Unsolved Mysteries That Have Confused Scientists For Years

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[@NutzRg8]

Hundreds of thousands of years from now Voyager will have accumulated enough dust that the species of another planet far far away will just think it is a comet passing by. ☄️

[@OZUndead]

Reminds me to clean my room from time to time.

[@darthnihilus511]

That’s deep

[@kraelic]

That may be, but it's not going to accelerate.

[@NutzRg8]

@kraelic It will when it gets a sling shot effect by a planetary gravitational pull.

[@WaltC3]

I wanted to interject my own personal experience with ball lightning. The house I grew up in was a sizable, older home with large windows. All of the windows were covered in storm glass (helping heating/cooling efficiencies). I was ~18 or so, and home from college on an early afternoon, IIRC. I was sitting in a nice leather armchair watching television, some 12 feet away, dad at work and mother shopping, when I recall a terrific thunderstorm raging around our house--huge cracks of thunder and lightning seemed to be bombarding the house--unusually so, reminiscent of what I might expect in a war zone--very loud. Lots of flashing and crashing thunder--violent. Suddenly, I saw this ball of lightning wafting through the house a few feet from me in the chair!--It had come through a window on the other side of the house, across that hallway, in through the open door to the den where I was and was moving steadily, slowly, straight across to the window on this side of the house directly opposite the window where I assumed it had entered. It was perfectly silent, a ball shape, white in color, maybe five feet in diameter, with orange and yellow fluctuating fiery highlights. I remember sitting in the chair as if what I was seeing was surreal. I knew what it was, and I thought about standing up and approaching it (not to touch it, of course) but I found I was rooted to the chair and I simply could not move! Then I watched as it moved across the room in front of me and straight out through the window in the den I was in. That was it! It was silent, it burned nothing, no smoke or fire, and traveled steadily and sedately until it simply exited the window and then disappeared. I'm 72 and I've never forgotten that event. Nor had I thought of it in many, many years, until I started watching the Astrum presentation about ball lightning! Yes, indeed, I can testify that phenomenon is perfectly real, and it is, literally, balled lighting! I thought I'd share the recollection here.

[@joesands8860]

Extremely interesting.

[@dougg1075]

Myself and a friend were working on a car in the barn on a cloudless day when my friend said “ what the hell is that” , looking out the doors I saw three small suns at out 10 o’clock . I immediately thought and said as I turned back “ that’s landing lights on a plane” . He then said “ well they just went out “. Turning , they were indeed gone, then they reappeared. This lasted 20 minutes as they eventually came to a hover over our horse pasture but now two red and one amber. One or all would fade and reappear in different spots, till eventually they faded off for good. We never once thought of our phones, we were in a kind of shock and mesmerized. Fight or flight mode gets your full attention. They were about 150 yards away. It really affected my buddy. I’m 56 now and this was about eight years ago. Who knows

[@EdwardGrubb3rd]

There are reports of ball lightening going back hundreds of years. I believe it’s a natural phenomenon. There is a famous report of a church many years back where the entire congregation saw it come through a window, slowly float across the room, and go through a window on the other side. It was also during a thunderstorm

[@kilodelta5562]

Thank you for sharing! Did you tell your parents or anyone else?

[@HansDester]

​@johnny71c-UK I, too, experienced ball lightning in a plane! It was in Iraq during a sandstorm/ thunderstorm. It just rolled down the aisle and disappeared. We don't know how it got in our where it went. I will never forget how all of the hair on my body was standing on end.

[@Signaman-z9d]

It's mind blowing that human beings created these machines that traverse the universe. What these machines are able to do is jaw dropping. My respect.👏

[@mauiwowie3538]

think it was Bill Burr that said this, but it really helps me visualize large numbers. 1million seconds = 11 days 1billion seconds = 33 years 1trillion seconds = 33,777 years

[@switzerlandful]

Sounds roughly correct (just checked it on a calculator).

[@RWBHere]

I saw ball lightning during a strong thunderstorm one night.4 balls were visible for up to about 10 seconds and moving erratically. They were around 120 to 150 metres away from me and probably about 20 to 40 cm in diameter, shrinking slightly. All were bluish-white, and each one in turn grounded by contacting a disused electricity pylon, ending with very loud detonations. There was a distinct acrid smell in the air, maybe Ozone or a Nitrate, but this could have been from the original lightning strike when it hit the top of the pylon.

[@guymanuel4260]

Even if it's reuploads this channel is a hidden gem

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

I can't believe that I'm just discovering it now and I've been a subscriber to the regular Astrum channel since 2017 or 2018. I don't know how I could've missed it!! At least I have a lot to catch up on.

[@danielmann6731]

Unsolved mysteries are just mysteries

[@Caal2781]

Mysteries alone will not sell but put “unsolved “on front of it - it peeks that human trait , we have to have an explanation even if it’s b.s

[@katin5thgear]

With all the lies across history, how are we supposed to believe anything anymore....however, we are not alone that is for sure, to what extent, that's the mystery.

[@ieradossantos]

18:22 I've seen two balls of bright glowing light shoot across our city in an instant, they stayed perfectly parallel to each-other. Difficult to say how big they were because the sky was the background so I had nothing to compare it with, but I would say at least 30m to 50m in diameter

[@Chloeswalks]

I saw 9 glowing balls in uk in November 4 years ago it fascinated me ever since

[@angulion]

UAP..

[@rogerdudra178]

I have had the luxury of laying on my back in a good gerry bag watching the earth turn at night in Glacier Park and in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of this state. It's a good view.

[@benjaminbeard3736]

That sounds amazing. Enjoy it for both of us, if you get a chance.

[@rogerdudra178]

@@benjaminbeard3736 Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. Every chance I get.

[@benjaminbeard3736]

@rogerdudra178 very nice. Ivs been sick the past couple days. Really knocked down. I'll be back out in my neck of the woods soon.

[@contytub]

My parents refuse to move from a cheap location because you can see an entire valey from the crapper ...

