PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Skeptics and believers alike will 'make contact' in McMinnville this weekend to celebrate McMenamin's 21st Annual UFO Fest .
Hosted by McMenamin’s Hotel Oregon , the festival began as a way to pay homage to the famous Trent sightings of 1950, where two local residents outside McMinnville photographed what is currently regarded as some of the most credible images of UFO’s.
Canada's 'Point Man' for Military UFO Reports Is This Civilian in Winnipeg
Canada’s government and military have forwarded UFO reports to a civilian researcher for over two decades, VICE World News has learned.
Chris Rutkowski, one of the country’s most prominent ufologists, has been covering Canadian cases for more than 30 years, but has never fully disclosed these ties.
UFO-like aircraft spotted at top secret US military base: Object entering Lockheed Martin's
Vision shows an unusual aircraft being towed into a top secret remote US air force development facility, sparking a flurry of excitement and speculation.
Incredible footage of a military plane appearing to weave between skyscrapers in Brisbane left American viewers thoroughly spooked.
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(CNN) Suspected foreign government-backed hackers last month breached a computer network at one of the largest ports on the US Gulf Coast, but early detection of the incident meant the intruders weren't in a position to disrupt shipping operations, according to a Coast Guard analysis of the
Russian hackers deny an Iowa grain cooperative counts as 'critical' - The Washington
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! The last time I wrote about a security incident in my home state of Iowa, everyone was angry at a company named Shadow and no one had any idea who won the caucuses. Seems like a decade ago.
During a June faceoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Biden threatened retaliation if Russian hacking gangs don't steer clear of U.S. critical infrastructure.
Google Warns of a New Way Hackers Can Make Malware Undetectable on Windows
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel technique adopted by a threat actor to deliberately evade detection with the help of malformed digital signatures of its malware payloads.
"Attackers created malformed code signatures that are treated as valid by Windows but are not able to be decoded or checked by OpenSSL code — which is used in a number of security scanning products," Google Threat Analysis Group's Neel Mehta said in a write-up published on Thursday.
The mercenary threat of U.S. hackers-for-hire | News India Times
But it wasn’t very long before there were inklings of where the worms had wriggled off to. Within a couple of years, word was filtering back to the U.S.
The first clear sight of what the worms were up to came from a 2019 investigation by Reuters into the role of former U.S. intelligence operatives in a UAE operation that, among other things, allegedly snooped on government critics.
Do hackers use information from meme surveys? | wfaa.com
Have you seen photos or memes on your social media feeds asking you to answer survey questions or a silly question?
One example from Facebook reads: "The last four digits of your phone number describes you." Many users replied publicly in the comments with their responses.
'Anonymous' Hackers Claim to Hit Website Hosting Firm Popular With Far-Right Groups -
Last week, hacking group Anonymous claimed to have stolen and leaked data held by Epik , a website hosting firm popular with far-right organizations like the Proud Boys.
The reams of data, amounting to 150 gigabytes, include information about those who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Epik has historically provided web hosting services to a number of conspiracy theorists and conservative media networks.
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If you love the thought of UFOs making trips to observe Earth, you really need to watch the Netflix series, Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified. It is SO good. Here is how Netflix describes it.
Though claims of extraterrestrial encounters have long been dismissed, many believe the existence of UFOs is not just likely, but a certainty.
In the image he shared on a website dedicated to UFO sightings, Waring circled the area on the Martian mountainside that he claims looks like the face of a "human-like alien species."
High-tech robots are being studied and developed in Murfreesboro, which could change factory landscapes all over the country.
A program that is underway now at MTSU, aims to develop new robots that can work alongside humans in today's workplace. Dr.
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Dr. Ken Currie hopes to continue the growth in the department’s Mechatronics Engineering and Engineering Technology degree programs through renewed partnerships with advisory board members, new markets for graduates, and a complete renewal of laboratories.
University of Michigan is 'training' these robots in disaster response
ANN ARBOR – The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Michigan a new $1 million research grant to "train" robots to navigate disaster zones and wilderness areas in real time.
U-M has been conducting research with bipedal (or two-legged) walking robots for years, and the new, three-year project aims to get the robots to traverse terrain freely without relying on a preexisting map of the area.
How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players - IEEE Spectrum
RoMan, the Army Research Laboratory's robotic manipulator, considers the best way to grasp and move a tree branch at the Adelphi Laboratory Center, in Maryland.
"I should probably not be standing this close," I think to myself, as the robot slowly approaches a large tree branch on the floor in front of me.
New disinfecting robots help keep classrooms clean in DMV
Schools in Virginia and now in Maryland have robots at the ready to help keep classrooms clean during the pandemic.
