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White House Denies Contact With UFOs

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:30:05 CST

UFO conspiracy theorists will no doubt be drooling over this one. The White House has made a point of denying any contact with extraterrestrials and says it has no evidence of their existence, USA Today reports. "There is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from...

Australia Can't Find UFO Records

Sarah Whitmire — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:51:05 CDT

Cue the conspiracy theories in the land down under: Australian officials say they’ve been unable to locate decades' worth of UFO records. After Great Britain released thousands of its own ‘X-files’ last year , the Sydney Morning Herald filed a Freedom of Information request for Australia’s version of the records, reports...

Secret FBI Memo: We Found Flying Saucers

Kevin Spak — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:21:02 CDT

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 had been...

US Military Officers: UFOs Deactivated Nukes

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:51:00 CDT

Extraterrestrials do exist … and they apparently are not fans of our missiles, according to a few former US Air Force officers. Capt. Robert Salas and some of his colleagues will give a press conference in Washington, DC, today to testify that UFOs have appeared at numerous nuclear weapons sites—...

NY Prof Urges UFO Degree

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:40:00 CDT

An American professor believes it's high time universities seriously study UFO sightings. "Millions" of sightings are reported each year, noted anthropology professor Philip Hasely. "It’s about time we looked into this as a worthy area of study," he tells the Buffalo News . "It's important that the whole subject be brought...

Google Homepage an 'Unexplained Phenomenon'

Harry Kimball — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:54:49 CDT

Google’s home page presents a extraterrestrial quandary today, the Telegraph reports. The “doodle”—the sporadic reworking of the Google artwork that usually marks a specific event—depicts one “O” being abducted by a UFO. Mouse over the alien spacecraft and click, and you’re taken to a Google search for “unexplained...

Obama's Online Push Opens Debate ... to Lunatic Fringe

Kevin Spak — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:20:00 CDT

President Obama promised to use the Internet to give Americans a greater voice in government—but in keeping that promise, he’s given America’s fringe a chance to shout at him, the New York Times reports. When the administration asked for ideas on how to make the government more transparent, it...

Astronaut Reports Alien Visits

Peter Fearon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:44:15 CDT

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who walked on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission, says aliens have visited Earth but the information has been covered up by the government. The 77-year-old astronaut told a radio interviewer he was "privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited," reports...

Britain Opens X-Files Vault

Peter Fearon — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:23:03 CDT

Britain has released the first batch of secret files on reported UFO sightings, Reuters reports, and concluded that 90% are bogus. The Defense Ministry's Flying Saucer Working Party found that the other unexplained 10% posed no security threat. It has investigated some 11,000 reports dating back to the '50s...