[@teddy2577]

​@contytub that makes sense, the view from your crapper can be nicer than a book 😂

[@petervenema1443]

Ball lightning - as a child I remember this tennisball size orb moving through our living room - it seemed to come from an electric light socket and enter a different one - all so quickly and unexpectedly - it left us STUNNED and BEWILDERED without any explanation or where it came from and went - all I have is this vague memory of this event

[@Rylynnoct17]

Seriously??

[@sforza209]

@@Rylynnoct17no, he’s just joking. 🙄

[@ahklys1321]

a TALL tale indeed

[@MattiasSvanberg1987]

​​@@Rylynnoct17 It's a joke! What do you live under a rock?!

[@lucasm7177]

I still think its so funny that in 2024 with all of our intelligence and technology we think we know how the universe started but it hinges on physics and mainly on gravity which is a complete mystery. We still have no idea how gravity really works, we can't replicate it or stop it, all we know is how to measure it from mass and gravitational waves. We have so much still to learn about our existence and the universe

[@skillaz9956]

do we know more than we ever have or naw tho

[@synisterfish]

You're in 2025?

[@seditt5146]

We can easily replicate it what do you mean? You are replicating it right now. As far as blocking it... Well... Ya likely can't. If one can it literally leads to the same issues Time travel causes.

[@nicknac1980]

Uhh.... you think they cannot control gravity (it's a partical, like nueons, maybe dark matter, maybe something we cannot name yet?) Who knows? Keep asking! Although I think they can do one better... I think they can put objects in a 4th/5th, or maybe more dimensions. Air, water, vacuum, don't matter! Shits flying through it like it's not there. Look at quantum physics... there is an invisible world all around us. Nothings impossible friends! Do it, or make it!

[@davidmichael9275]

​@@seditt5146 are you a real scientist or a youtube scientist? This is what I do, and I'm gonna a let you in in a little secret..... We straight up pretend to have gravity figured out. We don't. Like AT ALL. You'll notice most of the time gravity is mentioned it's relative to earth. We'll say "Jupiter's gravity is 2.4 times that of earth" instead of saying "it has 2.4 gigawhizzes of gravity". For a long time we thought it was tied to mass, but it's not. Jupiter is 11 times bigger than earth, and weighs more than every other planet combined. But it's gravity is weak comparatively. Stranger still is when you go DOWN in mass, gravity disappears altogether. You're no more attracted to a skyscraper than you are a coffee cup. There seems to be a minimum mass needed before gravitational pull starts to become realized. Because we know mass is likely not what dictates gravity, our current theory is that it has more to do with the makeup of the object than it does with the size of the object. For now we use Gs as a measurement but again, that's relative to earth. This has big implications too. The reason Einsteins theory of relativity is still a theory and not a law is because of the M. That damn M. It's not predictable or scalable. We can't use it because it's different for everything we measure even if it's two objects of the same size. It's an interesting field of study but also a frustrating one. We know celestial bodies have a force pulling things towards them. But sometimes it just doesn't work. Look at the moon. It should've collided with earth a billion years ago. It's too close. They both have gravity and should both be pulling themselves together. But they don't.

[@marinoceccotti9155]

My solution to the Fermi Paradox : Interstellar travel and interstellar communication have NEVER been possible due to the laws of physics. Since the universe has stabilized, millions of civilisations have thrived, reached an advanced state then withered away, having depleted all their available resources, trapped in their own solar system, just as we are. These civilisations have built radio-telescopes to listen to the void, but to no avail. Artificial signals have always been, and always will be too weak not to fade away in the Oort clouds/gas clouds surrounding each star. Like we did, they built space station, reached their moon(s), maybe their closest planet, but that's all. Probes were sent, but were just too insignificant to be noticed, and died. The best aspect of this solution is that it does not contradict anything we witness now : No signals, no signatures, no megastructures, nothing.

[@EdwardHinton-qs4ry]

All true

[@reyariass]

There’s gotta be a way to travel vast distances (wormholes?) we just gotta get a very good idea to make it possible! I think as long as we keep our minds open and not ridicule ideas that seem unreachable, then we can achieve great things (maybe even the 4th dimension, think of it as having more space occupying the same area)

[@abcde_fz]

The only wrinkle is, to the best of my current recollection of 'the state of the art', although the sheer power necessary is, at present, totally outside the resources available, _to_ _US,_ the fact is the laws of physics don't preclude superliminal travel, or the warping of spacetime to effectively allow time travel. With one exception, traveling directly along our personal past timeline, at the center point of our past light cone. Kip Thorne has written quite a bit on the subject. Including I believe the only paper on how to construct a time machine to ever appear in a respected peer-reviewed journal. Could find it if you tried. Don't want to try to convince you, though, just offering a thought or two you may find interesting.

[@djuk6573]

100% bang on

[@anthonywilliams7052]

Or they don't use radio, use gravity or other waves we know nothing about yet.

[@morbidgull8922]

I genuinely wish we took more chances I’m sure there are people who wouldn’t mind manning a generational ship, we just don’t do much other than just viewing space.

[@jugcage7634]

Thanks for the video, these long ones are a treat!

[@bobsuruncle2112]

They tossed a rock at us to see what we’d do 🤷‍♂️

[@messenger8279]

I think sending radio signals to an advanced civilisation is a bit like a cave man hammering on a hollow log and not getting a reply from the moon. I guess we are not yet advanced enough to achieve the contact we desire.

[@jonsavage2587]

If it composition included iron(Fe) and nickel(Ni) it was a big damn magnet with a -negative polarity, hence the acceleration(push) passing the sun. Factor in the tumble rate and its shape and you have the "course trajectory" alteration.

[@AndyNorr-b4p]

Would'n it then have meet a big positive polarity object that ended it's interstellar travel ? ( A serious question asked )

[@Jeff-ly9oz]

Wouldn't a near miss mean you nearly missed something? Nearly missing something means you hit it.

[@DES1GN3R007]

it missed but was near

[@themonsterbaby]

No, both words are positive statements... it was a near miss because it was both "near" and it "missed" us.

