I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

Blaming imperialism for the lack of life on Mars is an interesting twist to what happened to the past civilizations that some claim once lived on the Red Planet.

Recently, Dr. Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, discussed some of the greatest hits and biggest challenges in astrobiology at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. He spoke about the disagreement over whether or not the meteorite ALH84001 shows signs of bacterial life on Mars and the plans for upcoming missions to Mars to look for signs of life.

Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man, including ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, retired Col. Charles Halt, and Bruce Fenstermacher, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer, will speak about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly address the situation.

ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it. Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.

Full article at www.reuters.com

The National Press Club meeting will be held Monday, September 27, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. at Holeman Lounge and is open to credentialed media and Congressional staff only. Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, will moderate a distinguished panel of former U.S. Air Force officers involved in UFO incidents at nuclear missile sites near Malmstrom, F.E. Warren, and Walker AFBs, as well as the nuclear weapons depot at RAF Bentwaters.

Below is Captain Robert Salas talking to Larry King about the 1967 incident in Texas where Minute Men Missiles were shut down when a UFO was reported near the underground silos.

This is an interesting suggestion, especially given the idea that such visitors to our planet, namely the creepy short grey aliens made so famous by Whitley Strieber, are already thought to be androids/robots/somethings by some in the UFO & alien abduction world.

Also, multiple science fiction greats have written about robots being the first wave of alien contact, from Harry Bates’ Gort (Gnut) in ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ (based on the short story “Farewell to the Master”) and H.G Wells’ Martian Tripods in ‘The War of the Worlds’ alien robots made contact with earth before or along with their extraterrestrial creators.

The aliens contacted the Governor telepathically.

Ilyumzhinov claims that the aliens did not make themselves known to the rest of the world because they were not ready, adding that he communicated with them telepathically because there was not enough oxygen on earth to support them.

The report adds that his driver, his minister and his assistant were all present when the aliens made contact and rumor is that Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wants to speak directly to Ilyumzhinov. Medvedev is concerned that Russian security secrets may have been given to the aliens.

Both ABC and FoxNews have picked up on this story, giving different photo of Ilyumzhinov.

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”

Hawking’s reason for believing in alien life is strictly mathematical. With 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.

Stephen Hawking’s Universe begins on the Discovery Channel on Sunday May 9 at 9pm

“alien beings have come to earth and walk amongst us in our communities disguised as us”

The results are in.

One in five (20%) of presumably human adults surveyed in 22 countries say they believe that alien beings have come down to earth and walk amongst us in our communities disguised as “us”.

Break down by country as follows
India – 45% agree/55% disagree

China – 42% agree/50% disagree

Japan – 29% agree/71% disagree

South Korea – 27% agree/73% disagree

Italy – 25% agree/75% disagree

United States – 24% agree/76% disagree

Brazil – 24% agree/76% disagree

Australia – 23% agree/77% disagree

Russia – 21% agree/79% disagree

Spain – 21% agree/79% disagree

Poland – 19% agree/81% disagree

Czech Republic – 18% agree/82% disagree

Great Britain – 16% agree/84% disagree

Canada – 16% agree/84% disagree

Hungary – 14% agree/86% disagree

Argentina – 13% agree/87% disagree

Germany – 11% agree/89% disagree

Mexico – 10% agree/90% disagree

France – 9% agree/91% disagree

Sweden – 8% agree/92% disagree

Belgium – 8% agree/92% disagree

Netherlands – 8% agree/92% disagree

Press release

Or so lots of people thought, as Raj Patel, a food activist promoting his new book, has been swamped with emails from followers of Benjamin Creme. It seems the 37 year old London born author fits the profile of the coming Maitreya.

Patel says he isn’t the Maitreya, but I guess part of the prophecy is that the Maitreya would deny being the Maitreya. A better question would be ‘would the Maitreya know he was the Maitreya?’

Creme isn’t helping by saying that he doesn’t know if Patel is the Maitreya or not.

It seems several Anonymous youtube users had been impersonating MUFON in an unfortunate slander campaign against a fellow youtube user.

Mark Easter, MUFON’s International Director of Public Relations sets the story straight about recent youtube misconduct (they have an International Director of Public Relations?).

Keep reporting your sighting to MUFON, of course you can phone them in to us at (571) 24WEIRD also.

Do Aliens meeting to discuss life on Earth?

At a meeting at the Royal Society, which will include representatives from Nasa, the European Space Agency and the UN Office for Outer space Affairs, physicist Professor Paul Davies, from Arizona University, will explain why the best way of proving that extraterrestrial life exists elsewhere is to find it on earth first.

Davies is into looking for “weird” microbes that belong to a “shadow biosphere” in deserts, volcanic vents, salt-saturated lakes and the dry valleys of Antarctica, places earth life doesn’t survive so well.

Professor Davies will give a public lecture ‘The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe? ’ on Tuesday 26th January.

The meeting concerning the detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society is the first to take place in the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary year.

Other highlights of the conference include Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS on predicting what extra-terrestrial life might be like and preparing for the worst, Professor Albert A Harrison on what the reality of human responses to extra-terrestrial intelligence might be, and Nobel prize winner Christian de Duve on life as a cosmic imperative.

The show starts at 9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific today, January 14th. Listen Live.

The WhalesInSpace.com Paranormal live chatroom is open for discussion concerning the show.

Taken directly from his ww.blogtalkradio.com page.

Thursday we will be joined again by the one,and only Stephen Bassett. We will talk Ufology,the Million Fax on Washington, plus much more. Stephen Bassett is a leading advocate in the nation for ending the 61-year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is a political activist, lobbyist, commentator and columnist.

He is the founder of the Paradigm Research Group, the Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), the creator of the Paradigm Clock and the executive producer of the X-Conference. With the nation and world moving into new and troubling territory, Mr. Bassett will continue to work to create a broad based coalition within the extraterrestrial phenomena research/activist community capable of reaching out to the twenty million plus American citizens who are following the politics of disclosure with interest and concern. The aim is to form a political structure of sufficient size to meaningfully influence government policies and actions leading up to and following the formal acknowledgment of the extraterrestrial presence