Conspiracy theorists who believe in aliens are generally perceived as ordinary people with a touch of condescension and derision. Despite this, the topic of visits by guests from outer space is quite common and, moreover, on the basis of constantly emerging evidence from different parts of the globe, it can have more solid grounds than just someone's speculation. In the 60s and 70s, this topic was especially popular, countless books, TV shows, documentaries devoted to the study of the question of the existence of aliens. Fuel to the fire was added by the confirmation by the US government of the fact of the existence of Area 51, widely known as a mysterious experimental base. From that moment on, supporters of the existence of aliens gained confidence in their guesses, and skeptics subsided.

As time went on, people studied the facts and evidence of contacts with aliens, and the most perceptive decided to dig deeper and turn to the distant past of our planet. Well-known phenomena that accompany a typical alien encounter include sightings of UFOs in the sky, mysterious lights, electronic malfunctions, loss of memory in especially impressionable people. It all seems a little funny. At the same time, delving into the history of mankind can bring us much more serious evidence of contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. There is a high probability that in their ancient texts our ancestors tried to convey to future generations evidence of the existence of aliens. Of course, all this seems a little far-fetched, but it does not interfere a huge number scientists to do research in this area.

Today we present to your court a dozen of the most interesting historical evidence, which, as many believe, prove the existence of alien civilizations. And if aliens really exist, it turns out that they have been following and in contact with humanity for several millennia.

10 Giza Pyramids

Despite the fact that we have been told all our lives that the pyramids were built by slaves, their special location forces supporters of the theory of alien contacts to advance their assumptions in this regard. If we take a closer look, we can see that all the pyramids of Giza were built at the intersection of the longest lines of latitude and longitude. Given the age of the pyramids, at the time of their construction, the Egyptians had a vague knowledge of the shape of the planet. How can one explain such a strange arrangement of the pyramids? Simple luck or outside interference?

9. Vimanas


The ancient Indian epic represented by the Mahabharata and the Ramayana described great battle that occurred in the skies over India. It involved combat aircraft - the so-called "vimanas", unknown creatures, nuclear bombs and explosions caused by weapons so powerful that they most likely belonged to another world. There are only two options for explaining the events described: perhaps in this way the ancient Indians tried to explain the nature of thunderstorms and storms, or what was described actually happened and was of extraterrestrial origin.

8. Pakal's sarcophagus


The great Pacal was a well-known ruler of the city of Palenque, who ruled in the seventh century AD. After his death, according to local tradition, he was buried in the Temple of the Inscriptions in an intricate sarcophagus. This sarcophagus has become one of the main subjects of research devoted to the study of the Mayan culture, in addition, it has become one of the main evidence of the existence of aliens. Many believe that Pacal is depicted in one of the drawings covering the sarcophagus, where he leaves the planet in spaceship, controlling its course and breathing through an oxygen tube connected to the mouth.

7 Puma Punku


The Puma Punku complex is located in a mountainous area in Bolivia. It includes ancient ruins and giant blocks scattered on the ground, covered with intricate carvings. These ruins are more than a thousand years old, but the fact is that the tools with which it would be possible to create such drawings simply did not exist then. This fact has become the main evidence of the intervention of aliens in the affairs of earthlings.

6. Nazca drawings


It is common knowledge that the Nazca paintings in Peru were created by people who lived there between 300 BC and 800 AD. The lines make up the various images of animals and geometric shapes, but the main feature of this place is that you can only see them when you are high in the air. The question arises: who used them? Lines were drawn long before the first airplanes, and in ancient Mayan times there were no similarities. aircraft. This suggests that the drawings were probably drawn for "someone" who flew by, and, perhaps, served as landing signs.

5 Ancient Sumer


Inhabitants ancient Sumer believed to be descended from an alien race called the Annunaki who descended to Earth from another planet in search of gold. According to one of the legends of Sumer, the Annunaki needed help in mining gold and they created the Sumerians. Legends are legends, but it's worth thinking about what actually served as a source of inspiration for the inhabitants of Sumer.

4. Madonna with Saint Giovannino


This is perhaps one of the most famous works of art, which confirms the idea that aliens exist. The painting dates from the 15th century and was painted by the artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary, and behind her you can see a man looking at the sky. He looks at an object that is strikingly similar to the UFO, as we usually imagine it. Accordingly, the question arises: did Ghirlandaio capture an extraordinary event, or at that time it was quite commonplace.