[@frissonsteemit2318]

I took an "Oumuamua" last week and needed to use the plunger

No poop knife?

[@frissonsteemit2318]

it was a mushy one

[@leightaft7763]

Very mature. Thanks for that.

[@frissonsteemit2318]

@@leightaft7763 its "manure" not "mature", and you're welcome

[@turgidbanana]

Lol poop

[@briansmith8623]

Aliens speaking to us.. It would be like us trying to talk to ameba.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

Bill Nelson looks like an alien in a really bad disguise

[@doreilly7689]

I like to think Oumuamua was an asteroid being mined & refurbished into a cargo vessel while probing deep space (quite the multi tasker, i know) Going home once all of these tasks were finished, by then able to land itself, await inspection and mountain of paperwork.

[@JaymeSplendid]

It's more plausible than an alien craft doing reconnaissance

[@garytheprogressivelibertar560]

It definitely makes more sense if it was a cylinder shape like a expelled rocket shell . Things like that have been shown to excellerate without out gassing .

[@makinawake9178]

Sadly we will never 100% know without seeing it

[@bd1435]

I'd like to see you cover the "consciousness" and interdimensional aspects of this subject. Our government has spent a lot of money on investigating these aspects, would be a good trail to go down.

[@NullScar]

Astral projection.

[@Martox1]

MDT

[@ScumsaveChris]

And it has produced absolute rubbish. Nothing to note. It’s all bullshit.

[@dougjones3305]

Only problem is that isn't physics or proven sciences. Interdimensional being a misused and often straight up an in applicable term for things that happen outside of pseudo-science.

[@frankfielder]

Who says aliens would even want to explore space or send radio signals our way? We have groups of humans just as intelligent as we are, but have chosen to use their brains to survive in the, for example, Amazon jungle. They have lived for over 20,000 years there and never found the need to develop radios or space ships. Countless civilizations like this could exist on extraterrestrial worlds and we will never know they exist. We assume intelligent life would follow our path; a bold assumption to say the least.

[@thekak2627]

Humans are just very very curious, it true, there's no reason extraterrestrial life would have the wonder and curiosity to follow the innovations and success of humans

[@seditt5146]

Both yall ignore one big factor. Scale. Even if .001% were like us.... they should be everywhere. Time and Space will break everything you can possibly come up with to explain away aliens simply because we ourselves exist as an example and are on the path to major space exploration and longevity.

[@thekak2627]

@@seditt5146 I think there are extraterrestrials but I believe we are early birds, not in the sense we are the first ever but will be the first with the technology to visit other words.

[@frankfielder]

@@seditt5146 "Everywhere" is kind of big and mostly too far away to get here. Also take into account that we are alive right now, but aliens could have been around before us. So time and space can also explain why we have not seen any. Besides, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence over many centuries up to recently, including eye witness accounts, and many different cultures that we have been visited, but people choose not to believe and then claim we have not seen any.

[@leecowell8165]

That's a keen observation I've never thought about. Interesting. Perhaps they're simply not interested or curious enough to expand upon their current existence or way of life. Just because WE have curiosity about things that may be "out there" doesn't mean that other civilizations that live elsewhere within the universe feel the same.

[@spindoctor6385]

I think having a "classification" is close to the least important thing needed for these objects. However these things get named or grouped together changes nothing about them. Pluto was once classified as a planet, now it is classified as a Dwarf planet, that didn't help anything, it didn't suddenly give us any new information about Pluto. If there are seven objects out there, they are most likely very different from each other and worth studying on their own merit.

[@jtjames79]

It made things much worse. They kept telling people "Pluto isn't a planet." Dwarf just means a small version of a thing. A dwarf person is a person. A dwarf star is a star. A dwarf planet isn't a planet. This is semantically incorrect, inherently confusing, and just wrong. Because "science communicator" Neil deGrasse Tyson says so. One of the many annoying things that astronomers do because they have way too much time on their hands. Asteroid, meteor, meteorite, meteoroid, is way too many names for the same thing. No wonder people get bored. Such communication, much science!

[@ai-spacedestructor]

and even if there are multiple following the same pattern, since the first object which started the investigation is now gone we cant confirm if it was the same. all we can do is find other objects which match the data we already have and learn more about future objects to classify them correctly but we cant go to the past and get more data. also while it is true that the classification doesnt advance science, it does show case how much we know about something if we can reliably classify everything correctly and also you would rather have a list of 100 meteors seperate from a million objects then a list of 1 million and 100 objects all mixed in to one, especially when looking for something specific. the more we can fine tune the data and seperate them in to more accurate groups it becomes more easy to work with those lists and compare different objects with each other.

[@spindoctor6385]

@@ai-spacedestructor I didn't say that classification was useless. I was specifically pushing back on one of the first statements in the video that claimed it was the "most" interesting or "most" important. In answer to your question, we already do have that situation, take the classification of "star" that classification is then split up into a dozen or so categories and each of those is split up into sub-categories etc. until we are talking about the characteristics of an individual star. In that case it can be useful to narrow down a star so that if we call it a red dwarf, we already know a certain number of it's characteristics without having to go and state the size, heat, mass. However in the case in this video we are talking about less than ten objects, where is the need to split them further?

[@jasoncarlson8221]

The 2004 "tic tac" incident was off the coast of Southern California. Not Carolina. Just for Accuracy. I hope I live long enough too get some answers to what, if substantiated , is the most significant story in human history.

[@junkequation]

I have a feeling the explanation for that one is gonna be super disappointingly mundane

[@chrisnizer]

There was a similar incident that happened off the coast of the Carolina's. There was a series (3) of encounters that came to light along with the "Tic-Tac" video: There was also a video of an object called "Fast-Mover" and one called "Gimbal." Tic-Tac was So. Cal and either Gimbal or Fast-Mover happened off the Carolina coast.

[@Mqmn]

I can’t remember the exact plane but it was being made by the us governments and it resembled the same tic tac shape, it would be reported by other pilots because them and their bosses bosses wouldn’t even know it existed.

