UFO Stuff Update #2

July 21, 2010 – The Daily Telegraph reported today that Barack Obama has indicated that a compromise may be reached in the U.S. government’s long-standing extradition proceedings against British computer hacker Gary McKinnon. Read more…

July 20, 2010 – Father Funes, the Director of the Vatican Observatory, believes that the existence of Aliens would not be a contradiction with the Vatican faith.

This has created a bit of uproar among the faithful. But Funes says that if ET exists they are God’s creatures. Read more…

July 8, 2010 – Disclosure is a hot topic among the various factions of the UFO community. It is perhaps the most divisive issue in the field, polarizing believers of various stripes who otherwise might have little to quibble about. Read more…

July 20, 2010 – UFOs shut down an airport in China’s Zhejiang province and turned heads in a major city, but a renowned space expert says the strange lights in the night sky will likely turn out to be more identifiable flying objects.

Just days after the Xiaoshan Airport grounded flights due to bizarre lights, China’s state-controlled news agency published photographs of a mysterious “diamond-shaped” object sighted over Chongqing, sparking speculation about extraterrestrial visitors. Read more…

July 16, 2010 – What comes to mind when someone talks about a UFO? Do you think about the cover of a science fiction novel and the image of mysterious bluish lights beaming down from it? Do you think about a time when you were out late at night and you saw a flash of light, wondered what it was only to realize a moment later that what you saw wasn’t a UFO – it was just the lights of a plane that was beginning its descent. Do you think of movies, or little green men, cartoons, or do you just turn away shaking your head?Read more…

July 19, 2010 – The Washington Post has begun publishing the results of a two year investigation into the world of Top Secret programs in the U.S. Titled: Top Secret America, the investigation aims to expose the waste, redundancy and lack of oversight of many of the Top Secret programs created in response to the 911 attacks. More specifically, it states: “The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.” One of the findings of the report is that the military chain of command is routinely undermined as personnel are ordered not to reveal their activities to their commanding officers. This supports the claims of whistleblowers who have come forward to reveal cases of military personnel being ordered not to tell commanders about Top Secret programs to which they had been recruited. The programs in question concerned UFO technology and extraterrestrial life, and commanding officers denied access included senior admirals and generals. Read more…

July 15, 2010 – Fredericton ufologist Stanton T. Friedman has been inducted into the Roswell UFO Hall of Fame.

Friedman was appointed to the hall of fame at a ceremony in Roswell, New Mexico, recently during the annual Roswell UFO Festival. Read more…

July 21, 2010 – THE truth is out there – and a group of UFOlogists are hoping local people will help them find it.

The UFO Investigations and Research Unit, based in Shrewsbury, have turned their attentions to Anglesey in their quest to gather information on extraterrestrial phenomena. Read more…

July 14, 2010 – Bad news for SETI: Even with the most sensitive radio telescopes yet designed, humans probably won’t find intelligent aliens by listening in on their phones and televisions, a new study finds.

“Eavesdropping on ET is very hard, even with the latest radio telescopes,” said astronomer Duncan Forgan of the University of Edinburgh, a coauthor of the study. “If we don’t try any other ways of searching for aliens, then we may never find them.” Read more…

July 8, 2010 – Although we have yet to detect an alien ping, improvements in technology have encouraged us to think that, if transmitting extraterrestrials are out there, we might soon find them. That would be revolutionary. But some, Stephen Hawking included, sense catastrophe. Read more…

June 22, 2010 – People who wonder about or even actively research the topics of UFOs and visitors from elsewhere sometimes begin with certain assumptions that may only be partially correct.

We might assume that if we are being visited, these intelligent beings are all biological life forms, though they might be quite different from humans. Read more…

June 30, 2010 – According to accounts released Saturday, April 24, 2010, by the coordinator of an e-mail news and information service, officials of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and other U.S. government agencies have been involved in security activities involving human-appearing extraterrestrial beings in the U.S. Read more…

June 20, 2010 – Over the years many hints have emerged that there might be life beyond Earth. New Scientist looks at 10 of the most hotly-debated discoveries. Read more…

June 29, 2010 – UFO Paranormal Radio Network (link) talk show host Angelia Joiner has devoted her last two broadcasts of the Joiner Report entirely to the Gulf oil disaster, first interviewing documentary filmmaker James Fox, then interviewing scientist Richard C. Hoagland who once served as science advisor to Walter Cronkite. Read more…

June 16, 2010 – Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis now standing outside the Denver International Airport terminal is there to promote a King Tut exhibit opening soon at the Denver Art Museum. But the giant image of the jackal-headed god tasked with protecting the spirits of the dead is alarming some travelers. Read more…

July 22, 2010 – LONDON — Stonehenge, that ancient and mysterious circle of giant obelisks on England’s Salisbury Plain, may once have had a nearby wooden “twin,” according to a pioneering new archaeological survey.

“The idea of finding something as significant and dramatic as this monument, so close to Stonehenge, is just brilliant,” Henry Chapman, an archaeologist at the University of Birmingham and a member of the team that made the discovery, told AOL News. “It will completely change the way we think about Stonehenge and the surrounding landscape.” Read more…

July 14, 2010 – Despite the U.S. military’s insistence that UFOs ceased to be of any scientific or national security interest after publication of the Condon Report in 1968, nuclear missile installations around the world have been a frequent target of UFO activity and, in some cases, otherwise inexplicable shut-downs.

This is a fact verified by both government documents obtained through FOIA requests, as well as eyewitness testimony. Read more…

July 13, 2010 – Guo Zhigang, a citizen in Wuhan, discovered an issue of Commons Daily published in July 14, 1947 that carried news about an UFO. Read more…

June 19, 2010 – A group of 16 seventh-grade students have found a cave on Mars using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.

The schoolgoers were using the THEMIS to find lava tubes on the Red Plant when they came across a small black feature straddling one of the tubes. Read more…

July 21, 2010 – Yahoo News is feeding readers a link to a new video it calls “The elaborate hoax behind crop circles.” The link points to a slideshow of aerial crop circle photography that purports to put the entire phenomenon to rest in under two minutes. Read more…

June 19, 2010 – You have to hand it to those extra-terrestrials: they aren’t just smart, they’re artistic and witty. Every summer since the 1970s, they have parked their UFOs in fields around the world, and set about creating beautiful patterns somewhat prosaically named “crop circles”. And this summer they’ve outdone themselves, having just created a 90-metre wide design in a field in Wiltshire, England, which contains a secret message and a mathematical joke. Read more…