INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS RECAP DAY 2 WITH MICAH HANKS - SPACING OUT! PUBLISHED ON 1 MAR 2013Jason McClellan and Maureen Elsberry interview speaker and Gralien Report host Micah Hanks at day 2 of the International UFO Congress in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The UFO Congress runs through Sunday March 3rd.
GRANT CAMERON-RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD PUBLISHED ON 6 MAR 2013Grant Cameron received this years researcher of the year award at the International UFO Congress. This video is a look at Cameron's work.
STANTON FRIEDMAN-2013 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PUBLISHED ON 21 MAR 2013At the recent 2013 International UFO Congress, Open Minds awarded Stanton Friedman the Lifetime Achievement Award. Here is the award video along with his acceptance speech.
RECAPPING THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS - SPACING OUT! EP. 41 PUBLISHED ON 15 MAR 2013We recap the 2013 International UFO Congress. We also talk about UFO photos taken by actor Russell Crowe, and a letter from Steven Speilberg to Larry King about UFOs. That, and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
22ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS
PUBLISHED ON 27 FEB 2013
22nd Annual International UFO Congress. Interview with Ben Hansen about Night Optics USA, Inc.
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The military's mysterious, experimental UNMANNED SPACE PLANE is doing such a good job that its mission has been extended indefinitely-if only anyone knew what its mission was. The mission is TOP SECRET.
Details on the mission involving the X-37B are virtually nonexistent. The official U.S. Air Force fact sheet says the vehicle is being used as an "EXPERIMENTAL TEST PROGRAM TO DEMONSTRATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR A RELIABLE, REUSABLE, UNMANNED SPACE TEST PLATFORM FOR THE U.S. AIR FORCE," reports U.S.NEWS ">
The Boeing-build spacecraft began its life as a NASA program, with the Air Force contributing some development funds. It was originally conceived as a vehicle that could robotically refuel or repair satellites. Once NASA decided to drop the program, it was transferred to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), and then to the Air Force, where it became a top secret, "black" program.
General William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command operating the X-37B space plane was asked to give adjectives for the X-37B, he offered up "SPECTACULAR" and "GAME-CHANGING" whatever that means for a secret spacecraft with no public information about its mission other than it continues to orbit close to the CHINESE SPACE LAB, Tiangong-1, where Chinese taikonauts are expected to arrive in the next few weeks.
The current orbiting USAF X-37B is the second space plane placed into low erath orbit. The first launched and landed successfully spending 220 DAYS IN SPACE IN 2010. Nevertheless, USAF General Shelton said that the military has no intention of purchasing any more of the winged, resuable vehciles, which resemble a smaller version of NASA's now retired space shuttle. The general did confirm a third mission for one of the two X-37B spacecraft is set for the fall of 2012.
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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g STARS - What if the speed of light is a constant only most of the time? What if gravity sometimes pushed instead of pulled? Scientists are increasingly asking what would seem like far-out questions regarding the laws and rules of physics after discovering conditions and materials where the rules don't quite apply. Take the Doppler effect. See article.
g ABODES - How old is Titan's surface? For years, Saturn's moon Titan was thought to have mastered the cosmetic surgery of the cosmos, with barely a mark or wrinkle to betray its true age. Close-up views provided by Cassini instruments show that Titan is nearly as flawless as it seems from a distance, with only two impact craters found so far. A world with a more youthful surface may be more likely to harbor life. See article.
g LIFE - Flowers have flourished and evolved their beauty partly because we're so emotionally attached to them, scientists say. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - It's true - many of you don't go a day without dishing out several doses of sarcasm. But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark. See article.
g MESSAGE - Here's a good overview of the Drake Equation - though the rest of the Web site itself is a bit suspect.
g COSMICUS - There are already lessons learned that if not heeded might hold back the sky-high hopes of space tourism operators. See article. For related story, see "Space Tourism: An 'Adventure Sport' In the Making".
