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Jan 27, 2022

2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs

In 2021, there was an upsurge in peculiar sightings reported, thanks to people with smartphones or other video gear that captured these strange glimmers in the sky. Could these unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) be satellites, technology deployed by foreign governments, falling space junk or maybe even floating specialty balloons or...

Feb 25, 2022

4th search for aliens near Milky Way's center comes up empty

A sweeping search for extraterrestrial technology in the middle of the Milky Way has turned up dry. The search, the fourth in a series looking for low-frequency radio waves that might be produced by alien civilizations, found no evidence of ET. But improvements in telescope technology mean that the strategy...

Mar 23, 2022

Odd circular shape beneath the ocean in Google Earth images is probably not aliens

A circular shape on the seafloor visible on Google Earth is raising cries of UFO, but chances are … it's not aliens. The sighting comes courtesy Scott Waring, proprietor of UFOsightingsdaily.com and frequent discoverer of objects that he dubs 100% proof of ancient aliens. (He's also an avid peruser of...

Apr 5, 2022

UFOs left 'radiation burns' and 'unaccounted for pregnancies,' new Pentagon report claims

Encounters with UFOs have reportedly left Americans suffering from radiation burns, brain and nervous system damage, and even unaccounted for pregnancy, according to a massive database of U.S. government reports recently made public through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The database of documents includes more than 1,500 pages...

Apr 6, 2022

Is it time to send another message to intelligent aliens? Some scientists think so.

Scientists have crafted a new message for any intelligent extraterrestrials who might be out there. And they want feedback on whether they should send it. The technology needed to send the message is not yet ready. And if and when the note is transmitted, it would take thousands of years...

May 11, 2022

Why have aliens never visited Earth? Scientists have a disturbing answer

Why has humanity never been visited by aliens (that we know of)? The question has confounded scientists for decades, but two researchers have come up with a possible — and disturbing — explanation: Advanced civilizations could be doomed to either stagnate or die before they get the chance. The new...

May 16, 2022

Watch live: Pentagon UFO sightings will finally be publicly aired at today's Congressional hearing

The U.S. Congress is set to hold its first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s on Tuesday (May 17), drawing on defense intelligence testimony to establish what could be causing the phenomena. The hearing — which will question two Pentagon experts on what they know about UFO sightings —...

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...