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hello it's Thursday June 22nd 2017 you

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are listening to inception Radio Network

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voice of the fringe majority this is

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Carol Karl with UFO headline news

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tonight there's a Treat in the sky

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according to the folks at earth sky org

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if we've got dark skies we ought to be

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able to pick out the constellation Draco

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the dragon as it winds around the North

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Star Polaris and how to do this well

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first find the Big Dipper

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it's going to be high in the North on

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these June evenings and the two outer

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stars of the dippers Bowl point to

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Polaris the North Star which this

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broadcaster was lucky enough to see last

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night with binoculars and it marks the

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end of the Little Dippers handle yep the

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Little Dipper is relatively faint if you

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can find both dippers than your sky is

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indeed pretty dark and you're going to

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need that to see Draco you'll have to

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let your eyes and imagination drift a

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bit to see the entire winding shape of

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the dragon in the northern heavens but

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if you can find both of those dippers

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it's going to be fairly easy then to

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pick out another noteworthy star in

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Draco it's a star called Toobin or a

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Thuban it spelled th uban and the way to

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find Toobin is by remembering it's

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between the big and little dippers

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that's a famous star famous for having

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served as a pole star back in the day of

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3000 BC that is this date coincides with

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the beginning of the building of the

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pyramids in Egypt it said that the

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descending passage of the Great Pyramid

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of Khufu at Giza was built to point

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directly at the pond so our ancestors

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knew and celebrated this star and also

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two more stars Elton --an and rusty bong

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lie ahead of Draco they serve to

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represent the dragon's eyes so here's

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the bottom line you'll have to let your

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eyes and imagination drift a bit to see

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the entire winding shape of Draco the

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dragon in tonight's northern sky good

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luck

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here's something that's been making the

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of the internet it's a photo yep this is

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radio but you can find links to that

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photo later at UFO headline news calm

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here is the headline Mars orbiting space

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camera captures Rover on surface this

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gets a byline for Elana glow watts who

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writes it for the International Business

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Times nASA released a photo this week

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that could be the most meta thing that's

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ever happened on Mars the spacecraft

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orbiting the planet snapped a picture of

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the rover exploring the surface the Mars

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Reconnaissance Orbiter used its powerful

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telescope from the high-resolution

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imaging science experiment otherwise

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known as high rise it captured the image

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of the Curiosity rover handling the

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rough terrain of Mount sharp the blue

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dot of curiosity stands out against the

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reds and tans of the area's rocks and

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sand it wasn't the first time the

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orbiters high-rise camera captured

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curiosity down below NASA said this has

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happened a few times a year since the

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rover landed near Mount sharp almost

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five years ago curiosity scale-wise

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about the size of a car is ascending

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Mount sharp as it investigates the soil

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on Mars for clues about the environment

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it once hosted and whether or not it

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could have supported alien life

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scientists have already started

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analyzing samples taken from the lower

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levels of Mount sharp they show a

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diverse environment that evolved over

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time the lowest levels of Mount sharp

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are made of sediment which accumulated

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in the earliest of the mountains history

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while the area was under water

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the rover sampled soil from there that

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had lots of iron and magnesium rock that

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similar to the volcanic kind like we'd

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find in Hawaii today and that suggests a

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similar source at higher elevations of

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Mount sharp there were some minerals

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that would have accumulated in more

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acidic water and others that would have

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built up in water with a more neutral pH

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level an example of the way the

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environment changed in this location

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over time the water with the more

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natural pH would have been most

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comfortable for alien life to form and

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throw

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five since it's similar to what we'd

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find on earth today although more acidic

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water doesn't rule out extraterrestrials

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in fact recent research has shown that

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early life on earth could have evolved

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in more acidic oceans before it began

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its trek up Mount sharp curiosity

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examined the sand dunes in that area to

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learn more about environmental

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conditions on Mars such as wind the

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rover rock took soil samples to see how

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the grains and minerals had been

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organized by the blowing wind and took a

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closer look at the physical

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characteristics of these sand dunes

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which vary from spot to spot last month

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curiosity passed through an area with

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linear sand dunes where the peaks in the

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sand run in lines but shortly before

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that and slightly farther away from the

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it rolled through a place where the

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dunes were shaped like crescents

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scientists are hoping to use data the

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rover collected to learn more about the

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complex wind patterns that would create

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such varying conditions the data

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includes photos of the landscape taken

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over time as the winds move soil along

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curiosity does have a wind detection

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device as part of its onboard weather

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instruments but it doesn't work hmm I'm

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moving forward here's a headline Newhall

