Some details of this curious narrowband hum at a frequency of around 982.002 MHz, and its apparent coincidence with the direction of Proxima Centauri, have been reported, and we’ll have to wait a little while longer for the full technical analysis to be presented.
There’s an interesting parallel too with our discovery of planets around other stars. Back in the early 1990s we had the first evidence of planet-sized objects around pulsars . An astonishing and wholly unexpected discovery, but one that we perhaps didn’t quite rejoice in as much as we could have because it just wasn’t anything like a “normal” planetary system (for us Earth-centric thinkers).
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Space object likely came from alien world, Harvard professor says | WTOP
Cambridge, Massachusetts — A Harvard University professor is making the case that we’re probably not alone in the universe. Astronomer Avi Loeb’s new book “Extraterrestrial” examines the 2017 flyby of a space object that he believes was truly out of this world.
“At first people thought, ‘Well it must be a rock, just like the asteroids or comets that we have seen before within the solar system,'” Loeb told CBSN Boston’s Paula Ebben . “But as they got more data on it, it looks very weird.”
See the CIA’s trove of UFO-related intelligence documents | WANE 15
(NEXSTAR) – From reports of flying saucers to mysterious bomb blasts, the CIA has opened its catalogue of intelligence on reports of unidentified flying objects to the public.
In one report from June of 1996, two Lithuanian police officers working near the border reported seeing “a spherical object hanging and ‘pulsing,’ alternately shrinking and expanding” around 12:30 a.m. that morning. They also described “a strange sound like an electric or electronic crackle.”
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Sunshine before more snow | WOWK 13 News
(WOWK) – Sunshine is coming back with some warming mid-week before colder air comes back into the region.
Sunshine and warmer temperatures are here Wednesday then more clouds with warmer temperatures on Thursday followed by a rain-snow mix for Friday along a cold front which allows for a cold weekend with some snow.
By Saturday another push of cold air comes in along with moisture, meaning there will likely be bands of snow showers developing.
Harvard professor believes asteroid was actually old alien tech | TribLIVE.com
The New York Post reports that the rock in question was deemed ‘Oumuamua (meaning “scout” in Hawaiian), and caused quite a stir within scientific groups.
Not only was ‘Oumuamua the first interstellar object ever found within Earth’s solar system, but its trajectory indicated its movement was not contingent upon the sun’s gravitational pull. In fact, ‘Oumuamua appeared to be driven by a force other than our central star’s, even accelerating away from the sun at one point.
How will scientists protect Earth from extraterrestrial germs? | National Geographic
Dr. Daniel H. Anderson, an aerospace technologist and test director in the Nonsterile Nitrogen Processing Laboratory in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center looks at much-discussed Apollo 14 basketball-size rock through a microscope. The two moon-exploring crew men of Apollo 14 brought back 90-odd pounds of lunar sample material from their two periods of extravehicular activity on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro area.
For years, concerns about planetary protection have focused on preventing Earth from littering the solar system – sterilising spacecraft and keeping astronauts under strict quarantine protocols. But as space agencies around the world gear up to bring more samples back from destinations such as asteroids, the moon, and Mars, scientists are once more considering the opposite prospect: What if we bring extraterrestrial germs back to Earth?
Did We Receive a Message from a Planet Orbiting the Nearest Star? - Scientific American
Following on this report, Jonathan O’Callaghan and Lee Billings of Scientific American published more details about the detected signal , labeled BLC1, an abbreviation for the first Breakthrough Listen Candidate event.
But even without examining the event details, one might wonder whether it is plausible for a radio signal to originate from our nearest star system. In a new paper with my student Amir Siraj, we show that the likelihood of another civilization transmitting such radio waves is exceedingly low based on the Copernican principle . Terrestrial radio technology appeared only over the last century of the 4.5-billion-year history of the Earth.
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