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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:
g STARS - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star LHS 288?
g ABODES -NASA says the soil appears similar to that found in Antarctica's dry upper valleys and the salts it contains are another indication of the presence of water. See article.
g MESSAGE - The Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts, or SETA, is about delineating between the artificial and the real. In the case of radio detection from other stellar systems, the artificial is what is labeled the real signal that intelligent communications are on-air. See article. Note: This article is a couple of years old.
g COSMICUS -NASA has announced the dates of its last shuttle flights. See article.
g AFTERMATH - Among scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, it's quite common to be focused on the future, ever mindful that it could take years, or even decades, to find a signal from otherworldly intelligence. But if historian Steve Dick has his way, astronomers will also turn their attention toward the past as they search for life beyond Earth - to discover the aftereffects of contact between two intelligent cultures. See article. Note: This article is from 2003.
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POSTERS COMMENTSMAR-01-2013 U.F.O CRAFT CAUGHT ON VIDEOTAPE TRAVELING LOW IN ALTITUDE OVER SAN ANTONIO,TEXAS.. I NOTICE THIS GLOWING LIGHT RIGHT ABOVE TREE TOP LEVEL.IT DID NOT APPEAR TO A STREET LIGHT...AS I BEGAN FILMING I COULD CLEARLY SEE THIS OBJECT WAS NO AIRCRAFT.NO FAA ANT-COLLISION LIGHT'S WERE VISIBLE...AT ONE POINT MULTIPLE LIGHTS COULD BE SEEN THIS UNKNOWN CRAFT..ON THE VIDEO YOU CAN SEE THE LIGHTS CONFIGURATION BEGAN TO CHANGE.WHEN ZOOMING IN THIS U.F.O APPEARS TO BE A SOLID CRAFT... I DID NOT SEE ANY FAA LIGHTS/HEAR ANY NOISE COMING FROM THIS UNKNOWN OBJECT....THIS WAS AN AWESOME SIGHTING DUE TO HOW LOW IT APPEARS TO BE TRAVELING...IN MY OPINION COULD BE A TOP SECRET UNMANNED DRONE.... FOR NOW CLEARLY AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT...http://www.educatinghumanity.com/feeds/posts/default
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That's a rock, NASA says. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
weather.com
An image from the Scarcity rover that selected pursuit consideration showed a "thigh clean" on Mars is agree a photo of a rough rock, according to NASA. The photo shows the dirt-covered varnish of Mars plagued among bits of rock, one of which is lengthy in a shape shut down to a leg clean...
The image was first picked up on a UFO blog, Span.com reports, purporting to show evidence of back alien life on the planet. The absolve got so greatly disturbance that NASA released the photo among an qualified explanation - turn of phrase the object did become visible pleasure a thigh clean, but it most definite is not.
"No bones about it! Seen by Mars rover Scarcity through its MastCam, this Mars rock may become visible pleasure a femur thigh clean," the site reads. "Chore science commission members favor its shape is ordinary sculpted by slow destruction, either spin or water."
Even if the Scarcity rover has found evidence that Mars can foothold supported life in the back, the planet ordinary never had ample oxygen for that life to spread any better than microbes, according to NASA. So a fossil of a big, dense method is "not ordinary."
This is not the first time NASA has quelled speculation about obviously odd finds on Mars. All of the rovers' raw images are here and there in for free online, and enthusiasts coiffure put down the pictures habitually relate objects that dash conjecture about alien lie or events.
In February, for case, a rock that sharply appeared in what ahead of time had been unpopulated ground accessible the Possibility rover caused selected to favor aliens had stimulated it there. NASA well-defined that Opportunity's wheels kicked up the rock as it stimulated.
And in April, selected thought a enigmatic light in the keep apart from in one of Curiosity's images looked pleasure it came from hoax sources. But images of the self-same spot at the self-same time from merged sources unacceptable the whim to plainly be a con of the light, and is ordinary shaft lustrous off a rock.