Manassas City Public Schools have been using the Adibot since August, and on Thursday, Prince George’s Co. Public Schools started using the devices as well.
Hy-Vee is bringing inventory robots to 5 stores | Grocery Dive
Simbe's robots can roll around a grocery store up to three times a day, recording data about items on shelves faster and more accurately than human workers.
In addition, Hy-Vee said the insights provided by the robots help retailers plan orders to avoid running out of products and make decisions about where to place items.
Bill Gates' green tech fund bets on Silicon Valley farming robots | Reuters
Sept 22 (Reuters) - As California struggles with another crippling drought, a Silicon Valley startup that believes robots can grow produce more sustainably said Wednesday it raised $50 million in a funding round led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Iron Ox uses robots that are integrated with a hydroponic system consuming 90% less water than traditional farms, said CEO Brandon Alexander.
These robots will carry water for you - The Boston Globe
A cute new cargo robot called the Gitamini launches this week. For $1,850, it trails behind you while schlepping 20 pounds of stuff. It can fit a single bag of groceries, a case of beer, or a backpack — without much room to spare. A larger version is available ― for $2,950.
Pandemic sparks rapid growth in software robots to perform routine office jobs
The pandemic-fueled growth in the adoption of software robots designed to ease routine office work is making one task a lot easier for chief information officers: selling the idea to their corporate bosses, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The technology—known as robotic process automation, or software bots—became a critical tool last year during COVID-19 lockdowns and office closures as companies worked to keep their businesses up and running.
If robots need to persuade humans, they shouldn't resemble authority figures: U of T study
In the future, socially interactive robots could help seniors age in place or assist residents of long-term care facilities with daily activities. But will people actually accept advice or instructions from a machine?
"When robots present themselves as human-like social agents, we tend to play along with that sense of humanity and treat them much like we would a person," says Shane Saunderson , a PhD candidate in the department of mechancial and industrial engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science &
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UVA's New John Mather Nobel Scholar Wants to Design Extraterrestrial Habitats | UVA Today
Avery Walters, a third-year civil engineering student at the University of Virginia, has designed a passively cooled Cambodian farm school, a rapidly deployable shelter for displaced people, created 3-D models of Soviet spacecraft and is now working on a smart HVAC control system that manages
Art project creates 'human-alien hybrids' with meteorite-infused water | Space
These folks were transformed by drinking from a fountain in Fontecchio, a picturesque town in the Abruzzo region. The water flowing from the medieval fountain bubbles with extraterrestrial effervescence, thanks to experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats .
Keats embedded into the hillside above Fontecchio a meteorite — an ordinary chondrite, whose parent body hails from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The space rock's alien essence has therefore leached into the village's groundwater and now courses through its pipes.
Do aliens exist? NASA scientists say more not ruling it out | wtsp.com
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — For years, one age-old question about space has persevered: Do aliens exist?
It's a question NASA astrobiology expert Dr. Lindsay Hays finds interesting and says experts "have been trying to understand and explore and figure out for a really long time."
Graduate alumna awarded NSF MPS-Ascend Fellowship to work at the SETI Institute | Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Sofia Sheikh, who completed her doctorate in astronomy and astrobiology at Penn State in 2021, has been awarded a Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Is This 'Domino Tower' the Most OTT Island in the World?
The ‘outer spiral’ will have a food court, a yacht club and the all-important infinity pool. Not content with just being a holiday destination, it will also have residential accommodation for locals (including four helipads, obvs.)
Most excitingly, ‘ in a sweeping descent from the top-down, all hotel and residential units will have spectacular outer terraces oriented south-southwest for stunning views of Stone Town, the coastline and ethereal Zanzibar sunsets’, according to an xCassia spokesperson.
MYSTERY WIRE — The ongoing wave of media interest in UFOs has been a boon for the country's oldest and largest civilian UFO group. The Mutual UFO Network, better known as MUFON , has chapters in every state and actively investigates reports from the public.
🎧 Your Weather: First weekend of fall and UFOs | KOIN.com
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It’s officially the fall season around here. Weather has been up and down with temperatures and rain. What does that mean for our weekend?
KOIN 6 Meteorologists Joseph Dames and Kelley Bayern hit the ground running in this weather podcast as they discuss the transition from summer to fall. Will we start to see the cooler mornings and fall afternoons more often?
Rick Wilson: The spaceman and the world we've got (Opinion) | Columnists | wvgazettemail.com
It was a thing at the time, with UFO crazes that sprang up and disappeared like mushrooms every few years. Flying saucers were featured in news stories, science fiction, movies and popular songs.