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of distant worlds casts doubt on planet

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9 it grieves us to read this headline

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it's a byline for Joshua Sokol who

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writes it for science mad org and here

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we go in early 2016

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astronomers made a stunning claim a

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giant planet was patrolling the farthest

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reaches of our solar system planet 9 as

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they called it was too far away to see

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directly so its existence was inferred

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from the way its gravity had herded six

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distant icy worlds into clustered orbits

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since then the case for planet nine has

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been bolstered by other evidence such as

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a peculiar tilt to the Sun spin axis

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along with a few more of these strange

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objects they have elongated orbits of

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more than 4000 years and they never come

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closer to the Sun than Neptune now a

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survey has found for more

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of these extreme bodies the problem they

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don't display the tell-tale clustering

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and that's a substantial blow for Planet

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nine enthusiasts says Cory Shankman an

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astronomer at the University of Victoria

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in Canada and a member of something

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called the outer solar system

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origins survey he said quote we find no

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evidence of the orbit clustering needed

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for the planet nine hypothesis in our

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fully independent survey and quotes this

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survey which since 2013 has found more

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than eight hundred objects out near

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Neptune using the Canada French Hawaii

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telescope in Hawaii here's a quote from

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Scott Shepard an astronomer at the

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Carnegie Institution for science in

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Washington DC quote I think it's great

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work and it's exciting to keep finding

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these end quotes shepard was among the

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first to suspect a large planet in the

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distant solar system but he says three

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of the four new objects do have

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clustered orbits consistent with a

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planet 9 and so the debate continues the

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fourth an object called 2015 GT 5-0

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seems to skew this entire set of worlds

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toward a random distribution but that

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isn't necessarily a knockout blow says

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Shepard quote we always expected that

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there would be some that don't fit in

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and quotes the team says any apparent

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clustering in their new objects is

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likely to be the result of bias in the

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survey weather patterns and the location

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of this telescope for instance determine

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what areas of the sky it can look at and

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when it's also harder to see fate solar

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system objects in bright areas on the

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sky such as the galactic center such

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biases make the outer solar system

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origins survey more likely to find

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objects in regions that support the

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planet nine hypotheses and that's

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according to team member Michelle

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she's an astronomer at Queen's

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University Belfast in the United Kingdom

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when the team corrects this effect the

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apparent clustering vanishes by contrast

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as another team member many details of

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the surveys behind the original six

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objects are on

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and that makes it impossible to

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understand these biases that argument

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doesn't impress Mike Brown a familiar

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name he's an astronomer at the

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California Institute of Technology in

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Pasadena Calif Caltech colleague

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konstantin batygin they catapulted to

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Planet 9 into the mainstream with their

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bold claim which was quote their main

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conclusion is that their observations

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are hopelessly biased and it's true he

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says end quote but by then they make a

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leap of faith that everybody else's must

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be biased too and quotes for Brown any

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basis in the hodgepodge of surveys that

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found the earlier objects ought to

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average out that would make the

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clustering real whether caused by Planet

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9 or not so far astronomers have found

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only a dozen of the most distant probes

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of Planet 9 supposed sphere of influence

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finding more objects could help settle

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this question and so could the most

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direct kind of evidence an actual image

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of Planet 9 which other surveys are

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hoping to capture it says konstantin

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attractive thing about planet 9

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hypothesis is that it has a well-defined

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observational resolution it's either

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there or it's not end quotes hmm to be

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continued and here at UFO headline news

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on inception radio network we will keep

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you in the loop from mysteries in space

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to well yet more mysteries in space

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here's this headline by Joshua Sokol who

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writes it for New Scientist comm

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buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold

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space and warp starlight greedy black

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holes giant lava lakes stars too big to

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exist even the comparatively small stuff

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in outer space like asteroids or

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geologic features on a world surface

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would effortlessly dwarf you if you

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stood in front of them in a spacesuit

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but on a scale far below the cosmic

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megafauna is a different world

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one of tiny carbon molecules Mick

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singing changing in the void its poster

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the charming buckyball a curious round

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agglomeration of carbon atoms

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this chemical ecosystem can be a

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nuisance for astronomers because the

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little black molecules block out parts

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of the light we see from stars and

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galaxies but it's also important on its

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own recent discoveries have shown that

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the chemical reaction between stars can

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build the constituents of biological

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molecules such as amino acids and sugars

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these substances raining from space may

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have contributed to the origin of life

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on Earth but these reactions are

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intricate they're hard to track which

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leaves us searching for beacons a

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molecule we understand that could help

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us navigate through this fog and this is

