excited, Brazelton said.
That is because "it
Alien 'Lurkers' Could Be Covertly Watching
Us From Space, Physicist Says
BY PETER DOCKRILL
OCTOBER 01, 2019
They're called 'lurkers', and they may have
been covertly surveilling us from space for
millions of years – since before we even
existed,
perhaps.
We Could Detect Extraterrestrials Because
They May Glow, Scientists Say
By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff Writer August
21, 2019Space
Alien life-forms could glow in spectacular
reds, blues and greens to shield themselves
from stellar bursts of ultraviolet (UV)
radiation. And that glowing light could be
how we find them, according to a new study.
Aliens
Aliens can refer to everything from little
green men in the sci-fi realm to microscopic
life forms beyond Earth. For all these
possibilities, Live Science has you covered.
We break down the latest discoveries that
hint at life on other planets and the state of
scientific searches for such extraterrestrial
life. Sometimes, we may dissect a "little
green man" sighting as well.
The 'Lost City' of Atlantis Massif Could Reveal
How Life Survives on Dark, Alien Water
Worlds
By Yasemin Saplakoglu June 28, 2019 Planet
Earth
Chimneys of the deep
When hydrothermal vents were discovered
in the late 1970s, astrobiologists were
represented a second kind of energy for life."
Planets that might not have great access to
sunlight could still harbor life, he said.
In the years that followed, scientists found
evidence that other water worlds, such as
Saturn's sixth largest moon — Enceladus —
has similar hydrothermal vents. Most of
these water worlds, unlike our planet,
probably don't have enough magma to
power these chimneys, he said. But they do
have the ingredients needed for
serpentinization to occur — these worlds are
composed of the same iron-based rocks
found in Earth's mantle and they are
surrounded by water, he added.
"We have pretty good clues as to what
[these water worlds] are made of," said Marc
Neveu, a research scientist at NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center who wasn't a part of the
talk but who researches Enceladus.
It's definitely possible that serpentinization is
fueling hydrothermal vents on these distant
water worlds, Neveu told Live Science.
However, those vents may not resemble the
chimneys on Earth, he said.
If that's the case, our alien world and the
microbes that live in it may not exactly mimic
other alien worlds.
Navy Confirms Existence of 'Unidentified'
Flying Objects Seen in Leaked Footage
GINA MARTINEZ
September 19, 2019
A Navy official has confirmed that recently
released videos of unidentified flying objects
are real, but that the footage was not
authorized to be released to the public in the
first place.
Aliens, flying discs and sightings -- oh my! A
short history of UFOs in America
By Eric Levenson, CNN
Area 51
Long thought to be the location where the
US government stores and hides alien bodies
and UFOs, the mysteriously named location
in Nevada has been the focus of alien
conspiracies for decades.
The area has long been a focus of public
interest for citizens and presidents alike.
John Podesta, chief of staff to President Bill
Clinton, said that his former boss had "asked
for some information about some of these
things, and in particular, some information
about what was going on at Area 51."
Area 51 has been a prominent pop culture
reference and made a notable appearance in
the alien invasion movie "Independence
Day."
"I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft
silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a
mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was
truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned
because I was turning to the west looking for
the distant Phoenix Lights," Symington
wrote. "To my astonishment this apparition
appeared; this dramatically large, very
distinctive leading edge with some enormous
lights was traveling through the Arizona sky."
Symington, a former Air Force officer, said it
did not look like a man-made object. And he
ruled out the Air Force assertion that the
object was high-altitude flares.
"I was never happy with the Air Force's silly
explanation. There might very well have
been military flares in the sky that evening,
but what I and hundreds of others saw had
nothing to do with that," he wrote.
Symington thanked those who were
speaking out about their mysterious
encounters, and called for the US
government to be more open about what
really happened.
"We want the government to stop putting
out stories that perpetuate the myth that all
UFOs can be explained away in down-to-
earth conventional terms. Investigations
need to be reopened, documents need to be
unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue
can no longer be shunned," he wrote.
History of UFOs
BY HISTORY.COM EDITORS
In popular culture, the term UFO–or
unidentified flying object–refers to a
suspected alien spacecraft, although its
definition encompasses any unexplained
aerial phenomena. UFO sightings have been
reported throughout recorded history and in
various parts of the world, raising questions
about life on other planets and whether
extraterrestrials have visited Earth. They
became a major subject of interest–and the
inspiration behind numerous films and
books–following the development of
rocketry after World War II.
Project Blue Book
Sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena
increased, and in 1948 the U.S. Air Force
began an investigation of these reports
called Project Sign. Cold War tension was
mounting, and the initial opinion of those
involved with the project was that the UFOs
were most likely sophisticated Soviet
aircraft, although some researchers
suggested that they might be spacecraft from
other worlds, the so-called extraterrestrial
hypothesis (ETH).
Within a year, Project Sign was succeeded by
Project Grudge, which in 1952 was itself
replaced by the longest-lived of the official
inquiries into UFOs, Project Blue Book,
headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1952 to 1969
Project Blue Book compiled reports of more
than 12,000 sightings or events, each of
which was ultimately classified as (1)
“identified” with a known astronomical,
atmospheric or artificial (human-caused)
phenomenon or (2) “unidentified.” The latter
category, approximately 6 percent of the
total, included cases for which there was
insufficient information to make an
identification with a known phenomenon.
READ MORE: Meet J. Allen Hynek, the
Astronomer Who First Classified UFO 'Close
Encounters'
The Robertson Panel and the Condon Report
An American obsession with the UFO
phenomenon was under way. In the hot
summer of 1952, a provocative series of
radar and visual sightings occurred near
National Airport in Washington,
D.C.Although these events were attributed
to temperature inversions in the air over the
city, not everyone was convinced by this
explanation. Meanwhile, the number of UFO
reports had climbed to a record high.
This led the Central Intelligence Agency to
prompt the U.S. government to establish an
expert panel of scientists to investigate the
phenomena. The panel was headed by H.P.
Robertson, a physicist at
the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology in
Pasadena, Calif., and included other
physicists, an astronomer, and a rocket
engineer. The Robertson Panel met for three
days in 1953 and interviewed military
officers and the head of Project Blue Book.
They also reviewed films and photographs of
UFOs.
Their conclusions were that (1) 90 percent of
the sightings could be easily attributed to
astronomical and meteorological
phenomena (e.g., bright planets and stars,
meteors, auroras, ion clouds) or to such
earthly objects as aircraft, balloons, birds
and searchlights; (2) there was no obvious
security threat; and (3) there was no
evidence to support the ETH. Parts of the
panel’s report were kept classified until
1979, and this long period of secrecy helped
fuel suspicions of a government cover-up.
Flying Saucers
The first well-known UFO sighting occurred
in 1947, when businessman Kenneth
Arnoldclaimed to see a group of nine high-
speed objects near Mount Rainier
in Washingtonwhile flying his small plane.
Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-
shaped objects as several thousand miles per
hour and said they moved “like saucers
skipping on water.” In the newspaper report
that followed, it was mistakenly stated that
the objects were saucer-shaped, hence the
term flying saucer.
The Roswell UFO Incident
The same year that Arnold saw the flying
objects, rancher W.W. “Mac” Brazel came
across a mysterious 200-yard long wreckage
near an Army airfield in Roswell, New
Mexico. Local papers reported it was the
remains of a flying saucer. The U.S. military
issued a statement saying that it was just a
weather balloon, though the newspaper
photograph suggested otherwise.
The flames of conspiracy were further
fanned in the 1950s, when dummies with
latex “skin” and aluminum “bones” that
looked eerily like aliens fell from the sky
across New Mexico and were hurriedly
picked up by military vehicles. To those who
believed in the earlier Roswell sightings, this
seemed like a government cover-up. For the
Air Force, these “dummy drops” were a way
to test new ways for pilots to survive falls.
Fifty years later, the military issued a
subsequent statement admitting that the
Roswell wreckage was part of Project Mogul,
a top-secret atomic espionage project.
Other investigations of UFOs
Despite the failure of the ETH to make
headway with the expert committees, a few
scientists and engineers, most notably J.
Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Ill., who had been
involved with projects Sign, Grudge and Blue
Book, concluded that a small fraction of the the lack of sound, changes in brightness or
most-reliable UFO reports gave definite color, and strange shapes.
indications for the presence of
extraterrestrial visitors. Hynek founded the
Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which
continues to investigate the phenomenon.