I don't know about that, but my kid self gobbled it all up and scanned the sky, desperately trying to convince myself I saw something.
The festival will celebrate Iowa's folklore history with guided monster walking tours, paranormal presentations, monster-themed games, drinks and food.
The schedule is as follows: the Steve Ward presentation "The Shaver Mystery will be held at 12:30 p.m.; the Kevin Nelson presentation "Wendigo Lore: Monsters, Myths and Madness" will be held at 1:30 p.m.; Jay Bachochin's "Searching for the Wisconsin Sasquatch" will be held at 2:30 p.m.
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Front Range Stage: ‘Legally Blonde, The Musical’ in Longmont, ‘Climate
As You Like It Fresh adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy performed outdoors, through Oct. 9, Band of Toughs, Buell Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver; $12; bandoftoughs.org .
Avenue Q Musical comedy about bohemians in New York City, featuring puppets, but it’s decidedly not for kids, through Oct. 17, BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; $65-$75; bdtstage.com .
“It is with deep sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our friend, Tim Donnelly, this weekend. To all the Emergency! fans, we want you to know that he was very excited about coming to the Museum in January for the 50th Anniversary,” a spokesperson wrote.
Donnelly was born on September 3, 1944, finding his first role in Don Siegel’s 1957 crime drama, Baby Face Nelson , and going on to enjoy a 27-year screen career. He appeared in all six seasons of action comedy Emergency!
Tim Donnelly Dead: ‘Emergency!’ Actor Was 77 – The Hollywood Reporter
Donnelly had appeared on the Jack Webb-produced shows Dragnet and Adam-12 when he was cast as Chet on the Webb-produced Emergency! , which starred Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as firefighter/paramedics and Robert Fuller, Julie London and Bobby Troup as doctors.
Eye-catching kites at Revere Beach on last day of summer
Richard Salvo broke out some eye-catching kites at Revere Beach on Tuesday. One was shaped like SpongeBob SquarePants and another in the shape of a smiley face. He also flew a squid-shaped kite and another circular kite that resembled a UFO.
College Football Playoff expansion enters negotiation stage | National | denvergazette.com
Alabama running back Jase McClellan (21) returns a blocked punt for a touchdown against Mercer during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Iowa defensive back Matt Hankins (8) makes an interception in front of Iowa State wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson (8) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Ames, Iowa.
From Star Trek–like medical scanners to concepts for off-planet agriculture like in The Expanse , science fiction has often inspired actual research at NASA and other space agencies.
A drone helicopter hopping about a Martian crater or a lunar rover that maps moon ice might have seemed far-fetched a decade ago, but the copter actually flew earlier this year, and the rover is in the planning stages.
The best animated space movies for kids will introduce your little ones to the concept of intergalactic travel while allowing you to kick back and enjoy some entertainment, too. There are few media forms as captivating as animation, which can hold the attention of adults and children alike.
Why Hasn't Elon Musk Been to Space Yet? - The Atlantic
On the day that SpaceX's first space tourists launched, Elon Musk was there at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to see them off, cheering as the private astronauts walked to the Teslas that would take them to suit up.
The Inspiration4 mission marked SpaceX's fourth successful human spaceflight, and a SpaceX official says the company wants to fly paying customers "three, four, five, six times a year at least.
Cranbrook Institute of Science explores space, the final frontier
Anyone who thinks the moon is made of green cheese gets a chance to find out for themselves starting Sunday, when the Cranbrook Institute of Science opens "Space: A Journey to Our Future.
The exhibit is the institute's first major presentation in nearly two years, after a complete shutdown for three months before it returned to operating at a limited capacity, said Michael Stafford, director of the institute.
UN secretary-general blasts space tourism | TheHill
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday decried "glaring inequalities" in wealth being exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, specifically pointing to recent developments in the space tourism industry.
"COVID and the climate crisis have exposed profound fragilities as societies and as a planet. Yet instead of humility in the face of these epic challenges, we see hubris," he began, highlighting the "malady of mistrust" growing between different socioeconomic groups.
Going into space isn't just for the rich; it's for us – The News Herald
Once again, we've watched someone other than a trained astronaut travel into outer space — a dream I had as a little kid looking up at the stars I could see through the smoky sky of River Rouge.
I've been a fan of space travel since the launch of Sputnik — which my dad pointed out to me as it drifted across the night sky.
NASA astronaut: More than one road to space, 'one of those roads is for you' - CNET
Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman discusses what Inspiration4 could mean for the future of space travel.
And while the civilians' view was beautiful, the breathtaking photos they took from their 360-degree cupola might represent far more than a future filled with space travel. They capture four people who symbolize that vision in a way Bezos and Branson… well, can't.
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