On December 18, 1955, an object with a diameter of about 80 meters exploded in Earth’s orbit, which broke into 10 pieces. According to various hypotheses and computer calculations, the object could have been a block of ice, a meteorite or, most interestingly, an extraterrestrial spaceship. How is this possible? American astronomer John P. Bagby, … Read more
Phobos (Greek Φόβος ‘fear’) – the larger of the two moons of Mars. A natural satellite orbiting the closest to its planet in the Solar System. In Greek mythology, Phobos was the son of Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus). Phobos Program (Russian: Фобос) – a flight program of two Soviet unmanned space probes sent in … Read more
Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. The incident came to be called the “Hill Abduction” and the “Zeta Reticuli Incident” because two ufologists connected the star map shown to Betty … Read more
Panspermia (from ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) – everything and σπέρμα (sperm) – semen) is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe and is spread by cosmic dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets and asteroids, as well as spacecraft carrying unintended microbial contamination, known as directed panspermia. The theory states that life did not originate on Earth, … Read more
On February 24, 1942, the United States Navy reported the detection of luminous objects over Los Angeles. An anti-aircraft alarm was raised and gun positions were manned. The alarm was taken seriously, given the state of war the US was in, the previous attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and the theoretical possibility of … Read more
