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May 24, 2021

Mushrooms on Mars? 5 unproven claims that alien life exists

A recent study claims to have found evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface of Mars. As it happens, these particular features are well known and were discovered by cameras aboard Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shortly after it landed in 2004. They are not, in fact, living organisms...

May 25, 2021

Spherical UFO plunges into the ocean in US Navy footage

A spherical unidentified flying object (UFO) hovers in midair, moves side to side like a ball in the Pong video game and then seems to dive into the ocean, in footage that was recently released online by a filmmaker who produces documentaries about UFOs. Though a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that...

May 28, 2021

1947 'alien autopsy' film frame is up for auction as an NFT

A picture is worth a thousand words, but is a single frame of 16-mm film worth $1 million? That's the opening bid for a negative frame of black-and-white movie footage from 1947, allegedly showing an extraterrestrial corpse on a medical examiner's table. The frame comes from an infamous and very...

Jun 3, 2021

Pentagon's long-awaited UFO report to Congress due this month

After a months-long investigation, the Pentagon is poised to produce a report addressing sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) — more commonly known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. But don't expect a big reveal about secret alien technology and extraterrestrial spaceships. The aim of the report is to establish...

Jun 4, 2021

'No evidence' UFOs are alien spacecraft, but they're not American, Pentagon says

A new report from U.S. intelligence officials claims that there's no evidence that the unidentified flying objects (UFOs) sighted in recent years — even objects that seemed to perform aerodynamic feats beyond the capabilities of human aircraft — are extraterrestrial in origin. But the objects aren't American-made technologies, either, officials...

Jun 22, 2021

Skies alive with UFOs? Government report on mysterious sightings due soon

This month, the U.S. government is set to release a UFO report put together by the intelligence community and the Pentagon, including a specially created Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force. That task force was established to provide insight into the nature and origins of purported aerial objects, primarily reported...

Jun 23, 2021

Aliens in 1,700 star systems could have seen civilization emerge on Earth

At least 1,715 nearby star systems sat at a perfect angle to view Earth during the past 5,000 years, meaning aliens living in those systems, if they exist and have the right technology, could have watched our planet from afar as early human civilizations first emerged. Of those star systems,...

Jun 26, 2021

Long-anticipated 'UFO report' finally released. No, it's not aliens.

The Pentagon has released a highly anticipated UFO report that in no way suggests aliens are responsible for more than 140 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) by navy pilots. Even so, the report indicates that most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects. And out of the...

Jul 2, 2021

Most Americans think intelligent aliens exist, and half think they have visited Earth

For the last few weeks, the imminent release of a U.S. intelligence report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) had stirred excitement across the United States. So it's not surprising to find that most Americans believe in intelligent life inhabiting other worlds, according to a survey conducted before the report was...

Jul 14, 2021

How to tell if extraterrestrial visitors are friend or foe

Despite the naive storylines about interstellar travel in science fiction, biological creatures were not selected by Darwinian evolution to survive travel between stars. Such a trip would necessarily span many generations, since even at the speed of light, it would take tens of thousands of years to travel between stars...

Jul 15, 2021

'Alien burp' may have been detected by NASA's Curiosity rover

A group of scientists may have just pinpointed the location on Mars of a mysterious source of methane, a gas most often produced by microbes — and NASA's Curiosity rover could be right on top of it. Methane blips have pinged on Curiosity's detection systems six times since the rover...

Jul 26, 2021

Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs

Are there intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations capable of building technologies that can travel between the stars? An international research project is poised to find out. The Galileo Project, helmed by a multi-institutional team of scientists led by Avi Loeb, a professor of science in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University,...

Aug 13, 2021

Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada

Late on July 30, pilots of two separate aircrafts — one military and one commercial — reported seeing a mysterious green UFO vanish into the clouds over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the Atlantic coast of Canada, Vice News reported. According to a report posted Aug. 11 to the...

Aug 30, 2021

Alien life could thrive on big 'Hycean' exoplanets

The search for alien life should broaden its horizons a bit, a new study suggests. Alien hunters have to date focused largely on Earthlike planets — a reasonable place to start, given that our rocky, water-covered world is the only one we know of that hosts life. But the universe...

Oct 14, 2021

'Powerful auroras' on alien planets may be sending strange radio signals toward Earth

Four brand-new alien planets have potentially been discovered after scientists detected the shimmering radio flashes of auroras in those planets' atmospheres, a new study says. Auroras occur when solar wind — intense gusts of electric particles belched out by the sun — smash into a planet's magnetic shield. Earth experiences...