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It’s August 1979. And it’s late—nearly 2 am. Marshall County Sheriff’s Deputy Val Johnson is on routine patrol on Highway 220 near Warren when he spots what he later describes as a “very bright, brilliant light” floating a few feet off the ground. He does what, er, anyone in that situation would …
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Aug 4, 2021 19 Min read time Astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek displays a photo of a fake UFO at a 1966 press conference. Image: AP This summer, a defense report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither are likely to change many minds. On June 25 of …
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Photo by AP Above: In this image from video provided by the Department of Defense, an unexplained object is seen at center as it soars high among the clouds, traveling against the wind. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. …
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The search for life beyond Earth has long inspired all and some — and eyerolls in others. But in recent years, new reporting has made it clear that there really have been hard-to-explain encounters between humans and something that may be operating technology that seems straight out of science …
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Photograph courtesy of Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network What am I looking at? Nobody really knows. Unofficially, it’s called Patty’s Triangle because a woman named Patty Blackburn caught it on camera on June 14, 2006, near Lansing. In 24 seconds of video, Patty captured an unexplainable …
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People arrive at the Golden Lion in Todmorden and, rather than heading for the bar, walk upstairs to the attic room — haunted, I’m warned — and sit in a circle. This is not a seance: in the middle of the room stands Oscar, the group’s mascot, an 18in silver alien figure with black oval eyes. This …
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The next day, after 98 percent of participants completed the survey, the New York Times revealed the report’s findings, which had been leaked. The following morning, I recontacted everyone who had already taken the previous survey, and showed them that morning’s Washington Post article titled, …
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This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. It’s safe to say that UFOs, now branded UAPs, are back. In recent years, concerns have grown (opens in new tab) that supposed …
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Have space aliens been visiting Earth? That’s the wrong question to be asking about UFOs—or, as they’re now officially called, unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP. Last month the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent Congress a preliminary assessment about UAP. It was produced by …
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Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist who doesn’t hesitate to swim in the shark-infested waters of controversy, is proposing a major effort to find aliens in our solar system, perhaps even in our airspace. He has raised $1.7 million in private funding to launch something he calls the Galileo Project, …
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