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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...

Nov 3, 2022

Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and 'airborne clutter,' Pentagon officials reveal

Intelligence agencies in the U.S. have spent the last few years analyzing footage of hundreds of recent UFO encounters, and they want the American people to know: It's still not aliens. According to several U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials who spoke anonymously to The New York Times last week,...

Nov 5, 2022

Scientists are working on an official 'alien contact protocol' for when ET phones Earth

If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don't know yet — and that's a problem. That's why, for the first time in 35 years, a team of policy experts and scientists have united to establish a set of alien-contact protocols for...

Dec 5, 2022

Search for alien life just got 1,000 times bigger after new telescope joins the hunt

One of the world's largest telescopes has just joined the hunt for signs of alien life elsewhere in the cosmos. Since 2016, the Breakthrough Listen project has been quietly using radio telescopes to listen for unusual radio signals, or technosignatures, from potential advanced extraterrestrial civilizations within the Milky Way. The...

Dec 15, 2022

Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests

Why haven't aliens gotten in touch? Maybe they think Earth is boring. A new preprint paper published to the arXiv database suggests that intelligent extraterrestrials might not find planets that host life particularly interesting. If life has evolved on many planets in the galaxy, then aliens are probably more interested...

Dec 19, 2022

US military reports 'several hundred' UFO sightings in 2022, Pentagon officials claim

The U.S. government's brand new UFO-tracking office has been open for half a year but business is already booming. Over the last six months, the office — named the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — has received several hundreds of new UFO reports from U.S. military personnel, office director Sean...

Dec 21, 2022

One of the world's largest lasers could be used to detect alien warp drives

Scientists have proposed another use for the world's largest gravitational wave observatory: scanning for the ripples in space-time left in the wake of gargantuan alien spaceships. Gravitational waves ripple out when objects with mass move through space. Bigger objects — such as planets, neutron stars or black holes — produce...

Dec 27, 2022

7 out-of-this-world alien stories from 2022

A metallic sphere zooms across the flight path of a military jet. A mysterious signal in the world's largest telescope sparks international alarm. And scientists discover that potential Martian life may have wiped itself out eons ago. It's been a busy year for all things out there. Here are seven...

Jan 6, 2023

Why hasn't ET phoned Earth? Maybe aliens are waiting for the exact right moment.

Aliens may be waiting until a cosmic version of high noon to send out their signals to us, scientists have suggested. In a new study, researchers hunted for technological signs of E.T. during the moments when exoplanets pass directly in front of their suns, from Earth's point of view. These...