[@emil87th]

@@junkequation The Tic-Tac videos are only a tiny part of the whole UFO phenomenon. Most people who reject the phenomenon have only a surface level understanding of it, mostly consisting of jests about "swamp gas" and "little green men". They haven't read about the thousands upon thousands of other observations made by people from all over the world stretching as far back as recorded history. There's s o m e t h i n g there. What it is exactly is unknown, but to just say that all of these people and all of the observations made are just hallucinations or some other trickery of the mind is naive. The Tic-Tac incident consists of more than just the videos, there are radar data and witness testimonies from hundreds of sailors who observed these objects for weeks. The videos are just what got caugt on tape. "Advanced drones of human make" I hear you say. Well, the Foo Fighters of the Second World war would like to have a word with you. Were they also advanced drones of human technology? We had basically just invented flight.

[@MrSlayerboy99]

@@junkequationif I had to bet my money, advanced military drones. The entire story reads like a test of its capabilities against uninformed AND unarmed pilots. They had zero way to engage the object and everyone knew it. Zero way for your new toy to get damaged but still test out its capabilities. Military does this quite a lot I imagine

[@mauiwowie3538]

Never A Straight Answer NASA

[@StevenWeinhofer]

Beyond, thank you for this enlightenment, I appreciate you. 💯

[@DizzyME13]

This video was very interesting. ✌️

[@Guts240]

Thanks for putting this together. Great video.

[@Juttutin]

ThunderFoot's debunk of the three US navy videos (TicTac, etc) is way more believable that your suggestion that "there's something weird going on" Unless and until there are multiple videos showing the SAME debunk-resistant phenomenon then it's just noise. Lumping 100 different things together and then referring to them as 'it' really rubs me the wrong way. If you are going to do more videos on the topic, then PLEASE be MUCH more sceptical, and research the various alternative explanations that have been given that everyone (including you) seems to ignore. And please avoid saying that planet + apple + chair must be a sign of 'something' because there are clearly three definite instances of it.

[@Juttutin]

Replying to myself to note that "dark triangles with lights at the apexes" seems to me the most sustained and recurring kind of report. But I balance that against the shape of modern stealth aircraft, especially if they're maybe flying in formation at night.

[@generationxpvp]

Yea but he’s also a weird SJW that is strangely obsessed with Elon musk

[@Zenith_123]

Calm down weirdo

[@Juttutin]

@@Zenith_123 why would I take advice from anyone as embarrassingly gullible as you?

[@crakkbone]

Calm down weirdo.

[@Ian-k6z]

Great content love your channel 👍👍👍

[@leightaft7763]

Damn some of these comments are brutal! Relax folks we’re all here for the same interest and we’re all entitled to opinion.

[@turgidbanana]

Then let them have their opinions.

[@abcde_fz]

I try to limit myself to a quick first-line scan of a couple comments. Get a feel for the 'vibe', and if I don't think I like what I see, I don't read any of them. I know _I_ get a little pushy sometimes, but why subject others to it if I get downright vitriolic?

[@jasonbinedell3509]

Yeah bro!!! Some of us are just here to fall asleep

[@michaelhall9339]

When KZbin should invoke the “violation of community standards” freeze speech spell…well , inexplicably … it doesn’t.

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

Nope. Only mine counts...

[@karlharrelson1091]

USS Nimitz was actually off the coast of Southern California, not Carolina. But otherwise, spot on.

[@versebuchanan512]

At the relatively low level of acceleration, I think invisible off gassing makes more sense than a single solar sail from an advanced society randomly floating through the Sol system unprovoked.

[@amodernalchemist432]

_Unprovoked?_ Has NASA been provoked by an extrasolar intelligence causing them to want to explore the universe? The want to know is why we explore space with probes and powerful telescopes, not because we were provoked.

[@versebuchanan512]

@amodernalchemist432 we also haven't sent anything that's reached another solar system yet, and yes, we WERE provoked. The stars staring at us silently is a challenge. Lol

[@James-oo1yq]

They both make sense. It’s just what is more likely. Personally I go with the “god turd” theory. It’s not something you’ll find a scientific paper on, it’s just my own theory. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@versebuchanan512]

@James-oo1yq if God exists, I doubt he/she/it cares about our little backwater planet more than anything else in the whole majesty of existence so, I think I get where you're coming from

[@markbrosius6218]

You ever fallen off of anything before? That's gravity pulling you down to the ground. It's nothing pushing you down to the ground. You're getting pulled down and you accelerate pretty dog on fast

[@stewiesaidthat]

Have you ever picked anything up off the ground. That's Acceleration. When you drop it. That's called deceleration. There is nothing pulling on you. There are dozens of vacuum chamber experiments proving this.

[@dewiz9596]

32 ft per second, per second, to be exact. . .

[@stewiesaidthat]

You don't get pulled down. Galileo's heliocentric model of the solar system showed that the Earth is in motion around the sun. It's this motion that is accelerating you in space. Jump off a building and the building is no longer accelerating you so you start decelerating back to a point where there is sufficient force to accelerate you, which is the ground in most cases. An apple falling from a tree is no different than an apple bouncing off a truck and hitting the trailing vehicle. The laws of physics are equally applicable in all frames of reference. Vertical or horizontal. The physics is still the same. Gravitational attraction is flat earth/stationary frame physics. The earth is not flat. Its in motion. You go from an inertial frame, the building accelerating you, to a non-inertial frame, accelerating yourself. Since you are not under power, you are decelerating while the ground below you is still at a constant velocity.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

I had a super vivid dream about ball lightning when I was a young teen. I remember I fell asleep watching a thunderstorm outside from bed. Then I remember a ball of lightning hanging in the air, and it came into my room right through the walls before disappearing. I felt it was real for years.

[@jimgraham6722]

Probably real. As a plasma soliton the energy fields of ball lightning can move through or around objects.

