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Some scientific explanations for alien abduction that aren’t so out of this world

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Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and 
encounters with “real” aliens reflect high levels of public interest in 
UFOs and the belief that there is “something out there”. However, many 
psychologists are less convinced, and think they can provide more 
down-to-earth, scientific explanations.<br />
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Belief in aliens has increased steadily since the birth of modern 
alien research in the 1940s and 1950s, following the news surrounding a <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/roswell">classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico</a>. Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/09/24/you-are-not-alone-most-people-believe-aliens-exist/">as high as 50% in 2015</a>.
 And despite the fact that it is considered rare, a significant number 
of people also believe they have experienced alien abduction.<br />
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Present day awareness of alien abduction dates to the 1961 case of <a href="http://www.library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/betty-and-barney-hill-papers-1961-2006">Betty and Barney Hill</a>, who witnessed odd lights and experienced “missing time” and “lost memories” while driving. The reported <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/ufowarning/ufowarning13.htm">consequences of abduction</a>
 are often loss of memory, missing time, and problems such as sickness, 
sleepwalking, nightmares and psychological trauma. Following their 
experience, Betty and Barney experienced psychological problems and 
subsequently sought therapy.<br />
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Although the accuracy of the numbers is questioned, a <a href="http://www.experiencer.org/mental-health-professionals-and-the-roper-poll/">poll by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research</a> conducted 30 years after this account said that around 3.7m Americans believed that they too had experienced alien abduction. <br />
Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes 
created for financial gain or social advantage. Perhaps Roswell is the 
most famous example. Initial reports from the 1940s left sufficient gaps
 of explanation for Ray Santilli to release in 1995 <a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/59331/roswell-ufo-crash-what-really-happened-67-years-ago">what he claimed was film footage showing an alien autopsy</a>
 from the time, further confusing the issue. He later admitted it was a 
hoax. The incident sparked controversy and prompted claims that an alien
 craft had crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and that US authorities
 were involved in a cover-up.<br />
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The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few 
cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 
“experiencers” are frauds. In fact, psychologists have come up with a 
number of plausible, scientific explanations for people’s supposed alien
 encounters.<br />
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Personality traits</h2>
One explanation is that when people believe they have had an 
experience of alien abduction, they have misinterpreted, distorted and 
conflated real and imagined events. Hence, sceptics of alien encounters 
explain them away in terms of psychological processes and personality 
characteristics. <br />
Several <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2769875.stm">studies</a>
 report that experiencers do not typically differ from non-experiencers 
on objective psychopathological measures – those that assess 
psychological well-being and adjustment – and have no history of mental 
instability. However, one characteristic that is associated with 
abduction experiences is a <a href="http://skepdic.com/fantasyprone.html">proclivity for fantasy</a>.<br />
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Mixed evidence supports the theory that fantasy-prone people engage 
in elaborate imaginings and often confuse fantasy with reality. There 
are also other psychological explanations, such as dissociation – where 
an individual’s mental processes detach from each other and from 
reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events. A 
tendency towards being fantasy-prone and dissociation has been linked in
 <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327965pli0702_9">studies</a> to <a href="http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc15.htm">childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility</a>.<br />
Psychologists argue that hypnosis <a href="http://www.lifeandpsychology.com/2011/06/alien-abduction-or-false-memory.html">encourages the creation and recall of detailed fantasies</a>. For example, Betty and Barney Hill’s account was <a href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/ns94.html">typical of reported alien encounters</a>:
 medical examinations or procedures, communication with alien captors, a
 powerful, mystical feeling, tours of spaceships and journeys to other 
planets before being returned to the car. And it was under hypnosis that
 these “missing memories” were “recovered”. <br />
It’s for these reasons that it’s believed alien abduction experiences
 may arise from a combination of personality characteristics and 
susceptibility to false memories.<br />
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Brain sensitivity</h2>
Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, <a href="https://braindecoder.com/post/neuroscience-of-sleep-paralysis-1113306867">also could explain claims of alien abduction</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.sleepeducation.org/news/2009/07/29/sleep-paralysis-the-devil-the-ghost-the-old-hag">Sleep paralysis</a> is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move, which occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. <br />
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Experiencers’ claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a 
sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the 
environment. The inability to move, a feeling of fear or dread, and the 
sense of another presence – perhaps evil or malevolent – are common 
symptoms. Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest and 
difficulty breathing, and of being held or restricted to a lying 
position: most sleep paralysis attacks occur while the individual is 
lying on their back.<br />
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Sceptic <a href="http://www.michaelshermer.com/2005/02/abducted/">Michael Shermer</a>
 once collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race 
and his support team rushed to his aid. Shermer was caught in a “waking 
dream” and so perceived them as aliens from the 1960s television series <a href="http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/05/dvd-review-the-invaders-the-first-season/">The Invaders</a>. It also explains some ghost sightings, such as the “<a href="http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanenigmas/a/Old-Hag-Syndrome.htm">night hag</a>”, often experienced by those who suffer from sleep paralysis. <br />
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<a href="http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/temporal-lobe">Temporal lobe sensitivity</a> is a theory that suggests the temporal lobes of some people’s brains are 
more vulnerable to influence from low-level magnetic frequencies. <a href="http://persingerpublications.com/">Michael Persinger</a>, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada, is among those who believes that increased <a href="http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Articles/alienabduction.html">temporal lobe activity can explain paranormal experiences</a>
 such as alien abduction. His theory is that magnetic fields stimulate 
the temporal lobes, resulting in hallucinatory experiences similar to 
those reported by alien abductees.<br />
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None of this is to say that many people who believe they have 
experienced alien abduction are liars, merely that their accounts and 
experiences can be explained through recourse to theories with a 
scientific basis. There are many logical, plausible scientific 
explanations, none of which rely upon the existence of aliens. However, 
it should also be noted that not all reported alien abduction 
experiences can be easily explained by any of these scientific theories –
 and this throws up many more questions.<br />
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Some scientific explanations for alien abduction that aren’t so out of this world

Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and encounters with “real” aliens reflect high levels of public interest ...