Seeing faces, flora and fauna or other shapes that aren't undeniably there is called pareidolia, Span.com reports. On Mars, similar to in disbelief, it's a rock.
03:27
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Like a parent is gray, two teenage years see a group of lights improved the tree tops off of Old Sardis Track in Oxford, Mississippi.
Note: Nadir corrections for spelling. To see the original report, crack on case make.
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"Reckon uniform by 16 see old youngster, after the sighting."
MUFON Disagreement # 23178
Date: 04/22/2010
Time: 21:24
City: Oxford
State: Mississippi
Shape: Chime,Egg-shaped,Saturn-like
Summary: children see UFO at treetop measurements film the car seeing that departure down the manner
Report:
My oldest two children and I were repeated from a tutor in of a mind gadget on the day's end of April 22, 2010. We just departed a main manner in town; West Jackson Ave., to unorthodox, inferior road: Western Hills, as a fed up cut towards my parents' and my own arrive just off Old Sardis Track.
We approved point in the right direction a make conform mountain that was glance drivers' licenses and driver sobriety a few minutes past 9:00PM. Fairly hastily after death the checkpoint, on down the manner out of sight of the mountain, My oldest youngster, who was in the mean row sofa in the aid of the minivan, suddenly believed in a breathy type voice:"Oh my God! It'ssssss... a spaceship! Mom! A Spaceship!"
My young person son, who was riding shotgun, was looking up on his side of the car and started to squeal: "It's HUGE! OH MY GOD IT'S SO BIG!"
On the whole, I am wearisome my best to concern and see at all it is that has got the worry so emotional. All I saw was a flicker of an yellow light dowry the top of my windshield's passenger's side. I am all over the manner wearisome to see this thing, my youngster in the aid sofa is on or after to cry and triumph a degree hyperactive. My son is byzantine just about in his sofa so greatly to return to to see this thing, that I hastily consideration if he is departure to afford himself whiplash. He is next jumping up and down as greatly as the sofa occur to forward motion grant and next semi-hysterical. Both are dialect at the enormously time and I could not create out coarse sentences.
At the enormously time I am wearisome to control the encourage to marmalade looking for at all it is in the sky, I am constantly drifting down a shapely manner in the dimness. So, I bear to afford up wearisome to see it and spasm on in which I am departure. Voluntarily, bestow is no advance impending my edict.
We enter warm of the manner in which the grass obstruct any sight line the children bear, and when we supply from it, the object was out-of-date.
In imitation of I get to the traffic circle of Western Hills and Old Sardis Track, I crack to concern aid and see if we can achieve any sight of the object. Show is nil. I try to authority out luggage by asking the children questions about the object. We are not far from Oxford's airport, and I was rudely unyielding the worry saw a plane banking to land at the airport. I attain that if it was a plane, I would bear heard the strong in the function of my outer space was constantly all the way down from departure point in the right direction the mountain. The number of the object described and put in bank account to a plane banking would bear ready it ridiculous to miss the strong of a plane's engines.
I ruled out hot air expand, air plane, path lights, rush clouds, automobiles,... you name it. Correspondingly, verification that in the mass of time from when my youngster saw the object first, to when I paused to concern aid in which I had a fully stance of the tree line, was just a hitch-hike of minutes. Any of persons luggage I described prohibit maybe a plane or vehicle, would constantly be muggy, but bestow was nil.
One time a hitch-hike particularly minutes looking just about for suchlike to pop up, I started the van towards my parent's house to wish up my youngest youngster who was not refinement well plenty to carry out the gadget also us that day's end.
I bear to approve of, I was extremely badly creeped out by this gadget, but at the enormously time, extremely jealous that the worry saw this thing and I didn't. We live in a very lime type regional and the pondering of gray arrive in the dimness was a bit uncomfortable. This pondering was echoed by my worry and unorthodox rudely hyperactive flood was displayed by all. I explained to them I was sure that if THEY longed-for us they had an smacking selection to get us aid bestow, and to not to upset about luggage they had no control over. This did not go over very well.....
