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This video of a weirdly sparkly UFO was taken a few days ago in the skies above Tijuana, Mexico. Could it be the same UFO that taunted police by flying over an airport in Mexicali last week, leading to a high-speed chase? More »
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Early Monday morning, an unknown hum reverberated across Costa Rica, leaving citizens and experts throughly confused. According to OVSICORI, the Costa Rica Volcanologist and Seismologist Organization, there was no tectonic activity at the time. What were some other suspects for this brontide, or aural cryptid? Explains The Tico Times: More »
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You may remember that Jesus Christ walked through Siberia to die in Japan, but did you know that Moses skipped the cross-continental jaunt and took a spacecraft instead? Also, were you aware that his tomb is now a tourist trap? More »
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Should you look up Foxoak St, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64, United Kingdom on Google Street View and move the camera toward the sky, you may notice something a bit off. I don't know what's more disconcerting: proof of alien battle cruisers or the fact that they've been cribbing human designs. More »
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It looks like we've had our first UFO landing of the year, in the hilly desert of Peru. No word yet on who or what parked this two-seater spacecraft, but maybe we'll know more once researchers figure out how to open the hatch. More »
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Over at UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock, the UFO experts have put together an end-of-year feature about why 2011 was the year of the Orb. Above, you can see one of several videos they've posted to illustrate their point. This particular video was filmed by an "Orb caller," whose commentary track must be heard to get the full lowdown on my favorite new UFO feature, known as "molecular plasma." More »
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On November 13, Antonio Urzi captured this stealthy bubblecraft buzzing over Cinisello Balsamo in Italy. Here's a six-minute take on the story. Remember, if you're trying to sell your UFO footage to the public at large, be sure to score it with the Pure Moods soundtrack. Gentle synths wash away all skepticism! Take it away, Jaime Maussan. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5866049&view=rss&microfeed=true This week a conference on UFOs, science and consciousness was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the city where gamechanging SF movie District 9 takes place, but apparently that movie has less hold on locals' imaginations than recent flop Cowboys & Aliens does (see io9's glowing review of Cowboys & Aliens here). One of the conference organizers told attendees that aliens have been coming to Earth for millennia to mine for gold. More »
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The International Raelian Movement might be the world's most science-fictional religion — at the very least, they're up there with Scientology. Their founder claims he met the aliens who created the human race, and their main ritual involves sending your DNA to an alien planet. The group announced they cloned a human baby in 2002. They want to rebuild African women's clitorises in a special Pleasure Hospital. More »
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Behold a giant-headed alien mummy that turned up in Peru. Stare into the all-knowing eye sockets of an alien that somehow wound up on Earth many years ago, and was mummified by the locals. But what was is it doing here? More »
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The White House has responded to two petitions asking the US government to formally acknowledge that aliens have visited Earth and to disclose to any intentional withholding of government interactions with extraterrestrial beings. More »
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In an attempt to dissuade citizens from wasting emergency operators' time with stupidity this Halloween, the Hertfordshire Constabulary in England has released an example of a very unimportant phone call. In the above audio clip, a concerned chap calls 999 after mixing up the Moon with an unidentified flying object. "It's not an emergency per se," notes the caller. The hell you say? More »
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In a 1954 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, the magazine ran a wonderfully rosy piece titled "FLYING SAUCERS FOR EVERYBODY!" This short piece detailed how flying saucers would ameliorate arduous commutes in the far-out year of 1965. More »
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On August 12th, 1883, Mexican astronomer José Bonilla was preparing to study the Sun at the recently opened Zacatecas Observatory. However, the Sun's surface was marred by numerous objects quickly travelling across its disk. Over the course of the day and the next, Bonilla exposed several wet plates to take images of the 447 objects he would observe. They weren't released publicly until January 1st, 1886 when they were published in the magazine L'Astronomie. Since then, UFOlogists have crowed these photographs as the first photographic evidence of UFOs. The chief editor of L'Astronomie passed the observations off as migrating animals, but a new study proposes the observation was due to the breakup of a comet that nearly hit us. More »
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This is the only picture available of a UFO that has been terrorizing residents in the state of Missouri for the past few days. Apparently the brightly-lit vehicle has been flying low over cars on the highway, and appears to break up into smaller craft. Dozens of witnesses have reported seeing it, boosting Missouri to a "UFO Alert" level 3. The state had the 8th highest number of UFO reports in the U.S. last month. What's going on? More »
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Meet Shu Mansheng and his 18-foot-diameter octocopter. This device — which uses eight motorcycle engine — set Shu back $3000 and can hover for 10 seconds at a height of three feet. The action starts at approximately 4:30. No word on whether he'll be able to steer this DIY air chariot out of his home village of Dashu. More »
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According to Serbian news, on September 10, a man snapped a UFO floating over the town of Bukovac. He's offered the footage up for analysis and has gone so far to recruit a physicist at the nearby University of Novi Sad to check out the film. And to make matters weirder, the air force had no record of civilian flights over Bukovac at that time. Finally, a reason to use that #SerbianUFOParty2011 tag I've been forever itching to implement! More »
