The Sun And A Mysterious Object ... 5-10-98

The pictures that I will be posting are very unusual. Our Sun seems to be having many more explosions on it. The solar flares seem to be getting more frequent. The object, which has been affectionally named the "SUN CRUISER" appears in so many of the films. Many viewers and professionals who visit this site have stated that the object is too large to be Mars. At times Mars should be in a different area than where the SC is located.

I will do my best to seek the truth as to what these two different objects really are.

Upon exposing the first pictures of the SC it was pretty evident of its existence. As time went on I was able to capture some very dramatic presentments. As the Sun began to excellerate with flares and more and more spectacular events were posted on IWP a lot of attention was being brought to the Sun and all that was occurring. Eventually this site was closed down at the same time the SOHO/LASCO satellite, who was capturing the films that was lost in orbit.

Lizz Edwards

The Sun And A Mysterious Object ... 8-19-99

The Sun Cruiser has and still is a great story when it comes to mysterious anomalies. I will be posting some interesting letters on the questions of the CCD glitches. The SC story has reached fame and there are dozens of web sites who are now showing my pictures of the Sun Cruisers. It does look like a space ship from Mars!

It has been called many different things. The return of Ra, a space ship, a CCD glitch, a comet, a new planet, and even NASA said it was Mars at first.

* A signal from space

* NASA writing to me and telling me that this object that appears over and over is a glitch

* A Crop Circle of the Sun Cruiser

* A mysterious light source

* Crop Circles showing the Sun Cruiser

* A crop circle of the eclipse of August 11th. Do you think they are trying to tell you something?

* Do you wonder about the strange shadows that were seen in the sky, and I don't mean the bands on the ground caused by the eclipse?

Don't it make you WONDER ...........

Lizz Edwards

Every night at their telescopes, astronomers invite the universe to a battle of wits. Surprise us, they say, with some teasing wink of light, some few cryptic clues to something unfamiliar and, better yet, an implied challenge to a cherished theory. In most cases, astronomers boast, we will have it figured out by dawn.

Now astronomers have an unyielding mystery on their hands, something they have observed and pondered for three years, a point of light deep in the northern sky that appears to be like nothing seen before.

This may turn out to be only a curiosity, an odd variation of a familiar phenomenon, or it may be the first evidence of some unsuspected object with reverberating theoretical implications -- similar in that sense to the recent detection of planets around other stars.

No clues from spectrum

The mystery object has so far confounded astronomers because they cannot decipher the language of its light. Usually, by breaking down the spectrum of light into its component elements and charting the spikes and dips on a graph, astronomers can identify and describe an object within minutes.

In this case, however, astronomers are finding nothing familiar about the light spectrum, a couple of Everests representing emissions from the object surrounded by lower peaks and broad valleys of heavy elements that blot out the true contours of the object's nature. They are beginning to sympathize with archaeologists who sought to read Egyptian hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone.

``I've never seen a spectrum anything like this, and I take spectra for a living,'' said S. George Djorgovski, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology who is the leader of the sky survey that detected the mystery object.

Whatever the astronomers are seeing, it is probably not a star, at least not any normal star. The light signature of stars is much simpler than this object's. Nor is it a distant galaxy, which would have much different light patterns.

With little evidence and even less conviction, some astronomers speculate that the object is a quasar, one of the sources of tremendous energies at the farthest reaches of the universe where the enormous gravitational power of black holes presumably gobbles up surrounding matter. If it is a quasar, it must be a rare kind beyond current understanding.

``It doesn't look like a quasar to my eye, but I may be wrong,'' said Wallace Sargent, a Caltech astronomer and quasar specialist, who is also director of the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, where the discovery was made.

So if it is not a normal star, galaxy or strange quasar, astronomers say, the most intriguing possibility is that the mystery object is announcing the existence of an entirely new cosmic phenomenon.

``But we must do everything to rule out the known before we postulate that we have discovered something really and truly new,'' Djorgovski said.

New discoveries ahead

Mystification is likely to be a more common experience in astronomy as more powerful telescopes and instruments with improved sensitivity are used for systematic probes deeper into the universe and over broader stretches of sky.

Several comprehensive sky surveys under way or just beginning are expected to discover many rare or even previously unknown types of astronomical objects and forces.

Exploring the entire northern sky in different color filters, for example, the Digital Palomar Sky Survey, now nearing completion, has collected data on more than 50 million galaxies and about 2 billion stars. The census has identified more than 70 quasars at such great distances that they are being seen at a time when the universe was less than 10 percent of its present age.

One surprising discovery was a starlike light several hundred times brighter than the galaxy with which it was associated. Astronomers are not sure, but they suspect they were seeing the after-effects of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful events in the universe today.

