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The first alien signal might be a dying civilization’s last burst

The most consequential signal humanity ever detects from another civilization may not arrive as a calm introduction. It may ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

The first alien signal could be a dying civilization’s last burst

What if humanity’s first unmistakable sign of alien technology is not a greeting, but a distress flare? That possibility sits at the center of a growing idea in technosignature research: the signals ...

Missing retired Air Force major general once led Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories

Renewed attention is falling on the base after the disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, a former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson.

Where are all the aliens? Maybe they just don't want to talk to us

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...