Tag: UFO

What the hell, America? First, your stupid voters deny Massachusetts women the right to go topless in public, and now you've crushed the hopes of space aliens who might, just might, have wanted to drop by Denver for some Rocky Mountain hospitality. The Colorado city has overwhelmingly rejected Initiative 300, which called for the establishment of an Extra Terrestrial Affairs Committee. The ...

Forty-three-year-old Londoner Gary McKinnon is facing extradition to the U.S. (as well as up to 60 years in a U.S. prison) if convicted of hacking into government computers, reports the BBC. He also has Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism disorder. After numerous failed attempts to have her son tried in the U.K., McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp (pictured) is pleading directly to President Obama ...

When Orson Welles' famous radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' pretended that aliens had invaded in 1938, Americans didn't fare too well, becoming panicked and believing the staging was real. So when a similar trick is played on British school children 71 years later, it's no surprise the gag didn't go as administrators had planned. At a Sussex-based elementary school, an event designed to ...

Share Anything's possible in this age of Photoshop and CGI, but before all that came some pretty crazy pictures. Whether you believe or not, these possibly extraterrestrial newspaper sensations, seen by many and photographed by few, mark some of the world's greatest mysteries. ...

NASA video footage recently uploaded to YouTube by a user named 'secretnasaman' has created a stir among UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists, alike. The hotly debated films come from different space missions, and capture odd, moving lights in the background. In the above film, which follows a test satellite, a light appears at the bottom of the frame around the 1:18 mark and then slowly ...

When NASA footage from the 1990s was recently uploaded to YouTube, it sparked a renewal of the debate over whether or not the government conceals knowledge of alien activity. Fittingly, FOX News has created a list of military planes and contraptions that may confuse amateur sky watchers and inspire visions of extraterrestrial visitors. According to the story, the CIA attributes half of all UFO ...

Despite their green appeal, there are a lot of people out there who aren't too pleased by the increasing prevalence of wind turbines. People say they kill birds, ruin views, make irritating noises, and are a general menace. Some residents in a sleepy town in England are wondering if visitors from other planets hate the things, too, and are indicating that one of their wind turbines was destroyed ...

Moller International will end an eBay auction for its '80s flying car prototype -- dubbed the M200X -- on Tuesday, according to BoingBoing.net. While there have been any number of flying cars introduced over the years (like this one and this one, for instance), the M200X should really garner the most praise from sci-fi fans, as its UFO-like aesthetics are very much in line with that genre's ...

Do aliens exist? Most scientists will tell you that it's hard to imagine there not being life somewhere out there, given the vastness of the universe. The more controversial question is whether that alien life is coming to visit us here. According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, astronaut aboard the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, not only has alien life been here to Earth, but our government is covering it ...

While moviegoers will be filling multiplex seats this weekend, hoping to be transported to a place of adventure and a little fantasy with the latest 'Indiana Jones' blockbuster, Steven Spielberg is busy working up another kind of transporting experience, this one more in line with themes from his sci-fi classic 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' 'The Rising' (the Web site is currently just a ...

Flying saucers? Alien encounters? It may sound cliché to seriously consider visits from little green men descending from saucer-shaped spacecraft, but the British government is releasing first-person accounts from people who have claimed to see unidentified flying objects. Among these encounters are indeed alleged visits from space dudes in green. A spokesman for the National ...

You know that UFO that was spotted in Texas last week? The one that was supposedly a mile long and traveling at 3,000 miles per hour while being chased by military F-16's? Well, the military has a fairly simple explanation. It turns out it wasn't a UFO that was being chased by F-16's, it actually was F-16's -- ten in fact -- flying in formation with lights on that may have created the illusion ...

Wondering how yesterday's MacBook Air got so thin? Some, of course, think it was just the result of decades of research by Apple techies. We think we have a better explanation, though: alien technology. Don't believe us? According to the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, several witnesses say they spotted something mysterious in the air over Texas last night. Said unidentified flying object (UFO) ...

Wired is celebrating 60 years of flying saucers with an article giving a brief overview of the history of UFOs, aliens and conspiracy theories -- everything from Roswell to tales of abduction to the 1995 Fox special 'Alien Autopsy' is covered. Apparently, even the Spielberg film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was initially subject to suspicion. UFO enthusiasts believed the film was part of ...

A user on Flickr, rajman1977, has stirred up a bit of interest with a series of photos called "Bizarre Thing in Sky". The photos were supposedly taken by rajman while visiting his fiance's parents in California. They show what he describes as a "bizarre thing in [the] sky." It gets more interesting: Last month, someone names Chad claimed he saw a similar object while hiking near Lake Tahoe, a ...