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By Lee Spiegel for AOL News (Sept. 21) — UFOs have monitored and possibly tampered with American nuclear weapons, according to a group of former Air Force officers who will make their claims public next week at a Washington, D.C., news conference. ”While most of the incidents apparently involved mere surveillance, in a few cases, a significant number of nuclear missiles suddenly and simultaneously malfunctioned, just as USAF security policemen reported seeing disc-shaped craft hovering nearby,” says Robert Hastings, author of “UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.” On Monday, at the National Press Club, Hastings will present six former Air Force personnel who will break their silence and disclose dramatic first-hand experiences with UFOs at nuclear weapons sites. In a statement, Hastings said, “At long last, all of these witnesses are coming forward to say that, as unbelievable as it may seem to some, UFOs have long monitored and sometimes tampered with ...

KUALA LUMPUR 26 Sept. - Bekas Ketua Pengarah Agensi Angkasa Negara (Angkasa), Prof. Datuk Dr. Mazlan Othman akan menjadi individu pertama yang akan berkomunikasi dengan makhluk asing jika kehadiran entiti itu berjaya disahkan secara saintifik. Langkah memberikan tanggungjawab itu kepada Mazlan, 58, oleh Pertubuhan Bangsa Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) adalah selaras dengan kedudukannya sebagai Pengarah di Pejabat Hal Ehwal Angkasa Lepas PBB (UNOOSA) yang beribu pejabat di Vienna, Austria. Menurut laman web berita utama Australia, www.news.com.au, Mazlan akan menjelaskan peranan terbarunya ketika menyampaikan ceramah pada satu persidangan saintifik minggu depan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting. Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoo...

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 by Greg Bryant An icy visitor is positioning itself for easier viewing in the coming weeks. Periodic Comet 103P/Hartley 2 won't have the pizzazz of Comet Hale-Bopp or the unexpected spectacle of Comet Holmes. But it will be high in the evening sky when at its best, glowing at perhaps 5th magnitude. It should be dimly visible to the unaided eye from very dark locations, and visible in binoculars and telescopes from almost anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. (Most of you in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to observe it from mid-October onward.) Hartley 2's brightness, and its unusually fast slide across the constellations, both result from how closely it will approach Earth: by just 0.12 astronomical unit (11 million miles; 18 million km) on October 20th. This will be its closest approach since its 1986 discovery and one of the closest approaches of any comet in the last few centuries. Comet Hartley 2 spends September gaining speed in Lacerta and Andromed...

You might be able to see Comet Hartley 2 with binoculars by late September 2010. You might see it with the eye alone in October 2010. To find it, first learn the constellation Cassiopeia. September 5th, 2010 - Astronomy Essentials Comet Hartley 2 – possibly 2010’s brightest comet – might become bright enough to see with binoculars by late September. It could possibly become faintly visible to the unaided eye in October. To find the comet, first find the easy-to-spot constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. This comet will sweep next to Cassiopeia in late September and the first week of October 2010. Cassiopeia is a W or M-shaped star pattern that will serve as your guide to what might well become the brightest comet this year. Bright star in September 2010? Might be the planet Jupiter. Cassiopeia always appears in the northeastern sky at nightfall on September and October evenings. It swings high in the northern sky (above Polaris, the North Star) in the wee hours after midnight in Septem...

September 25, 2010 - Tonight Sylvia wrote, When is the best time to see the moon in the sky during daylight hours? Sylvia, it’s easier to see a daytime moon when the moon is fairly far from the sun in the sky. When would that be? It would be around the time of full moon each month. A full moon is always 180 degrees from the sun, on the opposite side of the sky’s dome. Full moon was September 23. Generally, the full moon sets around sunrise. But the waning gibbous moon sets in the west after sunrise. In the next few mornings, after sunrise, look for the waning gibbous moon to sail over your western horizon during the morning hours. At mid-northern latitudes in North America, the moon will set at roughly 10 a.m. tomorrow, 11 a.m. on Monday and noon Tuesday. Comet Hartley 2 might brighten to binocular object by late September 2010 By the way, the moon is up during the day half the time. It has to be, since it orbits around the whole Earth once a month. Sometimes the daytime moon is har...

Agak-agaknya bila kali terakhir anda betul-betul meneliti permukaan Bulan menerusi Teleskop? Saya sendiri terpaksa mengakui, terlalu obses dengan mengambil foto-foto Bulan, sehingga terlupa untuk meninjau-ninjau keadaan permukaan kawah-kawah dan gunung-ganang yang menjulang tinggi di Bulan! Nama-nama kawah seperti Copernicus, Plato sering menjadi sebutan di forum-forum internet serta laman web astrofotografi, tetapi pernahkah anda betul-betul meninjaunya dengan mata sendiri menerusi teleskop? Kehadiran Bulan di langit juga kadang-kadang diambil endah tak endah atau "take things for granted". Saat paling popular pun ialah ketika mengejar Hilal, Bulan Penuh, atau Bulan Merah di ufuk, ataupun MARIKH SEBESAR BULAN !! Tapi percaya atau tidak, walaupun di mana kitra berada, tidak kira di bandar besar atau di desa, Bulan begitu cerah sehingga kilauan cahaya yang menenggelamkan bintang, tidak mempunyai kesan terhadap jasad Bulan itu sendiri. Oleh itu, tidak hairanlah pada 18 Septemb...

Raja bagi segala planet, Musytari akan berada di posisi Istiqbal yang cukup istimewa pada tahun ini. Berdasarkan kiraan falak, Musytari kali ini akan berada pada kedudukan istiqbal pada 21 Sep 2010. Apa dia Istiqbal? Istiqbal merupakan satu istilah yang merujuk kepada satu kombinasi kedudukan matahari, bumi dan planet-planet di 'belakang' orbit Bumi (seperti Marikh, Musytari, Zuhal, Uranus dan Neptune). Apabila istiqbal berlaku, ketiga-tiga objek tersebut akan berada di dalam kedudukan garis lurus, dengan Bumi berada di tengah-tengah. Di dalam kes kali ini, Musytari, Bumi dan Matahari akan berada di dalam satu garis lurus. Apabila Matahari terbenam ketika maghrib, Musytari akan terbit di ufuk timur. Selain dari itu, jarak di antara Bumi dan Musytari ketika itu juga adalah yang paling hampir, maka planet tersebut akan dilihat lebih besar daripada biasa (tetapi tak lah sampai sebesar bulan!!!!) Oleh itu, waktu istiqbal kali ini ialah waktu yang paling sesuai untuk mencerap plan...