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Shocking footage shows UFO eerily sinking under water in English Channel
16:01, 11 NOV 2024
A possible UFO has been captured on camera in the night sky moments before plunging into the English Channel.
The footage was captured as part of Netflix's 'Investigation Alien', which follows journalist and ufologist George Knapp on his quest to prove the existence of extra terrestrials.
In one part of the new doc, the crew use an ROV off the French coast near Normandy, where they see a light fizzing off into the distance after being completely still.
The light the comes back hours later when the crew, except for a dedicated night watch camera man, were asleep.
The aforementioned cameraman managed to capture the orb splashing into the water - and the experts are stumped.
"[This was] with everybody sleeping, with the exception of our night watch guy," underwater archaeologist Rory Kremer says to Knapp in the show.
He says the unidentified 'flying' object transforms into an unidentified 'submerged' object.
"Don't tell me it's going to go in the water," Knapp says in response, as the orb lowers towards the sea. "I'll be damned," he adds.
Knapp proceeds to ask for Kremer's professional opinion and the archaeologist - who has over 20 years of experience - admits he is equally stumped.
"So this is what it does when it thinks that nobody is watching?" Knapp asks before turning to Kremer. "Have you ever seen anything like this?"
"A willy peter flare is the only thing I know like that that will hang up in the air, but that's not a flare, because there's no smoke going off of it,' the archaeologist says, admitting he has no real answers - at least ones that involve human technology.
"Look at that. It's under the water,' he goes on to exclaim. I don't got any answers - do you?" he asks.
Knapp reckons that it could be evidence of a subterranean base. "You think it's got a base down there?" Knapp asks his colleague.
"It could be. It could be," he says.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/shocking-footage-shows-ufo-eerily-34084461
This is death for solar, wind and hydrogen – NASA discovers a new form of energy – it changes the way we generate it
11/10/2024
In a bid to achieve a green future, the world has embraced innovative renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydrogen.
In a huge leap towards transforming the landscape of energy transmission, NASA, in collaboration with ADC Energy USA, has validated a new form of energy.
It’s called alternating direct current (ADC), and it has the potential to change the way we generate, transmit, and effectively utilize power.
ADC: Merging the best of AC and DC for sustainable energy
Historically, the global energy landscape has relied on two primary forms of energy transmission: alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC).
While both have served well since their introduction over 135 years ago, they were never designed to accommodate the challenges posed by renewable energy sources.
Now, the introduction of ADC transmission is set to change all that.
Combining the benefits of both AC and DC while using the same existing infrastructure, this new hybrid can be run over long distances on the same wire.
In turn, this can effectively enhance efficiency and reduce transmission loss by optimizing power flow, managing load variations, and improving overall system reliability.
The advantages of ADC promise to improve the energy transmission landscape
While the shift from conventional energy transmissions to ADC sounds a bit daunting, the advantages are significant.
According to NASA and ADC Energy USA’s validation report, these include:
Seamless integration of renewable energy sources: The ADC system facilitates the integration of both DC voltages at generation (such as batteries) and at load (such as computers and lighting) and the existing AC grid.
This prevents issues associated with energy conversion, like harmonics and energy loss, leading to a more efficient utilization of renewable energy.
Utilization of existing structure: As touched on before, the ADC system operates on existing AC grid infrastructure, which enables the use of existing lines for DC energy transmission.
This eliminates the need for extensive upgrades or replacements of established energy infrastructure.
Enhanced efficiency: ADC allows for direct DC charging for devices such as solar panels, bypassing the need for AC energy conversion.
This minimizes energy loss during the charging process while simultaneously maximizing the efficiency of energy use in these devices.
Resolution of system conflicts: Traditional energy systems require multiple conversions between AC and DC, which leads to inefficiencies in energy generation and usage.
The ADC system solves this by negating the need for inverters, converters, and rectifiers. Resultantly, this simplifies the transition from outdated AC-focused systems to advanced renewable energy infrastructures.
ADC can help pave the way towards a green future
With the introduction of ADC transmission, it can aid in the reduction of carbon emissions and significantly lower energy consumption while still using existing infrastructure.
Henry Lee, the CEO of ADC Energy USA, is excited about applying this innovative technology to various residential and commercial sectors.
