BBC Denied Extraterrestrial Life Search for 'Saftey Regulations'

Prof. Brian Cox, a leading British physicist, told BBC Radio 6 this morning that the BBC corporation has denied a request he and other astronomers made, to point a telescope towards a planet called 'Threapleton Holmes B', where they suspect intelligent ET life might be located.

The weird thing was not that the request was denied, but the reason that BBC directors gave the scientist, saying that the discovery of alien extraterrestrial life might be against the BBC's health and safety regulations.
Is that incredible or what?

Prof. Brian Cox - He looks like a rock star, but he really is a great physicist

The amazed Cox couldn't believe what he was hearing: 'You mean we would discover the first hint that there is other intelligent life in the universe beyond earth, live on air, and you're worried about the health and safety of it?'

Is it just the lack of understanding of the historic significance of such a find? Not likely from media corporation that is considered quite science-friendly. I'm pretty sure someone will point a telescope in Threapleton Holmes B's direction pretty soon and we will all know if anyone had something to hide.

Response to Channel 4 News: UFO Researchers 'Soul Searching'?, We Disagree

An article on the British Channel 4 News website claims that UFO sightings are in the decline in recent years, and according to its headline - UFO researchers should do some soul searching. We disagree.

First, the numbers of reported UFO sightings increases by the year (based on MUFON statistics), and more and more video and photographic evidence is presented due to technological advances that gave every hobo with a smart phone the ability to film on the spot.

Perhaps it is the fact the UFO videos and photos are so common nowadays that makes it hard for us not take the fact of UFO existence for granted, and makes the business of Ufology more mainstream and trivial.

Yearly UFO Sighting Stats by MUFON

But this is only relevant whether you don't have your facts right. Channel 4 News is telling us that UFO sightings are on the decline, but also that there were no major UFO cases in the past two decades. Oh really?
How about the Chicago O'hare International Airport UFO incident in 2006? Or is thePhoenix Lights (1997) not a major case by Channel 4 standards? The Cometa Report from 1999 is probably the most serious UFO investigation ever made, with shocking conclusions, and The Belgian UFO wave was 23 years ago, more then two decades, but still an incredibly important UFO case. And these are just off the tip of a hat.

But let us ignore realty and assume that no major UFO sighting accord in recent years, does that take away anything out of the level of seriousness that older UFO cases should be addressed today? Is the Roswell Incident any less relevant than it was 20 years ago? I think not, The same essential questions still hover over it and other cases, and the demands for government disclosure to the general public by Ufologists are still of the same importance to our way of life, and our civil rights that they were in the past.

We shouldn't never give up, we are giving this UFO question, and humanity at large, a good service by helping the phenomena find its place as a mainstream issue, and by that allowing serious questions about government secrecy, public deception and our place in the universe to rise above the surface.

Russian Television Prepares Public for Alien Contact

A weird piece of Television today on RT (Russia Today) calling for the public to prepare for first contact with an alien civilization.

No substance, no item, just a journalist expressing her opinion without context (although many scientists have come out supporting alien life recently). In recent years the media has changed its approach towards life in space and started to adopt a more accepting approach.

There has been more positive reaction from journalists and anchors, and the tone of the reports has become more serious. This change has brought many to wonder whether this is part of a plan to eventually reveal evidence of alien existence to the public, or just a logical transition in our society, acknowledging our place in a universe full of life and intelligence through scientific discovery.

Read more on science's approach towards UFO and alien life.

Could We Be Aliens?

A new video by Time magazine showes how life on earth could have developed by 'Panspermia - the idea that biological material or even living organisims could have immigrated from one planet to another, essentially seeding their new planet with life from afar'.

Some of the basic element needed to create life can go dormant, or dehydrate for the period of space travel aboard a meteor, who could sometimes even function as sort of an incubator, keeping these elements from radiation, cold temperatures and other extreme space conditions.

It would be much simpler for our extraterrestrial friends to put these elements aboard their mother ship and just show up and plant life here on earth, but that's only if you ask me ;) Anyway, interesting stuff.