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Confirmed: Those Mysterious Radio Bursts Really Are Coming From Outer Space
This is the real deal.

FIONA MACDONALD
4 APR 2017
FRBs could actually be alien signals.

But the fact that we now know the answer lies in space is a big deal. It might sound obvious, but let's not forget that back in 1998, researchers thought they had discovered a new type of radio signal coming from space, only to figure out 17 years later that it was coming from a microwave oven in their research facility.

The reason the origin of these radio signals is so hard to nail down is that we often find them using single-dish radio telescopes, which can 'hear' a lot without providing much perspective on where it's coming from.

"Conventional single dish radio telescopes have difficulty establishing that transmissions originate beyond the Earth's atmosphere," said one of the researchers on the latest study, Chris Flynn from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.

To overcome this problem and rule out terrestrial interference as the source of FRBs once and for all, the researchers used the Molonglo telescope in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which has a collecting area of around 18,000 square metres (194,000 square feet).

This huge collection area means the telescope is ideal for picking up FRBs, but back in 2013, the team also realised that because of its architecture, it's not possible for it to detect any signals coming from within our atmosphere.

So the team set about hunting through Molonglo's data to see if they could find any traces of FRBs - seeing as the telescope produces more than 1,000 TB of data each day, that's no easy feat. The idea was that if the telescope had detected the signals, then they must be coming from outer space.

Eventually, they uncovered three new FRB signals in the telescope's data, which matched perfect with the signals we've picked up before - indicating that they couldn't possibly be coming from Earth.

Their conclusions back up findings from earlier this year, when researchers were able to pinpoint the source of a FRB to a tiny dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light-years from Earth.

But for now, the sources of the three newly detected FRBs remain relatively mysterious, except for the fact that they're not of this world - the data suggest they're coming from the direction of the constellations Puppis and Hydra (signified by the three red stars below):

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The Molonglo telescope is now being updated with the hope that it might be able to provide some more insight in future - hopefully even going as far as pinpointing specific galactic origins.

"Figuring out where the bursts come from is the key to understanding what makes them. Only one burst has been linked to a specific galaxy," said lead researcher Manisha Caleb.

"We expect Molonglo will do this for many more bursts."

The research has been accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, you can read it free online now over at arXiv.org.
 
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Canada reported more than 1,000 UFO sightings last year
The truth is out there, and it may even be somewhere over northern Saskatchewan.

According to the Canadian UFO Survey, 1,131 UFO reports were officially filed in Canada in 2016, making it the fifth year in a row above 1,000 cases.

The survey was conducted by Manitoba-based Ufology Research, along with investigators and researchers across the country.

The research company even provided photos sent to them by Canucks who swear they spotted spaceships.



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A third of UFO reports were recorded during the summer with June, July and August combining for 37.7% of all cases.

Not surprisingly, the provinces with the largest populations also tended to have the most UFO reports, the survey noted.

Quebec posted the highest percentage of UFO sightings in the country with 38.5%, Ontario reported 26.3%, and BC was responsible for 17.2% of UFO sightings nationwide.

Broken down by city, Montreal came in first, with 73 sightings, while Vancouver came in second, with 70. Toronto rounded up the top three, with 65 sightings.

The top 10 cities in Canada for UFO sightings in 2016 were:

  1. Montreal: 73
  2. Vancouver: 70
  3. Toronto: 65
  4. Hamilton: 28
  5. Ottawa: 24
  6. Edmonton: 23
  7. Calgary: 18
  8. London: 18
  9. Quebec City: 18
  10. Winnipeg: 17
Make sure to tag #kelownanow with all your UFO sightings ;)
 
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KURT RUSSELL SAYS HE WAS THE PILOT WHO REPORTED ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS, FREAKY UFO SIGHTINGS EVER
The "Phoenix Lights" were witnessed by thousands of people.
STEVE HUFF
21 HOURS AGO



If you're looking for stars with kind of out there, whacky reputations, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 co-star Kurt Russell isn't one of them. He's no Randy Quaid, is what we're saying. So it came as a real surprise to learn via a recent guest appearance on the BBC to talk about Guardians that Russell was likely one of the pilots who first reported an event that eventually became known as the Phoenix Lights.

The Lights remain one of the most interesting UFO sightings in history. On the night of March 13, 1997, several thousand witnesses in Phoenix, Arizona and in northern Mexico reported weird formations of lights in the night sky. The most famous description was of a gigantic, soundless V-shaped object that moved slowly across the sky like a sailing ship.

