A weather balloon set off by a student last September was spotted as far away as Flanders where their UFO centre was inundated with calls.
Experts soon gathered that it was in fact a weather balloon but meteorologists in both Belgium and Netherlands had no knowledge of one being set off around that time.
But it soon became clear it was a weather balloon released by a University College Cork student in Valentia, Co Kerry on September 14 as part of an experiment.
In case you are keeping track:
Yes, I'm searching for aliens – and no, I won't be going to Area 51 to look for them
Jason Wright leads the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, has served as a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley SETI Research Center, and serves on the scientific advisory board of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative.
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Editor's note: What started as an internet joke has generated a stern military warning after more than a million people "signed up" to "raid" Area 51 – a secretive military installation in Southern Nevada long fancied by conspiracy theorists to be hiding evidence of a crashed UFO with aliens. The purpose of the planned raid on Sept. 20 in order to " see them aliens .
I 'stormed' Area 51 and it was even weirder than I imagined | US news | The Guardian
In the middle of the Nevadan desert, outside a secretive US military airstrip, I found the world's strangest social media convention.
Joining them was a ragged army of hundreds of stoners, UFO buffs, punk bands, rubberneckers, European tourists, people with way too much time on their hands, and meme-lords in Pepe the Frog costumes – all here because of the Internet, the ironic and the earnest alike, for a party at the end of the earth.
World UFO Day: The 10 best alien films, from ET: The Extra-Terrestrial to Under the Skin | The
Even if you don't want to continue watching the skies, there's always the option to keep watching the TV
The sheer volume of possible contenders for a top 10 meant that some classics inevitably had to be left off, along with alien-adjacent masterpieces that have far too much on their minds to be entirely summed up as "alien movies". Therefore, the likes of Starship Troopers, Repo Man or Spice World: The Movie just couldn't be squeezed in.
Not to change the topic here:
UFO Sightings In Moorestown Among 183 Reported In NJ In 2019 | Moorestown, NJ Patch
MOORESTOWN, NJ — Was it a bird? A plane? Superman? An alien? Whatever it was, two of them were spotted over a 9-hour period in Moorestown in September.
New Jersey had 183 reported sightings of strange objects in 2019 , according to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
That includes a pair of sightings in Moorestown, on Sept. 24 and 25. The first came at about 6:20 p.m. on Sept. 24, when a witness reported seeing, "two UFOs and three orbs filmed on top of a warehouse." About nine hours later, at 3:31 a.m., a witness reported seeing an orb in the sky.
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