[@LeviBulger]

Whoa! I have a similar story. I was lying next to my sleeping gf one night and i remember opening my eyes because of a sense of light in the room and when i sat up, i saw as clear as day, a ball of light floating across the room and disappearing into the closet on the far end of the room. I definitely didn't dream it. It didn't light the room up really bright, but the object itself was VERY bright. It was about the size of a large grapefruit. It moved so slowly and eerily. I tried to wake up my gf immediately so she could see it but by the time she came to, it was already gone. Nobody ever believed me, but i swear on my life it happened.

[@frutman2609]

The type of video i turn on , to fall asleep :

[@benthejrporter]

14:25 The notion that UFO's and aliens are some kind of engineered neo-mythology created as psychological warfare to launder more down-to-earth covert projects is not very original and it is in fact somewhat fashionable at the moment. It is actually rather implausible when you consider how easily and badly it could backfire. Drawing somebody's attention towards something with the ultimate objective of deflecting it away is a very risky gambit, so much so that I think we can reject it on theoretical grounds outside very exceptional circumstances. It's like a bank robber jumping up and down on top of his buried stash in a striped jersey and face mask every time a police car drives past, waving a placard stating: THERE IS NO STOLEN CASH HIDDEN HERE, JUST UNICORN BONES! How long would it take for somebody to realize what was really going on? So I think what you describe is actually some sort of very elaborate double-bluff.

[@davidadiwego4608]

Didn't the (what is now) USAF tell the public that its special A-bomb detonation detector balloon, which crashed at Roswell in the 1940's, was a flying saucer? Wasn't it an attempt to keep the true nature of the crash wreckage secret? Also, along the same lines, wouldn't the military (the Government) rather have the public believe that advanced Chinese military drones were mysterious UAPs?

[@Proletarius87]

UFO phenomena was debunked in Condon's report in 1969. Very poor case for using is as a cover up for a secret military programs. Not to mentions most UFO witnesses were treat as mental asylum patients.

[@ieradossantos]

22:25 There is also a longer video but guys in black suits showed up and took it all. Those are Commander Fravor's words, not mine

[@5X5NEWSUS]

Nimitz was 11/14/2004 off Southern California NOT Carolina.

[@chrisnizer]

There was an encounter off the Carolina coast very similar to the 2004 Southern California Tic-Tac encounter. A Naval task force doing workup drills prior to a deployment encountered objects that were captured on video. It was either the "Gimbal" encounter or the "Fast-Mover" encounter. Those 3 videos, Tic-Tac/Gimbal/Fast-Mover were released together. All were videos of objects encountered by Naval Task Force units practicing drills prior to a deployment.

[@meteor_rain_]

Happy 20th anniversary, Nimitz!

[@nealdaniel8800]

Thanks for these. Curious acceleration. It's as if omuamua had encountered a cloud of dark matter.

[@gkess7106]

Since this strange asteroid was tumbling how can you attribute it’s acceleration to outgassing since the outgassing would be inconsistent with the Direction of travel of the asteroid?

[@thethomascobbgroup5001]

8:46 anyone would think that this Avi Loeb guy had a book to sell and disproving his obsessive alien theory would harm it's sales. Oh he did? Never mind.

[@theWinterWalker]

NAILED IT. HE'S got a plethora of bat shit crazy papers. Grifters are the worst.

[@Xi-op7gg]

He’s a crack pot.

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

Loeb is a misinformation (counterint) agent or something. Every single thing he proposes sounds like total crap 😂

[@seditt5146]

@@theWinterWalker Its funny how yall fell for propaganda against him. EVERY theory put forth so far is either worse or requires stuff even more unlikely than Aliens yet since the community is scared of that word they piled on. There is still no solution that works other than his but I am willing to bet you dont know that and fell for one of the dozens of really crappy "Science" papers attempting to show it was something else. Reality is I dont believe his solution is the answer and its instead likely a Contact binary that split when close to the sun and we just lost sight of the other half. It would explain the light curve, acceleration and since it was at the Galactic rest frame it likely was just a loose contact binary. Either way, the hydrogen explanation is nonsense.

[@seditt5146]

@@VeronicaGorositoMusic Well it sounds like crap because you are just extremely misinformed and believe such things should be unlikely instead of the reality where they should be far more likely than the hydrogen iceberg that simply cant exist. The push against him screamed more of misinformation than anything to be honest. It was weird and he dug in, rightfully so as the alternatives were far more absurd than his ideas.

[@HglzRunedance2023]

I can not imagine living now without Astrum Extra. Is the best cast ever. The quality is incomparable. I cannot say enigh thanks....

[@Nontoxicz]

It's literally just an ai KZbin video

[@WeAreLegion1904]

Wouldnt the effects of acceleration cancel eachother out? Towards the sun it would slow itself down and away from the sun speed up?

[@CRSolarice]

Well, since you mentioned it, Gravity and acceleration are the same thing.

[@426F6F]

Absolutely fascinating video!! Please do more about space mysteries or even mysteries in general.

[@ArchFundy]

IMO, Avi Loeb lost all credibility when he pushed the "Alien" theory. He got lots of publicity for it, but I'd never put any faith in anything he says in the future.

He's written like 800 articles and never moved anything forward. People will write response articles to his articles and he writes response articles to the response articles. He's like a youtuber but less fun.

[@PaleBlueDot42]

😂😂

[@firstandlastname6194]

Yeah and he shouts down anyone who challenges his ideas. Absolutely no decorum or credibility, he really coasts on his academic pedigree. I doubt very many other scientists would be able to shitpost as much as him and keep their careers.

[@ArchFundy]

@@firstandlastname6194 I'm glad to see at least some ppl agree with me on this. When he first made the "Alien" proposal I called him out for it and was shot down by nearly everyone. When Trump first decided to run for office, I said he was the biggest threat to Democracy in history. Ppl are finally beginning to see what I meant.

[@MrAweeze]

So a professor says "hey maybe it's this possible yet unlikely thing" and your reaction is "I've lost all faith in you or anything you'll ever say or do again." No one said the internet was rational.

[@kholemcrae1100]

We don’t know what nothing is, to us nothing is a something, but it can’t be, it’s just nothing and our brains can’t see it

[@subplantant]

"Nothing" is a concept formed in the human mind. If there were to be a physical manifestation of nothing, it would merely be a lack of difference. A sameness.