Witnesses even included Arizona governor Fife Symington—and yes, Kurt Russell.



As seen in the video, after the BBC interviewer read an account of a UFO report which came from a pilot flying his son into Phoenix on a private plane, Russell said, "I was the pilot.” Russell said he and his son Oliver were approaching and he "saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform in a V-shape."

"I was just looking at them and I was coming in, we were maybe a half mile out," Russell continued, and his son asked him what the lights were. "I kind of came out of my reverie," Russell admitted, "and I said, ‘I don’t know what they are.’ [Oliver] said, ‘Are we okay here?’ I said ‘I’m gonna call,’ and I reported it. They said...‘We don’t show anything.’"

Russell declared the object "unidentified," he said, and "landed, I taxied, dropped him off, took off and went back to LA."



Weirdly, he didn't think much more about it till a few years later, when his wife Goldie Hawn was watching a report about the event. He joined her and began "feeling like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I go, ‘What, why do I know this?’ And it’s not clear to me. And finally they said a general aviation pilot reported it on landing."

The not thinking much more about it part was what struck Russell as "weird" later, he said.

There have been plenty of credible explanations for the Phoenix Lights through the years including jets flying in formation—but as you see if you watch the documentary in the third video above, they remain annoyingly just questionable enough to leave the mystery hanging there.

And now we know we have Kurt Russell to thank—at least partially—for putting that mystery on the map.
 
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Gemini said:
Will Humanity Reach Another Star In Your Lifetime?
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Do you think we will? I wanna think so but a large part of me thinks we'll blow ourselves up long before that happens.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm 35 and I don't got humanity reaching another star in my lifetime..Maybe in my 8 yr olds future.... I like to dream tho. Funny my black ass wanna leave earth soo bad cuz I'm thinking they won't be racist sshould I encounter anyone/thing, but they would prolly hate all humanity tho no matter the color. Posts like these are worth whatever money I pay hnic. Hate that none of my homies have thoughts on shit like this....
 
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Any updates on the galaxies far, far away, MK?
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Sorry,I don't get to this part of the internetz much these days. I'm probably missing a lot of posts directed at me because they use MK (instead of MK23666) when referring to me and I can't search that.
To answer the question tho ... there was an interesting astronomical alignment in your skies last month. It related perfectly to a passage in one of your holy books. A similar alignment won't be seen again for over 1000 years ... which again relates to another prophesy/prediction in the very same holy book.

Long story short, the original owners of this planet AND your species are soon to come back. Your world, as you know it, is coming to an end ... and a new beginning for the survivors.
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mk23666 said:
Sorry,I don't get to this part of the internetz much these days. I'm probably missing a lot of posts directed at me because they use MK (instead of MK23666) when referring to me and I can't search that.
To answer the question tho ... there was an interesting astronomical alignment in your skies last month. It related perfectly to a passage in one of your holy books. A similar alignment won't be seen again for over 1000 years ... which again relates to another prophesy/prediction in the very same holy book.

Long story short, the original owners of this planet AND your species are soon to come back. Your world, as you know it, is coming to an end ... and a new beginning for the survivors.
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Mystery solved or believable lie constructed.

Alien megastructures around this star were just dust in the interstellar wind

Just to be extra clear

For the last two years, astronomers all over the world have been eagerly observing what is hailed as “the most mysterious star in the Universe,” a stellar object that wildly fluctuates in brightness with no discernible pattern — and now they may finally have an answer for its weird behavior. Scientists are fairly certain that a bunch of dust surrounding the star is to blame. And that means that the more tantalizing explanation — alien involvement — is definitely not the cause.

It’s the most solid solution yet that astronomers have come up with for this star’s odd ways. Named KIC 8462852, the star doesn’t act like any star we’ve ever seen before. Its light fluctuations are extreme, dimming by up to 20 percent at times. And its dips don’t seem to repeat in a predictable way. That means something really big and irregular is passing in front of this star, leading scientists to suggest a number of possible objects that could be blocking the star’s light — from a family of large comets to even “alien megastructures” orbiting the star.

The idea of aliens drummed up so much public interest that more than 1,700 people donated $100,000 to a Kickstarter campaign to fund further observations of the star. From March 2016 to December 2017, astronomers at the Las Cumbres Observatory watched with telescopes all over the world, observing four of its weird dips. The campaign collected oodles of data, which still needs to be parsed out thoroughly. But early analysis, detailed today in Astronomical Journal Letters, found that whatever is blocking the star’s light is definitely not opaque and most likely filtering the light as dust does. So that puts the alien megastructure theory to rest.

