After 75 years of taboo and ridicule, serious people can finally discuss the mysterious flying objects, and even skeptics say that’s a good thing.
The discovery is a “big deal” if true, but still needs to be confirmed
The vast majority of examined incidents were not caused by U.S. advanced technology programs, the forthcoming report concludes. So what’s going on?
The Moon has two ‘sides,’ one that perpetually faces the Earth and another that perpetually faces away from our planet. Many refer to this as the Moon’s far side, one that hasn’t gotten as much attention from scientists as the part we can directly observe. That has slowly changed, however, and now NASA plans to join the work.
LAST YEAR, reported sightings of unidentified flying objects increased in the US, Canada, and across the globe. In August, the Pentagon reported the formation of a task force intended to investigate UFO sightings. Recently, The New Yorker printed thirteen thousand words on the history of the US government’s approach to UFOs, in a piece titled “How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously.” The article explored the nature of consensus, taboo, and our collective willingness to suspend disbelief. After the publication of the New Yorker piece, The Ringer asked its author, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, whether he believed in the possibility of extraterrestrial life (he didn’t commit to a simple yes-or-no answer). Forbes wrote, “The Media is taking UFOs seriously. Should we?”
Huge star, 25,000 light years away, dims by 97% then slowly returns to former brightness
Regardless if they are really extraterrestrials, there’s much we can learn from recent sightings.
Jupiter, Saturn and numerous giant exoplanets discovered to date consist mostly of hydrogen and helium. In 1977, planetary scientists predicted the existence of helium rain layer inside such planets. However, achieving the experimental conditions necessary to validate this hypothesis hasn’t been possible — until now.
The Pentagon, along with other federal agencies, is expected to release a report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) this month that includes a detailed analysis of UFO data as well as plans to centralize future data collection.
Satellite images of the field recently got The Internet’s attention, but it’s been a fixture at the secretive facility for more than 50 years.
