Old Moore’s Almanac, Baba Vanga, Nostradamus 2022
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By USH
Footage dated June 1996 shows a bright, oval-shaped object descending rapidly toward the desert near White Sands Missile Range. The object appears to strike the ground, bounce or skip, and then slam down again before breaking apart into fragments. Due to its grainy, VHS-era quality, the footage makes it difficult to clearly identify what is being seen.
White Sands is a major U.S. military testing facility, where rockets, missiles, and experimental technologies are routinely evaluated. Many analysts believe the glowing object is likely a missile or test vehicle, with its unusual appearance caused by engine exhaust and camera exposure effects.
However, some UFO researchers argue that it could represent a classified experimental craft rather than a conventional missile. Certain groups associated with extraterrestrial research have suggested it may have been a form of “classified craft testing,” pointing to the object’s unusual behavior—particularly the apparent bounce and persistent glow, as not easily explained by known technology.
White Sands has a long history of both legitimate military testing and reported UFO sightings, which continues to fuel speculation. As a result, the so-called “1996 White Sands UFO crash” remains unconfirmed.
Ultimately, the footage stands as a mysterious clip, still debated today as either a weapons test or something more unconventional, depending on interpretation.
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By Avi Loeb Medium
The so-called Hertzsprung–Russell diagram of 23,000 stars from the Hipparcos and Gliese catalogues, shows stellar luminosity versus color ranging from hot blue-white stars on the left side to cooler red stars on the right side. Hydrogen-burning stars like the Sun populate a band running from top-left to bottom-right called the Main Sequence. Giant stars clump on the upper-right side. At the lower-left is the band of white dwarfs, the dead cores of old stars that cool slowly over billions of years towards the bottom-right. (Image credit: Wikimedia)In my previous essay, posted here, I suggested that to preserve the habitability of its home planet — an advanced technological civilization might choose to move the planet away from a brightening sun-like star. The preferred planet-star separation would scale as the square root of the evolving star’s luminosity.
If this idea happens to be popular among our siblings in the family of intelligent civilizations within the Milky-Way galaxy, it might lead to an over-abundance of Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone around old Sun-like stars, as these stars evolve along the red giant branch of their Hertzsprung-Russel diagram.
But as the host sun-like star eventually turns to a faint white dwarf, the resident civilization might choose to migrate its planet closer to the dimmed furnace. This would imply an artificial over-abundance of habitable Earth-like planets around white dwarfs.
The graveyard of the Milky-Way galaxy is full of billions of corpses of dead sun-like stars in the form of old white dwarfs, each carrying about 60% of the mass of the Sun. At their typical age of a few billion years, the surface temperature of these white dwarfs is similar to that of the Sun, about 6,000 degrees Kelvin, resulting in white light which is conducive for life-as-we-know-it. The size of a white dwarf is comparable to that of Earth, but the habitable zone around it, is a hundred times bigger — amounting to 1 to 3 times that current radius of the Sun. Closer than a solar radius, the gravitational tide from the white dwarf would destroy a rocky planet.
The fact that the size of the white dwarf is comparable to that of Earth makes transits easy to detect. The probability for a transit is of order 0.6% for a habitable Earth-like planet around a white dwarf. This offers a unique opportunity for probing the composition of the atmospheres of habitable-zone Earth-mass exoplanets that transit white dwarfs.
In 2013, I co-authored a paper with Dani Maoz (published here) which showed that during a transit by an Earth-mass planet across a white dwarf, the transmission spectrum of the planet’s atmosphere would show prominent bio-markers such as molecular oxygen absorption at a wavelength of ∼ 0.76 micrometers. We calculated that a potentially life-sustaining Earth-like planet transiting a white dwarf would be detectable by the Webb telescope in about 5 hours of total exposure time, integrated over 160 two-minute transits.
A follow-up paper that I co-authored in 2014 here with my then undergraduate student Henry Lin (currently a professor at Princeton University), showed that industrial pollution is also detectable in habitable Earth-like planets around a white dwarf. In particular, tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and trichlorofluoromethane (CCl3F) are the easiest to detect chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) resulting from technological activity. Our paper estimated that a few days of total integration time on the Webb telescope will be necessary to detect the concentration of CCl3F or CF4 for industrial pollution that is ten times higher than the current level on Earth.
The discovery of an over-abundance of habitable Earth-like planets around red giants or white dwarfs can be substantiated as a technological signature by finding industrial pollution in the related planetary atmospheres.