3. Moai statues from Easter Island


Moai statues are 887 giant human figures crowned with huge heads, guarding the coast of Easter Island. The age of the statues is 500 years, the weight of each reaches 14 tons, and the height is 4 meters. Given the heaviness of these objects, their amazingly detailed craftsmanship, and strategic placement, it remains a mystery to historians that they appeared at this site. Supporters of alien interventions believe that the ancient people who created these sculptures did not do it without the help of aliens, or, alternatively, the statues were built by the aliens themselves, who wanted to leave their mark on Earth.

2. Stonehenge


Stonehenge has tormented the minds of famous historians and engineers of the world for thousands of years, who have racked their brains trying to figure out how these stones took their places and how the ancient people, who lived in the Neolithic period 5,000 years ago, knew in what order and where exactly to place them. blocks of stone, so that under certain circumstances they form a perfectly even line with the sun and moon. The wildest theories have been passed from mouth to mouth for many years, many believed that they were established by the Great Merlin, someone believed that this was the work of aliens. Many supporters of alien contacts believe that the aliens helped people in the construction of this object and told them some details of astronomical phenomena so that a person could better understand the nature of the phenomena occurring around him. In September 2014, researchers at the University of Birmingham discovered another example of similar ancient structures. This time it was a whole underground sanctuary, serving as a place for ancient burials and for rituals.

1. Bible


The Bible is one of the oldest books in the world. And although it is more valued as a relic of a religious nature, scientists and researchers have tried to compare the events described in it with well-known historical facts. The book of the prophet Ezekiel describes a fiery chariot in the sky, full of light, drawn by "cherubim", as if made of shiny metal. In addition, there are several more such evidence pointing to UFO-like objects that can be found in the book of Revelation, Deuteronomy, the letter to the Ephesians, as well as in the book of the prophet Isaiah. Were angels really an alien life form? Religious fanatics and cynics are unlikely to support this idea, but others find it quite acceptable.

There is no story more mysterious in the world than the story of flying saucers. I don’t know if I would have subscribed to this clumsy paraphrase, had he lived to this day, the great Shakespeare, but millions of earthlings who believe in space aliens would definitely subscribe.

Incredible phenomena in the heavens, which have become obvious to many witnesses, have been “hanging” on the waiting list for many years, hoping to be somehow explained. Residents of the English town of Bonnybridge in Stirlingshire stubbornly refuse to believe their eyes, claiming that since 1992 they have been visited by more than 500 UFOs. 13,500 residents of Belgium, who observed mysterious celestial objects in March 1990, and thousands of Kharkiv residents, who observed "something" hovering over their heads for a long time in the early 1980s, agree with them. And what can we say about the pilots of aircraft, many of whom more than once met on their heavenly path a mysterious escort glowing with an unearthly light.

What was all this?

Only the weather is to blame

A few days ago, the British Ministry of Defense declassified a UFO report. The document, drawn up in 2000 by experts from the military department, received such a high category of secrecy that it was reproduced only in a few copies, while the name of the compiler was kept in the strictest confidence. The DoD report was based on a 4-year study called "UK Unidentified Aerial Phenomena".

Making such a closely guarded document public would probably never have happened. But Britain's Freedom of Information Act forces secret keepers to release their secrets after a certain amount of time, especially if there is a public request to do so. In this case, the request came from Dr. David Clarke, a scientist at the University of Sheffield.

The verdict of the four hundred page report is essentially unambiguous: no one flew to us, there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life forms. Here is how this sentence sounds in the language of a specialist from the Ministry of Defense: "There is no evidence that would allow us to judge that the phenomenon ( we are talking about UFOs) is of a hostile nature or is under some other control than the forces natural origin... There is no evidence that there are 'hard' objects capable of provoking a collision hazard (with them)."

What, then, provoked the "collision" of earthlings with celestial aliens? Not otherwise than bouts of mass psychosis, or maybe hypnosis? And what kind of control of "forces of natural origin" is the report talking about? But about what.

