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Americans would be ‘up at night worrying’ if they knew the truth about alien life, Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett says

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said the American people would be “up at night worrying” if they knew what he’s been briefed on about extraterrestrial life.

“I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is. And, I’ll just say this, if they were to release the things that I’ve seen, you’d be up at night, worrying about, thinking about this stuff,” Burchett told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on Wednesday.

Burchett — a member of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — recalled that he was briefed two weeks ago “on an issue” about extraterrestrial life that “would have set the Earth” on fire and “unglued” the country if released.

“They would demand answers,” Burchett said without going into further detail.

When Finnerty played a clip of former Rep. Matt Gaetz alleging knowledge of alien-human hybrid breeding programs, Burchett stopped short of directly addressing the explosive claims.

“I’m still a member of Congress, so I can’t really comment too much on what Matt said,” Burchett told Finnerty.

“Wait, seriously?” Finnerty slightly pushed back.

“I’m being 100% serious,” Burchett replied.

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Former Congressman Matt Gaetz Claims U.S. Has a Top Secret ‘Alien Hybrid Breeding Program’

Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz made some interesting claims regarding aliens during his recent interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

During his interview with Gaetz, Johnson asked Gaetz who is now an anchor at OAN, what was the most disturbing alien information; he received as a member of Congress.

Gaetz responded, by sharing he received intel of locations of alien hybrid breeding programs.

The former Congressman from Florida stated, “I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication.”

Gaetz the emphasized, “An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that.”

Shortly after Gaetz made his remarks Australian Senator Ralph Babet who serves in the Australian Parliament echoed Gaetz claims and took to X writing, “Let’s just say some of you would be very surprised who’s not entirely human.”

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NASA scientist backs evidence of non-human intelligence in Earth’s skies

A former NASA scientist has backed a groundbreaking study investigating mysterious flashes in the skies during the early nuclear age, decades before the first satellites were launched.

Ivo Busko, a retired NASA developer who worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute, published a pre-print paper this week that independently confirmed mysterious transient flashes first identified by astronomer Dr Beatriz Villarroel and her VASCO research team. 

Their October 2025 study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.

Villarroel, from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Sweden, identified a possible connection between nuclear tests conducted between 1949 and 1957 and an increase in mysterious bright spots known as ‘transients’ appearing in the sky.

These transients have proven difficult to explain using known natural phenomena, with Villarroel noting that some appeared highly reflective, similar to mirrors, and showed signs consistent with rotating objects.

Busko conducted an independent search of archival sky photographs from the 1950s, using a separate analytical method designed specifically to verify Villarroel’s earlier discoveries. 

His investigation uncovered dozens of transient flashes displaying the same unusual signatures reported by the VASCO team, including extremely short-duration bursts of light. 

Busko wrote that the findings ‘independently confirm the presence of such transients,’ adding further weight to the unusual flashes first reported by Villarroel’s team. 

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Aliens are ‘demons’ – Vance

US Vice President J.D. Vance has said aliens are in fact “demons,” vowing to dig into US government files on UFOs.

He made the remarks in an interview with podcaster Benny Johnson released on Friday. Vance discussed the UFO files and government disclosures, saying he is “obsessed” with the topic, but has not had enough time to “get to the bottom of it.”

“I’ve already had a couple of times where I’ve said, ‘All right, we’re going to Area 51, we’re going out to New Mexico, we’re going to sort of get to the bottom of this.’ And then the timing of the trip didn’t work out,” he said. “I’m more curious than anybody. And I’ve got three years at the very tippy top of the classification. I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”

Area 51 is a secretive US Air Force facility in southern Nevada that has long been linked to speculation about alien life.

Johnson asked Vance about President Donald Trump’s February order directing federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government files related to UFOs and aliens. Trump said he was taking the step “based on the tremendous interest shown,” shortly after former President Barack Obama publicly said that aliens are “real.”

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Aliens may have been trying to contact us for DECADES, scientists claim – as they warn we’ve been ‘looking for the wrong thing’

For decades, we’ve been looking to the skies for any sign of aliens – but it turns out we may have been missing attempts at contact.

A new study has cast doubt on our radio signal detection methods, arguing that ‘space weather’ could be distorting incoming transmissions.

Until now, most experiments have focused on identifying spikes in radio frequency – signals unlikely to be produced by any other natural processes in space.

But experts have highlighted an overlooked complication.

Even if an extraterrestrial transmitter produces a perfectly narrow radio signal, it may not remain narrow by the time it leaves its home star’s atmosphere.