Finding such evidence would provide a useful guide to humanity on how to survive on Earth in the next 10 billion years, both before and after the Sun will turn into a red giant and then a white dwarf in 7.6 billion years (as calculated here).
Based on the census of white dwarfs reported here, most stars formed billions of years before the Sun. Given that we arrived late to the cosmic party, we might have missed numerous tragic incidents involving the extinction of civilizations which did not engage in a cosmic engineering project to save their planet before it lost habitability. We were not around to hear their cry for help. We better be wise to learn the lessons from the surviving civilization by studying habitable planets around red giants and white dwarfs.
As the philosopher George Santayana stated in his 1905 book titled The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Social media:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
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By Avi Loeb Medium
Is the Mysterious Cylinder on Mars, Photographed in 2022 by the Curiosity Rover, a Human-Made Debris?
A raw image from the Mast camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, taken on 2022–08–07 at 20:58:23 UTC. (Image credit: NASA)A raw image from the Mast camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, taken on 2022–08–07 at 20:58:23 UTC, displays a mysterious cylinder buried in the Martian regolith of the Paraitepuy Pass — a narrow gap in the Gale Crater situated on the slopes of Mount Sharp.
This puzzling object was brought to my attention by Dr. Jan Špaček — who studies signatures of life on Mars and Professor Carol Cleland — who studies anomalies from a philosophical perspective. The object was publicly discussed in detail, for example here. I wrote back to Jan and Carol that anomalies are best analyzed in the open with full disclosure of all available data, since such discussions might motivate scientists to collect additional data that would resolve their mystery.
The cylinder can be seen in multiple images from both the Mastcam left and Mastcam right high-definition color cameras at different focal distances within the NASA, JPL, and WUSTL repositories. Related data was documented by NASA here, by JPL here (3556MR1025170721700585C00_DRCL), and by WUSTL here (Sol 3556, object 713174794). The cylinder was imaged from various angles here, here and here. It was identified in raw images of the Curiosity MSL analyst notebook but was not featured on the public mission website at the time of its discovery.
The shiny object has a perfectly round cylindrical shape with a length of about 20 centimeters and a flat end. The most likely explanation is that it corresponds to human-made debris.
Objects found by rovers that appear artificial are typically identified as debris from the mission’s own landing system, such as parts of the Sky Crane or heat shield that may have been carried by winds or scattered during the rover’s descent in 2012. This particular anomalous cylinder could be a bit of wiring or wheel material from Curiosity itself. The rover has shed small pieces during its operations, and similar anomalies in past images have been traced back to mission hardware. The Curiosity rover is approximately the size of a small SUV, measuring roughly 3-meters-long, 2.8-meters-wide, and 2.2-meters-tall. It weighs nearly 899 kilogram and features a 2.1-meters-long robotic arm and wheels with a 50.8-centimeter diameter.
The Martian harsh environment can also shape rocks into unusual forms, like the “blueberries” (hematite spherules) or gypsum crystals seen elsewhere in Gale Crater.
NASA has not officially commented on this mysterious cylindrical object.
Currently, the Curiosity rover is exploring the lower slopes of Mount Sharp within the Martian Gale Crater, about 8 kilometers away from the location of the cylinder. To clarify the mystery, it would make sense to go back to its location and examine it from up close. At Curiosity’s maximum speed of 0.16 kilometers per hour, the rover could return within a couple of days back to the location of the cylinder.
Should we just assume that the mysterious cylinder is human-made debris and move on or turn back the rover to figure out whether its origin is different?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Social media:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
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By USH
In the remote wilderness of the Shoria Mountains in southern Siberia, a long-hidden secret has remained untouched for millennia. Far from the reach of modern civilization, a discovery was made that would challenge our understanding of ancient human history.
In 2013, a team of 19 researchers, led by Georgy Sidorov, embarked on an expedition to explore this mysterious region. Their destination was Gora Shoria, a mountain towering 3,600 feet above sea level in a remote part of Russia. Intrigued by reports of strange megalithic structures, the team ventured into this secluded terrain.
What they found was extraordinary: an immense super-megalith dating back roughly 100,000 years that defied conventional history. These massive stone blocks, later known as the Gornaya Shoria Megaliths, appeared to be made of granite, featuring flat surfaces and precise right angles. The most astounding detail was the weight of the stones, exceeding 3,000 tons—making them the largest megaliths ever discovered.