The experts who compiled the document believe that we can talk about unidentified ... weather events. About such specific tricks of magnetic storms or atmospheric movements that can create a kind of veil morgana effect. That is, to make a person see a mirage.

Here is what the document says on this score: “It can be assumed that some unidentified aerial phenomena are caused by well-known and probably little-studied effects of meteors ... A significant amount of evidence supports the thesis that events (UFOs) are almost certainly caused by physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.They manifest themselves in the presence of certain weather conditions and electric charge and are observed very infrequently, which allows those who observe them to talk about their uniqueness.

A person who finds himself in the epicenter of the above-described "magnetic phenomenon" is subjected to a direct effect on the brain, experts conclude: "Proximity to the plasma field can have a harmful effect on mechanisms and even people ...

It has been medically proven that this kind of local field can cause a reaction in the temporal lobe of the human brain. As a result, a person has a very clear idea of ​​​​events that actually did not take place.

However, not everything is to blame for the weather. Sometimes earthlings are mistaken for alien ship aircraft with particularly bright taillights or unusual shape Balloons. Or the reflections of a powerful lighthouse. But you never know now in the world of technical gizmos that can confuse the observer, especially if he suffers from a vivid imagination.

The main thing is that from now on all these insanity has been clarified: there are no UFOs over the Earth. What is required to be taken as a basis.

Why did the British hacker go to NASA and the Pentagon

The "tradition" of the British Ministry of Defense regarding UFOs is fresh, but it is hard to believe in it. Commentators of all stripes, including pundits, paid tribute to the stated theory of "outrages" in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere, affecting the temporal lobe of the brain. But such an explanation, obviously, did not cause complete satisfaction. For a variety of reasons. Firstly, according to the theory of probability, someone would obviously have to observe us, or visit, or contact us. The universal "communal apartment" looks too crowded, so that for such a long period of neighborhood, its residents did not collide with each other. Secondly, there are too many inconsistencies in all this mysterious history. Finally, there are too many bold "secret" stamps on thick folders of documents on "flying saucers" carefully collected and guarded by the law enforcement agencies of the leading powers. And that in and of itself is suspicious.

My father-in-law, who worked in a responsible position in the Ministry of Defense, once told me that it is better not to pry into these matters. This advice was given at that time in the mid-80s, when the story of UFO sightings by the crew of a Tallinn passenger plane became a loud sensation. By someone's oversight, one of the most read newspapers countries ("Labor") managed to give this story publicity. However, I did not manage to get to the Tallinn crew in order to take more detailed "testimonies" for my own newspaper: the UFO story was tabooed. Meanwhile, the author of these lines was given to understand that the pilots could most likely observe the secret military development that was present in the sky. And that it was precisely this kind of test objects walking in the sky that more than once or twice were taken by witnesses for UFOs.

So whose secret developments guarded by defensemen of all countries? Aliens or your own? And take it higher! - Is there a conspiracy of world governments waging "star wars" in secret from the earthly people? These questions were answered by the British computer ace Gary McKinnon, whose excessive curiosity turned him into a hacker and for whom the prison now cries. Gary McKinnon was arrested by British police in 2002 after he managed to hack into the computer networks of NASA and the Pentagon. Literally the other day, in an English court, hearings began on the extradition case of McKinnon to the United States, where a virtual hacker who has been excommunicated from using the Internet is expected like a pie from the oven to go to jail. The term of imprisonment in an American prison could be 70 years for a British hacker.

On the eve of the trial, in a sensational interview with the BBC, Gary McKinnon revealed what he was looking for in the secret files - photographic evidence of the existence of aircraft and extraterrestrial energy sources. How serious evidence the British hacker managed to get, judge for yourself. Here is the interview.

Direct speech

BBC: Here is a list of your accusations: you hacked the army's systems, navy, Air Force, Department of Defense, NASA and others. What for?

Gary McKinnon: I was looking for hidden technologies called UFO technologies. I think it's the biggest secret in the world because people usually laugh at it, but it's a very important thing. Old people don't have enough money to pay their bills, countries are being invaded in the name of oil contracts in the West, and meanwhile secret departments of the government are hiding free energy technology.

BBC: How did you manage to get to what you were looking for in NASA, in the Department of Defense?

