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Paul Hellyer calls out Hawking alien contact comments

Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer is now claiming aliens have been visiting us for decades.Hellyer criticised Stephen Hawking"s recent comments suggesting we should avoid contact with extreterrestrials in case they turn out to be hostile by accusing him of spreading misinformation andclaiming that aliens have actually been visiting us for years. Accusing world famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking ofspreading misinformation about threats from aliens, former Canadian defence...

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Canada "feared alien arrival"

The Canadian government released more than 9500 files between 2005 and 2007 pertaining to UFOs, from them it has been learned thatplans were made in the event of a UFO landing."Fewknow that the Canadian government chose to release its UFO files in 2005 and 2007. . Over 9500 files were released with no public consultation ornotification." View: Full Article | Source: AllNewsWeb...

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Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens

The upcoming generation of space telescopes will for the first time be able to detect "biosignatures" in the light from extrasolar planets, allowing us to directly determine whether a planet"s atmosphere could support life as we know it."Signs of life on planets beyond our own solar system may soon be in our sights. Experiments andcalculations presented at an astrobiology meeting last week reveal how the coming generation ...

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Alien contact attempts date back 150 years

The desire to contact intelligent life on other planets is much older than the UFO craze and the SETI movement. Several 19th century scientists contemplated how we might communicate with possible Martians and Venusians.These early proposals- which predate by 150 years the first extraterrestrial message that was sent in 1974 - were based onvisual signals, as the invention of radio was still decades away. . In fact, as history sh...

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Zecharia Sitchin : looking for alien DNA

Zecharia Sitchin has said he"s willing to stake his life"s writing on the outcome of DNA tests on Sumerian remains.Sitchin believes that the 4,500-year-old remains of a Sumerian woman hold the key to everything he"s written about over the years. "I"m really risking my life"s work on this outcome," hesaid. Zecharia Sitchin says he"s willing to stake everything he"swritten about alien astronauts on DNA tests that could be performed on the 4,500-year-old remains of a high-ranking Sumerian...

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UN to appoint space ambassador

The UN are appointing an astrophysicist to be the world"s representative in the event of alien contact.Mazlan Othman has been assigned the position as the number of planets being discovered around distant stars is said to be increasing the chances of alien contact. "The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities,sustains the hope that some day human kind will receive signals from extraterrestrials," she said. If aliensever land on Earth there will no longe...

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Alien hunters "should look for AI"

Astronomer Seth Shostak believes that we should be looking out for signs of an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence.The Seti astronomer believes that the time between an alien civilization developing radio communications and artificial intelligence would be quite short and that we should be keeping an eyeout for evidence of intelligent machines. A senior astronomer has said thatthe hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines". . Seti, the Search for Extrat...

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Hawking warns of alien invasion threat

Stephen Hawking has said that any attempt to contact extraterrestrial life could be dangerous.In his new book "First Contact", Marc Kaufman cites Hawking"s comments to help him explore in detail the less common view that reaching out to contact an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization could prove disasterous and that doing so could constitute an invite for them to come toour planet and plunder all our natural resources. Stephen Hawking is warning that the SETI efforts to activ...

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WikiLeaks UFO release fizzles

Newest release by Assange may disappoint those waiting for fresh, substantial evidence of UFOs.Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame told The Guardian in early December that "it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the Cablegate archive there are indeed referencesto UFOs." Unfortunately, recent documents have stopped short of incontrovertible evidence; in fact, it brought to light four-year-old news that funding has been cut because of decreased general interest in the unexplained. ...

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Are we too used to the idea of alien life ?

How would mankind react to the discovery of alien life ? Have we become too used to the idea to care ?Psychologist Dr Albert Harrison believes that modern society is so used to the notion of alien visitation and life on other planets that if proof of alien life did present itself we would be "unfazed" by it. 50 years ago the concept of such a revelation was thought to have been capable of inducing widespread panic andthe disintegration of society - nowadays however things are very dif...

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