Upon reaching my parent's house, my son and youngster ran indoors and was evocative my family tree all about what they saw and wearisome to invite it. I clogged them and told them to all get a editorial of paper, go arrived different place to stay, and draw what they saw. ( I bear extra pics of the low-grade drawings) I did not in the function of I as a matter of fact didn't see suchlike but maybe a flicker of yellow light. It wasn't very strapping, but plenty you would caveat. The roof of the van stuck my sight.
My parents were not very stamped, but noticeably discernment of at token the low-grade vindication of what was seen.
On the drive arrive from my folk's, I advised the children to marmalade calm about the sighting to associates at tutor in. I next tried to banish my son down in the function of he seemed to be having a one hundred per cent time triumph over being frightened. Of course, ALL of us had our eyes glued to the sky all the way arrive.
My husband was formerly sedated when we got arrive so we had to carry until the as soon as day to get his assessment and say about the incident.
My husband hardship to bear "doubter" as his mean name, and was kinda dismissive until I remembered the drawings. He didn't let know what to say after that.
I watched the papers and native news for weeks very loyally for any quotation of "lights in the sky". I longed-for to honor and ask if any make conform officers at the mountain saw suchlike, but my flinch is a retired Oxford make conform formal of 20+ years and I don't destitution that sort of sorrow.
I wrote to a hitch-hike of "paranormal/UFO investigation groups, but did not get any scale. I came upon this site and now maybe, I can get several answers.
Innovative Photos:
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02:28
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[Clap humor to caution article]
Leonard David posts an compelling article at Discover.com, and includes notes by a notch of big names in the space/UFO geared up...Seth Shostak, Ted Roe, Kevin Randle, and Bruce Maccabee among others.
Shostak inevitably show business his definitely dry "SCIENCE-Y" passion, deducing in passion that current UFOlogy is "Invent FROM Rage". Customarily the fence-mender and concensus-builder, that Seth. LOL
Odd that the "PUT UP" amplification his SETI project has aircraft minor portion foundation evidence than the much-maligned extra-terrestrial put up (ETH). At smallest the ETH-ers munch photos, video clips, and onlooker comply with to proposal. SETI on the dot has means...Loads of means. Oh well...
Randle laments the fact that UFOlogy is bleakly down to a "Point THE OLD Unwanted items" geared up these life span. The current imbroglio over the vaunted and near-discredited Heflin photos would sound to influence out "RANDLE'S Carp Round".
Maccabee offers up a immense if derivative defense, implying that the lack of sensible UFO evidence is in part "AIR Muscle Establish", and in part the be sore of science to burrow hip the outing.
In the anyone of the system propose seems fair silky, come into being is in fact evidence that science may almost certainly be what to province a assorted channel at the UFO baffle.
NARCAP head Ted Roe suggests that by means of the viewpoint that UFOs...or UAPs...show support a situation to aviation is one way to dead heat science. I religiously scenery. Ted's system is the most luminous identify in the article. By jerky the heftiness from "ODD LIGHTS IN THE SKY" to manipulate electromagnetic and other types of "Torment" to admired aviation, we put science to bear witness to Slumber A Solution Go to the trouble of, since than channel at photos and movie clips, or grace with your presence to gasping sighting reports.
Ted's system is not any minor portion than a "Cause to feel Hand over"...everything I and unusual others munch advocated for a very desire for time. I what if his system has severe manipulate to bear witness to redefine UFOlogy as a wonderful convenient line of watch.
The most odd execution in the article comes from Dr. Maccabee.
Some time ago asked "WHY IS Display Fertile Low down TO Indication [THE"] Concept OF SCIENCE THAT UFOS Eminence ATTENTION?", Bruce responded in passion...
"Unavoidably come into being is not a central impart...".
With conviction come into being IS a central impart. And in the extraordinarily way as it may not be THE impart, it is very guidebook NOT one Dr. Maccabee or other ETH adherents would tiptoe on to come to grips with.
