Interesting interview with Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute: I’m interested to know how the news of alien life – be it of vast intellect (hopefully not “intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic”) or simply microbial – would be greeted on Earth, and whether this would provoke some great [...]

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This video was captured in Fresno, California on Friday, May 11, 2012. What seems to be a pretty unimpressive piece of footage takes a weird turn (quite literally) at the 10 minute mark. What do you guys make of this one? Could the sudden change of direction be an optical illusion created by the palm tree leaves moving in the wind?

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9News reports of an unidentified object over Denver that on Monday nearly caused a mid-air collision with a corporate jet flying at about 2,500 meters (8,000 feet). The pilot contacted air traffic control in Denver to report the object that flew by the aircraft at close range.

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Metro Pulse—a local Knoxville newspaper—published in February a rather well-balanced article on the Reed family’s abduction experiences. It’s well worth a read if you’re into the abduction phenomenon. Thomas Reed understands that the story he has to tell exists in a realm far beyond the pale of credulity. “I know that this [...]

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The connection? None, unfortunately. Just three unrelated stories I thought were worth sharing with you guys. I’m reading John B. Alexander’s UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities at the moment, and found the recent Electric Politics interview with Mr. Alexander quite interesting. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from [...]

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Interesting reasoning from the former MUFON director James Carrion, who says the entirety of UFO phenomena is explainable as a historical government plot to, initially, scare the Russians: A careful analysis of the events that surround June and July 1947, the birth date of the modern day UFO era shows that [...]

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The sun is back. One of the largest sunspot groups in years rotated over the sun’s northeastern limb this weekend and will soon turn to face earth, with a 70% chance of M-flares and a 5% chance of the more powerful X-flares. Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman tooks this picture of the AR1476 [...]

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