Unknown Object Spotted @ Mercury

[Antrikshaadmi]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...154443870.html

Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury?



That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury.

Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "coronal mass ejection" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over Mercury appears to hit another object of comparable size. "It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked," YouTube-user siniXster said in his video commentary on the footage, which has generated hundreds of thousands of views this week. Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.

Of course, there's another scientifically sanctioned explanation for the curious images, though we're not certain that skeptics and UFO enthusiasts such as SiniXster will endorse it. Natalie Wolchover of Life's Little Mysteries put the question to scientists in the solar physics branch at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). They're the people who analyze data from the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1)--better known in this context as the camera that shot the footage in question.

Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake, "where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path:

To make the relatively faint glow of a coronal mass ejection stand out against the bright glare of space—caused by interplanetary dust and the stellar/galactic background—the NRL scientists must remove as much background light as possible. They explained that they determine what light is background light, and thus can be subtracted out, by calculating the average amount of light that entered each camera pixel on the day of the CME event and on the previous day. Light appearing in the pixels on both days is considered to be background light and is removed from the footage of the CME. The remaining light is then enhanced.

The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. But for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury's staus as the closest planet to the sun.

"When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image," Rich explained in an email.

[Antrikshaadmi]

Mercury is of particular interest to me because of the Rendlesham Forest case, I'll quote myself.

Originally Posted by Me

As I mentioned earlier today, I've been studying a UFO case from the UK lately. It happened at Bentwaters-Woodridge Air Force Base in 1980.

http://www.hyper.net/ufo/rendlesham.html

The witnesses are credible military personnel and experts in identifying aircraft. Nick Pope, once part of the UK's Ministry of Defence, is one of the people who consider them to be credible witnesses and the events of the case to be authentic as well.

One of the most intriguing things about the case are symbols one of the witnesses drew in his logbook. He touched them and the UFO, they were etched or engraved on it's side.



I've been trying to decipher and make sense of the symbols and I have arrived at this hypothesis:

1. The pyramid pattern at the bottom has two orbs, what appears to be a star and the first planet orbiting it elliptically. Mercury orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit.



2. The UFO in question was triangular in shape when viewed from above or below, as one would see it corresponding to a planetary orbit on a two dimensional star map.



It tells me "This ship is from Mercury.", as the triangle itself is within the the planet's orbit.

3. The symbols along the top are geometric patterns which can vary in a nearly infinite combination of shapes. I was looking for something to compare it to here on Earth and I then remembered gravatars.



http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?g...ault=identicon

So, I have a theory. The symbols along the top are randomly generated unique ID patterns with the triangular design along the bottom designating it's origin.

Aliens from Mercury or from a base in Mercury? Mercury does have an atmosphere and although it is near the sun it has frozen water in it's polar ice caps(which can be distilled, used to irrigate and to drink), it is also substantially cooler inside it's craters even when exposed to the sun and it's dark side gets hundreds of degrees below zero. Not very hospitable to humans, but an advanced humanoid species can easily build a base there.

Also, NASA deleted the GOES satellite picture of a mothership sized UFO.

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeseast/f...5G13_color.jpg

A cloaked mothership sized object near Mercury? Coincidence?

[Carol Nistri]

Mercury??? Man that place looks HOT!

[Nimue]

It would make sense to hide near the sun though. It is very anomalous. Perhaps it is a moon? I don't think it could be though.

Blessings,
Nimue

[Nimue]

Originally Posted by Antrikshaadmi

Mercury is of particular interest to me because of the Rendlesham Forest case, I'll quote myself.Also, NASA deleted the GOES satellite picture of a mothership sized UFO.

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeseast/f...5G13_color.jpg

A cloaked mothership sized object near Mercury? Coincidence?

I think your onto a good way of thinking about it though. Life in our solar system, may belong in our solar system. Which makes us kin to one another and means that we have to share our space on an much grander scale than previously thought.