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October 2008
- Love the Paranormal? That's Just Anxiety
  
  Newsweek | Oct 26, 08 7:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Not everyone believes in alien abductions, but plenty of people say they have seen ghosts or heard voices from the beyond. Poll results show that 90% of Americans have had a paranormal experience—a statistic that scientists increasingly blame on our tricky brains. Anxiety over modern society or any perceived threat, they say, turns us to beliefs like ESP and astrology. More »
- UFO Video Raises a Fuss in Turkey
  
  Sun (UK) | Oct 21, 08 4:51 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Video taken of strange objects in the night sky over Turkey has been deemed authentic—well, at least by UFO researchers. A night watchman shot the video over multiple nights earlier this year, and it shows hovering craft and strange constellations of lights, the Sun reports. A self-described expert who verified the tape says “physical forms of UFOs and their metallic structures are clearly noticeable.” More »
- US Fighter Jets Ordered to Shoot Down UFO
  
  Reuters | Oct 20, 08 7:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - US fighter jets were ordered to shoot down a UFO over England during the Cold War, newly released files reveal. What appeared to be a massive "aircraft carrier" in the sky hovered before darting off undamaged, said one of the military pilots, who was later threatened by a well-dressed "unnamed man" if he "ever breathed a word" about the incident to anyone. More »
May 2008
- Spacey Colorado Man Captures 'Alien' On Video
  
  Denver Post | May 30, 08 5:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Denver man claims to have film of an alien peering through a window, and plans to show it to the media today, the Denver Post reports. The closely encountered alien is said to be 4 feet tall and appears "innocent, benevolent, youthful" and less "wrinkly" than ET in the movie, he said. The man is pushing to convince Denver officials to appoint an extraterrestrial affairs commissioner to deal with visitors from outer space. More »
January 2008
- OMG! Bigfoot on Mars! Run!
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jan 24, 08 6:19 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - After nearly four years of important discoveries, it has taken a tiny rock outcropping that looks like Bigfoot to make people passionate about the Mars rovers, the Telegraph reports. Conspiracy theorists are sure a photo snapped in 2004 reveals an alien, or perhaps a creature like Sasquatch. "I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw what appears to be a naked alien running around on Mars," writes one blogger. More »
- UFOs? Air Force Says Nope
  
  Dallas Morning News | Jan 23, 08 7:32 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Those mysterious lights flitting across the Texas sky earlier this month were military jet fighters, not alien ships, the Air Force said today. The lights prompted dozens of reports of UFO sightings, and the mystery grew when the military initially said it had no aircraft in the area. Today, the Air Force backtracked and said it made a mistake—but true believers aren't buying it, the Dallas Morning News reports. More »
- Dozens Report Giant 'UFO'
  
  Associated Press | Jan 15, 08 4:45 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Dozens of people in several small north central Texas towns claim they saw a bizarre UFO, reports AP. Townsfolk in the Bible Belt farming communities of Erath County—including a pilot and a police officer— sighted the huge object last week, with some claiming that US fighter planes were tailing it. The mysterious craft had glowing lights, and flew low, fast and silently, according to various accounts. More »
November 2007
- ET May Be Hiding In Plain Sight
  
  Scientific American | Nov 24, 07 1:57 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - One popular theory on the origin of life holds that it is a “cosmic imperative”—inevitable on any Earth-like planet. That theory is being tested in a novel way, Scientific American reports: by searching for evidence of a “second genesis”—life on Earth that in some fundamental way differs from life as we know it. More »
- Singapore Lifts Ban on Game With Lesbian Love
  
  Straits Times | Nov 16, 07 2:54 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Gamers in Singapore may now buy Microsoft's Mass Effect despite a female-female love scene. The country has decided to allow the sale of the video game under an M18 rating, reports Singapore's Straits Times , after previously banning it due to a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing. More »
- Game Banned for Lesbian Scene
  
  Reuters | Nov 15, 07 8:53 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Singaporeans anticipating Microsoft’s much-ballyhooed Mass Effect video game should stop anticipating. Thanks to a scene in which a human woman kisses and caresses an alien woman, Singapore has banned the action-RPG, Reuters reports. Microsoft said it would respect the ban, but outraged gamers decried the decision as too strict. Sex between men is against the law in Singapore. More »
- Want More Game Action? Have a Seat
  
  CNET | Nov 8, 07 9:01 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - For those video game fans who don't find their flight simulators or alien invasions sufficiently immersive, CNET suggests a solution: shell out for a new Renegade chair. The $300 captain's seat weighs 50 pounds and includes 12 vibrating motors that sync with any game on any platform, buffeting you with jolts as you play. More »
- He's Not Alone: Kucinich Ain't First Pol to Spot UFO
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 1, 07 12:52 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Dennis Kucinich is already treated as a bit of an alien by the other presidential contenders; it only got worse at this week's forum when interrogator Tim Russert pushed him about Shirley MacLaine’s claim that he saw a UFO at her home. A trapped Kucinich offered tersely, “I did.” But before he moves campaign headquarters to Roswell, as he joked he would, the LA Times points out that he's not alone. More »
October 2007
- 25 Films Worth Screaming About
  
  Time | Oct 31, 07 12:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - You're never too old to go trick or treating. Well, yes you are. So instead of fighting the little ones for the next sugar high, you can check out Time's top 25 scary movies: Shaun of the Dead, 2004 Red Dragon, 2002 Audition, 1999 More »
- Sitcom Promises Syriana , Delivers Wonder Years
  
  Slate | Oct 2, 07 4:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The new sitcom Aliens in America courts controversy by planting a Muslim Pakistani in an American high school—but it ends up just another suburban comedy. A mom orders a foreign exchange student as an insta-friend for her dorky son, only to find the equally dorky Raja Musharaff waiting at the airport. The setup all but ensures “post-9/11 hijinx,” Slate says. More »
August 2007
- Can Keanu Outact a Robot?
  
  Variety | Aug 27, 07 4:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Keanu Reeves is coming back to sci-fi—the Matrix star will play the mysterious alien Klaatu in an upcoming remake of 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still, Variety reports. In the original, Klaatu threatened Earth with destruction if humans didn't stop fighting amongst themselves. No word yet on the casting of Gort the robot. More »
- Alert the Aliens: Weekly World News Dead at 28
  
  Washington Post | Aug 7, 07 4:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For 28 years, it was the “world’s most reliable newspaper,” replete with stories of Elvis sightings, alien babies, and dwarf-eating dieters. But the Weekly World News is no more. The black-and-white publication, known for its loose headlines and even looser facts, will publish its final print edition later this month, parent company American Media says. More »
July 2007
- ET is 60
  
  Newsweek | Jul 7, 07 10:06 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sixty years ago something happened in the godforsaken town of Roswell, New Mexico. Now the town has two competing, yet complementary, festivals celebrating either the first recovery of an alien spacecraft or the routine crash of a weather balloon. The festivals have attracted a diverse crowd of scientists, purported alien abductees, minor celebrities, and wingnuts. More »
April 2007
- Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record
  
  CNN | Apr 19, 07 8:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun sales only to those who have been involuntarily committed. More »
- Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
  
  New York Times | Apr 12, 07 9:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most popular novelists of the 20th century, died yesterday at 84 in Manhattan. Defying genres, he wrote on everything from the firebombing of Dresden to alien abduction—and that was just Slaughterhouse-Five. More »