The arrangement of these granite blocks suggested a deliberate design, far beyond what could be explained by natural formations. The blocks were carefully stacked, reaching a height of approximately 140 feet. This raised profound questions: how were such massive stones carved, transported, and assembled in this remote and rugged landscape?
Some researchers have speculated about the existence of a pre-flood civilization, a sophisticated society wiped out by a cataclysmic event.
Also a deep, narrow vertical shaft was uncovered. The shaft, lined with parallel stone slabs, appeared to be human-made.
The walls of the shaft were straight and polished, descending 40 meters (around 130 feet) before opening into a vast underground hall, 36 meters (around 118 feet) high. These walls were constructed from large megalithic blocks, perfectly fitted with minimal gaps. Some of the stones resembled columns, reinforcing the idea of deliberate design. The full explored length of the shaft spanned over 100 meters (approximately 350 feet).
The precision and scale of this structure left no doubt that it was an artificial creation of immense proportions. The polished walls and massive blocks bore a striking resemblance to the shafts within the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, suggesting a level of architectural sophistication that defies conventional explanations.
Speculation abounds regarding the shaft’s original purpose. Some believe it served an advanced technological function or was part of a larger, undiscovered structure. The exploration team took over an hour to reach the bottom of the shaft, which required significant climbing expertise and endurance. It is believed that additional chambers and channels, still unexplored, may lie even deeper underground.
How could these gigantic 200-ton stone blocks have been assembled with such accuracy, deep underground? What kind of technology was used to construct the shaft and underground chamber?
Some researchers have speculated that it may have been part of an ancient factory, a seismological research device, or even an energy generator. Others believe it was the underground portion of a long-lost pyramid that once stood on the surface of the mountain.
Despite differing theories, we may wonder what ancient forces or lost civilizations left their mark on this remote corner of the world?
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By USH
A remarkable slice of ancient history has been unearthed beneath the depths of the Baltic Sea, marking a significant milestone in archaeological exploration. This groundbreaking discovery was serendipitously made in Germany’s Bay of Mecklenburg, during a routine student expedition.
Located approximately 10 kilometers (six miles) offshore, the team of researchers stumbled upon an intriguing anomaly using their multi-beam sonar system.
What they found was a sprawling, enigmatic wall extending nearly a kilometer along the seabed, nestled at a depth of 21 meters (69 feet). Detailed analysis has revealed that this colossal structure dates back over 10,000 years, potentially making it the oldest known megastructure built by ancient Europeans.
Comprising approximately 1,670 individual stones meticulously arranged to connect some 300 larger boulders, the structure hints at a deliberate construction, suggesting a specific purpose conceived millennia before being submerged beneath the sea.
Led by geophysicist Jacob Geerson from Kiel University, the research team has dubbed the discovery the "Blinker wall." They propose that it was likely built by Stone Age hunter-gatherers near a lake or marsh, serving as one of the earliest documented man-made hunting structures in history and ranking among Europe's largest Stone Age constructions.
Over millennia, Earth's geography has undergone profound transformations due to sea level fluctuations, erosion, and geological shifts, submerging countless ancient settlements beneath the waves and concealing their secrets. However, advancements in technology continue to unveil these submerged relics, offering invaluable insights into our ancestors' way of life.
While the precise function of the Blinker wall remains elusive, experts speculate it might have functioned as a hunting aid, possibly guiding reindeer herds. The construction's strategic layout suggests the intentional creation of bottlenecks to corral animals, with the potential presence of a second adjacent wall hinted at by the researchers.
Detailed examination of the structure's dimensions, composition, and alignment strongly indicates human involvement, ruling out natural formation. The team's analysis posits the Blinker wall's construction over 10,000 years ago, with submersion occurring around 8,500 years ago.
The significance of the Blinker wall extends beyond its age, promising valuable insights into the socioeconomic complexities of ancient hunter-gatherer societies in the region, illuminating their way of life and interaction with the environment.
Baltic Sea Anomaly.
The Baltic Sea is full off ancient mysteries, not only the discovery of the ruins of the 11,000-year-old megastructure but also the discovery in June 2011 by Swedish OceanX diving team of an enigmatic anomaly displaying unconventional characteristics sparking speculation that it could be a submerged UFO. Despite the explanation behind the Blinker wall, the UFO-like anomaly continues to baffle experts, shrouded in mystery to this day.
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