This distortion, which happens near the point of origin, can ‘smear’ the signal’s frequency, meaning it can be missed by our detectors that are primed to search for more focused radio waves.

‘Searches are often optimized for extremely narrow signals,’ Dr Vishal Gajjar, astronomer at the SETI Institute and lead author of the paper, said.

‘If a signal gets broadened by its own star’s environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it’s there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we’ve seen in technosignature searches.’

For their study, the team analysed radio transmissions from our own spacecraft in the solar system.

Using measurements from probes, they worked out how turbulent plasma released from stars – such as the Sun – affects radio signals.

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Obama States Aliens are ‘Real’ in New Interview

Former President Barack Obama has stirred national intrigue surrounding extraterrestrial life, boldly stating in a recent podcast that aliens are indeed “real” —even if he hasn’t laid eyes on them himself.

During a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, released Saturday (February 14), Obama didn’t shy away from the cosmic question. When asked if extraterrestrials exist, he replied simply, “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.” In previous interviews, he confirmed there were indeed cases of anomalous aerial phenomena, or UAPs.

As to the decades-old conspiracy theories, Obama denied that Area 51 harbors alien secrets. “They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility —unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States,” he quipped, leaving us to ponder the deeper mystery.

What’s your take on these presidential admissions? Share your thoughts with us on our Facebook page.

2/16/26 update: After the media frenzy over former President Obama’s remarks, he clarified his answer about aliens via Instagram: “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!” More here.

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The “Wow!” Signal Was Likely From An Extraterrestrial Source, And More Powerful Than We Thought

Anew study has re-examined the famous “Wow!” signal, finding that it likely has an extraterrestrial origin after all, and may have been even more intense than previously believed.

On August 15, 1977, at the Big Ear radio telescope observatory at Ohio State University, a narrowband radio signal was received. A few days later, astronomer Jerry Ehman reviewed the data and noticed the signal sequence, which lasted for a full 72 seconds. In the margin next to the printout, he simply wrote “Wow!”, and thus the puzzling signal had a name that would stick for the next 43 years at least.

The signal has, so far, defied explanation, and that’s not for a lack of trying. Researchers argued the case for it being a comet passing through the area Big Ear was listening to, only for that to be completely refuted about two days later by the team that detected the Wow! signal in the first place, as a comet would have produced a diffuse signal given the large area they cover, rather than the abruptly cut-off signal that was received.

The signal has been a source of speculation in the “aliens are out there” community, and not without reason. No other signal like it has been detected before or since. It was in a range of frequencies close to the hydrogen line, which is relatively free from background noise, making it a good range to pick were we to try and communicate with other civilizations ourselves. On top of that, the team themselves believed it to be a good candidate for extraterrestrial life.

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Rethinking the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Scientists Urge Broader Search as Exoplanet Discoveries Multiply

The search for extraterrestrial life may be operating within overly narrow parameters, as powerful tools like the James Webb Space Telescope offer new opportunities to detect more exotic biosignature gases from lifeforms thriving in conditions vastly different from those on Earth, according to new research.

MIT Professor of Physics Sara Seager led the study, which reviews the variety of gases and extreme environments that could theoretically host life in forms unlike anything found on Earth. Rather than focusing solely on Earth analogs, the study urges astrobiologists to expand the scope of their search. With over two decades of exoplanet discoveries, scientists now have a broad range of targets in the search for life — if they widen their approach.

The Direct Approach

Where earlier efforts to find extraterrestrial life, such as SETI, largely waited for signals from other advanced civilizations, modern scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope to actively search for biosignatures produced by even the simplest life forms on distant exoplanets.

While this method is innovative in some respects, astronomers have primarily focused on Earth-like planets, which, as real-world exoplanet research shows, are less common than once speculated. By broadening their definitions of life, researchers hope to avoid overlooking potentially habitable worlds among the thousands of exoplanets identified so far.

Extremophiles and Bacteria Demonstrate Life’s Resilience

As with much exobiology research, the team began by examining the only known life-hosting planet: Earth. Some organisms here are remarkably resilient, thriving in conditions that would be lethal to others. Among the most notable are bacteria and extremophiles; tiny organisms capable of enduring Earth’s harshest environments.

Bacteria, in particular, offer hope for expanding the range of gases that might indicate life. Studies on Earth have shown that these small life forms can survive and even thrive in gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and helium. Such findings suggest that life could exist under conditions far different from those on our planet.

