UNKNOWN Source Behind This Weeks Daylight Meteor Shower
This week, Earth is passing through a stream of debris from an unknown source, and the encounter is causing a meteor shower in broad daylight. The shooting stars are mostly invisible to the human eye. Astronomers know the shower is underway because the meteors reflect radio waves. According to data from Canada’s Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR), there is a hot … Continue reading
US B-52 Bomber Intercepted By Russian Su-27 Over Baltic
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet was deployed to intercept a US B-52 strategic bomber over the Baltic Sea, and in a separate incident hours later, a MiG-31 intercepted a Norwegian warplane approaching Russian airspace near the Barents Sea. Russia’s air defense detected the aircraft on Tuesday morning at around 7:00 GMT, the statement said. The Su-27 of the Russian Baltic … Continue reading
Mysterious ‘SOS’ Sign Found in Australian Outback
Police in Western Australia have been investigating a large ‘SOS’ sign discovered in a remote area. The distress signal, which was spotted by a helicopter pilot, prompted an extensive search of the region over fears that someone may have become stranded out in the middle of nowhere. The letters ‘SOS’ had been spelled out by arranging dozens of small rocks … Continue reading
Carl Sagan on How Humanity Would Transform if Aliens Contacted Earth
FIRST CONTACT If mankind were contacted by an alien race, how would the world react? How would people change? In his novel, Contact, the late, great astronomer Carl Sagan explores this fascinating question. I recently had the pleasure of reading Contact, and one of the aspects I most admired about it was Dr. Sagan’s humble suggestion that communication with an alien race … Continue reading
Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election Revealed by Top-Secret NSA Report
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept. The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes … Continue reading
Citizen Scientists Discover New ‘World’ Near Sun
A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a brown dwarf a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun. Just six days after the launch of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 website in February, four different … Continue reading
Results of Egyptian Mummy DNA Analysis Revealed
The DNA results offer important clues about Egypt’s past. Scientists have revealed the results of a recent study in to the DNA of 151 ancient Egyptian mummies. The remains, which were unearthed at the ancient burial site of Abusir el-Meleq along the west bank of the lower Nile River, date back from around 1400 B.C. to 400 A.D. Acquiring genetic … Continue reading
Taped Interviews Reveal Israel Planned to Detonate Nuclear Bomb in 1967 War
A prominent US think tank is claiming that in 1967, Israel hastily made plans to set off an atomic bomb if it appeared they would not emerge victorious from the Six Day War. The plan, codenamed “Operation Shimshon (Sampson),” was to detonate a nuclear weapon on top of a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula, and though the operation never got … Continue reading
Mysterious Chunk of Ice Falls From the Sky onto Coral Florida Neighborhood
The sky was apparently cloudless when this ‘ice chunk’ came crashing down. Could this have been a smaller comet type object that started out a little bigger but was reduced to a fairly harmless size by the friction of entering our atmosphere? Jesse Pagan from NBC2 reports: Some Cape Coral residents have a mystery on their hands after a big … Continue reading
Did Putin Secretly Acknowledge the Existence of the Men in Black?
Has Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the ranks of conspiracy theorists who believe that many world leaders – excluding himself and his Russian counterparts – are aliens working with the Men in Black? In a wide-ranging interview this week with the French newspaper Le Figaro, Putin may have let something slip out unintentionally: I have already spoken to three US … Continue reading