G.M.: Unlike what the press feeds us, all this was not too smart. I looked for blank passwords, I wrote a tiny Perl program that connected other people's programs that were also looking for blank passwords, and in just eight minutes, 65,000 machines could be scanned.

BBC: So you found computers that had administrator status, in which passwords were not set, that is, they were left the same as they were by default?

G.M.: Exactly.

BBC: How long have you been in these computers? Was it a one-time event or did it last for a week?

G.M.: No, a couple of years.

BBC: And no one noticed you for a couple of years?

G.M.: Not. I trained myself to do this at certain hours ... I constantly juggled with the time difference. I went in at night, hoping that there were not so many people there. But there was a time when a network engineer saw me and asked me a question, and we talked to each other through WordPad - a very, very strange way of communicating. He said, "What are you doing?" - and it was amazing. I said that I was from the military computer security, and he sincerely believed it.

BBC: Did you find what you were looking for?

G.M.: Yes. There's a group called Project Exposure. They published a book that cites 400 eyewitness accounts from civilian air traffic controllers to military radar operators to guys deciding whether or not to launch nuclear missiles. These are very responsible people who can be trusted, and they all say: yes, there is UFO technology, there is anti-gravity, there is free energy and it is extraterrestrial in origin, and we caught the ship and studied it inside and out.

BBC: And what did you find in NASA?

G.M.: One of these people is a NASA expert in photography, and she said that in Building No. 8 of the Johnson Space Center they regularly "corrected" UFO pictures taken by satellite cameras high definition. She was talking like this: had folders called "filtered" and "unfiltered", "processed" and "raw" - something like that. I pulled out one picture from the folder, but the connection was via a telephone line, the speed was 56 kilobits per second, that is, a very slow Internet connection, this was in the days of telephone modems, and using the program remote control I changed the color palette to 4-bit and set the screen resolution to a very, very low mode, but even with all this, the picture was shaking on the screen.

But when it did show up, it was a miracle. The culmination of all my efforts. It was a picture of something that was definitely not human made. It hung over the earth's hemisphere. It looked like a satellite. In the shape of a cigar - and such geodesic domes on top, bottom, left, right and on both sides of it, and although the picture was low resolution, it was clearly taken from a very close distance. This thing dangled in space, you can see the earth's hemisphere under it - and no rivets, no seams, nothing that is associated with normal human production.

BBC: Could it be a drawing and not a photograph?

G.M.: I don't know... For me it was more than a coincidence. This woman said, "That's exactly what's going on in this building, in this space center." I entered this building, this space center, and that's exactly what I saw.

BBC: Do you have a copy of the picture? You have downloaded it to your machine.

G.M.: No... When they cut me off, the picture disappeared.

BBC: Were you cut off at the exact time you uploaded the picture?

G.M.: Yes, I saw someone's moving hand.

INSTEAD OF AFTERWORD

In response to Gary McKinnon's claims, the US aerospace agency denied that they had edited the images to mislead the public and stressed that NASA's policy was to be open. In addition, as the agency added, it does not have direct evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life.

In 2002, the world's oldest ufology society announced its self-dissolution. Experts from the British Bureau of Flying Saucers noted with regret the absence of specific facts and evidence indicating that such a phenomenon as UFOs really exists. At the annual conference of ufologists held in London, which was held by the English magazine paranormal activity"Fortin Times", the most regrettable statement for all the "expectants" was made: ufology ordered to live long.

Explaining such a ruthless verdict, magazine editor Bob Rickard said the following: "Unidentified flying objects controlled by aliens have not discovered their existence. We hoped that the development of advanced technologies and the widespread use of video cameras would lead to concrete evidence of alien activity, but nothing like this happened" .

There is, therefore, no irrefutable evidence and material evidence that aliens flew to Earth.

Or they are hidden and destroyed. And it turns out that we are still alone. It remains only to wait and hope. The remarkable scientist Academician Ambartsumyan once said amazing words in defense of our most daring hopes, aspiring upwards: a man differs from a pig already by the fact that sometimes he tears his head from the trough and raises it to the stars.

UFO WORLD GEOGRAPHY

1. September 20, 1977 - mass observation of UFOs in Petrozavodsk and its environs. Hovering over the city center for 10-12 minutes.

2. October 7, 1977 - 9 UFOs "attacked" the floating base of the Northern Fleet "Volga" in the Barents Sea. Radio communication was broken, restored after the departure of the UFO.