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where the small stuff becomes a big deal

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so as Joshua Sokol writes hang on as we

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zoom down to envision a bucky ball

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bouncing around in outer space picture

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it as a little football sixty atoms of

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carbon arranged in a rough sphere by mid

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twentieth century architect Buckminster

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Fuller also called Bucky

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hence bucky balls and others had figured

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out that a network of Pentagon's and

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hexagons would fold into a stable

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geodesic structure as it turned out

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Nature had already come to that same

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realization in 1985 earthbound

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researchers cooked a disk of graphite a

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carbon mineral in a plasma chamber to

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recreate the conditions that they would

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find around a red giant star to their

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surprise they discovered they'd made

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weird new forms of carbon bucky balls

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and other examples of even larger

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molecules that looked like carbon cages

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they chose to nod to fuller by calling

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them fullerenes thankfully after first

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considering names like balance fearing

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Sakharine and carbo soccer but even

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after astronomers began to look for

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fullerenes in space they took

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two-and-a-half decades to find it wasn't

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until 2010 that a team led by Jan

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at the University of Western Ontario in

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Canada found their spectral signatures

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in the colorful gas around a dying star

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since then

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traces of fullerenes have popped up

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again and again in many different

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environments a 2015 paper argued that

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their presence in the Milky Way might

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even explain weird spectral features of

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interstellar space those certain

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wavelengths of light from distant stars

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that are being mysteriously absorbed on

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their way to us these features have been

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unexplained for over a century and

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that's not to say that we understand now

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where fullerenes are coming from there's

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plenty of carbon in space and a heated

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carbon rich gas will produce buckyballs

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and similar molecules because they're

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closed

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cages well those are incredibly stable

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and resilient but colder regions of

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space should instead make flat soda ring

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structures of carbon with hydrogen atoms

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around the outside to get those

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structures to fold into a cage you'd

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need to get rid of the hydrogen and this

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could happen either because there were

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no hydrogen's around to begin with or if

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those molecules were exposed somehow to

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ultraviolet light that could bake those

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hydrogens away how these processes

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interact to explain the full spread of

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interstellar fullerenes isn't clear but

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said cami but I've been scratching my

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head about this for a long time and

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quotes solving the mystery of this

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little molecule could have a big payoff

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most of our spectral measurements of

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carbon molecules floating around in

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space are a garbled mess too many

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different kinds of other molecules are

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overlapping and that makes it hard to

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understand what's going on so enter

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fullerenes with their clear and unique

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signals showing us at least one part of

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the rhythms and reactions of

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interstellar carbon and eventually

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perhaps we can use them as tracers to

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understand how prebiotic molecules form

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in space that's going to give us lots of

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hints about our own existence

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like soil bacteria in the Savannah

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buckyballs might not be as eye-catching

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the astronomical Titans the tower over

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them but try taking them and their

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relatives away and we might not be here

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to appreciate the cosmos in the first

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place hmm

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a possible point to ponder speaking of

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pondering let's ponder a black triangle

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sighting in Marbella Andalusia Spain

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shall we

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courtesy of UFO stalker calm it's got a

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MUFON case number eight four four zero

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five four those tracking and

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identification purposes hopefully the

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date of the sighting is June 15 2017

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they got a next day report here's the

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summary at around 12:40 a.m. I saw three

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lights changing pattern and direction

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forming a triangle above the sea citing

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specifics offer a witness reported

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viewing distance unknown the altitude

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500 feet or less the duration of this

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sighting was 20 minutes and in spite of

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that length of time

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the object features are reported as

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unknown its flight path a path and then

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hovering and this object obviously was

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shaped like a triangle here's the

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account on the 15th of June at about

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12:40 a.m. at night I looked outside my

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window to the sea and saw the light

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blinking every two seconds at first I

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thought it was an airplane so I opened

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my app it's called flight trader 24 app

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and tracked planes but there were no

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planes above this area alright I thought

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and I grabbed my binoculars to look at

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these lights I was shocked when I saw

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actually not one but three of these

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lights through binoculars

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they formed a triangle one of these

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lights was yellow the other two were

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reddish or greenish color and they kept

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moving to the left and then back to the

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right sometimes this object would just

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sit in the sky at one spot for about a

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minute I watched these lights this thing

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flying for about 20 minutes or so and

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then they disappeared interest

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again a large body of water and a UFO

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hmm our next sighting back in the US of

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A Pinehurst North Carolina and this

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sighting comes by way of UFOs Northwest

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that most excellent site maintained by

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William puckett

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here's a headline very bright light