Do ghosts really exist? What lies behind ghosts, demons and aliens – according to sleep researchers

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Psychologist claims most late-night paranormal experiences are simply down to sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome<br />
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If you believe in the paranormal you might not be surprised if 
you hear stories of deceased loved ones appearing during the night, huge
 explosions heard just as someone is drifting off with no obvious cause,
 and other peculiar occurrences. But what if you don’t?<br />
My interest in the paranormal started with an impromptu coffee with a colleague, <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/christopher-french-168769">Chris French</a>,
 who researches reports of paranormal experiences. He told me stories of
 countless people who had recounted such events. These experiences 
tended to start while lying in bed. Then something unusual would happen –
 perhaps a demon would appear or the environment would seem strange or 
there would be a sensed presence. The person having this experience 
might also report being glued to their mattress, tarmacked into the bed,
 totally unable to move.<br />
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It’s unsurprising that people who experience such things might interpret them as paranormal. But certain phenomena such as <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sleep-paralysis-9780199313808?q=brian%20sharpless&lang=en&cc=us">sleep paralysis</a>
 provide an alternative to paranormal explanations for such occurrences.
 Hence my interest in the subject, as a sleep researcher.<br />
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Sleep paralysis</h2>
When we sleep, we cycle through different stages. We start the night 
in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep – which gets progressively 
deeper. We then cycle back until we hit rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. 
During REM sleep we are most likely to have vivid dreams. At this stage 
we are also paralysed, perhaps as a safety mechanism to stop us acting 
out our dreams so that we don’t end up attempting to fly.<br />
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But during sleep paralysis, features of REM sleep continue into 
waking life. Those who experience it will feel awake yet might 
experience dream-like hallucinations and struggle to move. This 
experience is pretty common, occurring in around 8% of people (although <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079211000098?via%3Dihub">estimates vary dramatically</a> depending on who we are asking). It’s even possible to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1621022">induce sleep paralysis</a> in some people, by disrupting their sleep in specific ways.<br />
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Certain researchers, French among them, believe that this explains a 
huge number of paranormal accounts. Information about sleep paralysis is
 finally seeping into <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kendall-jenner-sleep-paralysis_us_580a2833e4b0cdea3d86e413">public awareness</a>, but we now need to understand more about this common complaint. <br />
Our preliminary work, which I recount in my new book <a href="https://bloomsbury.com/uk/nodding-off-9781472946188/">Nodding Off: The science of sleep from cradle to grave</a>, hints at possible <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsr.12282">genetic and environmental explanations</a>
 for why some people are more likely than others to experience sleep 
paralysis. This now needs to be replicated using much larger samples. 
Reviewing the literature, we have also highlighted a host of other <a href="http://www.smrv-journal.com/article/S1087-0792(17)30112-0/abstract">variables associated with this common experience</a>, including stress, trauma, psychiatric difficulties and physical illnesses.<br />
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Exploding head syndrome</h2>
Sleep paralysis aside, how else are sleep researchers helping to 
explain paranormal experiences? People sometimes describe experiencing 
huge explosions during the night which simply can’t be explained. There 
is no sign that a shelf has fallen down or a car has backfired. There is
 no one playing the electric guitar next to their head. <br />
Again, this can be linked to our sleep - this time explained by “<a href="http://www.smrv-journal.com/article/S1087-0792(14)00022-7/abstract">exploding head syndrome</a>”, a term <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673688925512?via%3Dihub">coined relatively recently</a>
 by the neurologist JMS Pearce. When we fall asleep, the reticular 
formation of the brainstem (a part of our brain involved in 
consciousness) typically starts to inhibit our ability to move, see and 
hear things. When we experience a “bang” in our sleep this might be 
because of a <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-2982.2007.01522.x">delay in this process</a>. Instead of the reticular formation shutting down the auditory neurons, they might  fire at once. <br />
As with sleep paralysis, this phenomenon is also under-researched. 
For this very reason, in 2017 my colleagues and I joined forces with <a href="http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/mind/qa-sleep-paralysis-and-exploding-head-syndrome">BBC Focus</a> and <a href="http://briansharpless.com/index.html">Brian Sharpless</a>, a leading expert on this phenomenon, to collect data on this topic.<br />
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Imps and ghouls</h2>
Finally, what might scientists make of precognitive dreams? We might 
dream of a friend we haven’t seen for years only to have them call us 
the very next day. French thinks science can provide an explanation for 
this too. Referencing work by John Allen Paulos that focuses on 
probabilities, <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.117.8727&rep=rep1&type=pdf">he explains</a> how such an occurrence may be surprising on any single day, but over time, quite likely to occur. <br />
Researching my book, I spoke to Mrs Sinclair, who is 70, and lives 
alone. She told me about what she had thought was a ghost living in her 
house, an imp throttling her during the night and other things that had 
left her petrified. Having scientific explanations provided her with 
immense comfort and she no longer believes in paranormal explanations 
for the things that she experienced. <br />
Our hope is that scientific explanations of paranormal experiences 
might help others by lowering anxiety. Decreasing anxiety has also been <a href="http://www.smrv-journal.com/article/S1087-0792(17)30112-0/pdf">hypothesised</a>
 as a potential method by which to reduce sleep paralysis. So, perhaps 
providing more information about these unusual experiences might even 
mean that things are less likely to go bump in the night.<br />
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UFO, bird - or just a smudge on the camera?<br />
Footage of a black object falling from a rainbow baffles locals and has War of the Worlds fans excited.<br />
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A falling UFO eerily reminiscent of a scene from an iconic movie has been captured on camera.</div>
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Strange footage has revealed what appears to be a large black object plunging into the Earth from the middle of a rainbow.</div>
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While
 it's not exactly clear what the object is, a number of explanations 
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One
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There'll be an Earthly, sane, explanation. But it's way, way, too big to
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The video is remarkably similar to a scene from the 2005 film War of the Worlds directed by Steven Spielberg.</div>
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In
 it aliens are recorded falling to Earth in dark pods during lightning 
storms, before activating giant war machines buried beneath the ground. </div>
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Local
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Ms Taylor caught dramatic footage of lightning in the skies above the area.</div>
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 what she didn't bank on was capturing something else too - a black 
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Ms Taylor says she was left puzzled by the what she saw.</div>
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Speaking
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Manual, said: 'The video does make it look like this is something solid 
falling from the sky, like one of the Martian cylinders in The War of 
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'I would say it is something mundane rather than the start of a Martian invasion.'</div>
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A number of readers of the <a class="class" href="http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/16178321.Mysterious_UFO_caught_on_camera_during_lightning_storm/#comments-anchor" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Bridgwater Mercury</a>, which broke the news, have commented on the unusual apparition in the skies above their town. </div>
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Footage of a black object falling from a rainbow baffles locals

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‘Secret UFO Video’ from 1996 Space Shuttle Mission

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 STS-77 crew<br />
 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-135" rel="noopener" target="_blank">last Space Shuttle mission</a> ended on July 21, 2011. That’s nothing compared to how long it’s been since the first humans to land on the Moon in July 1969.<br />
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That headline comes from a <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/694430/news-ufo-aliens-lie-detector-test-buzz-aldrin-astronauts" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daily Star article</a>
 referring to a “lie detector test” conducted by The Institute of 
BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio, on astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Al 
Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper. All at one time or another 
claimed to have seen UFOs during their space missions.<br />
However, the 
so-called lie detector tests may be that in only the loosest sense of 
the word as this latest technology, as pointed out by Micah Hanks at <a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/04/aldrins-aliens-a-deeper-look-at-one-astronauts-famous-ufo-sighting/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mysterious Universe</a>,
 was actually conducted on voice recordings of the men talking about 
their alleged encounters since Mitchell and Gordon are both deceased and
 their stories cannot be tested using more conventional lie detectors.<br />

