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Did Aliens Crash in the Baltic Sea?

Treasure hunters uncover round disc on the sea floor

(Newser) - Finally, a real reason to send conspiracy theory extremists to the bottom of the sea: A team of Swedish treasure hunters have uncovered what they think could be a UFO crash site in the Baltic Sea, reports Gizmodo . The 60-foot disc sits at the end of what appears to be...

Scientists Seek 'Frankenstein Spark'

Synthetic life close to becoming a reality

(Newser) - Alien life may appear in a test tube on Earth long before it's found elsewhere—and by some standards, it's already here, researchers say. Multiple teams of scientists around the world are experimenting with genetic tools in an effort to create synthetic life, the New York Times finds....

Russia to World: We'll Find Aliens by 2031

And they'll look like a lot like us

(Newser) - Russia dropped a bomb yesterday, and it wasn't nuclear. Addressing an international forum of top astrophysicists and researchers, the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute declared that humanity will discover extraterrestrial life within 20 years, barring mankind's self-destruction, of course. "The genesis of...

Astronomers Searching 86 Planets for Aliens

SETI project collecting data on planets likeliest to harbor life

(Newser) - American astronomers are searching for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets deemed the likeliest to harbor life. The massive Green Bank radio telescope in rural West Virginia will home in on each of the 86—chosen from 1,235 possible planets located by NASA's Kepler telescope—...

Stephen Hawking Talks Health Care, ALS, and Life

Physicist offers advice for living with disability

(Newser) - When you can only speak by twitching your cheek toward words flitting past your screen, you don’t tend to do a lot of interviews. But Stephen Hawking sat down with the New York Times last month to talk about his life, aliens, and health care. Some highlights:
  • On aliens:
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&#39;Dead Alien&#39; Video Goes Viral
 'Dead Alien' Video Goes Viral 
Apr 20, 2011 3:02 AM CDT

'Dead Alien' Video Goes Viral

ET, phone your friend

(Newser) - Add this to your X Files. A figure looking amazingly like ET has been posted on a self-described "intergalactic news site" and has grabbed 1.5 million viewers on YouTube in the last three days. The "creature" was filmed lying on snow in the Russian Republic of Buryatia...

Secret FBI Memo: We Found Flying Saucers

Agent Guy Hottel talks of aliens in New Mexico

(Newser) - Did the government really find aliens in flying saucers in New Mexico? That’s what some newly released FBI files seem to indicate. In one 1950 memo spotted by the Telegraph , special agent Guy Hottel writes that “An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers...

UFO Rattles Colorado Town

 UFO Rattles Colorado Town 
Mar 29, 2011 2:43 AM CDT

UFO Rattles Colorado Town

Triangle of lights hovers, then vanishes

(Newser) - ET, phone Colorado. Lafayette residents are still scratching their heads after seeing three red lights in a triangular shape hover in the sky last week, move off, then vanish. A father videotaped the lights that were spotted by his son at work, as well as by a number of townies....

Van Halen's Sammy Hagar: Aliens Uploaded My Brain

Has he ever been abducted by aliens? 'I think I have'

(Newser) - Sammy Hagar has had his brain "uploaded" by aliens in a "download situation," and he wants to talk about it. The former Van Halen frontman describes his close encounters in his new autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, and expounds upon them in an interview with...

Kepler Results Boost Chances of Finding Alien Life

For every two suns, an Earth-like planet

(Newser) - Exciting news for alien enthusiasts: The discovery by NASA scientists of a vast trove of Earth-like planets orbiting distant suns boosts our chances of finding extraterrestrial life. Findings from the Kepler telescope revealed that for every two stars in the universe, one has an Earth-like "candidate planet" orbiting it,...

How Dolphins Can Help Us Meet Aliens

Before we talk to ET, let's chat with our fellow Earthlings

(Newser) - Scientists have been discovering plenty of new planets, and eventually, perhaps one will contain life—but we’d have no way to talk to the aliens. Until then, we can practice on creatures here on Earth: dolphins, who are capable of some surprisingly sophisticated thinking. We’ve tried to chat...

NASA Discovers New Form of Life

Arsenic-based lifeforms found on Earth are unlike any previously observed

(Newser) - NASA has discovered a totally new kind of life form, but it’s not an alien—it’s here on Earth. Astrobiologists have found a bacteria living in a poisonous California lake that’s actually partially made of arsenic, it announced in a much-hyped press conference today. Whereas every other...

NASA Press Conference Ignites ET Rumors

Alien idea debunked, but speculation rages

(Newser) - NASA has announced a press conference tomorrow “to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life,” and alien enthusiasts have been wondering: have scientists found ET? An insider’s tweet debunked that rumor, but the net remains abuzz with curiosity over what...

Denver Voting to Launch UFO Commission

Proposed panel would oversee contact with aliens

(Newser) - Hope ET didn't forget to send in his absentee ballot. The people of Denver are voting today on establishing a commission to deal with illegal aliens—of the extraterrestrial kind. The proposed Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission would be a privately funded, seven-member panel tasked with ensuring the "health, safety and...

UN May Tap 'Envoy' to Greet ET
 UN May Tap 'Envoy' to Greet ET 
Sep 27, 2010 3:16 AM CDT

UN May Tap 'Envoy' to Greet ET

(Newser) - ET, phone the General Assembly. United Nations scientific advisory committees are about to debate whether to place the organization's Office for Outer Space Affairs in charge of coordinating humankind's response if and when extraterrestrials make contact. The unit's boss is Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, called "absolutely the nearest thing...

Do You Have Alien Insurance?
 Do You Have Alien Insurance? 
Wacky Policies
Sep 19, 2010 4:57 PM CDT

Do You Have Alien Insurance?

Behold the 5 weirdest insurance policies ever sold

(Newser) - Sure, you’ve got health insurance, car insurance and homeowner’s insurance, but do you have alien abduction insurance? One company actually offers such coverage, and it’s the top entry on Asylum ’s list of the wackiest policies ever devised. Here’s the list:
  • Immaculate Conception: Three
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Don't Look for Aliens— Look for Their Robots

SETI expert says we're more likely to find 'thinking machines'

(Newser) - Scientists searching for extraterrestrial life should make sure to look for robot agents of the aliens, says a leading SETI astronomer. The search for life outside earth has so far focused on identifying the building blocks of biochemistry, following the assumption that aliens would meet our definition of "alive....

Physicists: We Need to Look for Alien Tweets

Scientists say SETI has the wrong approach

(Newser) - If aliens are out there and trying to communicate, they are most likely sending short messages—the interstellar equivalent of Tweets, the Telegraph reports. The theory of a cosmic Twitter is being put forth by two physicists calling for a new approach to the long-running Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project....

Hackers Launch Highway Hate
 Hackers Launch Highway Hate 
May 26, 2010 3:38 AM CDT

Hackers Launch Highway Hate

Digital road signs altered in Florida

(Newser) - Hackers added their bit to mounting US tensions over immigrant rights by switching a digital highway sign in Florida to flash "no Latinos" and "no tacos." The flashing messages greeted drivers on the Palmetto Expressway near Miami until police and a highway crew turned the signs around...

Russian Official Says He Spoke With Aliens

Another demands inquiry to make sure he didn't spill secrets

(Newser) - It's a little funny that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of both the Russian Republic of Kalmyk and the International Chess Federation, says he was visited by aliens back in 1997. But it's hilarious that a Russian Duma security deputy is calling for an investigation to ensure he didn't give away...

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