3. January 29, 1986 - an accident or landing of a UFO in the area of ​​​​the hill 611 near the village of Dalnegorsk. Left material fragments of scientific interest.

4. September 27, 1989 - UFO landing in Voronezh in a park on Mendeleev Street. Mass surveillance. Landing tracks left.

5. August 16, 1991 - the city of Yeysk. Meeting in the air of the aircraft, piloted by cadet M. Churbakov, with a UFO. The pilot ejected. The plane is destroyed.

6. 70s - multiple intelligence reports of the Pacific Fleet about the observation of UFOs above the water, as well as "diving" into the water or "emerging" from there into "space".

7. December 1968 - Steppe station near Chita. Temporary paralysis of engineer Mironov, who fell into the "irradiation" zone of a UFO.

8. March 1983 - UFO observation in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Remained material fragments of the span.

9. 80s - repeated UFO flights over the submarine bases of the Northern Fleet.

11. June 1977 - the city of Derzhavinsk, Kazakhstan. "Meeting" of pioneers from a pioneer camp with a giant humanoid from a UFO.

12. July 1947 - the city of Roseville, USA. Version of the crashed "flying saucer" and the death of 4 humanoids. Scientific confirmation is not yet available.

13. June 24, 1947 - the city of Seattle, USA. During a flyby of Mount Rainier, Kenneth Arnold encountered a "squadron" of UFOs. The beginning of the "flying saucer" boom.

14. January 1961 - Fort Knox, USA. The flight commander of the fighters sent to intercept the UFO, Captain Thomas Mantell, pulled ahead, and his plane crumbled in front of the followers.

15. October 30, 1989 - New York, Federal highway. The appearance of a UFO in front of many witnesses.

16. December 7, 1990 - observation of a UFO by cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov, flying on the Soyuz over Greenland.

17. October 27, 1954 - Florence, Italy The flight of a group of UFOs over the stadium during a football match. Fans were doused with a snow-like evaporating substance - "angel hair".

19. 1980-90s - mass sightings of UFOs in Belgium (the so-called "Belgian Triangle").

20. 70s - frequent appearances of UFOs in the area of ​​the island of Grenada, forcing the Prime Minister of Grenada to raise the issue of UFOs in the UN.

21. 1985 - the mouth of the Amazon. Active manifestations of UFOs that caused trauma among the natives.

23. 90s - Kalahari Desert. Version of a UFO shot down during an air battle. There is no scientific data.

24. 1978 - Bass Strait, Australia. The death of pilot Valentich, who met a UFO in the air.

26. 1979 - Kuwait, Asia. The landing UFO temporarily blocked the radio communication of the entire country with the outside world.

27. 1976 - Iran. Unsuccessful phantom attack on a UFO. The electrical system of the aircraft is blocked.

Are there other civilizations in the Universe besides the human one? What are unidentified flying objects really? And why did people begin to constantly observe them precisely in the second half of the 20th century?century?

These questions were answered by the director of the Irkutsk Astronomical Observatory state university, professor of ISU, senior researcher of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergey Yazev. With a lecture "UFO and everything-everything-everything: a revolution that we did not notice" he gave a lecture at the festival of science "By the way" in Novosibirsk on October 27.

Timeline of UFO study

• The birth of a myth. In 1947, the so-called incident in the Cascade Mountains occurred in the United States, when American businessman Kenneth Arnold reported that while flying on his own plane he saw incomprehensible objects in the sky, similar to "flying saucers".
• Study of the problem. Since 1952, official investigations began in the United States within the framework of the naval and air forces.
• Informal research in the USSR began in the 1970s, thanks to the efforts of enthusiasts, for example, a popularizer of astronomy and an assistant professor at the Moscow aviation institute Felix Siegel.
• Petrozavodsk phenomenon. On September 20, 1977, according to mass eyewitness accounts, an object appeared over Petrozavodsk, resembling a jellyfish in shape, with luminous rays diverging to the sides. The investigation very soon showed that the object observed in the sky was a rocket launched at the same time from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome. It was this case that first hit the press and gave rise to the study of UFOs in the USSR.
• Official Research in 1978-1991 in the USSR. The Grid project was developed, which was carried out by two departments: the Ministry of Defense and the Academy of Sciences. Mass observations were carried out throughout the country, including with the help of military personnel and conscripts.
• Closing the problem for professionals. This happened back in the 1980s of the last century, but the topic of UFOs still excites ordinary people, ufologists and the media.