g LEARNING - Here's a neat classroom activity, courtesy of NASA: Moon Quest. In these lesson plans, students explore Moon legends and data by forming expert teams and sharing knowledge.
g IMAGINING - ET is coming to your living room in "Extraterrestrial," and no one is being abducted. Over the past several months, a top-notch group of American and British scientists teamed up with Blue Wave Productions, Ltd. (for the National Geographic) to imagine what ET is like on other worlds. It's all based upon our scientific understanding of life, stars and planetary systems. When filmed, Dr. Michael Meyer was NASA's astrobiology program scientist, and now serves as NASA Headquarters Mars Program Scientist; Dr. Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer here at the SETI Institute; Dr. Chris McKay is a leading Mars researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Dr. Laurance Doyle conducts research on animal communication, and planetary systems around binary stars at SETI Institute and is the lead scientists at PlanetQuest, Inc. a new non-profit that will engage the public in finding extrasolar planets. Dr. Simon Conway Morris is a world-leader in evolutionary biology at Cambridge University in England....and the list goes on. These are serious and accomplished scientists--legitimate guys applying everything they know about stars, planetary systems, planetary evolution, and most especially, the evolution of life, to speculate on what life might be like on other worlds. See article.
g AFTERMATH - Should we really expect extraterrestrials to be sympathetic to our pleas to be altruistic because of the symbolic kinship we might share with them? See article. Note: This article is from 2003.
g STARS - What if the speed of light is a constant only most of the time? What if gravity sometimes pushed instead of pulled? Scientists are increasingly asking what would seem like far-out questions regarding the laws and rules of physics after discovering conditions and materials where the rules don't quite apply. Take the Doppler effect. See article.
g ABODES - How old is Titan's surface? For years, Saturn's moon Titan was thought to have mastered the cosmetic surgery of the cosmos, with barely a mark or wrinkle to betray its true age. Close-up views provided by Cassini instruments show that Titan is nearly as flawless as it seems from a distance, with only two impact craters found so far. A world with a more youthful surface may be more likely to harbor life. See article.
g LIFE - Flowers have flourished and evolved their beauty partly because we're so emotionally attached to them, scientists say. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - It's true - many of you don't go a day without dishing out several doses of sarcasm. But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark. See article.
g MESSAGE - Here's a good overview of the Drake Equation - though the rest of the Web site itself is a bit suspect.
g COSMICUS - There are already lessons learned that if not heeded might hold back the sky-high hopes of space tourism operators. See article. For related story, see "Space Tourism: An 'Adventure Sport' In the Making".
g LEARNING - Here's a neat classroom activity, courtesy of NASA: Moon Quest. In these lesson plans, students explore Moon legends and data by forming expert teams and sharing knowledge.
g IMAGINING - ET is coming to your living room in "Extraterrestrial," and no one is being abducted. Over the past several months, a top-notch group of American and British scientists teamed up with Blue Wave Productions, Ltd. (for the National Geographic) to imagine what ET is like on other worlds. It's all based upon our scientific understanding of life, stars and planetary systems. When filmed, Dr. Michael Meyer was NASA's astrobiology program scientist, and now serves as NASA Headquarters Mars Program Scientist; Dr. Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer here at the SETI Institute; Dr. Chris McKay is a leading Mars researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Dr. Laurance Doyle conducts research on animal communication, and planetary systems around binary stars at SETI Institute and is the lead scientists at PlanetQuest, Inc. a new non-profit that will engage the public in finding extrasolar planets. Dr. Simon Conway Morris is a world-leader in evolutionary biology at Cambridge University in England....and the list goes on. These are serious and accomplished scientists--legitimate guys applying everything they know about stars, planetary systems, planetary evolution, and most especially, the evolution of life, to speculate on what life might be like on other worlds. See article.
g AFTERMATH - Should we really expect extraterrestrials to be sympathetic to our pleas to be altruistic because of the symbolic kinship we might share with them? See article. Note: This article is from 2003.