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falls from the sky the date of this

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sighting is June 18 2017 it took place

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at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

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according to the Google map that

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accompanies this sighting report it

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looks as though Pinehurst North Carolina

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is north and to the west of the city of

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Fayetteville North Carolina so here's

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the account I was beginning my shift as

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security officer

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it was June 18 2017 at approximately 23

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30 hours as I was driving down Carolina

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Vista Drive away from the Carolina hotel

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I saw a bright light at a very far

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distance away this light seemed to be

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coming down at an acute angle it was

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kind of free-falling at about a 45

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degree angle it kept its level of light

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intensity constant during this fall

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it wasn't twinkling it wasn't fading as

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a meteor would and this object had no

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light tail I'm 58 years old and I've

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seen many meteors in my life so I know

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that this was not any meteor it looked

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like an aircraft of some kind and I

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immediately thought to myself he's got

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to pull out quick or he's going to crash

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since I was in my vehicle I heard no

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sound after this object fell over the

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horizon I've never seen anything like

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this ever good news it wasn't an

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airplane there was no crash but there

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was no sound and no tail like a meteor

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let's zip up to Philadelphia

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Pennsylvania for this reporting of a

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black triangle sighting move on case

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number 8 4 5 3 3 date of this sighting 6

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21 2017 date submitted 6 22 2017

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here's the summary lights I observed

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from my porch and then I moved to a

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better vantage point there's video with

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this you're probably going to want to

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check that out gentle listeners you can

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find links later at UFO headline news

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calm and oh yeah we're available on

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YouTube these days back to the sighting

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specifics viewing distance 501 feet to

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one mile eventually out over one mile

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the altitude was over five hundred feet

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no cloud cover this sighting duration

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lasted 10 minutes and the object

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featured wings its flight path featured

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hovering and then a straight path and

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yep shaped like a triangle it was and

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the sighting seemed to go something like

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this

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I was sitting on my porch around 10:20

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p.m. when I saw two strange lights these

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lights were stationary they weren't

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moving I began videotaping them and then

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one appeared to move a little I decided

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to move to a clearing down the street

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and realized there were three of these

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lights then and I again began filming

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the furthest light to the right appeared

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to start moving up and to the right I

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managed to get a short video from

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beneath this object but I sort of

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fumbled it first and so I ended up

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taking a picture instead of a recorded

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video but then I went back to these

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other two lights they remained

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stationary for some time the light on

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the left began moving to the left moving

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in a straight line and then it flew

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almost over my head and I managed to get

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a brief video of that as well video some

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sort of evidence even evidence on a

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personal level you know you saw that

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because here's the footage not too far

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away from Edgewater New Jersey so let's

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look at this sighting shall we it's

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MUFON Case number 8 for 5 to 8 it

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happened on the 18th of June this year

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didn't get reported till the 21st of

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June our reporting witness has a summary

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that's just one word long that word

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fascinating the

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our photos submitted with this account

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under sighting specifics the viewing

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distance is listed as over one mile

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initially eventually unknown the

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altitude over 500 feet and there was

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cloud cover the sighting duration one

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hour the object features other and

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unknown its flight path was stationary

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and then a straight line path and this

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object was shaped like a disc at the

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time of this sighting over Edgewater New

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Jersey the maximum temperature on the

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ground was 85 degrees Fahrenheit

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29 degrees Celsius the minimum

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temperatures 70 degrees Fahrenheit 21

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degrees Celsius the maximum visibility

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at this point was 10 miles 16 kilometers

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dropping down to a two mile two

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kilometer minimum here's the account

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it's in points one through six so here

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we go point one I was home at the time

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and went out to my balcony to get some

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fresh air

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point two this thing would move side to

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side or front to back also the sky was

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clear clean 0.3 at first I thought this

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was an airplane or a helicopter but

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seconds later that possibility went out

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the window and then I thought I could

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possibly be seeing a drone or a star but

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that weird pattern of movement made it

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clear that it wasn't those objects point

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for at first this object was hovering

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for a few minutes and it looked like

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that classic flying saucer disc but

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while hovering it started to move in a

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circle motion which made this then look

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like a portal or some quite whole last

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but not least in point for its minor

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movement would take it west and north or

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in other words descent and ascent point

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5 while watching the object I got goose

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bumps and also quite randomly my three

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cats came to me at that same time the

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birds began singing and flying in the

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yard point six I went inside for some

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orange juice and when I went outside

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again this was already gone it left no

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trail and here's the point where we sing

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happy trails to you gentle listeners at

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least for today we've got a gallop out

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of here now because