 6,200 miles (10,000 km) from 3I/ATLAS' surface, which is more than twice the equivalent distance across the largest part of the United States. The jet is likely made up of carbon dioxide and dust particles—just like what was spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope back in August.

These jets can begin to fan out as the nucleus of the comet rotates. Some of the material will stay in the coma, while the rest will fall into the comet's tail after pressure from the sun — known as the solar wind — forces it there. Solar system comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, which was visible to the naked eye, showed just that kind of behavior back in 2020 in Hubble Space Telescope images.

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25-10-2025 om 20:33 geschreven door peter  

Story by Andrew Powell

 

Halley's Comet photographed by the Soviet Probe "Vega" in 1986.

(Photo by Liaison)

A planetary defense group backed by NASA has started efforts to nail down the exact location of comet 3I/ATLAS following the observation of unnatural behavior from the object.

The comet, which is the size of Manhattan that possibly has alien technology, has been listed by the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) as a threat. The group is a global coalition of space experts and entities coordinated by NASA who come together for the detection and monitoring of asteroids and Near-Earth Objects that could possibly be hazardous, doing so to give assessments on potential Earth impacts.

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According to the New York Post, this is the first time ever that an interstellar object has been zoned in on by the group in a campaign, triggering one to sharpen skills and prepare the world for a possible threat from space.

3I/ATLAS, originally photographed July 21 by the Hubble Space Telescope, has shown characteristics that aren’t normal for a comet, per The Post.

NASA-backed researchers launch planetary defense probe to shield Earth from massive interstellar object https://t.co/mfOi4sZHQ1 pic.twitter.com/P0Dubc7nlW

— New York Post (@nypost) October 23, 2025

Some of the bizarre behavior includes having an anti-tail, a particle jet that’s directed at the sun rather than vice versa, which is typically how comets flow. 3I/ATLAS also discharged a column that contained four grams of nickel per second, with no iron being present, which is unusual for comets, per The Post.

According to Harvard University astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb who spoke with the New York Post, nickel tetracarbonyl has only been seen in manufacturing done by humans.

Previously, Loeb noted that the non-gravitational acceleration of the object and abnormal course that brings it strangely close to multiple planets — Mars, Jupiter and Venus — could be a sign of an alien probe doing a reconnaissance mission on Earth. Loeb made the claims in a paper, per The Post.

IAWN will be carrying out a “comet campaign from November 27, 2025, through January 27, 2026” to clarify ways to pinpoint the precise location of 3I/ATLAS, according to the New York Post.

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24-10-2025 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

Massive burial uncovered in 2,200-year-old city confirms four chapters in the Bible

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Ancient tombs and artifacts uncovered in Turkey provide new evidence of Colossae, the city immortalized in St Paul's letters in the Bible. 

Excavations in the Aegean region at the foothills of Mount Honaz have revealed over 60 tombs dating back more than 2,200 years.

The findings, reported by Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency on October 6, shed new light on a city best known from the New Testament as the home of an early Christian community addressed by St Paul in his Epistle to the Colossians. 

In his letter, Paul emphasizes that Jesus is supreme over all things and that believers are complete in Him, freed from spiritual powers and legalistic rituals. The letter spans 95 verses across four chapters.

Paul warns the Colossians against false teachings that diminish Christ's role, urging them instead to live as new creations, setting their minds on things above and embodying love, kindness and forgiveness

Archaeologists now believe the newly discovered necropolis may be the largest of its kind in Anatolia, featuring rock-cut, trough-shaped tombs that showcase the ingenuity of ancient builders in using the natural travertine formations.

Archaeologist Baris Yener said: 'After removing the surface soil, we identified around 65 tombs, of which we excavated 60.'

The tombs contained a remarkable array of artifacts, providing insight into the spiritual and cultural life of Colossae before the arrival of Christianity. 

