July 8, 1947: Just a couple of days after a shiny cylindrical object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release that says the military has recovered the remains of a “flying disc.” Although the statement was quickly retracted to be a weather balloon, the announcement set the groundwork for the most controversial UFO cover-up of all time.
Tag Archive: Space
SYDNEY — “A bright spiralling light, believed by astronomers to be a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, was spotted in skies across Australia’s east coast just before dawn Saturday, sparking a UFO frenzy,” reports the AFP. View full article »
Robbie Williams forked out $14.5 million last year on a seven-bedroom country mansion in England, said to have been inspired by his fascination for aliens. View full article »
While it’s not expected to arrive in theaters until next summer, the new J.J. Abrams-directed and Steven Spielberg-produced Area 51 movie “Super 8″ is already generating a lot of attention.
There’s something very comforting when a scientist as well regarded as Stephen Hawking admits to keeping quiet for fear of “being labeled a crank” reports Chris Matyszczyk for CNET.com. View full article »
Alien encounters may seem like sure-fire winners to Hollywood, but one of the world’s most famous scientists thinks they may be “too risky” be be worth seeking.
This compilation includes many NASA UFO encounters/sightings that were archived over the years. All of these examples were captured on film by NASA astronauts or Russian Cosmonauts over the past half-century – showing many amazing examples from different eras – Gemini, Apollo, Apollo/Soyuz Test Project, Skylab, STS, the ISS, plus a couple Russian-source additions from their unmanned Zond and Mir Space Station programs.
(CNN) — British billionaire Richard Branson’s dream of space travel that thousands of people can afford took a leap toward reality with the maiden flight of the world’s first commercial spacecraft over California’s Mojave Desert.
“A newly discovered exoplanet is the first such alien world to resemble the planets in our own solar system, researchers announced Wednesday,” reports Andrea Thompson for Space.com / MSNBC.com. View full article »
“The official Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence or SETI is 50 years old – And we are apparently still alone,” reports Scott Lafee for SignOnSanDiego.com. View full article »
“The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday,” reports Space.com.
USA Today has a very cool Flash timeline that shows the International Space Station being built section by section. Check out the website here.
“Aliens are less likely to be able to pick up signals from Earth and make contact – Fainter broadcasting signals and digital switchover mean Earth will soon be undetectable to extraterrestrials,” Robin McKie for Guardian.co.uk.
“The off-world paparazzi are out in force, speculating on the possibilities of alien life. Some scientists are initiating a much more active approach in pursuit of alien intelligence on other planets,” reports TopNews.us.
SETI Opens All Data and Coding to the Public – “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) just announced that it is releasing all information to the public. SETIQuest.org was launched on Wednesday to facilitate the release and help coordinate an ‘army of citizen scientists’ to help search for anomalies in interstellar microwave patterns,” reports Ole Ole Olson for NEWS JUNKIE POST.
By NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE - This week marks the 20th anniversary of a photograph. It’s a very dramatic photo, even though, at first glance, it’s mostly dark and seems to show nothing at all.
But if you look closely, you can see a tiny speck of light. That speck is the Earth, seen from very, very, very far away.
Two decades ago, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck became the first person to ever see that speck, sitting in front of a computer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California. “I was all alone, actually, that afternoon, in my office,” she recalls…
‘My Debris field is bigger than yours,” reports Jeremy Hsu for Popular Science. “Space debris remains one of the biggest challenges for a space-faring humanity in the 21st century, as even the smallest pieces can pose a serious threat to satellites, manned spacecraft and the International Space Station – Now our friends at Fast Company have stumbled on a nifty infographic by Austrian designer Michael Paukner that lays out the space clutter situation more clearly.”
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that its high-powered airborne laser successfully shot down a ballistic missile during a recent test.
With the Obama administration axing a proposed manned space flight back to the moon, this could be just the right time for a robot that’s also an astronaut. Far fetched? Check out what NASA and General Motors just created.
FOXNews: A video purporting to show a UFO drifting over Ireland is making the rounds in British tablets. But what does it really show? A triangular formation of lights was filmed flying at night at “incredible speed”. Experts reckon the sighting near the River Liffey in Dublin could be a secret aircraft – or spacecraft.
Speeding through the vacuum of space at a mere 11,000mph – The object, officially called P/2010-A2, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in January. The strangest thing is not only the X-shaped object, but the fact that its 460-foot-wide nucleus is outside the dust halo and separated from the trail. This behavior is something never before seen before in a comet – If it’s even a comet.
The budget request, released Monday, would scrap NASA’s Constellation program to build the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets for new manned moon missions — a $9 billion investment to date. The request calls for $19 billion in funding for NASA in 2011, a slight increase from the $18.3 billion it spent in 2010.
(CNN) — NASA says it has launched an investigation after finding cocaine in a processing hangar for a space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A small amount of cocaine was found in a restricted area of the processing hangar for the shuttle Discovery, NASA said in a statement.
One second-hand space shuttle… Anyone? “Looking for a good deal during the recession? Space geeks don’t have to look any further than NASA, where they can pick up a retired space shuttle for the bargain-basement price of $28.8 million,” reports Jason Paur for Wired.com.
London, England (CNN) — The portrayal of alien life on far-flung planets has been a favorite storyline for filmmakers down the years and is a perennial hit with audiences. “Avatar” has proved no different with the film doing record business at the box-office. In “Avatar,” humans visit an alien moon called Pandora. Scientists believe that habitable moons may soon be a scientific fact.
WASHINGTON — The list of known exoplanets in the galaxy just got bigger, thanks to the first observations from NASA’s new Kepler space telescope, which found five new lightweight worlds orbiting distant stars. View full article »
MOSCOW – “Russia’s space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely,” reports Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press Writer.
(CNN) — Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival if they just lived in a hole.
Astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that’s similar in size to Earth. “Astronomers say they have detected a planet just six and a half times as massive as Earth – at a distance so close its atmosphere could be studied, and with a density so low it’s almost certain to have abundant water,” reports Alan Boyle for MSNBC.






