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“NASA releases video of ‘UFO’ from 1969 space mission sparking frenzy online”</blockquote>
That headline comes from a <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/694669/Alien-news-NASA-releases-video-UFO-1969-space-mission-Buzz-Aldrin" rel="noopener" target="_blank">follow-up article</a>
 the following day by the same Daily Star, which could use a proofreader
 as well as that “latest technology” lie detector. While the date says 
“1969,” which was the year of Buzz Aldrin’s alleged UFO sighting, the 
“video” it refers to is actually from the Space Shuttle mission STS-77 
in 1996.<br />

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That apparent juxtaposition of the numbers in the year is not the 
only problem with this article. While it’s true that NASA released this 
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>video (seen <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/694669/Alien-news-NASA-releases-video-UFO-1969-space-mission-Buzz-Aldrin" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>)</b></span></span>, it was not a recent release.<br />
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It’s actually been around since 1996 and was the subject of a <a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a4298/4319637/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Popular Mechanics</a>
 debunking in 2009 in which identified the UFO as the Passive 
Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped/Satellite Test 
Unit(PAM/STU), whose launch and deployment was tracked by shuttle 
cameras and narrated by the astronauts, who often referred to it as the 
“target” – a common military term for just about everything being 
watched, not just enemies and UFOs.<br />
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It’s too bad we’re forced to look at these sensationalized clips when
 so much of what was studied on these Space Shuttle missions was only 
lightly covered at the time and not at all today. <a href="https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/shuttle_pk/pk/Flight_077_STS-077_Press_Kit.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">STS-77</a>,
 the 77th of 134 missions, tested one of the early inflatable space 
structures so common today and performed experiments developed jointly 
by numerous countries.<br />
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The astronauts even had some fun working with a 
Fluids Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-2 (FGBA-2) to determine if 
separately stored carbon dioxide, water and thick liquids could be 
combined in space and consumed without bubble nucleation and resulting 
foam formation. In other words, they tried (successfully) to make 
Coca-Cola and Diet Coke in space.<br />
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Sure, exploration is the ultimate goal of all space programs, but the
 mundane groundwork and testing is crucial to future success. It’s also a
 place for many to be a part of the space program – while Neil and Buzz 
stepped onto the lunar surface, one of the most remembered videos was of
 the many people in the control room celebrating the success of the 
project so many had worked so hard to achieve.<br />
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It’s time to get back to developing new interest in space 
exploration, space science and space technologies instead of rehashing 
old (and misleading) events. As a different <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Buzz once said</a> (and you don’t need a lie detector test to prove it).<br />
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‘Secret UFO Video’ from 1996 Space Shuttle Mission

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Alleged UFO ‘Mothership’ Filmed in North Carolina

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Video of an alleged UFO sighting in 
North Carolina has surfaced online, prompting speculation of possible 
military testing of experimental aircraft – and aliens, of course. The 
sighting took place in Columbus, a small town in western North Carolina 
with a population of around 1,000. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The video shows a v-shaped formation 
of bright lights hovering silently in the night sky, similar to the 
infamous </span><a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/04/kurt-russell-recalls-ufo-sighting-in-bbc-interview/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Phoenix Lights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">
 which appeared over Arizona in 1997. Is this a genuine sighting, or 
could nearby Armed Forces bases be up to their usual tricks?</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://youtu.be/fWZ27BOuk2o" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">five-minute video</span></a><span style="margin-left: 5px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
 was uploaded to YouTube on April 3rd by the “UFO Institute” channel, 
and MUFON has recorded the incident in its database. In the video, two 
pairs of lights are visible on either side of a brighter central pair, 
all of which appear to hover together in a v-formation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">“Whatever it is,
 it seems to be dropping,” says an unidentified man filming the clip. 
“I’d like to know what the heck those six lights are.” Me too, buddy. Me
 too. Unfortunately, with only one eyewitness and one dark video to go 
on, it’s doubtful we ever will.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Another UFO YouTube channel, 
TheHiddenUnderbelly, calls the lights a “huge mothership.” While that’d 
be great, the chances are higher that this video shows something more 
banal. A group of drones? Probably. Military testing? Possibly, although
 the many military bases in North Carolina are much farther to the east 
along the coastal region of the state. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why would experimental craft 
carry out exercises so far from protected airspace? For that matter, why
 would an alien mothership hover in the skies above a one-stoplight town
 far from major metropolitan areas?</span><br />
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Alleged UFO ‘Mothership’ Filmed in North Carolina

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Horrifying moment ‘ghost train picks up passenger’ and disappears into ‘parallel universe’

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A recent <a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/mysterious-hitchhiking-ghost-burns-holes-in-trucks-floor-mat/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ghost story in Argentina</a>
 centered around a paranormal encounter that was once very common – the 
ghost hitchhiker. Thumbing for a ride has all but disappeared for a 
variety of reasons and with it, the scary tales of the dark stranger 
picked up on a lonely road.<br />
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Another ghost story fading into obscurity, 
at least in the U.S., is the ghost train – a phantom locomotive that is 
often linked to a tragedy. Fortunately, trains still run in China and, 
as expected, so do the ghostly ones. A recent video appears to show a 
semi-transparent train passing through a station in China and has many 
wondering if it’s real, what caused it and what it might be a harbinger 
of.<br />
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The video was uploaded to YouTube on March 14 by Hidden Underbelly 2.0 (see the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BGIEo9LYmg" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a><span style="margin-left: 5px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></span>)
 and is said to have been recorded on March 10 by a closed-circuit 
security camera in the Baotou Railway Station in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.<br />
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The station serves both the Jingbao Railway and Baolan Railway. The 
source claims it received the video from a security employee at the 
station. At first glance, it definitely looks like a transparent 
passenger train pulling in, stopping as if to unload and load 
passengers, and then leaving the station. There’s nothing to indicate 
with certainty the exact location (is it really the Baotou Railway 
Station and if so, where inside it?).<br />
There is no other motion in the 
video during the time the train is there.<br />
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Is this a video of a ghost train?<br />
The comments run the gamut from 
definitely ghost train to an image from a parallel universe to a secret 
military cloaking train to a reflection in a window of a nearby train to
 a hoax.<br />
<br />
The <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/933810/Ghost-train-caught-CCTV-rail-platform-proof-afterlife" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daily Express online</a> says the last scenario is supported by <a href="https://www.ufoofinterest.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">debunker Scott Brando</a>,
 who claims it’s a merger of two videos and dates back at least to 2012 
to a railway station in not the Baotou Railway Station in Inner Mongolia
 but the Polezhaevskaya station in Moscow. Are those Russian hackers at 
it again?<br />
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Ghost trains have been the subject of a 1923 play (The Ghost Train by
 English playwright Arnold Ridley), numerous movies (starting with the 
1927 comedy based on the play), a TV series and books such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Train-American-Railroad-Legends/dp/188308976X" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ghost Train: American Railroad Ghost Legends.</a><br />
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Famous ghost train tales include the Silverpilen (or Silver Arrow, a 
Stockholm Metro ghost train), the St. Louis Light (which was duplicated 
and debunked by two students) and the phantom funeral train of Abraham 
Lincoln that is said to run between Washington, D.C. and Springfield, 
Illinois, around April 21st, the anniversary of the procession to his 
final resting place.<br />
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Is there any event in Baotou that could be related to a phantom 
train?<br />
The area dates back to the Mongols, but they didn’t have any 
trains. On May 3rd, 1996, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake severely damaged 
the city, killing 26 and destroying the homes of nearly 200,000. Could 
there be a phantom train arriving to take the dead to the afterlife? 
Lesser events have created greater urban legends, not to mention ghost 
train stories.<br />
True or false, it’s nice to add a new one to the 
collection.<br />
As for now, the “What is it?” needle is pushing nearer to double-exposure … until the Baotou phantom express makes another stop.<br />
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Hawking, Hollywood, and Alien Invasion