“Most exciting is that ADC innovations, like ‘battery-powered’ air conditioning, are being deployed in commercial and residential buildings,” Lee says.
“ADC has solutions ready right now. And there are substantial opportunities in the near term for breakthroughs such as low voltage, quick EV charging, expanded solar panel generation, and off-grid indoor agriculture.”
There you have it: the advent of ADC transmission represents a pivotal moment in the renewable energy landscape.
By combining the best aspects of AC and DC, it offers a solution to enhancing efficiency and minimizing losses in energy transmission.
As this technology continues to develop, its applications are likely to expand greatly, creating new possibilities for energy innovation and sustainability.
To realize the vision of a greener world, we need to embrace these advancements as they come.
https://www.riazor.org/news/nasa-adc-energy-transmission-efficiency/1517/
https://www.adcenergyusa.com/
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/117721/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113.pdf
Written Testimony By Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) For Hearing on Unidentified Anomolous Phenomena: Exposing The Truth
CEO, Ocen STL Consulting, LLC and Former Acting Undersecretary and Assistant Secretary of Commerce For Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Administrator and Deputy Administer of NOAA
Hearing on Unidentified Anomolous Phenomena: Exposing The Truth
November 13, 2024
Chairwoman Mace, Chairman Grothman, Ranking Members Connolly and Garcia, and
Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you regarding
unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
Confirmation that UAPs are interacting with humanity came for me in January 2015 when I
was serving as the Commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.1 At the
time, my personnel were participating in a pre-deployment naval exercise2 off the U.S. East
Coast that included the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. This exercise was
overseen by the United States Fleet Forces Command3, led by a four-star admiral who also served as my superior officer.
During this exercise, I received an email on the Navy’s secure network from the operations
officer of Fleet Forces Command. The email was addressed to all subordinate commanders, and
the subject line read in all capital letters: URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE.
The text of the email was brief but alarming, with words to the effect: “If any of you know what these are, tell
me ASAP. We are having multiple near-midair collisions, and if we do not resolve it soon, we will
have to shut down the exercise.”
Attached to the email was what is now known as the “Go Fast” video4, captured on the
forward-looking infrared sensor5 onboard one of the Navy F/A-18 aircraft participating in the
exercise.
The now declassified video6 showed an unidentified object exhibiting flight and
structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal. The implication of the email was clear:
the author was asking whether any of the recipients were aware of classified technology
demonstrations that could explain these objects. Because DoD policy7 is to rigorously deconflict
such demonstrations with live exercises, I was confident this was not the case.
The very next day, the email disappeared from my account and those of the other recipients
without explanation. Moreover, the Commander of Fleet Forces and his operations officer never
discussed the incident again, even during weekly meetings specifically designed to address
issues affecting exercises like the one in which the Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group was
participating.
This lack of follow-up was concerning. As the Navy’s Chief Meteorologist8 at the time, my
primary duty was to reduce safety-of-flight risks. Yet, it was evident that no one at the Flag
Officer level was addressing the safety risks posed by UAPs. Instead, pilots were left to mitigate
these threats on their own, without guidance or support.
I concluded that the UAP information must have been classified within a special access
program managed by an intelligence agency — a compartmented program that even senior
officials, including myself, were not read into. Last year’s UAP hearing9 before this oversight
committee confirmed that UAP-related information is not only being withheld10 from senior
officials and members of Congress, but elements of the government are engaging in a
disinformation campaign to include personal attacks11 designed to discredit UAP
whistleblowers.
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https://avi-loeb.medium.com/commissioning-data-on-half-a-million-objects-in-the-sky-from-the-galileo-project-observatory-are-a23bd084233a
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/gp_2024_dalek_commissioning_paper_full.pdf
Commissioning Data on Half a Million Objects in the Sky from the Galileo Project Observatory: Are Any of Them UAP?
November 12, 2024
After 3.5 years of planning, hardware assembly, data collection and analysis, the Galileo Project (GP) under my leadership released the commissioning data from its first Observatory at Harvard University in a new paper posted here (currently under peer review), with my GP postdoc Dr. Laura Domine as first author.