- I would like to quote a wonderful statement, which is called Occam's razor: "One should not increase the number of entities beyond what is necessary." This is a useful rule that often allows you to understand complex things,” Sergey Yazev began the story. - If your wallet is missing, then, of course, you can argue that the Martians stole it, or that it fell apart into separate molecules, but for a start it’s a good idea to look in another bag or think about where you left it.

The work of human hands

“Scientists around the world have come to the same conclusion: 80% of all observed UFOs are our own missiles,” Professor Yazev said.

The flight of the Soyuz-2.1a medium-class launch vehicle with spacecraft communications "Meridian" from the cosmodrome "Plesetsk".

- It would seem, how can you confuse a rocket with a flying saucer? The fact is that as soon as the rocket rises high enough, we see only the engine torch and optical effects: a bright light source “plays” on clouds, in fog, emits rainbow rings, spirals, and so on. Moreover, the length of the engine torch at high altitudes is many hundreds of meters and even kilometers.

The most surprising thing is that it often does not occur to people that the observed phenomena may be related to some kind of spaceport. For example, Irkutsk is three thousand kilometers from Baikonur, but when the Soyuz takes off, it passes over us in exactly eight minutes, and at that time the third stage is going over Altai. When we look at it from the observatory, it's an enchanting sight!

In 2009, the inhabitants of the Norwegian town of Tromsø were stunned by a terrible sight: a luminous rotating spiral that flew out from behind a mountain. Well, what could be said about it? Of course, these are aliens - no options! In fact, these were tests of the Russian Bulava missile, which was launched from a submarine in the Barents Sea.

Tests of the Russian Bulava missile over the Norwegian city of Tromsø.

In the 70s of the last century in the Soviet Union, up to 120 satellites were launched annually from the Baikonur and Plesetsk cosmodromes, that is, every three days a satellite was launched. Add to that launches in the US, China, France, Japan and you have 200+ launches all over the planet. All this is visible in vast territories, so people constantly saw a large number of strange effects in the sky without realizing what is going on.

International statistics say that about 10% of all UFOs are balloons, that is, devices that are lighter than air. If you look at them from afar, you may not recognize what's going on.

There are giant balloons that rise to great heights, there are balloons, pilot balloons, atmospheric observatories. They are carried by the wind for weeks - at an altitude of tens of kilometers, across all borders.

Aircraft for lighting during night exercises are used by the military, and ordinary citizens love to launch Chinese lanterns for any reason and occasion.

Another 10% of UFOs are terrestrial vehicles. In our time, all kinds of drones have become very common, the number of which will only grow. So, before talking about the Martians, we must first go through all of the above hypotheses.

The main idea is this: trying to reduce all unidentified flying objects to one cause is a dead end. The reasons are enormous.

Natural and mental phenomena

- It must be said that there are natural phenomena, well-studied or not very well-studied, which are sometimes mistaken for something mystical: halo, clouds, northern lights, and others,” Sergey Yazev continued.

“Now we most often look at the monitor or iPhone and rarely at the sky, so many natural things seem amazing. People who lived, say, in the 19th century saw the same halo every other day, because in frosty weather, ice crystals in the air, when illuminated, always give optical effects. This has been described in physics for a long time.

Or, for example, during volcanic activity ash emissions, particles of which rub against each other, are accompanied electrical discharges- these are amazingly beautiful phenomena. In the second half of the 20th century, previously unknown strange electrical phenomena were discovered at high altitudes in the atmosphere (up to 100 kilometers), which were called sprites, elves and jets. These are very beautiful luminous figures that can be seen even from the ISS.

In October 1989, a powerful series of solar flares led to grandiose magnetic storms and auroras everywhere, even at low latitudes. Our newspapers were full of reports that people saw some kind of red glowing balls. This is also not very common, but quite natural.

UFO - this, to be honest, is often a product of the human psyche. There are people who are convinced that this is all true. If in past centuries people talked about devils, demons, goblin, brownies, then in our time they talk about aliens - all this is written in textbooks on psychiatry.