This doesn’t mean astronomers are done learning about the star, though. It’s still unclear what is causing all this dust and whether or not the dust is orbiting the star or if it’s coming from somewhere else. “Weird stars that have dust coming from somewhere isn’t as much of a headline grabber,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University and one of the 200 authors on the paper, tells The Verge. “But obviously there’s a still lot of interest to figure out this weirdo star.”

KIC 8462852 first came to the attention of the astronomy world thanks to NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, which searches for planets around distant stars. Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and her team from Louisiana State University were combing through Kepler’s data and found that the spacecraft had observed this star and recorded its strange behavior. They couldn’t come up with an easy explanation for it either. An orbiting planet wouldn’t dim the star as much as it was dimming, and a planet would cause periodic dips each time it passed between the star and Earth.

Then in 2015, Wright suggested a fun, but very unlikely scenario: perhaps large alien megastructures are orbiting the star to collect solar power for an advanced civilization. Maybe the star was surrounded by a Dyson sphere, a theoretical object that encompasses a sun essentially gathering all of its energy. The suggestion caused an explosion of interest online, prompting people to give KIC 8462852 a new nickname: the “alien megastructure star.”

Aliens are always the last possible scenario that astronomers consider, but there still wasn’t a good explanation for KIC 8462852. So during last year’s observation campaign, astronomers made sure to measure the star’s light in different wavelengths — the peaks and valleys light travels over certain distances. Red and blue light, for instance, have different wavelengths: blue light is much shorter and compressed whereas red light is more elongated and stretched out. Measuring KIC 8462852’s dimming light in different wavelengths can tell scientists more about any objects that might be passing by. Certain types of materials will filter light in different ways.
If an opaque object, like a planet or alien megastructure was passing in front of the star, it would block both red and blue light the same amount, says Wright. However, the astronomers found that blue light was blocked much more than red light during the star’s dimming. Since blue light has much shorter wavelengths than red light, it’s much more easily blocked by smaller materials, such as fine grains like dust. “This is characteristic of something that’s filtering the light,” says Wright. “That’s what you get when you have dust.”

That means one of the long-held theories about KIC 8462852 may be true: a large group of comets are circling the star, producing a huge amount of gas and dust that is filtering the star’s light. But astronomers still don’t know for sure if comets are the true dust source. Wright has what he calls a “dark horse” idea: the dust doesn’t surround the star at all but is actually around a nearby black hole that is passing between KIC 8462852 and Earth.

But above all, the alien megastructure star may need a new nickname, since it seems clear that we haven’t stumbled on an advanced alien culture. There’s still quite a lot of information to go through, though, which could ultimately hold clues as to what’s causing this star’s bizarre twinkle. “We’re swimming in data,” says Wright. “It’s going to take us a long time to get through it all.”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16843678/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-kic-8462852-dust


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Solar observatory in N.M. reopening after mysterious shutdown

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The National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico.

Authorities said a "security issue" forced the closing of the New Mexico facility.
by David Freeman / Sep.17.2018 / 4:00 PM ET


A solar observatory in New Mexico that shut down mysteriously on Sept. 6 is reopening after law enforcement authorities investigated a "security issue," the organization that manages the facility announced Sunday.

The unexpected shutdown of the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico, set off a flurry of wild rumors, with some wondering if the facility had found evidence of aliens or detected a deadly solar "superflare."

But the shutdown was taken as a precautionary measure after a suspect under investigation “potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents,” the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), which manages the observatory, said in a statement.

“The decision to vacate was based on the logistical challenges associated with protecting personnel at such a remote location, and the need for expeditious response to the potential threat,” the association said. “AURA determined that moving the small number of on-site staff and residents off the mountain was the most prudent and effective action to ensure their safety.”

The association gave no further details about the investigation or the nature of the threat and declined to comment further.

Conspiracy theorists weren't the only ones who had been puzzling over the shutdown.

"The FBI is refusing to tell us what's going on," Sheriff Benny House of Otero County told The Alamagordo Daily News last week. "There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers, but nobody would tell us anything."

Founded in 1947, the observatory is in the Lincoln National Forest, 18 miles south of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, in the southern part of the state. It has several telescopes, including the Dunn Solar Telescope, once considered one of the world’s best.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna910211
 

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