Archaeologists have identified 65 ancient tombs in a city mentioned in the Bible

In the Bible St Paul wrote a letter emphasizing that Jesus is supreme over all things and that believers are fully complete in Him, freed from spiritual powers and legalistic rituals.

Terracotta ceramics, glass bottles, and oil lamps were discovered, alongside coins, sandals, and personal belongings of the deceased. 

Paul, born as Saul of Tarsus, was an early Christian missionary and one of the most influential figures in the spread of Christianity. 

The Bible says that before his conversion, Paul actively persecuted Christians, believing their teachings were a threat to Judaism. 

He was present at the stoning of Stephen, one of the first Christian martyrs, and sought to arrest Christians in various cities to stop the spread of their faith. 

On the road to Damascus, Saul experienced a dramatic encounter with Jesus, in which a bright light blinded him and he heard Jesus ask, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' according to biblical text.

After this event, Saul was temporarily blind and later baptized, fully converting to Christianity and taking the name Paul. 

Following his conversion, Paul dedicated his life to preaching the teachings of Jesus and establishing Christian communities throughout the Roman Empire. 

The Bible says he was martyred by beheading in Rome around 64 or 68 AD, likely during Emperor Nero's persecution of Christians. 

Archaeologists now believe the newly discovered necropolis may be the largest of its kind in Anatolia, featuring rock-cut, trough-shaped tombs that showcase the ingenuity of ancient builders in using the natural travertine formations

The tombs were filled with artifacts, highlighting rich spiritual and religious traditions long before St Paul wrote his letter

Before his death, Paul wrote the Letter to the Colossians, found in Colossians 1:1, primarily to refute a heresy that threatened the church by diminishing the supremacy of Christ. 

The discoveries have suggested that the people of Colossae practiced rich spiritual and religious traditions long before St Paul wrote his letter, FOX News reported.

Many of the artifacts were likely placed in the graves to accompany the dead on their journey into the afterlife, illustrating beliefs about life beyond death. 

In addition to these items, the archaeologists uncovered charms, amulets and stones believed to have healing or protective properties. 

'The findings reveal how much the people of Colossae valued magic, talismans and objects believed to offer protection,' Yener noted.

'These pre-Christian practices provide essential context for understanding the religious environment in which the early Christian community emerged.'

The discoveries are particularly significant because they illuminate the world into which St Paul wrote his epistle. 

The Colossians, living in a city steeped in ancient religious traditions, were likely influenced by local spiritual practices and beliefs, which Paul addressed in his letters. 

The presence of mystical objects and charms suggested that concepts of protection, ritual and magic were commonplace, elements that Paul sought to guide toward Christian faith.

The tam uncovered skeletal remains inside the tombs dating back more than 2,000 years ago

The necropolis also offers clues about social and economic structures, as the arrangement of the tombs, the wealth of the grave goods and the use of durable materials indicate a city with organized urban planning and a community capable of sustaining long-term settlement. 

Yener said excavators were surprised to find so many side-by-side tombs in such a confined area. 

The necropolis reflects how ancient people made 'remarkable use' of the area's geological and topographical features. 

'They sought to use the travertine rock formations efficiently, since agriculture — particularly grain production was practiced at the time,' Yener said. 

'To preserve arable land, they designated the rocky travertine areas as burial grounds.' 

Oil lamps, for instance, were not just practical but also served a symbolic purpose, highlighting the importance of light in religious and funerary rituals.

While the tombs themselves predate the Christian era, their discovery adds depth to our understanding of Colossae as a historical and cultural hub. 

The team believes that continued excavation could reveal even more about the city's architecture, trade networks, and daily life, painting a fuller picture of the environment in which early Christianity took root.

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24-10-2025 om 22:24 geschreven door peter  

Interstellar visitor now hurtling toward NASA spacecraft's path in a once-in-a-lifetime encounter

• Scientists baffled as interstellar visitor appears to reverse thrust 

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The ancient interstellar visitor in our Solar System is on a trajectory to encounter a NASA spacecraft in just a few weeks.