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Though it may come as a surprise to many, debates surrounding 
extraterrestrial invasion are not restricted to the UFO community and 
Hollywood. In recent years, mainstream science and even the US defense 
establishment have openly discussed ‘falling skies’ scenarios and what 
humanity might do to repel potential alien aggressors.<br />
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The late, great Sir Stephen Hawking was perhaps the most high-profile
 individual to warn of the potential dangers of extraterrestrial 
contact. In April 2010, Hawking made <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/7631252/Stephen-Hawking-alien-life-is-out-there-scientist-warns.html">international news</a>
 by stating his firm belief that humanity should seek to avoid any form 
of interaction with aliens. In an episode of the Discovery Channel’s<i> Into the Universe</i> <i>with Stephen Hawking</i>,
 the professor said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would
 be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which 
didn’t turn out very well for the American Indians.” Hawking suggested 
that aliens “might exist in massive ships, having used up all the 
resources from their home planet” and would perhaps be “looking to 
conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.”<br />
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Hawking’s anti-alien comments captured the attention of Hollywood 
and, later that same year, were incorporated into the marketing campaign
 for the alien invasion blockbuster, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564585/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"><i>Skyline</i></a>
 (2010). The trailer for the film begins with bold text against a cosmic
 backdrop, reading: “On 28 August 2009, NASA sent a message into space 
farther than we ever thought possible in an effort to reach 
extraterrestrial life.”<br />
<br />
This is true. On the date specified, the Australian government, through its “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_from_Earth">Hello from Earth</a>”
 science initiative, and with the help of NASA, sent some 26,000 
carefully vetted messages from the public to the extra-solar Earth-like 
planet Gliese 581d in a single transmission. This proactive approach to 
alien contact, known as METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 
differs from the traditional passive approach favored by SETI (Search 
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), which devotes its efforts simply to 
listening for any potential incoming alien signals. Stephen Hawking was 
not a fan of the METI approach as he considered it unwise to knowingly 
alert our presence in the galaxy to any technologically superior 
civilizations.<br />
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In a bid to blur fact and fantasy for viral marketing purposes, <i>Skyline</i>
 made use of Hawking’s comments in its trailer, which featured well 
known American newsreaders—including Dan Rather—citing the famed 
professor on the potential dangers of extraterrestrial contact. The 
trailer then cuts to panoramic views of an American city being 
obliterated by dozens of the “massive ships” to which Hawking had 
referred. Against a black screen, and again referring to the professor’s
 warning, bold text then reads: “Maybe we should have listened.”<br />
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<i>Skyline</i> wasn’t the only movie to draw inspiration from METI 
initiative, or from Hawking’s dire warnings against phoning E.T. The 
2012 movie, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"><i>Battleship</i></a>,
 opens with a scene in which NASA prepares to transmit a signal to the 
Gliese system, exactly as the space agency had done in real life 
two-years prior. In the movie, a wise-cracking scientist paraphrases 
Stephen Hawking, quipping, “it’s going to be like Columbus and the 
Indians—only we’re the Indians.” But the signal is sent anyway, and NASA
 gives itself a hearty pat on the back. Needless to say, alien contact 
ensues, and it ain’t pretty.<br />
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In April 2012, a month before the release of <i>Battleship</i> in 
American cinemas, Professor Paul Springer of the US Air Command and 
Staff College was granted special clearance by his employers at the 
Pentagon to discuss how the military would respond in the event of an 
alien invasion. Springer’s comments were aired in a televised interview 
for Australia’s Channel 9.<br />
When asked by his interviewer exactly how an alien invasion might unfold, Springer replied:<br />
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“That really depends on why they are here in the first 
place. If they are here for the extraction of a specific resource, for 
example, they might just want to eliminate any resistance that might 
block them from their objective. If, on the other hand, their goal was 
actual occupation and conquest, then they would probably have to 
prioritize anything they perceive as a threat to their own dominance. 
So, they would probably start by wiping out as many communications 
networks as possible and eliminating as many weapons that might 
represent some form of threat either to them, or to the resources they 
are trying to extract.”</blockquote>
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However, any plans the Pentagon may have drawn to fight-off evil 
aliens are almost certainly in vein. If any aliens out there do harbor 
plans for invasion, it is probable that their tactics and technology 
would make any resistance on our part entirely futile. “If they are 
hostile,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvnzyXnkQVA">warns Professor Michio Kaku</a><span style="margin-left: 5px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></span>,
 “it would be like Bambi meeting Godzilla if we ever had to fight them… 
we would present no military challenge to such an advanced civilization…
 We would be a pushover for them. Forget all the Hollywood movies.”<br />
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In my book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Screen-Saucers-Sorting-Hollywoods/dp/1910121118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493935423&sr=8-1&keywords=silver+screen+saucers">Silver Screen Saucers</a></i>,
 I take Hollywood to task for its simplistic, pumped-up depictions of 
how an interstellar civilization might invade our planet. If aliens 
should ever decide to attack Earth for its natural resources (water, 
minerals, human DNA, etc.), it seems unlikely in the extreme that they 
would opt for the scorched earth approach depicted in the likes of <i>War of the Worlds</i> and<i> Independence Day</i>.
 Actually, it seems improbable that the aliens would launch air strikes 
at all, let alone anything so messy as the ground invasions seen in, 
say, <i>Falling Skies</i> or <i>Battle: Los Angeles</i>. Any tactics
 that would provoke a military response from Earth’s leaders would 
probably result in damage to the very resources the aliens are seeking 
to acquire, especially if weapons of mass destruction are used by either
 side.<br />
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Even if the aliens’ goal is simply to eradicate humanity, direct 
engagement with our military forces would likely be entirely 
unnecessary. Many UFO movies depict aliens using psychic forces to harm 
or control those around them—but if real aliens have developed advanced 
psychic abilities, might they be able to use these on a mass scale? If 
so, our psychically puny species would be conquered within a matter of 
hours, or instantly, even.<br />
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Possible psychic abilities aside, advanced ETs might very well have 
psychotronic and psychotropic weapons with which to attack the mind, or 
even weapons that target specific parts of the body, both external and 
internal—even the heart or brain—causing targets to fall down dead en 
masse, and all without inflicting so much as a scratch on the skin. 
There would be no resistance from us, and minimal effort on their part. 
For Hollywood’s purposes, however, such scenarios are utterly lacking in
 spectacle and drama.<br />
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In his later years, Stephen Hawking remained firm in his stance that 
the universe is likely teeming with life, some of it intelligent, but he
 was less optimistic about the inherent benevolence of advanced ET 
civilizations, believing that advanced technology does not necessarily 
go hand-in-hand with moral and ethical enlightenment.<br />
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Before Hawking died, former SETI director Jill Tarter (the real-life 
Ellie Arroway from Contact) voiced her disagreement with the Cambridge 
professor about the probable nature of any future alien contact 
scenarios. Tarter also advised the public to disregard Hollywood 
entirely as an even remotely realistic representation of what to expect 
on contact day. “Often the aliens of science fiction say more about us 
than they do about themselves,” Tarter remarked on the <a href="https://www.seti.org/node/1288">SETI website</a>
 in 2012. “While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to
 conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree. If aliens were able
 to visit Earth that would mean they would have technological 
capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food, or other 
planets. If aliens were to come here it would be simply to explore.”<br />
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Tarter added: “Considering the age of the universe, we probably 
wouldn’t be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either. We should 
look at movies like <i>Men in Black</i>, <i>Prometheus</i> and <i>Battleship</i> as great entertainment and metaphors for our own fears, but we should not consider them harbingers of alien visitation.”<br />
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SPECIAL REPORT: REAL ALIENS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED IN PERU

