From Around the Web

They claimed they’d hit a creature from outer space on a Georgia highway. People got excited.0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- December 3, 2019
By their own admission, the three roommates had been out “honky tonking” that night. It was a little after 11 on July 8, 1953, when Edward Watters, 28, Thomas Wilson, 20, and Arnold “Buddy” Payne, 19, found themselves traveling down a lonely stretch of Highway 78 west of Atlanta. Wilson and Payne shouted for Watters to stop. He slammed the brakes, but it was too late. They’d hit something.

By David Aragorn
University takes U-turn, deletes press release that claimed aliens living on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 3, 2019
A few months back, a top NASA scientist had suggested that alien discovery will be made within 2021

By David Aragorn
Researchers identify a minimoon fireball 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2019
A team of researchers at Curtin University studying data from Australia’s Desert Fireball Network has identified a minimoon fireball. In their paper published in The Astronomical Journal, the group describes how they found the fireball and the methods they used to show that it had come from a minimoon.

By David Aragorn
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2019
At a two-day ministerial meeting held in Seville, Spain this week, the European Space Agency’s member states approved the most ambitious plan to date by agreeing to provide nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.8 billion) for the next three years to boost the future of ESA and the whole European space sector. This is the agency’s biggest increase in funds in the last 25 years.

By David Aragorn
‘Dust Towers’ Spotted on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2019
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed a high number of ‘dust towers’ — concentrated clouds of dust that warm in sunlight and rise high into the air — during the global Martian dust storm in 2018.

By David Aragorn
Baseball star captures ‘Bigfoot’ on deer cam 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 30, 2019
Tigers infielder Jordy Mercer has posted up two still images of an alleged Sasquatch on his property.

By David Aragorn
Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawn 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2019
Around 12 billion years ago, the universe emerged from a great cosmic dark age as the first stars and galaxies lit up. With a new analysis of data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope, scientists are now closer than ever to detecting the ultra-faint signature of this turning point in cosmic history.

By David Aragorn
Bad luck may have caused Neanderthals’ extinction – study 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 29, 2019
Homo sapien invasion may not have prompted Neanderthals’ demise 40,000 years ago

By David Aragorn
A surprisingly big black hole might have swallowed a star from the inside out, and scientists are baffled 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2019
About 15,000 light years away, in a distant spiral arm of the Milky Way, there is a black hole about 70 times as heavy as the Sun.

By David Aragorn
Birds, balloons, or a UFO: What violated DC airspace?0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- November 29, 2019
An extremely compelling unidentified flying object incident occurred over Washington, D.C., in 1952. Did another UFO pay a visit to D.C. on Tuesday?

By David Aragorn