Aside from Project Blue Book, the only other

official and fairly complete records of UFO
sightings were kept in Canada, where they
were transferred in 1968 from the Canadian
Department of National Defense to the
Canadian National Research Council. The
Canadian records comprised about 750
sightings. Less complete records have been
maintained in the United Kingdom, Sweden,
Denmark, Australia, and Greece. In the
United States, CUFOS and the Mutual UFO
Network in Bellvue, Colo., continue to log
sightings reported by the public.

In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs were

often prompted by tests of secret military
rockets. In order to obscure the true nature
of the tests, the government sometimes
encouraged the public’s belief that these
rockets might be extraterrestrial craft but
eventually decided that the descriptions
themselves might give away too much
information. UFO sightings in China have
been similarly provoked by military activity
that is unknown to the public.

Possible explanations for UFO sightings and

alien abductions

UFO reports have varied widely in reliability,

as judged by the number of witnesses,
whether the witnesses were independent of
each other, the observing conditions (e.g.,
fog, haze, type of illumination), and the
direction of sighting. Typically, witnesses
who take the trouble to report a sighting
consider the object to be of extraterrestrial
origin or possibly a military craft but
certainly under intelligent control. This
inference is usually based on what is
perceived as formation flying by sets of
objects, unnatural—often sudden—motions,