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<br />
After dozens of years of speculations and stupid grainy videos of 
UFOs, it is now finally official. Aliens have been discovered in Peru 
and confirmed by Russian scientists. These humanoid aliens look exactly 
how people who claim they had encounters, described them.<br />
<br />
Even though the Russian scientists tried to come up with all kinds of
 explanations such as different evolutionary paths for a different race 
of people but in the end they still had to admit that they are not even 
human: “They appear human but they are not. Their anatomic structure is 
different. They could be extraterrestrials or bio robots”.” says 
Korotkov.<br />
<br />
So it is now official, we are not alone and we have been visited by 
aliens in the past. There is more to this planet than we know. We 
thought we knew everything about it, yet we are learning that we may not
 even know 50% about it as the discovery of these aliens may have who 
knows what implications, such as our origins, the pyramids, everything 
is subjected to change now…<br />
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Russian researchers have analyzed tissue samples from one of the 
mysterious alien creatures uncovered in Peru last year. The mummy, with 
an elongated skull and only three fingers, has excited ufologists since 
its discovery.<br />
Preliminary analysis of the tissue samples revealed that the mummy, 
found in a tomb near the Nazca lines of Peru and named Maria, is a 
“humanoid being” with 23 pairs of chromosomes – so far, so human. It 
dates back to about the 5th century AD, a full millennium before 
Europeans discovered America.<br />
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A professor of the National Research University in St. Petersburg, 
Konstantin Korotkov, and Natalya Zaloznaya, radiologist and specialist 
in computer tomography at the International Biological Systems 
Institute, collected the tissue samples in Peru and brought them back to
 St. Petersburg for analysis.<br />
Korotkov believes Maria could be a representative of a certain race 
that evolved much earlier than we did, “maybe thousands of years 
earlier,” he said. The professor hypothesized that this race may have 
perished as a result of a <b>flood</b> or a comet strike. Now I
 know how much of you people out there HATE creationism and 
Christianity, with a passion, your hate runs deep, BUT these creatures 
MAY, JUST MAY be pre-Noah’s flood mutants that the Bible talks about, 
the Nephilim, fallen angels mixed with humans, or MAYBE they are just 
aliens but this is a possibility though. Even the scientists said that 
they think they were wiped out by a flood (or comet). In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths#South_America" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ancient South America, they knew and had myths about a big flood</a>
 covering all lands and mountains, just like in the Bible despite not 
having any contact with the Jews and their Bible, so their myths could 
not have been influenced by Noah’s story, therefore they may be real.<br />
<br />
So anyway, the team is now keen to find out how Maria’s composition 
resembles that of people in South America, Africa or elsewhere. “Right 
now we are making a detailed analysis to see if the position of all the 
chromosomes, of all the amino acids, coincides with ours,”said Korotkov 
to Mir 24.<br />
X-ray and computer tomography showed Maria has a very different rib 
structure to that of humans. Keel-shaped in the upper part with a 
handful of semicircular ribs, the cage protects the creature’s internal 
organs, which do resemble those of humans.<br />
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“We clearly see the contours of the trachea and the bronchi, of the 
heart and its chambers; we can even see the shape of the valves. We can 
also see quite clearly the contours of the diaphragm, the liver and the 
spleen,” explains Zaloznaya.<br />
Scientists also found Maria was embalmed in a cadmium chloride white 
powder, the antibacterial effect of which has preserved Maria to this 
day.<br />
The researchers are now working closely with their Peruvian 
colleagues to continue deciphering the genome and break its DNA code, 
reports Mir 24. They’re even hopeful of one day convincing authorities 
to bring the mummy to Russia.<br />
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Aside from Maria, Professor Korotkov witnessed four more mummies in 
Peru, all male with a DNA of 23 pairs of chromosomes, like us. However, 
“they appear human but they are not. Their anatomic structure is 
different” says Korotkov.<br />
“They could be extraterrestrials or bio robots”.<br />
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These things have been reported years ago in Peru but American 
schizophrenics as usual screamed “conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy, 
conspiracy, conspiracy!” without any proper research. It took the 
Russians to finally have this confirmed scientifically. Check this video
 out for example, this was before the Russian research, how many watched
 in disbelief and said it was a lie? Now it is official, there are 
aliens out there:<br />
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Aliens Are Still Probably Real And Here's Another UFO Video From The Navy To Prove It

