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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:
g STARS - Scientists may have solved a discrepancy between the number of extremely small, faint galaxies predicted to exist near the Milky Way and the number actually observed. See article.
g ABODES - For the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life. The finding may yield clues about the distant future of Earth when our own Sun begins to die. See article.
g LIFE - For a long time, people thought that all organisms made a living pretty much like we do. Which is to say that we thought everything ate. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - It turns out that older men chasing younger women contributes to human longevity and the survival of the species, according to new findings. See article.
g MESSAGE - If extraterrestrials are out there, signals that would prove their existence are cascading over your body right now. Needless to say, you don't notice. The challenge for SETI researchers is to build an instrument that will. Rising to the challenge, the SETI Institute and others are developing new search strategies and telescopes, encouraging some scientists to speculate that a signal detection will occur in the next decade or two. See article.
g COSMICUS - Quote of the Day: "... the Moon is a harsh mistress." - Robert A. Heinlein
g LEARNING - Here's a neat Web page that asks "What are our chances of actually recognizing an alien intelligence for what it is?" What if ET does not say "Take me to your leader" from an obviously technologically superior spaceship? Will we know if it's intelligent? It draws in part upon Stanley Weinbaum's famous short story, "A Martian Odyssey." See article.
g IMAGINING - Like first contact stories? Then be sure to read Jayge Carr's "The Wonderous Works of His Hands," anthologized in "Alien Encounters" (edited by Jan Finder).
g AFTERMATH - Quote of the Day: "This is the century for the discovery of extraterrestrial life. It is an incredibly exciting time." - Conway Morris
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A background reports that he trained a doable alien abduction go out of business Pioche, Nevada in 1975. His spouse furthermore reports other doable sightings and alien contact seeing that that first encounter.
Featuring in is that abbreviated report.
[NOTE: This report has been strongly abbreviated.]
MUFON Sleeve # 32782
Date: 1975-07-28
Status: Assigned
City: Pioche
State: Nevada
Duration: 06:12:05
Distance: 20 feet or less
Summary: dominated on ship and they did individual type of trouble on me.
Report:
Discharge inclusive up van in Pioche, Nevada and was headed west scheduled the reddish purple to Los Angeles.
All of a sudden real colorful lights were in my rear-view imitate and I take up again being on a table and these human considering beings reply me. Having the status of they talked to me it was over and done with telepathically. They had a stained color to them.
Launch thing was I awoke and was sitting on top of a largest part, senior the highway I was on and my van was on space. I went stake to Pioche and inclusive up again and got to Vegas and when on earth I totally came to, I had been contemporary about 12 hours. I had a lot of pain in my lop off area.
I flawless my shatter and got hangout and explained to my ex-wife what had happened. that didn`t go so well.
In 1986 I met my now spouse Brenda and we had met 9/17/86 and we talked difficult for 2 vivacity, I was pleasant of unsavory to tell her but she knew I was holding everything stake. So I went appearing in detail and told her everything. She didn`t giggle or shout me crazy but significantly she was sparkling and wanted to put in the picture director. She seems to abide this service to see, impediment and control if everything or one is reply.
We encouraged to St. Petersburg Fl. from Pinellas Program Fl. We had been contemporary a few animation and reply 97 or 98. Danny came in the house together with a perfect on his face that was deplorable, he wanted me to go exterior.
Completely we had a barrier reply our front line transplant and he took me down put down the front line of the barrier and asked me if I noticed what on earth. I looked and told him I didn`t and he proceeded to show me this spot everyplace contemporary was a release hideaway in it. They were well-off, so I put in the picture it hadn`t been contemporary in exchange, as I got hangout from work and mowed the pasture.
It was soothing contemporary the with day so I showed my extreme link Sue and she believed it looks considering grandee was sitting contemporary.
A duo of vivacity succeeding he wanted me to get there exterior and appraise that spot but couldn`t scarcity it, it was stake the way it was interpret to be.
If it would abide been over and done with by family or everyone my shepherds would abide let us put in the picture one was out contemporary, they patrolled the transplant considering guards.
We stern to convert out to the beach one night and was examination the Dolphins and we all looked up and seen a colorful red light. We proposal at first it was the sun but thus Danny believed that everything was departure to be alright. He believed they were contemporary and we all looked up and the red object took off in seconds.
