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Searching for an ET? Scientists Say Look for Signs of Aliens Mining Asteroids

By Lee SpeigelApr 6th 2011 – 6:30PM
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After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears. So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some scientists suggest looking for...

Couple Finds Spielberg's 'ET' in Log

By David MoyeMar 1st 2011 – 12:05PM

When E.T. phones home, he might want to tell his relatives he's stuck in a tree -- literally. That's what Pete Burford, a retired British man in Eldersfield, Gloucestershire, discovered when he chopped down a poplar tree for firewood. SWNS.com Pete and Sylvia Burford noticed the face of E.T. in a piece of wood...

Ret. Col. Says UFOs Are Real, but Denies Government Cover-Up

By Lee SpeigelFeb 23rd 2011 – 5:10PM
John Alexander

John Alexander

Whether you believe or disbelieve the notion that UFOs are visitors from another planet, a former highly decorated military officer now comes forward with information that may infuriate those on both sides in the ongoing ET debate. Retired Col. John Alexander, using his military savvy and high security clearance, spent a...

'UFO Phil' Wants to Put a Pyramid on Pikes Peak

By Lee SpeigelFeb 8th 2011 – 3:01PM
Courtesy Phil Hill

Courtesy Phil Hill

Phil Hill is a man with a dream -- a big dream. Maybe even an impossible dream. But this Don Quixote of the ET set is asking the U.S. government to allow him to build a giant pyramid on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado -- to be used by both humans and aliens. Lots of questions spring to mind: Who exactly is this guy? Why...

2010: A Big Year for UFOs

By Lee SpeigelDec 27th 2010 – 7:35AM
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Like a bad penny that keeps showing up, UFOs have been around on a regular basis from antiquity through modern day. And as 2010 unfolded, the UFO mythology was alive and well. Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, the pope's astronomer, a high-ranking Italian politician and even the late Winston Churchill...

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