From Scripps News:
Most Americans say it is very likely or somewhat likely that humans are not alone in the universe and that intelligent life exists on other planets.
Only a third of adults, however, believe it's either very likely or somewhat likely that intelligent aliens from space have visited our planet, according to a survey of 1,003 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University.
I had gotten bored with this blog and hadn't posted for a while. UFOs just didn't seem all that interesting to me anymore... until I started seeing objects like the one pictured above in my backyard.
The video for "Lullabye" by The Cure bears notable resemblance to common alien abduction scenarios. This brings up all sorts of questions. Just what do we know about Spider-man? Is he extraterrestrial in origin? Does he mean us harm?
CBC News/Canada - The Ufology Research Centre in Winnipeg has been unable to identify this smoky spiral seen over Prince Edward Island on Boxing Day. (The story includes video.)
Other Headlines:
Jim Sparks has a very detailed story of being abducted by aliens frequently throughout this adult life. I was listening to Mysterious Universe while cleaning my bathroom a couple of months ago, when I heard him relate some of his experiences and promote his book.
Sparks was also on Coast to Coast AM in 2006, and the C2C website has illustrations of his experience, such as the image above, wherein the greys attempt to extract semen from the prone abductee.
From the New York Times, an article about the progress that has been made - and hasn't been made - toward refining the variables in the Drake Equation. The Drake Equation was created in 1961 in an attempt to get some idea of what chance we have of contacting intelligent life from other worlds.
The Museum of Hoaxes has a fun slideshow that takes readers through the history of photographic hoaxes. Above is an image of a Venusian spacecraft, which George Adamski purported to have taken in 1952, having made contact travellers from our sister planet:
Adamski worked as a soft-drinks salesman, and skeptics have noted a suggestive
similarity between the scoutcraft and the top of a particular brand of soft-drinks cooler.
Also featured in the slideshow: Ghosts, fairies, giant produce, and baby Hitler.