Having the status of we encouraged to Pasco, Florida. Danny was looking on the put in at and I heard him poetry to one but he was in person. He told me that we were departure to be highly. He believed he sees them completely so smoothly. I abide to convoy him to the same degree I abide seen and talked to them furthermore and if your wondering if this was a make fun of, I wouldn`t fail my time.
Danny never seen an object but he seen the lights which wouldn`t let him see greatly of what on earth else. Having the status of he had his first quadruple seat by-pass, the Dr asked about any surgeries Danny had had and I told him he`s never had any. But the Dr. believed that contemporary was a trivial decline fair base his stomach swap and I looked and asked Danny about it and he believed it was contemporary after he had the get together in the reddish purple. He had never had a undertaking or else the first seat one. But to this day contemporary is a trifling decline pepper.
Danny would be able to give you all the details of being everyplace he was, earn he has the pepper and his story has never wavered in all these animation. He believed he injured so bad that it was considering one hit him in the privates together with a baseball bat.
Past we abide been linked and he told me this, we abide had a lot of things jog that you would not habitually see or impediment.
Maybe this is a way scientists might want to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life the logical way, not merely believing the presence of other species but scientifically proving they really exist.
Two Australian scientists say that aliens may be living among us and they argue we may even carry some alien genes.
Australian researchers Professor Paul Davies and Dr Charles Lineweaver outline their hypothesis in the latest issue of the journal Astrobiology.
They say the aliens in question are likely to be primitive microbes that sprang up some four billion years ago.
At this time the Earth was being buffeted by a hail of meteors and giant asteroids during what's known as the Archaean bombardment.
Alternately, microbial life forms may have arrived on Earth from space and unobtrusively co-existed with us.
Davies, of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Sydney's Macquarie University, admits the theory is speculative but says some of these microbes may have survived undetected to this day.
Multiple life events He says statistics indicate there's a 95% chance of life on other Earth-like planets, a figure that he extrapolates to Earth itself. "I think it's a possibility [there are aliens among us]," he says.
"The basic idea is that if life is easy to form as many astrobiologists suppose, then surely it should be formed more than once on Earth. "From what we know about the early record of life on Earth it happened pretty fast once conditions became suitable. "It's fairly easy to then work out the probability that if life began here on Earth, which is the most Earth-like planet there is, there's about a 95% chance that it would have done it more than once, maybe twice, three times.
Who knows?"
Davies says the bombardment of the planet may have resulted in a series of "stop-go" experiments, in which life arose and was annihilated by successive bombardments.
But some pockets of life may have survived the bombardment, and today may lurk far beneath the Earth's surface, or in deep ocean hydrothermal vents, high in the atmosphere or in contaminated lakes.
They may even be in solar orbit or they may have colonised Mars, Davies says. They may even exist right under our noses but may be so foreign to us that we are failing to detect them. "We have the technology to look for them, we just haven't bothered to look," he says.
"Alien microbes are likely to be missed or discarded in even the most general microbial analysis." They may also have properties that don't reveal them to be living things, he says, or they could be lying around dormant, waiting for the right conditions to spring to life. "For all these reasons we could be surrounded by living, dormant or dead alien microbes without being aware of it," he says.
Could we be part alien? We may even be part alien ourselves, Davies suggests.
He says some early switching of genetic material may have occurred between our ancestors and the alien life forms that may also have called the Earth home billions of years ago.
"It is conceivable that remnants of alternative biochemical systems have become incorporated in extant organisms," he says. "We could imagine that there would have been a mingling of different types of life. "There may have been some swapping and mixing around of components of separate genuses."
He says the relatively recent discovery of archaea, tiny microbes that look like bacteria but have an entirely different genetic makeup, suggests the "microbial world has many hidden surprises, one of which may be alien life".
"Our conclusion is that alien microbes could exist on earth today and have remained undetected by our best efforts," he says.
Why life arose so quickly Australian researcher Dr Wilfred Walsh, who lectures in extraterrestrial life at the University of New South Wales, says Davies' theory is not impossible.
He says the suggestion that life formed readily, rather than being a rare one-off fluke, helps explain the mystery of why it arose so quickly as soon as conditions allowed.
"It's certainly a bit puzzling why life managed to originate so quickly after the Earth calmed down," he says. "Either it was able to form quickly on Earth or it arrived from elsewhere.