[@TheBoss-hh4ni]

Nothing is word. Nothing is nothing ok you get it?

[@kholemcrae1100]

@@TheBoss-hh4ni ok if nothing is so plentiful, show me nothing and explain nothing

[@crowbringer]

but if Oumouaouaua was a sail, it shouldn't tumble like this to keep consistent acceleration, right? we would see spikes in its acceleration when the sail would be facing the Sun, but it would probably be facing it all the time to maximize its efficiency, so probably no tumbling motion...

I've been thinking about that. My brain isn't very big but people are submitting all sorts of design ideas to NASA about non electronic purely mechanical ways to explore Venus. You could maybe shape it in a way where it is face on in and face out on the way out and somehow when it reaches perihedron whatever became face on to the star?

[@MarkHonea-dx6mv]

What a great presentation.❤

[@garymalone547]

A certain 'scientist' is still making a killing by selling his soul over this one.

[@tylerhill-li2uq]

Avi

[@TheLorddrifter]

Who?

[@tomvanwuytswinkel]

@@TheLorddrifter Avi Loeb

[@WorldMysteries2u]

Unsolved mysteries always spark our curiosity!

[@khanderaopareekshannarende9417]

Actually, mysteries didn't confuse us, but it is the so called scientists who are confusing us, after getting confused!!😂😂😂😂

[@tomw2131]

I disagree with the statement that “the military was not interested” in the UFO phenomena of the 1950s. If the military wasn’t interested, they’d have ignored it, without paying anything towards its investigation, or employing anyone in research. The military obtained (without stating as such) sufficient government funding to form several “Projects” (Project Sign, Project Grudge… Project Blue Book, undoubtedly others, probably lasting until present, though they won’t admit it) employing many personnel in investigative research into what was causing the sightings. It’s clear that this was important for these reasons: If “we” have top secret military aircraft flying around, why are they being seen by civilians? Aren’t we subtle/camouflaged enough? If “we” don’t, are these spy-planes from the Soviet Union, China, Europe, South America, or someone else? If from our allies, why isn’t the technology shared; if our enemies, why aren’t our agents bringing us evidence of said advanced technology? Is there a paranoia outbreak, caused by our propaganda machine, affecting our civilians’ minds? This was likely the briefings of many countries’ military or government departments, back then. A lot of the “Men In Black” explanations of the time sound like nonsense, probably because these craft were “ours” and highly top secret military aircraft that they didn’t want discussed in the local or national papers (or Pravda! 😅), so “You saw Venus reflected in the lake with swamp gases ignited through the mist” became a sort of standard explanation!😂 For each blurry, out of focus, black and white picture taken in the 50s, when maybe 1 in 100 family homes had a camera, there should now be dozens (thousands?) or pristine, perfectly focused digital photos and videos of the same craft from multiple angles, allowing us to determine the size, shape and exact position of any UFO/UAP sighted by many witnesses. This is why I would take any “evidence” of alien encounters with a grain of salt. The fact that umpteen videos can now be generated on computer by 3D apps and AI means that the likelihood of any such “evidence” being legitimate gets smaller every day.

[@poiwytlee]

There's a lot of negativity in the comments on this one. Weird...

[@Bollibompa]

Controversial topics attracting a lot of new viewers and exposing the weirdos among the subscribers.

[@JackParsons2]

The Aspen Institute is ramping up a large scale operation right now, expect more of this activity across all media.

[@burakranger7828]

@@JackParsons2I need to know more about this

[@JackParsons2]

@@burakranger7828 You need to look into the history of specific characters there. Garrett Graff is a good start. Look at his past employers and then go look at the projects he's working on with Aspen. There are deeper connections, this is just surface level stuff to get started with. Think about project Blue Beam and things will start to fall into place.

[@ayankhaznawi]

@@JackParsons2 what the fuck is that, explain it to me or I'm calling this schizophrenic bs

[@rverm1000]

Yes ant tutorials on how to use any space data or pictures would be great. Using code to find them would be even better

[@anthonyshiels9273]

Our Solar System is remarkably lacking in terrestrial planets in the mass range of about 5 to 20 times the Earth's mass. These are quite common in other Planetary Systems. Please note that Ice Giants don't count in this reckoning.

[@dewiz9596]

We have to remember that the inhabitants of any planet significantly more massive than Earth would be trapped on the surface due to the energy requirements to achieve even low orbit, let alone leave the vicinity of the planet.

[@anthonyshiels9273]

​​@@dewiz9596People who are native to a High Gravity Planet would be perfectly adapted to their environment and would have no issues with their own gravity. WE would have difficulties on such a Planet just as a Mars Native would be extremely uncomfortable on Earth.

[@Oddricm]

@@anthonyshiels9273 yeah lemme jump to low orbit real quick

[@anthonyshiels9273]

​@@OddricmYou can do exactly that on Apophis when she comes to visit. Osiris ApEx will be able to video your performance.

[@Itsjustmescott]

Explore the idea that planet 9 may be a small black hole

[@briansmith8623]

We got to figure out how to beat the expansion of space before we go anywhere.. The speed of light ain't shit.

[@thesoulforge3607]

Thanks for this video!

[@gkess7106]

Irregularly shaped, like a disk or a vape pen. It’s time we updated the cigar shape reference, don’t you think?

[@spencerh2860]

Nay nay

[@NullScar]

No.

[@colinclement2752]

No

[@AlexDrewsumin]

No

[@dandupaysdegex]

I think you meant 17 meters per second squared for the acceleration.

[@AlwayslookingNeverlookedfor]

I saw something in Edmonton Canada years back. I thought it was a shooting star but it slowed down, stopped, backed up, stopped, then took off back out of our atmosphere. There was 2 of us that saw it that night. It was soooo high up it would have been a jet but a jet wouldn't have been able to do what I saw. I'm also an ex military employee.