That image of an alien, which was once created by director Steven Spielberg, turns out to be a standard picture for everyone. Any grandmother from the most distant village or a child will recognize this image - this is already a cultural code.

A certain woman constantly calls us at the observatory, who asks about the end of the world and the alien invasion. Curious: where did you get it from? I watched REN-TV, she says. Do not watch REN-TV!

We need to be blunt: many UFOs are the product of deliberate hoaxes. I myself did such things as a student: I hung the lid of the tank on a fishing line to develop photographs against the background of clouds, photographed and published in the local newspaper on April 1. No one would be able to determine that this is a fake! And in our time, with the capabilities of Photoshop and the Internet, this is not a problem at all.

Sergei Yazev noted that the surge in reports of UFO sightings occurred in the second half of the 20th century, which exactly coincides with the start of the mass launch of satellites and missiles: in 1947, after the end of World War II, the US military began testing at its test site those taken from defeated Germany German rockets.

Summing up his story, Professor Yazev said:

• Despite the fact that science does not deny the possibility of the existence intelligent life outside the Earth, there is not a single reliable evidence of visiting our planet by aliens today.

Fast bursts of radio waves are single waves of radio origin, which are fixed by radio telescopes in outer space. This theory laid in their concept of Harvard astrophysicists.

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Scientists believe that the phenomenon of intense bursts of radio waves can act as real evidence of alien existence. This type of radio waves may be inherent in alien civilizations. This is the so-called leak from alien transmitters that transmit signals to interplanetary probes outside our galaxy.

According to the researchers, strong impulses spread over vast distances, which indicates the existence of aliens. Many scientists have long argued about the origin of these bursts.

Alien signals. Canadian astronomers have found that unusual repetitive radio flares in the constellation Auriga, which may be, do not occur in the Milky Way, but in a galaxy several hundred million light-years from Earth. This discovery is a real leap forward in uncovering the origin of FRBs. Paul Scholz of McGill University and his colleagues were able to locate their source by observing new FRBs at the point where FRB 121102, discovered at the Parkes Observatory in 2012, came to Earth. This is reported in an article published in the journal Nature.

Most FRBs have been discovered by telescopes that look at a very wide part of the night sky, making their exact position extremely difficult to determine even in the presence of a repeating signal. Scholz and his colleagues observed FRB 121102 using the powerful 300-meter Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and the VLA interferometer, which allows determining the position of the source to within a tenth of an arc second. Scientists were able to record nine bursts at once, emanating from the same point and associated with FRB 121102.

It turned out that the source of the flares itself is located in another object - in a dim galaxy, invisible to us in the optical range and at least 140 million light-years away from the Earth. According to astronomers, the galaxy constantly radiates in the radio range, periodically flashing and generating flashes similar to FRB 121102.

However, the nature of this radiation is still unclear - the point nature of its source speaks in favor of the fact that such flashes give rise to black holes, but the absence of X-ray emission at that point of FRB 121102 speaks against this idea. Similarly, FRBs cannot be generated by supernova remnants due to differences in their spectra.

"Alien radio signals" could be generated by interactions, scientists say neutron star and the supermassive black hole around which it revolves. Meanwhile, the lack of periodicity in FRB flares casts doubt on this idea. Further observations of the galactic core and the source of flares will help to understand how they are born.

Our publication also wrote that in the area of ​​​​the village of Molebka, unidentified flying objects began to be recorded more often - in the form of inexplicable light flashes in the night sky.

Russian ufologists made a forecast for 2017. According to their predictions, visits of aliens to Earth will become more active, and this will happen in the Urals. "M-triangle" - this is how experts call the border of the Sverdlovsk region and the Perm region. Unidentified flying objects usually appear here within two to three years. Then comes the "calm" for 12-13 years; and again - "extraterrestrial aggravation" of aliens. Representatives extraterrestrial civilizations this year, they should again develop vigorous activity in this region of Russia, ufologists emphasize.

Hides aliens on the moon. Well-known ufologist from the United States Scott Waring said that the astronauts set foot in 1969. According to Waring, the inhabitants rebuffed the people: perhaps representatives of another civilization threatened to use containment measures.

