11 Stories on UFOs and Alien Abductions
Britain's Ministry of Defense has released files on UFO sightings dating back to the 1970s, including witness accounts and the government's response.
This week Britain's Ministry of Defence begins releasing all its files
about UFOs
on a government website, free for download
Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday
Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping
flying saucers in the English countryside when scientists, academics
and schoolchildren compete later this year to design the next
generation of military equipment
Ten Air Force Reserve F-16 fighter jets were the cause of the lights seen over parts of central Texas earlier this month that many believed to be UFOs, according to an Air Force Reserve news release.
In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality.
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And if the number of times you slap the snooze button every morning is any measure, those are some darn good times.
For decades now, eyes and sky have met to witness the buzzing of our world by Unidentified Flying Objects, termed UFOs or simply flying saucers. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to purportedly share the friendly skies with us.
When pictures from NASA's Mars rovers were beamed back to Earth, many were disappointed by the absence of images of alien life. For those of us who support the search for E.T., our attention must continue to focus here on our home planet.
Ten years ago, if you owned a paper shredder, you were probably the kind of person who knew a little too much about the Roswell UFO crash and was convinced that the CIA spied on you via your German...
Britain's Ministry of Defense has released files on UFO sightings dating back to the 1970s, including witness accounts and the government's response.
This week Britain's Ministry of Defence begins releasing all its files
about UFOs
on a government website, free for download
Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday
Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping
flying saucers in the English countryside when scientists, academics
and schoolchildren compete later this year to design the next
generation of military equipment
Ten Air Force Reserve F-16 fighter jets were the cause of the lights seen over parts of central Texas earlier this month that many believed to be UFOs, according to an Air Force Reserve news release.
In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality.
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And if the number of times you slap the snooze button every morning is any measure, those are some darn good times.
For decades now, eyes and sky have met to witness the buzzing of our world by Unidentified Flying Objects, termed UFOs or simply flying saucers. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to purportedly share the friendly skies with us.
When pictures from NASA's Mars rovers were beamed back to Earth, many were disappointed by the absence of images of alien life. For those of us who support the search for E.T., our attention must continue to focus here on our home planet.
Ten years ago, if you owned a paper shredder, you were probably the kind of person who knew a little too much about the Roswell UFO crash and was convinced that the CIA spied on you via your German...
I got a call the other day from a fellow at a think tank here in town. He said he had some "good news": His organization was holding a daylong seminar on "free-market-based solutions to the Social ...
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