The GP Observatory is the first of its kind. Common astronomical observatories focus on a small portion of the sky at any given time, seeking sources at great distances and ignoring objects flying overhead.
The GP research team came up with an original design of an array of sensors that monitor the entire sky at all times and collect infrared, optical, radio, magnetic and audio data.
Altogether, the GP Observatory is recording a continuous movie of the sky. The data is uploaded to a computer system and subsequently analyzed by machine-learning algorithms.
The computer software is optimized to identify outliers among familiar insects, birds, leaves, clouds, balloons, drones, airplanes and satellites that appear in the data stream.
The Galileo Project was inaugurated on July 26, 2021.
It took two years for our exceptional research team to design and assemble the hardware components, another half a year to calibrate the instruments and a full year to analyze the preliminary commissioning data, collected from January through May 2024.
This data contains half a million objects, observed during these 5 months.
The GP team is currently in the process of establishing two additional observatories in other locations, with the goal of tripling its data collection rate within the next six months.
The workhorse of the uniquely designed GP Observatories is called Dalek, an array of eight uncooled infrared cameras placed on half a sphere, resembling the head of the fictional robot character R2-D2 in the film Star Wars.
The puzzling appearance of unfamiliar objects close to Earth was admitted publicly by U.S. government officials.
Reports on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines, led in 2022 to the establishment of a new office under DNI and the Department of Defense, called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
The official statement from AARO so far is: “To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
As of now, there is little publicly available scientific data on UAP with flight characteristics that lie outside the performance envelope of known phenomena.
The GP Observatories offer an array of multi-modal, multi-spectral sensors that continuously monitor the sky and acquire UAP data via a rigorous long-term census of all aerial phenomena to check for any object that may not be of terrestrial origin.
In addition to performing intrinsic and thermal calibrations, Dalek was commissioned through a novel extrinsic calibration method.
Airplane positions from Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) data was collected by the GP radio sensor.
Using machine learning software, such as You Only Look Once (YOLO) model for object detection and Simple Online and Realtime Tracking (SORT) algorithm for trajectory reconstruction, the GP team established a baseline for assessing the performance of the GP Observatory over five months of field operation.
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Using an automatically generated data set derived from ADS-B-data, a dataset of synthetic three-dimensional trajectories, and a hand-labelled real-world dataset, the GP team found an acceptance rate (fraction of airplanes passing in the effective field of view of at least one camera that are recorded) of 41% for ADS-B equipped aircraft, and a mean frame-by-frame aircraft detection efficiency (fraction of recorded airplanes in individual frames which are successfully detected) of 36%.
The detection efficiency depends on weather conditions, distance and object size.
Approximately half a million trajectories of aerial objects were reconstructed during the five months observing period.
These trajectories were analyzed with an outlier search algorithm. About 16% of the monitored trajectories were flagged as outliers and manually examined.
From these 80,000 outliers, 144 trajectories remained ambiguous. These are likely mundane objects but cannot be further identified without distance information.
The observed count of ambiguous outliers combined with systematic uncertainties yields an upper limit of 18,271 outliers for the five-month observing period at a 95% confidence level.
The main limitation of the commissioning data analysis stems from not knowing the distances to the objects that were monitored.
In the coming months, the GP team plans to use multiple Dalek units separated by a few miles, to measure the distance of aerial objects by observing them from different directions.
Similarly, humans have two eyes because stereoscopic vision was favored by natural selection in allowing them to assess the distance of predators.
Following these commissioning results, as reported in the exciting paper available here, the GP research team is now working around the clock on a series of additional papers, including a better analysis of outliers identified by our Observatory.
A public hearing in the U.S. Congress titled, “UAP: Exposing the Truth,” will be broadcasted live here at 11:30AM Eastern Time on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.
When watching it, we must keep in mind that politicians master national security but not interstellar matters.
What lies outside the Solar system happens to be my day job and the research focus of the Galileo Project.
Rather than rely on hearsay testimonies about classified information, the GP research team aims to follow evidence from its sensors wherever it leads, and share the data openly with the public.
This standard scientific practice is far more informative than political maneuvers aimed to disclose classified information from stubborn government agencies.
A robust answer to Fermi’s old question “where is everybody?” will originate from scientists, not from politicians or journalists.
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