The object 3I/ATLAS is expected to pass near NASA's Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft between October 25 and November 6. 

European researchers released a pre-print study discussing the rendezvous, saying the craft will be 'immersed within the ion tail of 3I/ATLAS, providing the opportunity to detect the signatures of an interstellar comet's ion tail.'

One of the most interesting possibilities is encountering the comet's ion tail, a stream of charged particles extending millions of miles from the coma.

Encounters with ion tails are unusual and valuable because they provide a direct sample of material from beyond our Solar System. Historically, such crossings have been difficult to detect, and many may have gone unnoticed, appearing only as small fluctuations in solar wind and magnetic field measurements. 

To predict these potential encounters, researchers use the Tailcatcher program, which calculates the closest approach, or 'impact parameter' of a spacecraft to a comet's ion tail based on solar wind flow.

For 3I/ATLAS, Tailcatcher predicts minimum distances of roughly five million miles. 

Researchers noted that even if Europa Clipper cannot measure all components, the mission could reveal the structure and composition of the ion tail, helping scientists understand the properties of interstellar bodies. 

A new study has revealed that to spacecraft will be able to take a deeper look at 3I/ATLAS, allowing for the first material samples to be collected

As discovery rates of such objects improve, future spacecraft, including ESA’s Comet Interceptor, may be able to encounter interstellar objects at even closer range, opening a new era in the study of visitors from other star systems. 

Co-author Samuel Gran, a postdoctoral researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told Space.com: 'We have virtually no data on the interior of interstellar comets and the star systems that formed them.

'Sampling the tail in this way is the closest we can currently get to a direct sample of such an object, and thus a different part of the galaxy.'

NASA's Europa is traveling to Jupiter's moon Europa, and the ESA's Hera is currently in the asteroid belt, traveling to the Didymos-Dimorphos.

Didymos-Dimorphos is a binary asteroid system in the asteroid belt, consisting of a larger primary asteroid, Didymos, which is about 2,500 feet in diameter, and a smaller moonlet, Dimorphos, which orbits Didymos at roughly 0.75 miles and measures about 525 feet (160 meters) across. 

The system gained attention when NASA’s DART mission deliberately impacted Dimorphos in September 2022 to test planetary defense by slightly altering its orbit. It serves as an important target for studying asteroid composition, orbital dynamics, and strategies for protecting Earth from potential asteroid impacts. 

The study explained that the Europa probe is equipped with instruments to study plasma and a magnetometer, while ESA’s Hera mission cannot measure ions or magnetic fields. 

If solar wind conditions are favorable, Europa Clipper will have a rare chance to study material from the tail of an interstellar object, the report added.

The object 3I/ATLAS is expected to pass near NASA's Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft between October 25 and November 6

While the researchers and NASA have determined 3I/ATLAS is a comet, Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes all data should be considered before a conclusion is made.

He has stated there is a 30 to 40 percent chance the object 'does not have a fully natural origin,' noting the possibility it is a 'Trojan Horse,' where a technological object masquerades as a comet.

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The claim is based on anomalies observed with the object, including a release of specific metals, its trajectory and how it has flipped its jet around twice.

The odd behavior has also led the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) to launch a campaign for further analysis of the object.

IAWN works alongside institutions across the world that detect, track, and study near-Earth objects (NEOs) to assess potential impact threats to Earth. 

3I/ATLAS is the first interstellar object ever added to the list, triggering a worldwide drill aimed at improving detection skills for space rocks and preparing Earth for a potential incoming threat.

On Tuesday, officials with IAWN admitted that the object was causing 'unique challenges' for predicting its trajectory and decided to add 3I/ATLAS to the Comet Astrometry Campaign.

The object has displayed several unusual features that defy the typical behavior of comets, including an 'anti-tail,' a jet of particles that points toward the Sun rather than away from it.

According to the release, scientists will be running a special training exercise from November 27, 2025, to January 27, 2026.