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Jun 30, 2006

Man Fights 'Alien,' Proposes Marriage

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) _ Ross Savedra fought aliens to rescue his girlfriend, then popped the question in an out-of-this-world proposal. Savedra, 32, staged his elaborate proposal Sunday afternoon for Ariana Ash, 23, with the help of family members and Roswell's UFO Museum. Savedra and Ash were touring the museum when...

Jun 30, 2007

Roswell Commemorates 1947 'UFO Crash'

ROSWELL, N.M.-If you truly believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down here 60 years ago, rest assured: You're not alone. At least 35,000 people have descended on Roswell this weekend for the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival to commemorate a purported flying saucer crash on...

Dec 31, 2006

A UFO at O'Hare? Some Pilots Thought So

CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall. The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and hovered over an...

Jun 30, 2008

Apollo Astronaut Believes in Aliens, Psychics and Mystics

Former Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell made news recently with claims about UFOs and alien cover-ups. Though Mitchell said he never saw any UFOs during his time with NASA, he believes stories he has heard from others about the 1947 crash in Roswell, New Mexico. There was a UFO crash. There...

Mar 31, 2008

Mysterious Phoenix Lights a UFO Hoax

On Monday evening, April 21, mysterious lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona. At just after eight, hundreds of residents called police and local news media to report four bright red lights hovering silently over the city. They changed shape after a while, moving from a triangular to rectangular configuration, then...

Dec 31, 2008

New Jersey UFO Likely a Hoax

It seems likely that a mysterious set of UFO lights that appeared over Phoenix, Arizona last year made an unexpected reappearance over New Jersey on Monday night. Strange lights appeared over New Jersey's Morris County on the evening of Jan. 5, according to a local TV station's report. The bright...

Oct 31, 2010

How Do Astronomers Find Alien Planets?

Astronomers use five main tactics to spot planets that are outside our solar system, and the one that has proven most successful and the one used by the Kepler exoplanet-spotting spacecraft is possible using amateur skygazing gear. Planets orbiting stars located outside our solar system are often called exoplanets or...

May 31, 2010

Alien Invaders: Destructive Invasive Species

Snake Head (Image credit: USGS) For as long as humans have moved around the globe, we've brought other species along for the ride. Some we take on purpose. Others stow away unseen. When these plants and animals come in contact with new ecosystems, the results can be devastating. There are...

Mar 31, 2010

Could Extraterrestrials Really Invade Earth, and How?

The human race could be devastated if aliens were to learn of our existence and venture to Earth, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking on Sunday. Aliens have already viciously attacked our spacecraft, savagely kidnapped us, heartlessly conducted experiments on us, and mercilessly aimed their death-rays at us, but of course,...

Nov 30, 2011

Hunter Captures UFO In Nevada

While hunting alone in a remote part of Western Nevada recently, Robert Pitzer bagged himself a UFO. In fact, there wasn't much of a chase: The unidentified flying object touched down almost on top of him. Pitzer was lugging a 12-gauge shotgun across the hardscrabble Nevada landscape when he looked...

Nov 30, 2011

Flying Saucer Towed Down Kansas Main Street?

A few days ago, a UFO was spotted cruising down a main street in Cowley County, Kan. It wasn't in the skies, but instead being hauled on a flatbed truck driving down the middle of US Highway 77. From at least one angle, the strange-shape aircraft resembled a saucer, and...

Jul 31, 2011

'UFO' Over Chinese Airport Just an Unusual Cloud

According to the newspaper Shanghai Daily, air traffic at a major Chinese airport was temporarily halted on Wednesday (Aug. 17) — not because of a power failure or bad weather, but because of a potentially threatening Unidentified Floating Object. Details about the incident remain sketchy, but someone (it's not clear...

Mar 31, 2011

New Image Is Worth 1,235 Potential Alien Planets

A photo may be worth 1,000 words, but a new depiction of NASA's Kepler mission is worth 1,235 potential alien planets. Created by a devoted mission scientist, the image takes stock of the Kepler observatory's prolific planet-hunting results so far. The illustration shows all of Kepler's candidate planets — which...

Sep 30, 2012

Huge 'Zombie' Alien Planet Rises from the Dead

An enormous alien planet that some astronomers thought was dead and buried has come back to life, a new study suggests. A new analysis of observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found that the bright nearby star Fomalhaut does indeed host a huge exoplanet, which scientists dubbed a zombie world...

Feb 29, 2012

Video of UFO Buzzing by Fighter Jets Bugs Believers

A recently released videotape recorded in 2010 at an Air Force Base in Chile is being touted as perhaps the best-ever evidence that UFOs have visited Earth. Leslie Kean, author of the New York Times best seller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record (Crown, 2010), wrote...