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In 1961, a bizarre incident occurred in Eagle River, Wisconsin, USA. A local resident named Joe Simonton claimed that he had met an alien who gave him four pancakes. The US Air Force took this story seriously and even sent the pancakes for analysis. What did they find out? The encounter with the alien According to Simonton, on April 18, 1961, he heard a strange noise outside his house. He went out and saw a…
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Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman were known for conducting some of television’s most gadget-heavy and technical investigations together on their ghost hunting show, ‘Paranormal Lockdown’. The US investigators shot their last show together in 2019, marking an end of the series, but thanks to repeats and on demand streaming, plenty of people are still watching the adventures of Nick and Katrina and coming across the array of ghost hunting gadgets they use. We’re still regularly…
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The idea of alien civilizations living on far-off planets, perhaps visiting our own, has been fascinating science-fiction writers for centuries. In the first sci-fi movie in history, Georges Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon” (released in 1902), a group of explorers travel to our celestial companion on board of a canon-propelled capsule, and they encounter an underground civilization of Selenites there. The segment when the capsule lands in the Moon’s eye remains one of the…
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Is there life on Mars? We don’t know the answer to that question yet, but we’re getting closer as more rovers and landers are sent to the Red Planet’s surface and human missions are planned. In order to prepare for these and future missions, NASA and other space agencies needed a place that was dry enough, rugged enough and dusty enough to resemble the Martian surface. They found that the most Martian place on Earth…
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In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth. David Barnhart is a professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California and director of the Space Engineering Research Center there. He watched NASA’s live stream of the successful mission…