There are thousands of sightings of UFOs – or ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ as the US government prefers to call them – every year.
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If there’s any silver lining to the aerial objects being shot down over North America over the last few days, maybe it’s that North Americans will recognize and appreciate the binational NORAD.
If you see something mystifying happening in Europe’s skies, get in touch with France’s Study and Information Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena. They could well have a rational explanation for you.
What kind of evidence would we really need, before we could reasonably conclude alien contact had been made?
Can the Galileo Project find alien technology?
The history of UFOs weaves together public fascination, government secrecy and cultural phenomena. Recent news and shifts in the government’s stance on UFOs are giving new life to the mystery.
Plus, what’s happening in Chad, three months after rebels killed the president, Idriss Déby.
A new nine-page report, requested by Congress, doesn’t say what the 144 UFO sightings from 2004 to 2021 are, but does say that the government wants to learn more.
The recent Pentagon report has more questions than answers when it comes to UFOs. Here’s why that’s not surprising.
The difference between conspiratorial thinking and believing the official narrative isn’t necessarily as big as you might you think.
Some UFO sightings appear to demonstrate ‘advanced technology’. The Pentagon has confirmed some threaten flight safety, and potentially national security.
One in a million or one in ten? Mathematics can help us work out the odds of whether recent sightings of UFOs are really alien spaceships.
Scientists are not convinced by the current evidence of UFOs. That doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. But have Americans’ belief in UFOs gone from science to a new religion?
A recent statement about “unidentified aerial phenomena” from the Pentagon has provoked surprisingly little public response.
During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, the inability to identify an object within an area of operation represents a significant problem.
About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that there’s compelling evidence to justify serious scientific study and that the skeptics should step aside – for the sake of humanity.
Crop circles are global phenomena gaining attention as paranormal culture becomes mainstream, along with a hybrid approach that emulates scientific investigation.
The movie ‘The Case for Christ’ is released this weekend. A scholar takes a close look at the claims for the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection.
Twenty years ago, the paranoia that consumed cults like Heaven’s Gate existed on the margins of American society. Now it’s moved toward the center of the nation’s political life.
Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar attitude in today’s politics, we may hit a bottleneck for life that leaves a Universe without a single human soul to enjoy it.
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Tutor, School of Communication and the Arts, The University of Queensland
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Professor of History, Penn State
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Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Astronomy, University of St Andrews
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Associate Professor of Religion, Lake Forest College