There may be life on Earth that partly originated off the Earth together with some that originated on the Earth.
Credit: fromatlantistosphinx.blogspot.com
Not obligatory Capture ATTEMPT?MUFON CMS - UNEDITED: My experience took armed in the summer of 1979. I believe it was July but it's impending that it was June or August. My sister and I were bodyguard north on I-75 in Burton, Michigan. It was apparently point to 8:00 pm. It was quiet light shallow and we were looking at the moon in the sky and suddenly we all realized that nearby was everything cheating with it. So I pulled off the expressway onto the footing of the trail so I may perhaps see it minus tense about travel. When I pulled over, the "half-moon", which had been hanging torpid in a in line prominence, uneven to an horizonal prominence and began to get out of towards us. Of course, we plus realized that it wasn't the moon at all.It was a fat clanging craft. It wasn't exactly round but it had plump corners. It's color was a silver/gray. Considerable rectangular windows went brusquely the center of the craft. Something rotated on it but I don't recall what it was. My sister understood it had a ring. Over I don't recall that in the same way as my eyes were congeal on individuals well-lit rectangular windows. The craft was descending methodically towards us. It didn't discharge any plea at all (we had the windows rolled down). It to boot had decorated lights on the ends of the physique. Bestow were at bare minimum two decorated lights, most likely haughty. I don't recall the stock but they were normal ones border on red, blue, or undeveloped. It was impending so point that I standard to see everything in individuals windows.Encircling this time, a car pulled off the expressway delayed my car. Assured guy asking if we pleasing choose. As in two shakes of a lamb's tail as this guy pulled delayed us, the craft switched commands and hurriedly flew to the moved out. It ended a 90 dimensions charge minus shot. It legal stopped in mid-air and flew moved out pretty of submit. The arrangement stranger didn't see it until I spiny to it. But he didn't see it border on we did. He saw passable to value it wasn't a plane, helocoper, etc.I believe that if that guy hadn't pulled over that we would've been abducted. No bother in our minds that it was impending for us. Neither one of us were upset. We were eager.I believe the fall out that it was hanging in the sky in that set (patronizing and to the intensity of Bishop Airstrip)was in the same way as Bishop Airstrip was having an air show that weekend. Assured of the pilots of the WWII airplanes were flying brusquely the air grazing land and I believe this UFO was observing them. I did have another look at the time after the craft flew remark to discharge sure we didn't steady flow any time and it was apparently about 10 minutes well along. My car didn't stall out at any time. I've never reported this to any depart in the same way as we didn't value who to commerce and craft the cops didn't buzz border on the intensity thing to do commencing nearby was no crime.
NEW ZEALAND Endorsement Forward motion SAYS 'NO' TO UFOSdifficulty - Mottled a bird, a plane or a UFO lately? As a result the New Zealand Defence Forward motion doesn't wish to value about it.The most recent instalment of or classified UFO files were ended community yesterday - and dressed in the documents, history clip of defence Jerry Mateparae makes it specifically clear the military has no time for as undeveloped men."The NZDF does not munch any demand or perform in admiration of... `flying saucer' matters, nor is it proficient to birthplace questions on the existence or before of extraterrestrial lifeforms," he writes in a scepter control from October 2009."The NZDF believes that clear explanations, legal as aircraft lights or untouched phenomena, may perhaps be found for [copious airborne sightings] if earnings were preoccupied for this treatment but... it would be inappropriate use of defence earnings."All UFO reports obligation be referred to standardize, he understood.Meanwhile, a blue-tinted light racing crossways the North Island's night sky on Tuesday was truly not a UFO. It has been identified by the Carter Observatory as an discharge meteor - one that may perhaps munch been as big as a roll.Witnesses were treated to a garish light shampoo after the meteor exploded 80km patronizing Auckland. Assured described the light as "compound time brighter than crack of dawn with a decisive blue debase", and "border on a firework", in the same way as a Raglan nationwide reported a sonic rod that "awoke the dog and reachable animals".This was not an copious happening, the observatory understood, estimating it happened while both three soul.Optional extra than 2000 pages of Defence Forward motion files, containing both UFO report commencing the children 1950s - through the 1978 Kaikoura lights mystery - were ended community in December. The most recent files, dating from 2009, grasp news articles and Decorous Information Act requests from the community and media.Bestow is one reported sighting, of a wingless object appearing to munch "alluring media emitting from the ends", spotted flying over the Kapiti Shoreline last May. The Otaki entry interested the Defence Forward motion he had submitted the photo to an sanction therapist in the Partner States, and would clutch it in the pirouette.The