First detected in the 1960s, gamma-ray bursts are examples of an astronomical mystery that is only now being solved.

Isolating rare points

For the survey, astronomers devised computer programs to sift through processed photographs for starlike objects, then distinguish the stars from galaxies and isolate rare points of light that are not immediately recognizable. This was how the new mystery object showed up.

Djorgovski and his team examined the object's light spectrum. Some of the lines of emissions, especially the two Everest spikes, looked too sharp to be from a quasar. They combed the star catalogs and published research papers, but found nothing like it.

A search in the archives of X-ray and infrared surveys failed to show anything in those wavelengths at the location where the object's visible light was detected.

``This was the first one of something new, and a complete mystery to us,'' Djorgovski said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An arsenal of analytic tools used to figure out the makeup and distance of stars and galaxies has failed to unlock the secrets of a mysterious celestial light detected three years ago.

``It's fairly uncommon to stumble on something you don't have a clue about,'' astronomer S. George Djorgovski said Tuesday. ``It certainly hasn't happened to me, and I've been doing this for many years.''

Djorgovski was part of the team at Caltech's Palomar Observatory that detected the object, a pinpoint of light, during a digital survey of the northern sky.

It remains one of the biggest mysteries uncovered by the Digital Palomar Sky Survey. The survey, which has collected information on more than 50 million galaxies and about 2 billion stars, is about two-thirds complete.

Some astronomers believe the object may be a new class of quasar, sources of energy found in the center of galaxies and believed to be powered by matter falling into massive black holes.

``This sort of looks a little like them, but not quite. The similarity may be superficial,'' Djorgovski said. ``That's the closest thing we have found in all the astronomical literature.''

Usually, astronomers are able to determine an object's composition and distance by breaking down and analyzing its light. But the mystery object's spectrum does not fit any of the known patterns, Djorgovski said.

Light also usually holds clues about an object's distance. But because graphs derived from the light do not match anything known, researchers aren't sure whether it is inside or outside the Milky Way galaxy.

Repeated photographs revealed no changes in its appearance, ruling out the possibility that it's an exploding star or supernova.

Djorgovski challenged fellow astronomers to help explain his discovery at the June meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Chicago. So far, nobody has produced an adequate explanation.

``We probably have looked at the spectra of several thousand quasars, and this just doesn't seem to fit,'' said David Crampton, an astronomer with the National Research Council of Canada. ``It didn't ring any bells.''

The next step will be to analyze the object's infrared spectrum, something Djorgovski hopes to do next month at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

Researchers also hope that the Hubble Space Telescope might someday be pointed at the object, which is located in the constellation Serpens.

``But it's very competitive to get time on the Hubble, and they don't like fishing expeditions,'' he said.

AP-NY-08-18-99 0354EDT

cst@sdac.nascom.nasa.gov U.S. project scientist for SOHO

Friday June 25, 1999

Dear Mr.Gurman,

I have been studying the SOHO films for over a year now. There are two separate anomalies that I wish you would clear up for me. The story has turned fantastic, and there are comments and questions that you may see as not so favorable. But Sir, no one will answer me. I am hoping that you will resolve this story for me so I can post your scientific description on my web site and let the people know exactly what they are seeing. As the discoverer of what is called the Sun Cruisers, I would also like to let the people know from me just what this is.

As you view the site you will see the many many anomalous pictures that I have captured over the months of the Sun Cruisers, as well as 300 more that could post of these anomalous objects.

The pictures captured come directly from the the SOHO films. They have not been touched up in anyway to change the shape or the position. The structure is just as you see it from the film.

Once you view these pics you will be able to see why such fantastic conclusions have been made.

Please, contact me as soon as possible with your scientific findings.

Thank you for your time concerning this matter.

http://www.ufonet.org/iwp/iwp_ilinks.htm

Elizabeth Edwards/Science Researcher for I Wonder Productions

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THE REPLY

Subj: Re: ************ U.S. project scientist for SOHO Date: 6/28/99 6:52:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: cst@sdac.nascom.nasa.gov (CHRIS ST.CYR/301-286-2575/CPI-GSFC) To: IWONDER414@AOL.COM, GURMAN@eitv.nascom.nasa.gov

Ms. Edwards, I have examined the image that you have posted on your web site. The "object" you have identified as a SunCruiser is in fact YA cosmic ray hit that has saturated along the CCD column. If you play the LASCO movies available on the web, you will see that we detect hundreds of these particle hits during any day, and that they frequently take unusual form.

For the record, I am not the US Project Scientist for SOHO. Rather I am an operations/research scientist on the LASCO and EIT teams.

I hope this clears up your confusion about the interpretation of our data.