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If you ever visit Eastern Australia, there's a rare chance you may encounter the Min Min light, a spectral luminescence that trails the viewer and is often mistaken for a UFO. But what causes this bizarre flickering pursuer? More »
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Earlier this week, a stereotypically round UFO flew over and shut down Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in southwest China. It wouldn't be summertime without some high-profile Chinese UFO sightings, and this was one was most certainly not a lantern. More »
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Sure it's fake, but who cares when it looks this cool? Unlike your usual UFO vid, this one is in perfect focus — though there is a bit of Blair Witch-style shakycam and panting. So far no word on what this is, but it looks a lot like a UFO vid from Britain that came out last year, showing a jet chasing a saucer. Now, apparently, the saucer and jets are friends. Hooray for interstellar peace. More »
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During a talking-head interview on Britain's Channel 4 News, a UFO zipped by the head of MP Tom Watson, prompting confused viewers to contact the television station. Honestly, folks! The naivety here astounds me — any self-respecting citizen knows that there are UFOs in the background of every news broadcast. More »
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Last week, Tim Heidecker (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame) was minding his own business when an entire UFO fleet began to descend upon the neighborhood of Greenpoint. The reality of this invasion shocked and dismayed the Adult Swim actor — he really should have called in Dr. Steve Brule to investigate. More »
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Several days ago, we reported that a Swedish team of shipwreck hunters discovered a strange, circular object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea that looks sort of like the Millennium Falcon. The group was using sonar to plumb the depths of the waters, hoping to find shipwrecks that might contain treasures they could sell. The Ocean Explorer team isn't sure what to make of this strange discovery that some are calling a crashed UFO, but they've released more information about it. More »
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On June 19, maritime treasure hunters — who were looking for priceless submerged hooch in shipwrecks — discovered a 60-meter-diameter circle 87 meters under the Baltic Sea. Are these the remains of an alien vessel or Cthulhu's personal pan pizza? More »
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Here's another addition to the burgeoning Argentinian UFO files. An angel and/or space squid was recently unveiled by Argentinean news, and it unabashedly waggled its cosmic tendrils at a confused cameraman. Saucy cephalopod seraphim, taunting us Earthlings with your appendages! More »
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Over the past few weeks, we've heard about several UFO sightings and mysterious animal mutilations in Argentina. Here's the latest UFO sighting. More »
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This guide is brought to you by Atlas Obscura, and is dedicated to this question: If aliens ever do make contact with the earth... Where will they park? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5808595&view=rss&microfeed=true In her new book "Area 51," Annie Jacobson uncovers some of America's best-kept military secrets - including how a general's fatal joyride in a captured enemy fighter almost uncloaked the entire base. [On Jalopnik] More »
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In this gallery, photographers show us unidentified cloudy objects. These are clouds that look so weird that it's as if some kind of alien vessel shaped them. And who knows? Maybe one did. More »
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It's unclear whether this memo is a hoax, but it has just appeared on the FBI's "vault" website, devoted to once-classified documents that have become public. The brief memo contains information from an Air Force informant about "flying saucers." More »
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According to Norwegian press, the Oslo Airport in Gardermoen, Norway grounded flights last Thursday after an unknown glider was seen hovering around the airport. Here's an account from Norwegian news (with a pounding guitar soundtrack dubbed in to boot). More »
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Several people in the southern United States reported seeing a crazy green light shooting overhead on March 23. One wrote to the Lights in the Sky blog: More »
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According to the state-affiliated Fars News Agency, Iran has built an unmanned flying saucer for surveillance purposes. And yes, the above photo is the shot of Zohal that's being circulated by the press: More »
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A UFO recently made Brazilian television when it buzzed a São Paulo motorway before zipping off in an explosion of capirinha-colored energy. More »
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Or at least this lone camerawoman (who was armed with a night vision attachment) did. This footage of extraterrestrial dropships (or weather balloons or spontaneously combusting sparrows or whatever) was recently taken outside of Pittsburgh. More »
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In next month's Battle: Los Angeles, invading aliens go to war with the American military. It's science fiction...except that a panel of UFO experts claims it's factual. At a recent Sony Pictures press conference, the studio emphasized the movie's "based in fact" premise by giving us a chance to chat with a pair of ufologists and two retired military officers who both claim to have had encounters with UFOs during their service. More »
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Last week, a UFO buzzed over Utah and jettisoned an unknown cargo. Does this have to do with last week's not-world-ending bioweapon facility shutdown? Also, take a look at the Jerusalem UFO we posted yesterday from a different angle. More »
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In this clip take on Friday, a ball-shaped UFO descends over Jerusalem only to zoom back into the sky. Is this some sort of camera legerdemain or ancient astronauts dropping by for some decent shawarma? More »
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The biggest news from Wikileaks today isn't that the US embassy in Jakarta requested $100,000 to get a million people to "like" them on Facebook. Apparently, the UFO cable has been leaked. More »
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Reports of weird glowing lights and "shining globes" emerging from the sea have circulated in Chilean coastal towns for years. When last year's earthquake hit, these sightings increased. The recent quake saw another wave of UFO reports. More »
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