Mystery ‘plasma bubbles’ discovered over historical pyramids amid ‘hidden vitality’

Boffins have found some unusual things floating around the pyramids in Egypt.

Chinese scientists detected so-called ‘plasma bubbles’ over the pyramids, which are often the centre of speculation by conspiracy theorists. Bubbles were also found over the Midway Islands, once the site of an important US Navy base.

The findings, released in August this year, could have our tin foil-hatted friends in a real twist as they seek to explain the origins of one of the world’s most iconic structures even though we already know who built them.

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For this research, eggheads used the advanced Low Latitude Long Range Ionospheric Radar (LARID) to find the bubbles. Sadly, the strange signals are not an indicator E.T. and his green-fingered mates are about to jump out from behind a sarcophagus and kidnap you.

Aliens don’t cause plasma bubbles, although it would be fun if at least some of the alien conspiracy theories were true.

Equatorial plasma bubbles, to give them their full name, are caused by charged particles in the Earth’s upper atmosphere disappearing.

This causes an area where there is a low level of electrons, which boffins liken to a bubble. These bubbles can become hundreds of miles across and also cause things like GPS and satellite communications to become interrupted.

The scientists at the the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said in August that plasma bubbles sparked by a solar storm appeared on their radar in November last year.

The bubbles were found to be lying over Egypt and other areas across lower areas of latitude.

The incredible radar was able to pick up the activity from the bubbles because of its massive range. LARID is able to detect at a range of just under 6,000 miles away.

A report by the South China Morning Post explained: “Operating in the 8-22MHz frequency band, LARID consists of two radar subsystems, facing eastward and westward, each containing 24 sets of transceiver antennas.

“LARID adopts an advanced fully digital phased array system, allowing for real-time adjustments to detection frequency, range, scanning field and radar coding parameters based on actual needs, according to the project team.”

Previously, a radar of this ilk with such a huge range for detention was considered “impossible”.

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