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US shoots down UFOs over Lake Huron and Canada
By Tia Ghose last updated
The U.S. shot down a UFO over Lake Huron on Sunday, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. shot down an unidentified flying object over the Yukon, Canada at his request.

8 possible alien 'technosignatures' detected around distant stars in new AI study
By Stephanie Pappas published
Eight signals from far-off stars probably aren't aliens, but the machine learning method that found them holds promise in the search for real extraterrestrials.

Is the sun a node in a gigantic alien space internet? Scientists scanned the skies to check.
By Adam Mann published
Through a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, aliens could be transmitting signals using the sun, but a quick scan for such signals has turned up nothing.

Alien life could be turning harsh planets into paradises — and astronomers want to find them
By Paul Sutter published
Early life made an inhospitable Earth more habitable, and aliens could be doing the same thing on their worlds, new research proposes.

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.
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