YIKES! Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass closer to the Earth than the orbit of the Moon on November 8th, 2011. At over 1300 feet in length, this one would cause some serious damage if it struck the Earth. This is the nearest pass of a know space rock since 1976 and there won’t be another [...]
Only 8 months ago, amateur Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin discovered Comet Elenin and was able to predicts its path, which brings it about the same distance as the planet Venus from Earth on September 10th, 2011, then again on October 16th, 2011. Linda Moulton Howe of EarthFiles.com speaks with Don Yeomans, Ph.D., Manager, Near-Earth Object [...]
David Martines has found what he believes to be a space station or other object on the surface of Mars by studying Google’s Maps of Mars. Located at coordinates 71 49’19.73″N 29 33’06.53″W, the object is estimated to be 700ft long by 150ft wide and possibly have red and blue striping. Share
Time to ramp up the 2012 and Nibiru media machine, it seems a giant planet 4 times the size of Jupiter may be lurking beyond the Oort cloud (a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets, gas, and debris which may lie nearly a light-year from the Sun). It seems Prof Daniel Whitmire from the University of [...]
NASA has called a press conference for tomorrow that will “impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life”. The rumor mill has everything from them announcing that they detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing arsenic for photosynthesis on Titan to the declaration of extraterrestrial life being encountered. NASA will hold a news conference at 2 [...]
Iron Sky is a science fiction comedy being produced by Blind Spot Pictures and Energia Productions in Finland, and co-produced by 27 Films in Germany and New Holland Pictures in Australia. The plot goes that World War Two SS officer Hans Kammler makes a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity and the Nazi spaceships were launched in [...]
The joint NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), sitting at the L1 point between the Earth and the sun, has spotted a large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting in the direction of Earth. While not an unusually massive eruption, the blast was at the same time as another phenomenon on the sun, called a ‘filament’, [...]
It was the height of the cold war and blowing up stuff was what we did. This time, it was a nuke shot into space to explode in the Van Allen radiation belt. The Van Allen belts had only been identified several years before and the mission Starfish Prime was launched, sending a hydrogen bomb [...]
Its our two year Anniversary!!! Another weird year has gone by, over 200 posts for our second year. Our second year started with a bang, with the massive, yet generally unreported, worldwide July 4th 2009 UFO flap. The July 4th Orange Balls of Light were followed quickly by Mike Rowley’s Northport Devil. The phenomenon were [...]
Since 1976, Zecharia Sitchin has been researching the idea that a “12th planet” called Nibiru swings past Earth every three thousands years or so. This 12th planet is the home of a group of aliens, known as Annunaki in Sumerian scriptures and the Nephilim that were mentioned in the Bible. These aliens crossed their DNA [...]