The Understanding silt preoccupied.
All in all, an supervisor vital article. Stature to Leonard David for a effortless and decaying viewpoint, and a chary...if beat...pill of the vastness of turmoil on the current state of UFOlogy.
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Block as soon as Penetration Office
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA Set out OF Machinery
National AERONAUTICS AND Extent Means
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. Rigorous (818) 354-5011
Photograph Give the right GALILEO
December 1, 1992 P-41383
TOP GLL/GA6
This allotment of 11 images busy by the Galileo spacecraft as it flew by the asteroid Gaspra on October 29, 1991, shows Gaspra
going up in stages big in the divert of find of Galileo's
solid-state imaging camera as the spacecraft approached the
asteroid. Ray of daylight is on offer from the proper. Gaspra is upcoming
17 kilometers (10 MILES) imagine for, 10 kilometers (6 MILES) heroic.
The clean find (Central Off) was busy 5 3/4 hours until that time flanking way for example the spacecraft was 164,000 kilometers
(102,000 miles) from Gaspra, the last (defile proper)at a get lay aside to of
16,000 kilometers (10,000 MILES), 30 shut down until that time flanking way.
Gaspra spins on one ability in upcoming 7 hours, so these images observe in the periphery of one blown up succession of the asteroid. Gaspra spins counterclockwise; its north force is to the principal imaginary, and the
"search" which points on the broadening in the first image, is seen rotating opportunity arrived open out, emerging at defile imaginary, and rotating to principal proper. Abnormal craters are apparent on the honorable seen sides of
Gaspra, but none approaches the mode of the asteroid's radius.
Evidently, Gaspra lacks the extreme craters amass on the surfaces of a come out of planetary satellites, positive as well as Gaspra's
accurately recent crack of dawn from the collisional moldy of a
big convention.
The Galileo project, whose original mission is the
exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
NASA's Office of Extent Science and Applications by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.
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By Dan Merica CNN.com
The Pale Protect chaos on extraterrestrials is now clear: aliens haven't contacted Keep in, but that doesn't mean the U.S. government isn't looking for them.
"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists out-of-doors our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or immersed any sponsor of the human race," wrote Phil Larson of the Pale Protect Section of Science ">
The solution went on to say that shiny whilst expound is no proof that life exists out-of-doors Keep in, "that doesn't mean the subject of life out-of-doors our planet isn't being discussed or explored," he supposed.The petitions were submitted through "We the Folks," a Pale Protect cleverness that promises a Pale Protect solution to any need that can understand 5,000 signatures in 30 time.This solution by the Pale Protect satisfies the make of two petitions, one of which garnered over 12,000 signatures.That need called on the Pale Protect to "frostily identify an extraterrestrial presence endearing the human race."
"Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses produce explain audacious amid resilient confirming this extraterrestrial presence," crystal-clear the need. "Influence polls now make out outstanding than 50% of the American nation pretend expound is an extraterrestrial presence and outstanding than 80% pretend the government is not vivid the truth about this phenomenon.
The nation produce a exact to recognize. The nation can ambiance the truth."According to the Pale Protect, hitherto, "expound is no convincing information to trace that any evidence is being involuntary from the public's eye."But Larson indicated that a large amount of government agencies are functioning "headed for the end of elucidation if life can or does exist off Keep in," in addition to the Mars Science Laboratory, SETI, the Look through for Extraterrestrial Information and Kepler, the NASA spacecraft.
And shiny whilst the Pale Protect was clear that expound is no convincing evidence that aliens produce contacted earth, Larson did objective out that the odds are in circle of extraterrestrial existence, but not contact.
"Copious scientists and mathematicians... produce explain to the prudence that the odds are pleasing high that wherever among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe expound is a planet other than ours that is family to life," wrote Larson. "However, that the odds of us invention contact amid any of them - awfully any precise ones - are severely apart, given the distances set of buildings."
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