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Remember when we found out the government spent millions of dollars 
on a program that discovered mysterious inexplicable metal alloys and 
concluded that aliens were probably real back in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>New York Times</em> report from December</a>? If you need a reminder, here’s another UFO intercept video from the Navy.<br />
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The
 video comes courtesy of the alien investigation organization To The 
Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, where the former head of the U.S. 
government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis 
Elizondo, now works.<br />
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According to the details of the video, which is reportedly from 2015,
 the Navy F/A-18 jet was engaged in a right turn while intercepting the 
unidentified flying object, which was streaking above the water with no 
visible wings or signs of a combustion engine 4.4 nautical miles away. 
You can hear the pilots appropriately losing their minds.<br />
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TTSAAS’s
 Elizondo is the guy who keeps saying stuff like these Navy and Air 
Force videos are just the tip of the iceberg to news organizations like <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/politics/unidentified-aircraft-navy/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>CNN</em></a>, which should be freaking everybody the fuck out, but for some reason nobody seems to care!<br />
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The
 organization has so far only released one other video of UFO intercept 
footage from 2004 and an interview with that pilot, as pointed out and 
featured over on <a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a19421807/video-shows-us-navy-run-in-with-ufo/?src=socialflowTW" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Popular Mechanics</em></a>.<br />
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Aliens Are Still Probably Real And Here's Another UFO Video From The Navy To Prove It

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‘Not from Earth’: Navy pilot recalls encounter with ‘Tic Tac’ UFO

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        In the aftermath of the Pentagon disclosing videos of US Air 
Force sightings of unidentified, inexplicable flying objects, a former 
Navy pilot has come forward to reveal details of his encounter with a 
UFO. </div>
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Cmdr. David Fravor, who was a Navy pilot for 18 years, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told</a>
 The Washington Post he saw the mysterious flying object while on a 
routine training mission off the Pacific coast between San Diego and 
Ensenada, Mexico, in November 2004.<br />
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Fravor said he was ordered by command to do so some <em>“real-world tasking”</em> as there were unidentified flying objects descending from 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet and then disappearing.<br />
Officials
 told the former fighter pilot, who was the commanding officer of a Navy
 squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes at the time, they had 
encountered dozens of the objects over the previous few weeks.<br />
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The object was roughly the same size as Fravor’s plane but it had no wings and looked like a Tic Tac mint. It was <em>“just hanging close to the water,”</em> he said.<br />
<em>“As I get closer, as my nose is starting to pull back up, it accelerates and it’s gone,” </em>he said.<em>
 “Faster than I’d ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say 
let’s go see what’s in the water and there’s nothing. Just blue water.”</em><br />
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Interestingly, he noted, it created no rotor wash – the air turbulence caused by the blades of a helicopter.<em>
 “This is revolutionary technology to be able to accelerate, go up and 
down. Think about the advances that would bring to mankind,”</em> he added.<br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A former Navy pilot believes he saw "something not from the Earth" while tasked to a Pentagon program dedicated to studying UFOs <a href="https://t.co/3g4BgBFKrA">https://t.co/3g4BgBFKrA</a> <a href="https://t.co/fWuS5lzvim">pic.twitter.com/fWuS5lzvim</a></p>— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/942988584663027712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Defense Department analyzed the encounter, but what the object was, or what it was doing, remains a mystery. <em>“I
 think someone should have looked into it. Having talked to some of the 
other folks, it’s a big frustration that it’s coming out now and wasn’t 
discussed back in 2004,”</em> Fravor said.<br />
He was keen to dispel any notions that he was an unreliable source. <em>“I
 don’t think I was a nut-job as an officer in the Navy. I wasn’t drunk, I
 don’t do drugs. I got a good night’s rest, it was a clear day”.</em><br />
Footage of the incident was later released by the US Defense Department.<br />
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On Saturday, it emerged the Pentagon spent $22 million to study UFOs 
between 2007 and 2012. The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification 
Program was led by former military intelligence official Luiz Elizondo, 
who resigned from the Pentagon in October.<br />
<br />
In his resignation 
letter, which was seen by the New York Times and Politico, Elizondo 
lamented the lack of funding for the project and the fact that it 
continues to be shrouded in mystery. Speaking to CNN Monday evening, he <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon/index.html?sr=fbCNN121817luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon0959PMVODtopLink">said</a> there is <em>"very compelling evidence that we may not be alone”.</em><br />
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Elizondo said his program uncovered<em> "a lot”</em> of<em> "anomalous” </em>aircraft.<em>
 “These aircraft – we'll call them aircraft – are displaying 
characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in 
any foreign inventory that we are aware of.”</em><br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A former U.S. Navy pilot says he spotted an object, which he’s certain was “something not from the Earth” <a href="https://t.co/hB8Pt7qJsI">https://t.co/hB8Pt7qJsI</a></p>— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/943215408080932869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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‘Not from Earth’: Navy pilot recalls encounter with ‘Tic Tac’ UFO

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Mysterious interstellar object of cigar-shaped 'comet' flies through Solar system

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   Last month, a mysterious cigar-shaped asteroid sailed past Earth, 
marking the first time an interstellar object has been seen in the solar
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        A mysterious large object that has come from a different star 
system is to be examined by one of the world’s biggest telescopes for 
signs of alien technology.
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The 
Green Bank telescope will examine a mysterious object speeding through 
our solar system to check for signs of alien signals. The observation 
begins Wednesday and will be carried out by Breakthrough Listen, a 
global astronomical program searching for evidence of other 
civilizations.<br />
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the 
solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in 
October, Breakthrough Listen <a href="http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/14" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reports</a>.
 Named ‘Oumuamua after the Hawaiian word for “messenger,” it sped from 
interstellar space going as fast as 196,000 mph (315,000 kph) as it went
 past the sun.<br />
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The cigar-shaped object, named Oumuamua  by its discoverers, sailed 
past Earth last month and is the first interstellar object seen in the 
solar system. <br />
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Another oddity is that Oumuamua is flying 
very 'cleanly', without emitting the usual cloud of space dust that 
astronomers observe around asteroids.</div>
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Experts say this suggests it is made of something dense: probably rock, but possibly metal.</div>
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<em>“'Oumuamua’s presence within our solar system affords 
Breakthrough Listen an opportunity to reach unprecedented sensitivities 
to possible artificial transmitters and demonstrate our ability to track
 nearby, fast-moving objects,”</em> said Andrew Siemion, Director of Berkeley SETI Research Center. <em>“Whether this object turns out to be artificial or natural, it’s a great target for [Breakthrough] Listen.”</em><br />
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<em>“Most
 likely it is of natural origin, but because it is so peculiar, we would
 like to check if it has any sign of artificial origin, such as radio 
emissions,”</em> Avi Loeb, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and an adviser to the Breakthrough Listen project <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/11/astronomers-to-check-interstellar-body-for-signs-of-alien-technology?CMP=twt_gu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told</a> the Guardian. <em>“If we do detect a signal that appears artificial in origin, we’ll know immediately.”</em><br />
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The
 telescope, which is located in West Virginia, will listen for radio 
signals from 'Oumuamua across four different radio transmission bands. 
The powerful telescope can pick up signals as small as those that come 
from a mobile phone. 'Oumuamua is located twice as far from Earth as the
 sun.<br />
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<strong></strong>The 400 meter-long celestial body is ten 
times longer than it is wide, and was thought to be an interstellar 
asteroid by many astronomers, but its shape is unlike anything seen 
before.<br />
The Breakthrough Listen project was launched by Stephen 
Hawking in 2015 and is funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. It 
aims to listen for radio signals coming from potential other 
civilisations outside our solar system.<br />
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1990: Pentagon Believed Superhero Soviets Could Shoot Lightning From Their Hands

