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This is a list of extraterrestrial beings that have been reported in close encounters, claimed or speculated to be associated with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) (not to be confused with the meaning of the term "alien species" in the biological science of ecology).
- Is E.T. phoning us from Proxima Centauri? The answer to weird signals happening in the universe is never aliens, until maybe it is. Earlier this month, researchers announced that they had captured a very mysterious beam of energy in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum at 980 megahertz, coming from the closest star to our own.
- Alien bacteria might live in the clouds of Venus. Astrobiologists were a-twitter with anticipation and skepticism in September when news broke of potential evidence of life in the upper clouds of Venus.
- 'Oumuamua could still be an alien artifact. Two years ago, scientists spotted a cigar-shaped object hurtling through the solar system. Dubbed 'Oumuamua, the entity is considered by most to be an interstellar comet flung out from around another star.
- Navy declassifies UFO videos but don't believe the hype. A fair number of Earthlings don't care what ambiguous evidence scientists come up with to show that aliens are out there.
- UFOs are real (and the government knows it) In June, the Pentagon released a highly anticipated report detailing 144 UFO encounters between 2004 and 2021.
- Black holes could be alien powerhouses. While alien hunters spend plenty of time searching for habitable planets beyond our solar system, a study published in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society warns that scientists shouldn't overlook nature's most extreme objects: Black holes.
- Alien planets may look nothing like Earth. Typically, the search for alien life begins with the search for Earth-like planets — but there may be another class of alien world that is just as conducive to life, a study published in the Astrophysical Journal in August contends.
- One of Saturn's moon still holds potential for life. The methane wafting from Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, may be a sign that life teems in the moon's subsurface sea, a June study found.
Oct 28, 2023 · Seager believes we'd confirm the existence of alien life only with sample-return missions — collecting samples from another planet or moon and bringing them back to Earth for study, in-situ ...
- Patrick Pester
Jun 29, 2021 · Flipboard. Email. Late last year the Senate passed a bill that required U.S. intelligence agencies to share what they know about "unidentified aerial phenomena," the technical term for UFOs. That...
Jan 18, 2021 · January 18, 2021. Encountering aliens would be surprising; the fact that we haven’t yet heard from any is perhaps even more so. Illustration by Paul Sahre. On October 19, 2017, a Canadian...
Oct 12, 2023 · Real scientists are searching for alien life. Don’t let the kooks distract you. ... Perhaps it was a type of reconnaissance craft, a vessel propelled by the wind-like push of starlight on its ...