[@daveozip4326]

I don’t mean to diminish your comment, but being an ‘ex military employee’ renders no particular merit to your story. If you were an ex astronomical observatory employee then maybe that might provide some clout, but even then you may have been the janitor. To be transparent, I do not believe alien life has contacted us and particularly not by space craft. The math just doesn’t stack up - because within the 60-light-year bubble of our radio signals only a thousand or so stars exist, and so for a space craft to come here from an advanced alien civilisation would required them to come here as a scouting mission. The resources involved in sending scout craft to thousands or millions of targets would be huge. And although alien economics is outside my portfolio, I think any reasonable person can see the illogic of such an endeavour. PS - I too know what it’s like to have seen evidence of alien craft, as I once saw flying in a valley in Australia a fleet of around 6 alien spheres moving in formation, and for a few seconds I thought I had the story of the century (but I ruined it by having a telephoto lens on my camera and discovering the truth)

[@FinbarPatrickMcGrath]

@@daveozip4326So what was the truth? What did you see in with your camera in that valley that your eyes couldn’t?

[@daveozip4326]

@@FinbarPatrickMcGrath - good question… I saw silver balls on power lines that I imagine were used to warn aircraft of their presence. I saw the balls but not the power lines until I used my telephoto lens. Without that I’d be telling you a story of hovering balls staying in formation…

[@Kyanzes]

@@daveozip4326 He can possibly exclude possibilities, even if not be able to tell what it was. If you see certain planes operate for a long time then you can tell if what you are seeing has anything to do with those often seen planes.

[@Pi_Cue]

​@@daveozip4326this is an extremely narrow earth-take. If an alien civilization could bend space time or make use of controlled quantum entanglement states, they'd definitely have a way to extract energy efficiently. Perhaps an alien civilization can extract hydrogen or other elements we aren't even familiar with, to power their drone scouts. Or their directed quantum entanglement machines. Or their space/time fabric bending reactors. To rule out the universe's possibilities based on what we know currently is akin to ruling out airplane travel in the 1800s because horses can't fly and wagons are heavy. Whether or not we believe they are here visiting or never came here, that doesn't change it it's true or not. Based on recent and increasing disclosures and whistleblowers from the Pentagon/military, maybe we should be preparing for new information becoming mainstream or factual. If that happens, it would be an arms race to understand their technology

[@nunjafam]

Dog left better media content in the front yard this morning.

[@bombud1]

Difference in charge causing comas > sublimation.

[@Nick9Three]

Aliens. It’s always aliens.

[@ThorsDecree]

22:50 I really like this particular video, I thought all the public conspiracy theories around this one were hilarious given that not only could you see wings flapping but if I recall correctly the pilots also talk about a bird. Thunderf00t even did some trigonometry and published a video proving that the size of the thing was no bigger than a seagull. Trying to lock onto a bird with a camera pod is a game for bored pilots and sensors operators. CIWS sometimes locks a bird, it's not just planes. Military IR T-pod cameras are good enough to see details of a bird from several km away. If you can lock a seagull from 10km away, why not? Humans are so easily tricked. Imagination is cool, but it can get you into trouble, too. The rustling in the bush could be a lion, and many will assume it's a lion, but it's almost always just going to be the wind or something else that's not a lion _even when we know lions exist on Earth._ Let's be real, the universe is a really big place in it takes a lot of time and energy to travel between stars. If we're visited by anything, it's probably going to be either unmanned probes or relativistic kill weapons that were fired at us the moment our first TV broadcasts were detected. I for one am in favor of the Dark Forest hypothesis. The universe is vast and old, and it only took intelligent life less than 5 billion years to evolve on this planet. The whole universe is about three times older than that, and with self-replicating machines moving at only 1% of the speed of light you could colonize a whole galaxy within only a few million years. Just about everything is a threat to life, and intelligent life is a huge threat to intelligent life. From a purely pragmatic stance, I don't think it's wise for us to actively announce our presence and location for anyone who can hear. I don't think Earth has been visited, either by unmanned probes or by little green men. But many people want to believe things, and when they want to believe something they find ways to make themselves believe it. It's not any different from religion, and even religious people acknowledge that most religious people (if only by virtue of sheer statistics) are mistaken.

[@RoySATX]

You make good points, all based on our current knowledge. However, everything we know is arguably a tiny fraction of all that can be known, and daily we are finding we need to correct our knowledge even when it comes to things we have thought settled for decades. Whatever reality is, we cannot perceive it. Our minds lie to us, fill in gaps, show us a lion in the bush when there is no lion, possibly to keep us alive, possibly to keep us in the dark. I don't know what is really going on, I just know it is mad hubris to think we have such a firm grasp on reality that we can exclude the possibility of anything. I trust the scientific method to provide correct solutions, but only when we know what we are testing. Until then the only correct answer is 42.

[@ThorsDecree]

@@RoySATX You make an interesting point. While I generally agree with the philosophy behind it, I think some of what you said is just flat out false. Actually we *_do_* know for a fact that the thing in that video was a bird, the distance and angles relative to the plane, and therefore the speed and size of everything involved. Until such a time as we have a good reason to think that we have been visited by extraterrestrials, the only intellectually honest position to hold is that we have not been visited by extraterrestrials. I'm not at all saying we should close our minds to the possibility that there are facts for which we have no evidence (I mean we *_know_* this is true or else PhD programs wouldn't require novel research). Just that, while we don't necessarily know what we don't know, we have access to statistical and psychological tools that indicate pretty definitively that UAPs aren't aliens. We absolutely *_can_* exclude specific possibilities, that's how the scientific method works. If we couldn't, then we wouldn't have these fancy pocket computers to instantly communicate with.

[@rogerdudra178]

@@RoySATX Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. I got 43, hum.

[@nekad2000]

What a story, Mark.

[@pantherplatform]

An emergency on your part does not constitute lack of planning on my part.

[@barillius]

How long before you realize that you completely screwed up that quote and that it makes you look like an idiot? LOL

[@supergrafxengine4620]

Superb narration!

