Category: Extraterrestrial

  • The 10 Most Legitimate Cases of U.F.O. Sightings

    The 10 Most Legitimate Cases of U.F.O. Sightings

    History doesn’t believe or disbelieve in UFOs. There are a handful of UFO sightings documented by Roman historians from around 2,000 years ago, but they seem about as credible as the existence of Zeus. More than 95 percent of all UFO sightings can be easily dismissed as military aircraft, stars,…

  • The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs

    The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs

    Funded at the request of Harry Reid, the program probed a number of encounters military pilots had with aircraft they believed didn’t operate like anything they had seen before The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multimillion-dollar program to investigate what are popularly…

  • If UFOs are alien spaceships, how did they get here?

    If UFOs are alien spaceships, how did they get here?

    The truth is out there. Key Takeaways Space is really, really big, and aliens are not magic. These are the two critical points to consider if you really want to think about UFOs as spacecraft from distant star systems. They are also the most important points to consider if you want…

  • Wormholes Could be Portals to Other Universes—Here’s What One Might Look Like

    Wormholes Could be Portals to Other Universes—Here’s What One Might Look Like

    Representative image of a black hole. iStock Wormholes are theoretical objects that could serve as portals between two points in space and time. Some believe they could even act as passageways to other universes. But if one did exist, what would it look like? Roman Konoplya, a theoretical physicist with the…

  • What Were the Mysterious “Foo Fighters” Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?

    What Were the Mysterious “Foo Fighters” Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?

    Something strange was following the Beaufighter crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron. Toward the end of World War 2, mission updates from the 415th Night Fighter Squadron took a mysterious turn. Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley, pilots began reporting inexplicable lights following their aircraft. One night…

  • Messages to and from Outer Space

    Messages to and from Outer Space

    As the 20th century began, interest in the potential of life on Mars and the possible civilizations there lead to a search for signals. Could we communicate with another planet? How might we look for signals and messages from other worlds? An 1896 newspaper article titled “A Signal from Mars” offered one example of…

  • Seeing and Interpreting Martian Oceans and Canals

    Seeing and Interpreting Martian Oceans and Canals

    Did you know that in the 19th century it was widely believed that the other planets in our solar system were likely inhabited? At the same time, the quality of telescopes was rapidly increasing, making it possible for astronomers to see and sketch the incredible details of the geography of…

  • Peoples & Creatures of the Moon

    Peoples & Creatures of the Moon

    Humans have long imagined the kinds of creatures or peoples that might live on Earth’s moon. This section briefly describes ideas about lunar life in the 17th, 19th the 20th centuries through a series of items from the Library of Congress’ collections. By examining ideas about life on the moon,…

  • UFOs and Aliens Among Us

    UFOs and Aliens Among Us

    In the 1940s and 50s reports of “flying saucers” became an American cultural phenomena. Sightings of strange objects in the sky became the raw materials for Hollywood to present visions of potential threats. Posters for films, like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers from 1956 illustrate these fears.  Connected to ongoing ideas about life on the…

  • National Security Agency – Central Security Service UFO and Other Paranormal Information

    National Security Agency – Central Security Service UFO and Other Paranormal Information

    Review the search terms in response to requests for information on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Paranormal Events, where no responsive material has been located.  To Search,  Select a Letter/Number A Aegis AEO (aka Anomalous Aerial Objects) Aegis AEO (aka Anomalous Aerial Objects) AF-19741 AF44-29125 AGOR-8 Airgram A-894 ALF Alien Abduction(s)…