Each of us is made up of atoms that were once part of an exploding star, including atomic carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, the fundamental ingredients of life. Over billions of years, these ingredients have condensed to form gas clouds, new stars, planets, which suggests that all this - and therefore potential life - exists outside the Earth, scattered throughout the Universe. If you were expecting questionable eyewitness photographs, wild theories, and the ravings of crazy people in this article, don't be discouraged: we have more solid evidence in favor of the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Row latest discoveries not only allows us to confidently assume that we are not alone in the Universe, but also admits that ours can be teeming with life, intelligent and not very. The question is no longer so much whether there is life outside the Earth, but whether we will ever find it.

Here's what we know.

1. Earlier this year, a team of scientists estimated that 4.5 billion years ago, at least one-fifth of Mars was covered by an ocean more than 100 meters deep. Any sign of life that has swum in these waters can be found in the Martian soil. And on Mars, the flow of liquid water allows us to make bolder assumptions: perhaps life is still nesting on the Red Planet.
2. One water is not enough. It takes time. Last August, a study emerged that concluded that the water on Mars was as much as 200 million years longer than previously thought. In addition, life on Earth was at the same time as the last lakes on Mars.

1. Asteroids and comets are the key to the formation of life on Earth, scientists believe. In particular, cometary collisions, according to a paper published last August, likely led to the association of amino acids and the formation of the building blocks of life. Based on what we know about the formation of the solar system, other comets in other planetary systems continue to perhaps do their fruitful deeds.
2. Jupiter's tiny moon Europa is littered with brown-veined scars that are thought to indicate places where warm, dirty, liquid water from the mantle of the satellite seeps through its crust. Europe can, which is why America and Europe are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in future mission projects to find water beneath Europe's surface.
3. In addition to Europa, there is Saturn's moon Enceladus, and scientists confirmed this month that it hides a giant world ocean under its icy crust. Like Europe, Enceladus's ocean is the perfect place for life outside of Earth to live.
4. The search for possible evidence of life on Enceladus continues. The satellite has powerful hydrothermal vents - the kind that could have triggered the formation of life on Earth - that lie on the ocean floor.

1. In addition to Europa and Enceladus, at least ten objects in our solar system could have underground oceans, planetologists suspect. The problem with detecting life on these bodies is that it is quite difficult to reach the water mantle, which lies at a depth of hundreds of kilometers.
2. Besides Earth, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only body in the solar system with lakes on its surface. These lakes could not allow the development of terrestrial life, because they are composed of liquid methane, not water. However, earlier this year, a group of Cornell scientists showed that methane-based cellular life could exist on Titan.
3. It is possible that life could form and flourish only on terrestrial planets; it follows that we have a chance of detecting life only outside our solar system. Last July, scientists discovered an Earth-like planet 1,400 light-years away. Its size, orbit, luminary and age lead to "the possibility of life developing on its surface, since all the ingredients and conditions necessary for life are present."
4. The famous Drake equation allows us to estimate how many alien civilizations could exist in the Milky Way. It looks like this: N = R*(fp)(ne)(fl)(fi)(fc)L, explanation of each variable is below. Based on the simplest statistics, it is not difficult to calculate that thousands, even millions of alien civilizations may exist somewhere out there:

R*: The rate of star formation in our galaxy.

fp: percentage of stars that have planets.

ne: The number of terrestrial planets around each star that has planets.

fl: percentage of terrestrial planets that have evolved life.

fi: percentage of planets with life that have developed intelligent life.

fc: The percentage of intelligent species that have gone as far as creating technologies that can be discovered by the forces of an external civilization like ours. For example, radio signals.

L: The average number of years it takes for an advanced civilization to detect detectable signals.

1. Many people ask themselves: if there are intelligent civilizations out there, why haven't we heard anything from them? Maybe our own galaxy Milky Way far from the most hospitable galaxy for life, according to a scientific report, . The study found that other galaxies in the universe may have 10,000 times more habitable planets than the Milky Way.
2. We are all made up of heavy atoms created by explosions. supermassive stars. This not only connects us to the universe, but also highlights the possibility of the existence of alien life. These ingredients became part of a gas cloud that condensed, collapsed, and formed the next generation. solar systems- stars with planets in orbit. And these planets also have a young creator of life starter kit.