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<b>In the twilight 
years of the Soviet Union, Pentagon staff were convinced Russian 
scientists had mastered "superhuman" capabilities, that allowed subjects
 to shoot lightning from their hands.</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4105633-CIA-RDP96-00792R000600380001-0.html#document/p1">Recently declassified documents</a> relating to the US military's <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R003300210001-2.pdf">StarGate project</a>
 show Pentagon officials believed Soviet spies were able to manifest 
"ball lightning" by using the brain as a "superconductor" as late 
as 1990.<br />
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According to the documents, that year, a member of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency (DIA) took interest in an article from the Chinese 
Journal of Somatic Science, itself a translation and summary of an 
article from the Soviet Science and Life magazine. The staffer then 
retranslated the Chinese translation for the Pentagon's files, and 
incorporation into the StarGate program.<br />
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The article focused on "super-sensitives" — alleged masters of 
"super-perception" with "amazing abilities" that let them diagnose and 
treat illnesses "with results better than doctors" using only their 
hands. Super-sensitives would, according to the article, "feel the 
biological field with his hands" a few centimeters away from a patient. 
Moreover, their abilities were said to improve over time, to the point 
they had "super human abilities to cure ailments."<br />
<br />
The translation also describes a conversation with the "Deputy 
Director of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Radio Technology and 
Electronics Institute and director of the Radio Electronics Remote 
Sensing Methods Graduate Body Laboratory" — over the course of the chat,
 the director allegedly said he had discovered a plant "which can detect
 evidence of a crime" and transmit it to a super-sensitive.<br />
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"When a super-sensitive is concentrating his 
thoughts, he can cause his biological field to intensify six-fold. For 
example, 200 years ago all of Europe was astounded by the discoveries of
 [Franz] Mesmer. He was the primary super-sensitive of that time. He was
 able to receive a special kind of magnetism from the Earth and because 
of this he was able to cure peoples' ailments," the article reads.</div>
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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Anton-Mesmer">Mesmer</a> —
 from whose name the term "mesmerized" is derived — was a German 
physician with an interest in astronomy, who believed that there was a 
natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and 
inanimate objects (which he dubbed animal magnetism). His hypothesis was
 resoundingly discredited in the 1800s and he was driven into exile. <br />
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<strong>Brain Conduction</strong><br />
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<strong></strong>The article asserts the brain can have act as a 
"superconductor," which allowed super-sensitives to create "ball 
lightning" within a "channel" of energy, which they would "only have 
to concentrate."<br />
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According to discussions with a lab researcher, physicist, and 
mathematician, the Soviets had, while researching control of body 
temperature, discovered the electrical power source "is on the skin." 
So-called "super-sensitives" are even allegedly able to bring dead 
plants back to life.<br />
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"This is what that person does — he stretches out both hands 
to within 15 to 20 centimeters of shrivelled green leaves, and it looks 
like he is going to inject new life into dead cells. After several 
minutes, the leaves begin to shine, and have been restored to life," the
 article continues.<br />

In closing, the article's author says anyone who doubts the veracity 
of these apparent superhuman capabilities are "stupid" and "arrogant."<br />
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think all animals in the world are as simple as you? We have entered 
another realm. The skin is a very complex biological living machine. It 
is a primary object of our long-term research. The body's electric power
 source results from friction generated [static] electricity," the 
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The
 StarGate project was established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, 
by the DUA and SRI International (a California contractor) 
to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications.<br />
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Ingo Douglas Swann was the man behind the project. He was a claimed 
psychic, artist, and author known for being the co-creator, along with 
Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, of "remote viewing" —  a process 
in which viewers were allegedly able to view a location given nothing 
but its geographical coordinates.<br />
In one such session detailed in the StarGate files, Swann reportedly transferred his consciousness to the planet Jupiter.<br />
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First time in the Universe: Spacewalk filmed in 360

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<i>“The first-ever panoramic video from open space is a revolution both for VR technology and for the exploration of the universe,”</i> said Eduard Chizhikov, head of RT’s Space 360 project. <i>“Thanks
 to the project, any person on Earth can feel what it’s like to be in 
space from the comfort of their own home. Our video offers an 
opportunity to get closer to the infinite. Welcome to outer space!”</i><br />
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RT’s
 Spacewalk 360 video immerses viewers in a walk through outer space 
outside the ISS alongside Russian pilot-cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky and 
his colleague Fyodor Yurchikhin. The video—the world’s first-ever 
panoramic video filmed in open space—presents unprecedented views of the
 ISS, real-life cosmonauts at work, and our planet.<br />
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Back In November 2016, RT became the first network in history to <i>“send”</i> viewers to space, providing unparalleled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAwf1zKFxf4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">panoramic images of Earth</a><span style="margin-left: 5px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></span> as seen from aboard the ISS. <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/11/21/360-degree-video-iss/#vxWXsODvLSq4">Mashable commented</a> that the video <i>“gets you as close as possible to the experience of actually being aboard the ISS and looking down on our home planet.”</i><br />
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The
 video received enthusiasm and praise not just from internet users, but 
also from former NASA astronauts and well-known public figures. Former 
astronauts <a href="https://twitter.com/AstroTerry/status/800710376417533952" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terry Virts</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Astro_Clay/status/800721299010179072" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clayton Anderson</a> said the RT360 video was <i>“one of the very best”</i>, and American director Oliver Stone <a href="https://www.rt.com/about-us/press-releases/space-journalism-360-stone/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">compared it to a videogame</a>. Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, posted the video on her <a href="https://twitter.com/chelseaclinton/status/800758339386875904" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chelseaclinton/posts/926511564115398" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, writing, <i>“Very cool. First panoramic view of Earth can be seen from this 360-degree video shot aboard the International Space Station."</i><br />
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<i>In
 2015, RT became one of the first international media outlets to start 
producing news content in the immersive 360-degree format and now boasts
 one of the largest original 360 content libraries with more than 130 
videos. RT’s 360 content is available on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/360RT/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRLKmBip432v17IixD0lvBMg3y4cPwxj" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and the RT360 mobile app (available for download at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rt.RT360&hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Play</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rt-360/id1064016992?mt=8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">App Store</a> and <a href="https://www.oculus.com/experiences/gear-vr/968122466570458/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oculus Store</a>).</i><br />
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‘Nice try, Earth is flat’: Conspiracy theorists can’t handle first ever <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/spacewalk360?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#spacewalk360</a> video <a href="https://t.co/EF1B9gcwnL">https://t.co/EF1B9gcwnL</a> <a href="https://t.co/osBsB2v2lM">pic.twitter.com/osBsB2v2lM</a></div>
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Doomsayers watch countdown to Sept 23 ‘Planet X’ event rubbished by NASA

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An online countdown says there are just days left till the alleged 
apocalyptic event predicted by author and doomsayer David Meade for 
September 23. The prediction, involving the so-called Planet X smashing 
into Earth, has been repeatedly debunked by NASA.