Extremophiles likewise challenge traditional concepts of habitability. A notable example is the tardigrade, or “water bear.” These tiny half-millimeter creatures have been observed withstanding radiation, extreme temperatures and pressures, starvation, and even direct exposure to outer space.

New Places to Look for Extraterrestrial Life

The team proposes two major avenues for reconsidering where to search for alien life, first by investigating gas planets for life forms that could exist in thick atmospheres high above their searing hot rock cores. This concept, known as a “cloud biosphere,” suggests that sub-Neptunes with permanent water clouds could theoretically support life.

Researchers point to work dating back to the 1970s, which hypothesized that chemical reactions in such environments might give rise to life. One challenge is that life requires metal ions for catalytic reactions, meaning that without contact with a planetary surface, organisms would have to rely on meteors delivering these essential ingredients.

The second avenue moves beyond just water, considering other solvents that could form life-supporting oceans for creatures very different from Earth’s. Some terrestrial organisms live in highly acidic environments, and laboratory studies have shown that even concentrated sulfuric acid can sustain organic chemistry. This opens up the possibility that conditions more acidic than any on Earth, such as the sulfuric acid clouds of Venus, could support life.

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Forget Radio Telescopes—Aliens Could Be Using Gravitational Waves to Communicate

One of the most exciting breakthroughs in astronomy over the past decade was the detection of gravitational waves. Since the days of Galileo Galilei, astronomy was about the detection of electromagnetic signals with telescopes. As it turns out, the main constituents of the Universe are not observable in that way.

Our current data indicates that 85% of the matter in the Universe is invisible electromagnetically, constituting dark matter. In addition, 70% of the energy budget of the Universe is dark energy. Cosmologists infer these constituents because they affect visible matter gravitationally. Can we build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense the gravitational signal of passing dark objects?

If dark matter is made of asteroid-mass objects, like primordial black holes, our telescopes would not notice them even when they pass near Earth. In a recent paper, I showed that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational wave observatories could detect a dark object if it moves close to the speed of light and its mass is larger than a hundred million tons. Such an object would cross the radius of the Earth within two hundredths of a second and produce a gravitational tidal signal in the frequency band of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Needless to say, no such object was detected so far.

Within a decade, the LISA space observatory will expand gravitational wave detection to the frequency range between milli- and micro-Hertz and a smaller spacetime strain. This will usher in a new era of sensitivity to dark near-Earth objects in the asteroid mass range. It could also open the door to the detection of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) gravitationally, which the Galileo Project observatories are attempting to detect electromagnetically. Pulsar Timing Arrays(PTAs) probe a frequency range of a few nano-Hertz, but so-far they were only sensitive to the cumulative gravitational wave background at these frequencies – which constitute the noise floor for the detection of individual sources.

Gravitational wave detectors are the most exciting telescopes of the next millennium as they will open the door for detecting objects that we had never noticed before. As I showed in another recent paper, it is impossible to block or dissipate gravitational wave signals. They offer the optimal communication method, detectable through Earth or the Sun.

It is conceivable that extraterrestrial technological civilizations communicate in gravitational signals, and our failure to notice them so far is because traditional SETI relied on seeking electromagnetic signals with traditional telescopes. If so, the silence that triggered Fermi’s question: “Where is everybody?” stems from our blindness to gravitational signals at the appropriate frequency.

Aliens would choose a communication channel that does not interfere with the frequencies of the loudest natural sources of gravitational waves in the cosmos. These are black hole binaries of stellar mass – to which LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA is tuned, as well as supermassive black hole pairs – to which LISA and PTAs are tuned. In that case, gravitational-SETI will need to develop sensitivity in other frequency bands.

The main challenge in producing detectable gravitational signals is the requirement to move large masses at high speeds. To within an order of magnitude, the gravitational wave strain is of order the gravitational potential produced by the transmitter divided by the speed of light squared times the square of the characteristic speed by which its mass moves in units of the speed of light. For context, the gravitational wave strain produced by the nearest stellar binary, Alpha-Centauri A & B – as the two stars orbit each other every 80 years, is only of order 10^{-24} and extremely challenging to detect.

Five years ago, a team led by Marek Abramowicz published a paper on the possibility that an advanced technological civilization harvests energy from the supermassive (4 million solar-mass) black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way and uses it for communication. They found that a Jupiter-mass structure in the innermost stable circular orbit around the black hole would emit an unambiguous gravitational wave signal that could be observed by LISA.

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