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FOX 7 Austin viewers took video of mysterious lights in the sky over Texas in September. The United States’ space agency announced it has selected 16 individuals to participate in the much-awaited study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or what are more commonly referred to as UFOs. The team will …
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Tribute Spoof Does a video that shows a stage-lighting support hitting an astronaut as he descends onto what appears to be the moon’s surface prove that Apollo 11’s July 20, 1969, moon landing was fake? No, that’s not true: This video was produced as a tribute to moon-landing conspiracy theories. …
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“We’re stepping in a new territory,” said Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and defense contractor who is co-chairing AIAA’s Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Community of Interest. He’s joined by Ravi Kopparapu, a planetary scientist at NASA who is studying the potential habitability of …
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra is endowed with the gift of prophesy. But Cassandra is also cursed; her prophesies are never to be believed. As former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke writes in “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes,” modern-day “Cassandras” – experts who …
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Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet’s shape (and even its circumference) in the third century B.C.But a fringe society founded in the 1950s, dedicated to insisting …
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HARRINGTON, Lincoln County — Come with me on a trip into UFO land, with the believers, the skeptics — and a guy like me. I have never seen a UFO, but I write feature stories, and when you write feature stories, you inevitably veer off into the unconventional. In many ways, a modest manufactured …
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The claim: Video shows Buzz Aldrin admitting the moon landing didn’t happen An Instagram post claims to show astronaut Buzz Aldrin admitting that the famous 1969 moon landing “didn’t happen.” The Oct. 4 post features a video showing an audience member asking Aldrin, who is seated on a stage, what …
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Listen 6 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students and the public how to sort fact from fiction in our digital and …
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Did Not Happen Has NASA classified people vaccinated against COVID-19 as “Homo Borg Genesis”? No, that’s not true: This term cannot be found in any of the agency’s publicly available documents, and NASA’s representative told Lead Stories the agency hasn’t changed “the classification of humans.” The …
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Renewed activity from the U.S. military and Pentagon appears to have reenergized fantasies and theories about the presence of life on alien planets. Disclosures from the security agencies about its work to identify what the Pentagon calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” has sparked new claims and …
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