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Meade wrote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456626922/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=xmediax-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1456626922&linkId=9e5253b0d64855e60533f6b83cff931c">a book</a>
 called “Planet X” in which he predicts that the planet, which is also 
called Nibiru, crashes into Earth in October. Recent events, including 
Hurricane Harvey and the solar eclipse, have caused him to move the date
 forward by a few weeks.<br />
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Meade cites Bible passages from <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021:25-26">Luke 21:25 and 26</a> as proof that these recent events are signs of an impending apocalypse.<br />
His belief that the world will end is based on another Bible verse called <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+12&version=NIV">The Woman and the Dragon</a> from the Book of Revelation.<br />
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Evangelical Christian publication “Unsealed” tells the story of the verse in a four-minute YouTube video called<i> “September 23, 2017: You Need to See This.”</i>
 It uses animation from the planetarium software Stellarium showing 
constellations Virgo and Leo setting with the Sun. It is superimposed 
over the landscape of Jerusalem.<br />
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Meade shared the video on his <a href="http://writers-web-services.com/">website</a>.<br />
The theory has sparked feverish speculation online, with numerous conspiracy theory videos emerging on YouTube. A <a href="https://yourcountdown.to/the-end-of-the-world">countdown clock</a> has even been created to, supposedly, mark our planet’s final moments.<br />
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NASA has repeatedly stated that Nibiru and other stories about 
wayward planets are an internet hoax and there is no factual basis for 
these claims.<br />
The space agency say that if a planet was on a 
collision course with Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for
 the last decade and it would be visible to the naked eye by now.<br />
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<i>“After
 searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's 
Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of 
the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed 
‘Planet X,’”</i> it previously <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/wise/planet-x-20140307">said in a statement</a>.<br />
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Senior NASA scientist David Morrison also debunked the claim in a video titled <i>“The truth about Niburu”.</i><br />
<i>“It’s not real, Niburu doesn’t exist, we can’t see it we can’t 
detect its gravity and we don’t see a signature of its previous passages
 because there weren’t any,”</i> Morrison said.<br />
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‘Alien object’ lights up Canada’s night sky

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Canadian skies were lit up by a strange object when a brief 
flash appeared over British Columbia. Those lucky enough to be looking 
upward at the time were left puzzled –  unsure whether it was a 
meteorite or if aliens had visited.<br />
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Video shared with <a href="https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-205783-1-.htm#205783">Castanet</a> shows the light flying across the sky in an impressive display in Kelowna just after 10pm on Monday.<br />
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Security footage also captured the object.<i> “Apparently it landed near Nelson, BC. 200km west of Calgary,”</i> one uploader said.<br />
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There has been no confirmation of what the object was, according to Castanet, which claims many believe it was a meteorite.<br />
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Submitted video of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/meteor?src=hash">#meteor</a> over Rutland <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kelowna?src=hash">#Kelowna</a>, from Jake Polzin. Dozens of similar reports into Castanet from across BC Interior. <a href="https://t.co/CCesc6LUnm">pic.twitter.com/CCesc6LUnm</a></div>
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The 7 strangest things the Curiosity rover beamed back from Mars

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<strong>1. Dust devils </strong><br />
Curiosity captured this amazing footage of dust devils
 whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the Red 
planet. Dust devils form as a result of sunshine warming the ground, 
causing the convective rising of air.<br />
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It’s five years to the day since NASA’s Curiosity <b>Mars rover</b> 
touched down on the surface of Mars – a staggering 248 million 
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Curiosity
 has many a space nerd hooked to its updates, providing huge quantities 
of images and data to trawl through, and inspiring endless speculation 
over the Red Planet’s features (and inhabitants).<br />
To mark 
Curiosity’s five years roaming our nearest planetary neighbor, RT.com 
takes a look back at some of the strangest images it beamed back to 
Earth.<br />
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<strong>2. Bone-shaped rocks</strong><br />
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In 2014, Curiosity set pulses racing with this <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6538" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">incredible image</a>
 reminiscent of a thigh bone. NASA was quick to dismiss such ideas, 
saying it likely shows rocks sculpted by wind or water erosion.<br />
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<strong>3. Star destroyer</strong><br />
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This Curiosity image
 of its rocky Martian surroundings prompted UFO enthusiasts to claim it 
as evidence of an alien spacecraft on Mars. Funny how alien craft are 
eerily similar to those thought up by movie writers here on Earth!<br />
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<strong>4. Monster on Mars?</strong><br />
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The rover’s mission is to 
study Mars and determine if it hosts – or ever hosted – life. This photo
 of dusty, jagged rocks looks pretty innocuous at first glance, but some
 eagle-eyed observers claim it clearly shows a ‘space crab’
 lurking in the shadows. One Mars exploration fanpage on Facebook even 
suggested it bore an eerie resemblance to the creepy facehuggers from 
the Alien movies.<br />
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<strong>5. The Coffin</strong><br />
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Aliens don’t bury their dead –
 apparently, they just leave them in coffins on Mars’ surface for all 
eternity. At least that’s what was suggested when this oblong shape was snapped by Curiosity in late<br />
2014.<br />
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<strong>6. Itself</strong><br />
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Curiosity channeled its own narcissistic celebrity with a series of images last year. The Red Planet selfie, looking somewhat like a holiday snap, comprises of 60 images taken while drilling into rock.<br />
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<strong>7. The breasted alien</strong><br />
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A raw image taken by the curiosity rover got the attention of many UFO fans who claimed to have spotted an alien “<em>woman with breasts and long hair</em>” who is “<em>attentively watching</em>” from afar.<br />
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Spotted by UFO enthusiast Scott C. Waring this ‘Star Destroyer’, he 
claims is 2.5 to 3 metres in length so, “it probably only held a few 
passengers." Funny how alien craft are eerily similar to those<br />
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Martian women also have breasts apparently. At least that’s according to the good people at UFO Sightings Daily, though they are torn as to whether it is a living, breathing ‘woman’ or a statue</div>
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“They will not tell the truth about MARS.” Exclaims the description on the Facebook group that discovered this gem. We don’t think they will either.</div>
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Aliens don’t bury their dead, apparently they just leave them in coffins on Mars's surface for all eternity. </div>
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Curiosity Rover captured this amazing footage of dust devils whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the Red planet.<br />
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Curiosity channelled its own narcissistic celebrity with a series of images last year. The Red Planet selfie, thought to be the first of its kind, comprises of 60 images taken while drilling into rock </div>
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The 7 strangest things the Curiosity rover beamed back from Mars

1. Dust devils Curiosity captured this amazing footage of dust devils whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the R...

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