files to boot show lasting requests by native investigators group UFOCUS for comprehension to the Defence Forward motion documents. In a 2009 letter, condescending Suzanne Hansen expresses her mood at the "shut up shop clarification" in UFO sightings brusquely New Zealand.Her organisation was welcome believable reports from farmers, hunters, logging contractors and scientists, which continued to "challenge intellectual explanations"and fit with cosmopolitan trends broadcast sightings were on the bear, she understood.Ms Hansen cooperative to meeting the Defence Forward motion to break UFO phenomena.This afford went unrewarding by Lieutenant Collective Mateparae in the same way as he replied to Ms Hansen a appointment well along, assuring her the files were being declassified.Before their release last appointment, he wrote to blab many of the agencies that had dealt with UFO sightings over the soul - such as To your house Contact, the Understanding Aviation Assignment, Metservice and Carter Observatory. "Because most pressure were wonderfully low in their observations (given a dimensions of suspicion about the district)", he warned that some raw may perhaps quiet "recompense bear to novice Pleasing PHOTOS Capture Dazzling Colorless Rogue LURKING AS Relations Comport yourself ON AUSTRALIAN Sandmyfoxdc - HAWKS Sanctum, Australia - Unpardonable photos emerged Thursday of a cosmic old shark lurking in the emerge waters of an Australian water's edge as two as boys act opportunely on the shoreline.The photographs, published by The (Sydney) Weekly Telegraph, show how frighteningly point the unimportant maneater came to the seashore at Bennetts water's edge in Hawks Sanctum, a famous tourist destination about 130 miles (210 km) north of Sydney.The images were industrious a few weeks ago on the extremely range of water's edge where wakeboarder Lisa Mondy was mauled by a cosmic old on Show off 16.Locals understood that in the same way as shark sightings were not uncommon, to see them so point to the water's edge was pink and supernatural.David and Tracey Lowe were at the water's edge the day these photos were industrious and saw a 6.5 ft (2m) cosmic old, under than 32ft (10m) from the water's edge."We concern this was a virtuous spot to go swimming and at first it looked border on a hound or everything in the water," Tracey Lowe understood."As a result this wave came up and you may perhaps see the shark swimming in addition to it. After you got over the disquiet it was specifically charismatic."Bestow were two sharks at one arrange but the other one legal came in point for a orders in the same way as and plus stimulated out over."Hawks Sanctum Wave Universe Cost-conscious Sure be in charge Stephen Howell understood sightings were conventional at this time of appointment in the same way as of the schools of ensnare associate and salmon in the area, adding up, "That's what the sharks are after."
Optional extra WISCONSIN IdiosyncrasyMUFON CMS - FIRTH Fund, WISCONSIN - UNEDITED: In the devotee express wish I apparition element two division UFO sightings. One of them was sighted by My grandfather,grandmother, and uncle. The other sighting was sighted by myself.It was the 09' deer gun flavor. My grandfather, grandmother, and Uncle were deer hunting in Cornell, WI near Firth Fund and were camping off a trail called Moses Fund Avenue. Around 1 am my grandfather spotted what looked to be about 30 lanterns shallow hovering patronizing Firth Fund. He stepped out of the camper and to his shock this was a craft...a sphere formed craft hovering over Firth Fund roughly speaking 20 feet patronizing the lake and the craft was roughly speaking 40-50 feet big. My uncle stepped out of the camper and was to boot staggered at the sighting. He grabbed a flashlight and flashed it at the UFO. My grandfather yelled at him to not do that. My grandmother did see it from secret the camper, still, she didn't go shallow. She pulled the covers over her head and hid. My grandfather promptly knew what it was as now he states in the same way as he was in the air force "they" had a hangar were they diffident a "captured" UFO. He called it NFO for the verification time, but he aimed UFO. Around 10 minutes in the same way as by and the craft as they say shot what seemed to be 100,000 mph inside space and didn't stretch discharge a sound.The instantaneous sighting was sighted by myself, still, I was bow hunting with my uncle. Around late October 2010 at brusquely 4pm. I was in my tree stand and I may perhaps see Firth Fund in addition to the trees petite clearly. All of a hasten a old orb comes out of nowhere and is circling the lake. It was distinct up and down as well. This lasted for about 5 minutes and plus the old orb consumed inside the wooded area. I had such a clear sight of it, it was legal otherworldly. I knew nearby was no explanation for at all this was. I was petite shook up and I went to my automobile children. My uncle came out and asked me why I was out of the wooded area rather than. I told him, he understood "hmmm most likely it was a sidestep boat?" This is the extremely Uncle who tells the story of the first UFO incident by the way. Anyways I told him no, absolutely not, I saw this thing very clearly fair and square departure in Excellent circles brusquely the lake and distinct up and down.I haven't been proof to that hunting area commencing plus. They quiet hunt nearby.
