Meteor Fireball Recorded on Dash Cam Flying Across Washington DC Sky
Some people around D.C., Maryland and Virginia witnessed a fireball light up the sky Tuesday night just before 10 p.m. This fireball, which appears to be a shooting, burst of light, is actually a meteor. The meteor is a piece of debris and appears bright because it is burning up as it passes through our atmosphere. This fireball or meteor … Continue reading
Small Earthquake With Oddly Powerful Effects Leaves Melbourne Australia Residents Baffled
A 2.3-magnitude earthquake which rocked Melbourne was mistaken by baffled locals as a backfiring car and a pack of possums. There were reports of a loud bang when the earthquake struck the Dandenong Ranges area at 9.16pm on Monday. Social media lit up with puzzled explanations after reports of rattling windows and shaking roofs in a number of homes. Head … Continue reading
Mysterious V-shaped Object in the Sky over Chile Leaves Astrophysicist Confused
Over 40 years Roberto Antezana a well known astrophysicist has seen thousands of sky phenomena observed in the mountains, deserts and observatories around the world and all could be explained as terrestrial. But on May 31, 2017 Roberto observed for the first time in his life a strange phenomenon in the sky which he could not explain. He observed a … Continue reading
NASA Discovers Strange, Deep Hole on the South Pole of Mars; Unable to Explain It
You’d think NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface in the 11 years it’s orbited our nearest neighbour, but a snapshot taken over the planet’s South Pole has revealed something we can’t explain. While the planet’s entire surface is pocked with various depressions and craters, a vast pit spotted among the … Continue reading
UNKNOWN Source Behind This Weeks Daylight Meteor Shower
This week, Earth is passing through a stream of debris from an unknown source, and the encounter is causing a meteor shower in broad daylight. The shooting stars are mostly invisible to the human eye. Astronomers know the shower is underway because the meteors reflect radio waves. According to data from Canada’s Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR), there is a hot … Continue reading
US B-52 Bomber Intercepted By Russian Su-27 Over Baltic
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet was deployed to intercept a US B-52 strategic bomber over the Baltic Sea, and in a separate incident hours later, a MiG-31 intercepted a Norwegian warplane approaching Russian airspace near the Barents Sea. Russia’s air defense detected the aircraft on Tuesday morning at around 7:00 GMT, the statement said. The Su-27 of the Russian Baltic … Continue reading
Mysterious ‘SOS’ Sign Found in Australian Outback
Police in Western Australia have been investigating a large ‘SOS’ sign discovered in a remote area. The distress signal, which was spotted by a helicopter pilot, prompted an extensive search of the region over fears that someone may have become stranded out in the middle of nowhere. The letters ‘SOS’ had been spelled out by arranging dozens of small rocks … Continue reading
Carl Sagan on How Humanity Would Transform if Aliens Contacted Earth
FIRST CONTACT If mankind were contacted by an alien race, how would the world react? How would people change? In his novel, Contact, the late, great astronomer Carl Sagan explores this fascinating question. I recently had the pleasure of reading Contact, and one of the aspects I most admired about it was Dr. Sagan’s humble suggestion that communication with an alien race … Continue reading
Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election Revealed by Top-Secret NSA Report
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept. The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes … Continue reading
Citizen Scientists Discover New ‘World’ Near Sun
A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a brown dwarf a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun. Just six days after the launch of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 website in February, four different … Continue reading
