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NASA’s X-59 Goes from Green to Red, White, and Blue
Lockheed Martin NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft continues to make progress, most recently moving to the paint barn at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ facility in Palmdale, California.
The X-59’s paint scheme will include a mainly white body, a NASA “sonic blue” underside, and red accents on the wings. The paint doesn’t just add cosmetic value. It also serves a purpose – the paint helps to protect the aircraft from moisture and corrosion and includes key safety markings to assist with ground and flight operations.
The aircraft made the move to the paint barn on Nov. 14, 2023. Once it is painted, the team will take final measurements of its weight and exact shape to improve computer modeling.
“We are incredibly excited to reach this step in the mission. When the X-59 emerges from the paint barn with fresh paint and livery, I expect the moment to take my breath away because I’ll see our vision coming to life,” said Cathy Bahm, the low boom flight demonstrator project manager. “The year ahead will be a big one for the X-59, and it will be thrilling for the outside of the aircraft to finally match the spectacular mission ahead.”
The X-59 is an experimental aircraft designed to fly faster than the speed of sound while reducing the sound of the typical sonic boom to a sonic thump. The aircraft is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission. Through Quesst, NASA will fly the X-59 over several to-be-selected U.S. communities and gather data about people’s perceptions about the sound it makes. NASA will provide that data to regulators which could potentially adjust current rules that prohibit commercial supersonic flight over land.
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NASA Iron-rich sediment colors the red-orange waters of the Betsiboka River Delta in Madagascar in this image taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station on Sept. 30, 2023. The sediment can clog waterways in the delta’s estuarial environment, but it can also form new islands that become colonized by mangroves. Despite its rusty color, this artery of water is important for biodiversity. Within the Betsiboka River Delta, the estuary supplies food, such as seagrasses, to the endangered green turtle and vulnerable dugong, or sea cow.
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Hubble Views a Glistening Red Nebula
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble, R. Sahai Just in time for the fall foliage season, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a glistening scene in red. It reveals a small region of the nebula Westerhout 5, which lies about 7,000 light-years from Earth. Suffused with bright red light, this luminous image hosts a variety of interesting features, including a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (frEGG). The frEGG in this image is the small tadpole-shaped dark region in the upper center-left. This buoyant-looking bubble is lumbered with two names – [KAG2008] globule 13 and J025838.6+604259.
FrEGGs are a particular class of Evaporating Gaseous Globules (EGGs). Both frEGGs and EGGs are denser regions of gas that photoevaporate less easily than the less dense gas surrounding them. Photoevaporation occurs when gas is ionized and dispersed away by an intense source of radiation – typically young, hot stars releasing vast amounts of ultraviolet (UV) light. EGGs were identified fairly recently, most notably at the tips of the iconic Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble in 1995. FrEGGs were classified even more recently and are distinguished from EGGs because they are detached and have a distinct ‘head-tail’ shape. FrEGGs and EGGs are of particular interest because their density makes it more difficult for intense UV radiation, found in regions rich in young stars, to penetrate them. Their relative opacity means that the gas within them is protected from ionization and photoevaporation. Astronomers think this is important for the formation of protostars, and that many FrEGGs and EGGs play host to the birth of new stars.
FrEGGs are a particular class of Evaporating Gaseous Globules (EGGs). Both frEGGs and EGGs are denser regions of gas that photoevaporate less easily than the less dense gas surrounding them. Photoevaporation occurs when gas is ionized and dispersed away by an intense source of radiation – typically young, hot stars releasing vast amounts of ultraviolet (UV) light. EGGs were identified fairly recently, most notably at the tips of the iconic Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble in 1995. FrEGGs were classified even more recently and are distinguished from EGGs because they are detached and have a distinct ‘head-tail’ shape. FrEGGs and EGGs are of particular interest because their density makes it more difficult for intense UV radiation, found in regions rich in young stars, to penetrate them. Their relative opacity means that the gas within them is protected from ionization and photoevaporation. Astronomers think this is important for the formation of protostars, and that many FrEGGs and EGGs play host to the birth of new stars.
The frEGG in this image is a dark spot in the sea of red light. The red color is a type of light emission known as H-alpha emission. H-alpha occurs when a very energetic electron within a hydrogen atom loses a set amount of its energy, releasing this distinctive red light as it becomes less energetic.
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Isn't it striking that these days we hear new revelations almost daily about UFOs and non-human beings that have been witnessed by civilians and the military, like the former intelligence official who claimed that the U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin and the bizarre story of a Las Vegas family who claimed that they saw aliens after something crashed in their backyard.
Yet, just two days later again two new amazing stories; of a former Marine who witnessed a hovering octagonal UFO being loaded with weapons by unmarked US forces in Indonesia and military individuals who claim that not only the US has a secret UFO retrieval program but that 12 or more non human space craft in custody of the U S Government.
Regardless of whether all these confessions are true or false, the question is for how long the Government as well as the Cabal can keep secret the existence of their own UFO program and the existence of non human craft. The larger and more complex a program is, the more difficult it becomes to keep it a secret. If the UFO program involves a significant number of individuals, resources, and facilities, the chances of leaks or disclosures increase.
At first there is the former Marine, Michael Herrera, who has recently broken a 14-year silence to make an astonishing claim about an incident that allegedly took place during his service in Indonesia in 2009. According to Herrera, he and his five comrades witnessed a hovering octagonal UFO being loaded with weapons by unmarked US forces. He further alleges that they were threatened at gunpoint by these unidentified personnel.
Herrera, who was 20 years old at the time, was deployed on a Navy humanitarian mission following the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami. In an interview with DailyMail.com, he describes how his six-man unit encountered the mysterious craft while guarding an airdrop of aid supplies outside the city of Padang in October 2009.
Herrera said that the UFO was rotating in a clockwise motion, changing colors, and emitting an audible hum resembling that of a transformer or a guitar amp. It had an octagonal shape with a black pyramid at the top.
And second, it seems as there are 12 or more non human space craft in custody of the U S Government.
According to sott.net, this is not the first time government officials have suggested that the U.S. may possess alien spaceships. "I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials," said the late Senator Harry Reid, who fought for greater disclosure.
Former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, recently reported that he has spoken to more than four witnesses who say they know of "a secret U.S. government program involving the analysis and exploitation of materials recovered from off-world craft.
The individuals said they had seen or been presented with "credible" and "verifiable" evidence that the U.S. government, and U.S. military contractors, possess at least 12 or more alien space crafts, some of which they shared with AARO, which AARO has refused to provide to Congress.
Some of the same sources who shared information with former intelligence official Grusch, as well as others, spoke to public about retrieved spacecraft that they say is in the possession of the U.S. government. "I know of at least 12-15 craft and every five years, we get one or two recovered for one reason or another, from either a landing or that we catch, or they just crash." said one person.
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