[@Uveryahi]

I didn't check the channel name and i thought "hmm sounds a lot like Alex from Astrum" x)

[@MrVaypour]

Alex from Astrum belongs somewhere... You just haven't figured out where yet....

[@movarvo1217]

It's the AI kicking in man....

[@Timothy_Osman]

If aliens arent real can we just make an assortment of mutants and release them for youtube videos?

[@traianliviudanciu8665]

Even alien life exist will be better to avoid contact

[@Uhtred-the-bold]

I don’t believe it’s someone from somewhere else, they’re either ours, or it’s us, from 500 years in the future, or its inter dimensional

[@dewyakana1543]

Aloha, Alex. Love your voice. I can hear your smile when you speak.

[@anthonyshiels9273]

I spent the last 3 years of my Primary School Education in the Headmasters Classroom. One day in 1966 he posed a question out of the blue: Do you think that there is life out there in the Universe? The 3 classes under his tutorship were simply stunned. At the age of 11 I raised my hand and when he signalled that he was ready to hear me I made this statement: There HAS to be. He pondered this for a moment and replied: You could be right. Its big enough anyway.

[@spongeybabu]

And then everyone clapped

[@anthonyshiels9273]

@@spongeybabu I typed that everyone in the room was stunned. NOBODY clapped because we were in school.

@@anthonyshiels9273 He's just being a weird reddit person. I believe you old timer. He can't understand you and a teacher having an actual discussion.

[@adampaul454]

A young Fermi

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

Congratulations on bending over in a really weird way to a bot.

[@Skull4uck]

Take it easy, boy boy 😮🚀

[@Phosfit]

I’m built like a telescope 🔭 All 3 legs, no head, convex lens.

Baby I can make small things seem enormous just give me a few minutes to fiddle with it.

[@Jack.The.Trucker77]

That Oumuamua was just weird shaped asteroid. How long you all will keep posting this?

[@arenasification]

The name „Amua amua” ( nevermind the spelling) shouldn’t be said more than three times consecutively

[@junkequation]

If you say it 3 times while looking in a mirror in the dark, it accelerates spookily out of the solar system!

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

We have discovered planet Stupid. We chose to call it "Earth".

[@mustertherohirrim7315]

This... Faster than light? Thought... The cosmic web is a brain of which we are a part. Instantaneous consciousness. I just kinda made that up, extrapolated as it were.

[@pitbull-ws8ge]

Memories used to be reliable before nelson mandela fucked us up

[@oberonpanopticon]

We used to trust our memories before we realized our brains are just meat doing it’s best

[@Fryed_Bryce]

@@oberonpanopticon my meat is bigger than yours

[@randomhappenings]

Personally I would like aliens to be proven to exist. Can you imagine the money that would pour into space travel and space research if we confirmed aliens existed? It would be a massive shift and an exciting time.

[@Proletarius87]

Under the condition that we are not living in a cosmic zoo. If "aliens", "demons", "gods" -or whatever you want to call it -are already here, the first questions would be "what is the meaning of the humankind?" There is some existential horror included, and one of the reasons we can't be allowed to get to know the truth.

[@pantherstealth1645]

Isn’t it comical that uamauammauamm is either of the two most commonly seen UAP vessel shapes? 😉

[@oberonpanopticon]

Yes, because aliens would totally build small and large ships with identical shapes

[@ryvyr]

An excellent contribution, as ever :>

[@hans_von_twitchy1014]

@3:15. I stopped watching after you said, its acceleration "was about 17 meters per second".

[@bagira1989]

It should be called Rama

[@Westham21]

Great book

[@ThomAnno]

Alliens = The Occult

[@StevenDerks-j7j]

The chances of hearing from the wow signal location is unlikely unless you focus on that location

[@lilmike2710]

I learned a lot about Omuamua that I didn't know about Omuamua since Omuamua is relatively a young discovery as far as objects like Omuamua goes. 😳 Good grief AI we know the name of the damned thing! We heard you the first 50 times you repeated it.

[@beck8300]

Lol this guy's videos are very well known he's not AI this is just a second channel

[@pauldeavin849]

The problem we have is how do you define intelligence? What is intelligence to us? Would not make sense to some intelligent alien life we only see ourselves as intelligent we need to find the meaning with other intelligence that’s the complication of it.

[@ToolinAround2025]

Intelligence and consciousness can vary independently, like a slime mold is intelligent, but seemingly not consciously intelligent. It’s easy to think of animals that are conscious but not intelligent, at least not outside of their natural environment, not beyond what it takes to survive. Not every organism can afford both, in terms of calories, adaptation or what have you . Perhaps there is a third thing which is neither consciousness nor intelligence.

[@PronatorTendon]

Acceleration would be seen in any object that has an elliptical, highly eccentric orbit, as it approaches the sun

[@justintaylor7837]

It accelerated as it left the sun not as it approached.

[@DonHavjuan]

Literally no scientists are confused by any of this

[@peterdore2572]

the Wow Signal has been explained making this video... OUTDATED!!

[@mrsweetpotato4354]

I thought I read something about how the comet theory doesn't work,so the signal is back in the unexplained category

[@kaysimpson]

one thing I'm convinced of is that I don't know. Maybe the solution would be to eliminate everything else... possibly with automated laser monkeys and acid

[@danielauto3767]

The acceleration was 17 meters per second you said? That is not even the correct unit for acceleration.

[@RD1R]

17 m/s²... But you knew what he meant.

[@The1andOnlyWog]

​@RD1R he probably meant the total delta-v was 17 m/s. Most people view delta-v and "amount of acceleration" as the same thing. This is for a lay-audience, not just people who are really into and therefore knowledgeable on the subject.

[@Bollibompa]

It was 17 m/s per second.

[@gregbailey45]

​@@Bollibompano way!

[@Kristian-li7uk]

​@@RD1R Couldn't be what he meant because he said the acceleration was slight and an acceleration almost twice the value of 1g isn't slight.

[@maskonfilteroff3145]

"Tricked" is an odd word to use here.

[@motjuste8549]

"Southern Carolina..." Cute.

[@rogerwilco1777]

is that close to Western Virginia??