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May 17, 2022

Footage of bizarre metallic UFO shown by Pentagon officials at historic hearing

Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown previously classified footage of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP), a split-second video of a metallic sphere zooming across the flight path of a military jet. The object, captured through the cockpit window of an FA-18...

May 19, 2022

Famous 'alien' Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star

Researchers may have pinpointed the source of a famous supposed alien broadcast discovered nearly a half century ago. The prominent and still-mysterious Wow! Signal, which briefly blared in a radio telescope the night of Aug. 15, 1977, may have come from a sun-like star located 1,800 light-years away in the...

May 20, 2022

Alien stone in Egyptian desert came from rare supernova, scientists say

A strange extraterrestrial space rock unearthed in the Sahara Desert could be the first evidence on Earth for a rare type of supernova. The chemical composition of the Hypatia stone, which was first discovered in Egypt in 1996, suggests it may contain dust and gas that once surrounded an enormous...

May 31, 2022

4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests

The Milky Way is home to millions of potentially habitable planets — and approximately four of them may harbor evil alien civilizations that would invade Earth if they could, new research posted to the preprint database arXiv suggests. The new paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, poses a peculiar...

Jun 3, 2022

The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues

So far no one has found evidence of intelligent aliens elsewhere in the cosmos. But if they do exist, they might be hanging out on Dyson spheres circling the husks of sunlike stars called white dwarfs scattered throughout the Milky Way, a new paper argues. And that's there we should...

Jun 9, 2022

NASA joins hunt for UFOs

NASA has announced plans to begin studying UFOs in a scientifically rigorous way before publishing the findings in a public report. Experts involved in the study will dig up relevant data from sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs); figure out how to best record such UAPs in the future; and...

Jun 15, 2022

China says it may have received signals from aliens

China is claiming that its enormous Sky Eye telescope may have picked up trace signals from a distant alien civilization, according to a recently posted and subsequently deleted report by Chinese scientists. Astronomers at Beijing Normal University have discovered several cases of possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside...

Jun 30, 2022

China’s 'alien' signal almost certainly came from humans, project researcher says

Chinese scientists' claims that their Sky Eye telescope could have picked up signals from intelligent aliens have been met with skepticism by an American colleague. Dan Werthimer, a Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researcher at the University of Berkeley, California and a coauthor on the research project which first spotted...

Jul 22, 2022

The Pentagon is officially opening a UFO investigation office

The Pentagon will soon open an office focused exclusively on investigating UFO sightings, according to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on July 20. The new office, named the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), will serve as a central hub that collects, investigates and manages reports...

Sep 10, 2022

Classified UFO videos would 'harm national security' if released, Navy says

The U.S. Navy holds unseen videos of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as the Department of Defense (DOD) prefers to call them — but will not release the footage publicly because it would harm national security, a Navy spokesperson wrote Wednesday (Sept. 7). The admission...

Sep 14, 2022

'Cosmic' and 'phantom' UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies, government report claims

The skies over Kyiv are swarming with unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to a new report from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Of course, given that Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a months-long war that relies heavily on aircraft and drones,...

Oct 14, 2022

Aliens May Well Exist in a Parallel Universe, New Studies Find

Should the search for alien life in our universe come up empty-handed, it might be worth checking in on a neighboring universe instead. According to a new pair of studies in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, there’s a decent chance that life-fostering planets could exist in...

Oct 15, 2022

Are there really UFOs flying over Ukraine?

Recent reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) flying through the skies of Ukraine have been officially discredited by Ukraine's national science agency, citing significant errors in the report's methods and results. The report, released in mid-September by scientists at Kyiv's Main Astronomical Observatory (MAO), described a significant number of objects...

Oct 25, 2022

This Weird Google Earth Picture Does Not Show a Crashed UFO

A popular YouTube channel that peddles conspiracy theories is trying to convince viewers that photos of an avalanche on an island near Antarctica depict an alien spaceship crash site. In a video posted to the channel SecureTeam10, a narrator claims that an image of South Georgia Island taken from Google...

Oct 28, 2022

UFOs are finally getting the big NASA study they deserve

If the truth is out there, America's space experts may soon find it. On Monday (Oct. 24), NASA officially launched an independent study into UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — the agency announced in a statement. The study will run for the next nine months, with a team...