NASA Modern Thoughts About Intelligent Life in Our Solar System In order for life to establish itself and thrive, three things are necessary: free liquid (water is best); organic compounds; and energy, to build organic compounds from present molecules. Water (or water vapor) is a vehicle. Key organic compounds, and those that define all life … Read more
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life All Shapes, Colors, and Sizes Among the most frequently reported alien types are grays (short, spindly, big- eyed creatures that have been the dominant ET form for some seventy years); insectoids (fictionalized most famously in the novel/film Starship Troopers); reptilians (an intimidating, shape-shifting form also called draconians, saurians, lizard people, and, less … Read more
Possible Shapes and Forms of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life In 1951, the brilliant science fiction illustrator Edd Cartier created a remarkable gallery of extraterrestrials for presentation as color plates in a hardcover, multiauthor story collection called Travelers of Space. The anthology came from Gnome Press, one of the legendary postwar publishers of high-quality science fiction. The … Read more
Eyes Only – Key International UFO Groups UFO organizations cover the world, from India to South Africa, and Latvia to New Zealand. In all, some forty nations are home to UFOlogy groups of consequence. Here are groups—some UFO-only in orientation, others more broadly focused—based outside the USA that have especially broad reach and useful mandates. … Read more
UFO Organizations Eyes Only: Key USA UFO Groups Large UFO organizations with national reach, and smaller groups with significant resources, are noted here. Narrowly focused UFO research is carried out by state, regional, and local UFO organizations. Miami Valley UFO Society, for instance, investigates sightings in Ohio’s Miami Valley area from headquarters in South Vienna, … Read more
UFO organizations At this writing, at least fifty UFO-study organizations are active in the United States. A few, like MUFON and CUFOS, have national and international reach, that is, they make use of active investigator-members on the ground abroad. Others, such as the Cleveland UFOlogy Project and Hoosier State UFO Research, are active locally or … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: A Selection of Leading Living UFOlogists (Part 3) Rudolph “Rudy” Schild (b. 1940) Harvard astrophysicist and researcher who directs the 1.5-meter-telescope program at the Harvard-Smithsonian Cambridge Observatories. The author and co-author of nearly three hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers, Schild is founding editor-in-chief (2009) of the peer-reviewed … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: A Selection of Leading Living UFOlogists (Part 2) Linda Moulton Howe (b. 1942) Researcher, archivist, and filmmaker known for A Strange Harvest, a 1980 documentary about cattle mutilations and their link to UFOs. A Peabody-winning television writer and producer, Howe unwittingly set into motion a great … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: A Selection of Leading Living UFOlogists (Part 1) Although one may be a UFOlogist (either self-described or identified as such by others), the term does not imply belief. Many UFOlogists do believe, but others are cautiously skeptical. Still others are firmly skeptical. Some, particularly radio hosts, … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: Some Notable UFOlogists of the Past (Part 1) Persons noted below engaged in various aspects of UFO study in the postwar era. A varied group, these UFOlogists came from many worlds: finance, science, journalism, philosophy, aviation, and the military. A few were contactees; others told personal … Read more
