Tagged: ufo

It looks a lot like a UFO … but it’s what’s called a lenticular cloud. These lens-shaped clouds typically form where stable, moist air flows over a mountain, and they can appear and disappear quickly. Karen Racette captured this one floating over Butte, Montana, on...

If an alien spaceship were to appear in Earth’s sky, it’s likely it’d be seen first by those who spend a lot of time gazing upwards: astronomers. But professional and amateur astronomers don’t usually observe any Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Because they know what sorts...

Enjoy these photos of beautiful lenticular clouds taken in places around the world, and shared with us by our community at EarthSky Facebook and EarthSky Community Photos. These lens-shaped clouds typically form where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains....

If astronomers were to observe Earth from another solar system, could they tell that our planet is teeming with life? By examining Earth in the same way that we look at exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars — we might improve our chances of detecting...

A new report from U.S. intelligence officials claims that there’s no evidence that the unidentified flying objects (UFOs) sighted in recent years — even objects that seemed to perform aerodynamic feats beyond the capabilities of human aircraft — are extraterrestrial in origin. But the objects...

Read more:The Senate intelligence committee is aiming to regulate a Pentagon UFO program so that the public is better informed of its activities and the country’s intelligence branches can more easily share information. The panel said Tuesday that it “supports the efforts of the Unidentified...

We’ve always been fascinated by aliens, and that’s putting it mildly. And mathematically speaking, aliens should exist. “There are two trillion other galaxies we can see, each with a 100 billion Earth-like worlds,” said Seth Shostak , the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. [SETI...

It seems safe to say Chris Hadfield probably doesn’t have one of those X-Files “I want to believe” UFO posters on any of his walls. On Sunday, the Canadian astronaut, who commanded the International Space Station and recorded the famous microgravity rendition of David Bowie’s...

A newly leaked video from the U.S. navy appears to show an unidentified flying object diving into the ocean off the coast of San Diego in 2019, in a clip that officials say is authentic. The clip was released last week by documentary filmmaker Jeremy...

There’s a reason why you may be hearing a lot about UFOs lately. In June, the Pentagon and the Director of National Intelligence will present to Congress an unclassified report about unusual sightings by U.S. service members of UFOs — unidentified flying objects. National security...