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Pentagon is struggling to explain more than 170 fresh UFO reports, new document reveals
By Brandon Specktor published
Nearly half of all new UFO cases opened in 2022 cannot be explained, Pentagon officials wrote.

Why hasn't ET phoned Earth? Maybe aliens are waiting for the exact right moment.
By Stephanie Pappas published
A new search for alien signals focuses on planetary transits, when exoplanets pass right in front of their suns.

7 out-of-this-world alien stories from 2022
By Ben Turner published
Metallic spheres zooming past military jets, mysterious signals inside the world's largest telescope, and theories on why we have yet to make contact.

One of the world's largest lasers could be used to detect alien warp drives
By Ben Turner published
The detector would search for ripples in the fabric of space-time left in the spacecraft's wake.

US military reports 'several hundred' UFO sightings in 2022, Pentagon officials claim
By Brandon Specktor published
UFO reports from U.S. military personnel are flooding the government's new All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests
By Stephanie Pappas published
A new paper claims that intelligent aliens would only be interested in contacting the most technologically advanced planets, and Earth doesn't make the cut.

Search for alien life just got 1,000 times bigger after new telescope joins the hunt
By Harry Baker published
Astronomers searching for radio signals that could be signs of extraterrestrial life have just gained access to South Africa's MeerKAT telescope.

Scientists are working on an official 'alien contact protocol' for when ET phones Earth
By Isobel Whitcomb published
We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that with the first new alien "contact" protocol in 35 years.

Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and 'airborne clutter,' Pentagon officials reveal
By Brandon Specktor published
The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders.
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