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11.24.09

Flying Saucers Come Home

Forget UFOs. The first circular aircraft could soon hit the market right here on Earth. They won’t take you to space, but they might just be worth the long—very long—wait

By SciIll Staff Posted 11.04.2008 at 12:09 pm 28 Comments

Fly Away: The first commercial flying-saucer line, the M200 series from Moller International, could go on sale next year. John B. Carnett

It’s designed to seat two, take off and land vertically, fly 10 feet above the ground, and reach 75 miles an hour. It’s about the size of a car, but it’s round instead of boxy. Yup, it’s a flying saucer. Next year, California-based Moller International hopes to introduce the M200G personal recreation craft, the first of what the company expects to be a full line of “volanters”—vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. The design is 300 years in the making.

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The Search For Extraterrestrial Life: A Brief History

If (or, as some would say, when) humans make contact with alien intelligence, the scientists who devote their careers to the search will be our first point of contact. Here, we look at the history of one of humankind's most persistent fascinations

By Matt Ransford Posted 06.17.2008 at 1:48 pm 22 Comments

For as long as humans have looked to the night sky to divine meaning and a place in the universe, we have let our minds wander to thoughts of distant worlds populated by beings unlike ourselves. The ancient Greeks were the first Western thinkers to consider formally the possibility of an infinite universe housing an infinite number of civilizations.

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Britain's Alien Files

The National Archives releases old UFO-related case reports

By Gregory Mone Posted 05.14.2008 at 10:24 am 1 Comment

At 4 PM on April 19, 1984, a team of air traffic controllers at an airport in the east of England reportedly watched a strange, bright, circular vehicle touch down, then blast off again at a tremendous speed and with a near vertical trajectory. Although they didn't want their names to be included in the report covering the event, they believed it was a UFO. And they were sober.

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