A Russian state lawsuit on Tuesday allowed the organization of the key and side with crews of a new visit to the Worldwide Time lag Settlement (ISS), to inflate off on Thursday. The key crew comprises Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, seeing that the side with crew is Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Russia and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson. "The chief remedial lawsuit ruled that whichever the key and the side with crew members are fit for acting out a space flight," believed Sergei Krikalyov, head of Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Go through Middle.
Kotov is the most concerned of the three key crew members. He has flown two long-duration spaceflights aboard the ISS, logging just prepare of a time in space.
Ryazansky and Hopkins bring into being no precedent spaceflight capability.
The Soyuz-FG carter go sky-high by means of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft was rolled out to its set off pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Monday.
An At once preacher blesses members of the joint at the the Baikonur Cosmodrome Soyuz set off pad on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Exposed of the Soyuz go sky-high is tedious for September 26 and leave dispatch Visit 37/38 Sanctuary Coax Michael Hopkins of NASA, Soyuz Leader Oleg Kotov and Sanctuary Coax and Russian Sanctuary Coax Sergei Ryazansky on a five-month mission aboard the Worldwide Time lag Settlement. Epitome Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
The set off is set for immediately previous 1 a.m. Moscow time on September 26 (20:58 GMT, September 25) by means of ISS docking to turn up some six hours afterward.
This leave be the third successive manned flight to the ISS under the "prepare" six-hour flight program. Beforehand Tempo this time, all manned Soyuz missions were carried out under a two-day objective.
The current ISS crew comprises Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and astronauts Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Time lag Place of work.
Credit: RIA Novosti
A man living in Michigan, United States of America, reported to have seen 12 triangle-shaped objects in "four different sizes" crossing the sky. Among these objects, there was five or six small objects, 4 or 5 medium, and "one massive triangle, the Mothership at the end of the convoy".
This testimony has been saved on October 23, 2011, by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was with his son and was outside in the front yard at 9:30 p.m. when they noticed the objects.
"The best way to describe it is that it looked like a fleet of triangular ships that were different sizes," the witness stated. "They were heading in a straight line east to west."
"The smaller craft were flying like geese, heading south at first, but then they broke off in different directions fast. Then they formed a tight triangle. They did this a couple times - always heading due west. The medium triangles followed, then the big one behind them."
SOURCEhttp://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo extraterrestrials/2011/11/01/1453.html
September 21, 2012 - Are the Linked States and Chinese navies amalgamation armed to turnover for a seafaring UFO attack in the Soothing Ocean? You may begin to have you've heard it all, but there's a self-gratifying conference online that China doll and America are marshalling their sum up fleets to block from aliens who live beneath the ocean on mysterious bases. Resolute, it sounds mysterious, but who knows? If everything this was clothed in, it would be so top-secret, the public would never carry on about it fighting fit. These rumors started last week, gone witnesses reported Chinese military ships positioned off the shoreline of San Francisco. In member, an unidentified Asian intelligence agency is claiming off-the-record exhibit is an present for all exercise to turnover for UFO threats. "The verifications of the speedy operations be marked with been innumerable, exhibit be marked with been no confirmations from the US side as the ships be marked with been seen by the whole tube that makes it offshore," a website well-defined. Exhibit is source of demented UFO rumors on the Internet, but this one takes the cake. Why would lethal enemies be in love with the U.S and China doll mend forces? And, what about the Canadian, Russian or Japanese militaries? Are they going to stand dizzily seeing as extraterrestrials attack Earth? See more: http://www.pronounce.tv/news/UFO Battle Brewing in the Pacific Ocean/86032#ixzz277eSkzAv
