Media networks always prefer to become the source of any breaking news.

The first discovery of advanced alien civilization would be a great opportunity for any networks to broadcast such big news. However, BBC apparently would not jump at the opportunity to broadcast such breaking news.

On November 7, 2012, BB 6 Music breakfast show featured British physicist and professor Brian Cox. The professor told the host of the show, Shaun Keaveny, that he and his colleagues on the BBC’s Stargazing Live, an astronomy program, planned to investigate Threapleton Holmes B by pointing the Jodrell Bank telescope at it to listen for signs of life. The team found this planet in 2011 and it has reportedly never been examined by a radio telescope. However, before the team materialized their plan, Cox claimed that BBC disallowed the idea.

He explained that BBC actually said that they can’t do what they planned because they need to go through the health and safety, regulations, and everything in case they discover a signal from intelligent aliens.

Cox added that he responded by clarifying if BBC officials are worried about health and safety when they will discover the first hint that there is other intelligent life other than in Earth.
With this revelation by Cox, it seems that the BBC have advanced knowledge that extra-terrestrials on Threapleton Holmes B are foul-mouthed or speak with profanity, or the network may be involved in some kind of cover-up conspiracy.

Over 33 million citizens in U.K. accept extraterrestrial life as true while only more than 27 million, which is less than half of the country’s population, who believe in God’s existence.

That is the revelation by online research of 1,359 adults who were questioned a number of things varying from perception in alien visits to Earth, doubts of UFO information cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials versus belief in God, and whether or not humans really gotten on the moon.

The online survey, done by Opinion Matters, disclosed the following information:

• Fifty two percent think UFO information has been prevented to come out because knowledge of their presence would jeopardize government stability.
• Forty-four percent believe in God.
• One in ten individuals has claimed witnessing a UFO.
• One-fourth more men than women assert to have witnessed UFOs.
• Twenty percent of participants think UFOs have arrived on Earth.
• Over five million British people think the Apollo moon landings were manipulated.

Even though the survey was made as part of launching of the video game, “XCOM: Enemy Unknown,” it was an appropriate sampling of beliefs that can be used to stand for the entire people of the U.K., according to the organization that carried out the survey.

The online survey has been conducted with an autonomous panel through a legitimate research organization, according to Karen Brooks, executive at Opinion Matters, a renowned market research organization that made the study.

She further explained that surveys can be executed face-to-face, over the phone and on the internet. She continued that the online survey was a U.K. adult sample, which is very large, and working at it on the internet is a fast, efficient method of taking to that individuals. She pointed out that they ensure that all questions are agreeable from a research perspective.

However, many are doubtful of the findings, such as Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, an Anglican priest who played a big role at the World Dialogue Council, an organization that encourages healthier relations between the West and Islamic societies.

Having handled a particular volume of job with statistics on religious beliefs, Macdonald-Radcliff is fundamentally doubtful regarding what these data suggest, and especially if there is a narrow, selective base. He explained that around 1,000 people cannot represent the entire nation with this kind of survey.

Macdonald-Radcliff mentioned that he actually does believe that the failure to explain what they are asking to people is a relatively crucial failure for the survey.

Every civilization in the Universe eventually runs out of energy on its home planet and once this happens they will build a massive collector of starlight, a shell of solar panels to surround their home star. Astronomers call the possible structure as Dyson Spheres. This famous theory was formulated by mathematician-physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960. Astronomers believe that Dyson theory is a thought experiment but not completely rejected it. If the hypothesis is true, then, one way to find advanced alien civilizations is to look for signs of Dyson Spheres.

Last September 2012 three astronomers, led by Jason Wright, started a search for Dyson Spheres that would span for two years. The project will cross the Milky Way, along with other galaxies estimated to be millions. Their project already got support from the Templeton Foundation, an organization that would like to fund research on humanity’s big questions such as human purpose and ultimate truth.

Theories about advanced aliens are somewhat not scientific but the search for intelligent alien beings has been dependent on such theories. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been scanning alien radio communications using telescope arrays. As of today, humans do not have the excess technology that SETI has been looking in the heavens. Robert Gray said that in order to pick up a radio signal from light years away an enormous amount of energy is needed which can only be produced by thousands of big power plants. SETI is expecting that advanced civilizations have interest in communicating other civilizations, or at least have enough energy expenditures. SETI also assumes that extraterrestrial civilizations will communicate through radio signals. Therefore, to find intelligent aliens, it is not enough that they only exist; they should have technology that is predictable by humans in many ways.

The search of Dyson Spheres is a little less on the goals of futuristic alien civilizations when compared with SETI. Most assumptions of Dyson Spheres search are directly related to simple biology. Wright explained that life has energy that reradiate as waste heat. Therefore, more energy is present in larger civilization. This larger civilization reradiates more heat.

Life also reproduces, which could lead to the increase in demand of energy. If the increase continues, life will absorb all the available energy in a certain planet. The possible situation could force the growing civilization to get energy from other planets and their stars.

To fully understand the Dyson Sphere, it is wise to let the Earth as a test case. Oliver Morton pointed out that the sun is supplying 120,000 terawatts daily into Earth. The amount of energy that the sun supplies to Earth is equivalent to 10,000 times of the amount of energy in humanity’s industrial civilization. However, it is important to note that mankind’s industrial civilization is young and tremendously increasing. For the past 30 years, global energy is doubled. Using this trend, mankind will be having the same amount of energy that the sun supplies in 400 years. When that time comes, making plan for a Dyson Sphere is likely one of the options.

It is logical to assume that intelligent or advanced alien civilizations have more energy than humans because they may have started billions of years ago. Dyson Spheres may have also started millennia ago in the universe.

Dyson Spheres also consistent with Kardashev Scale, another theory of civilizational advancement. Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardeshev made a technological advancement theory in 1964. It is based on mastery of civilization of larger and larger energy sources over time. Kardashev Scale has three types of civilizations. Type 1 civilization utilizes all available energy on its home planet, type 2 utilizes all available energy from its local star, and type 3 civilization uses all energy in its galaxy. Dyson Spheres search is logically a search for Type 2 civilizations. It may have an advantage over SETI’s effort in finding intelligent alien because of its premise on energy usage of extraterrestrial civilizations. It allows researchers to find aliens that are not necessarily interested in communicating with other civilizations.

The existence of Dyson Spheres would give off a heat signature that can be seen through mankind’s infrared telescopes. Dyson Sphere would be heated by the solar energy it collected, similar to a computer that would heat up when it utilizes electricity. That heat would then radiate off the sphere as infrared light. Wright explained that Dyson Sphere would appear brightly in the mid-infrared. Similar to human body that is not visible in the dark, but brightly shines in mid-infrared goggles.

A civilization capable to develop a Dyson Sphere would have to do everything that it would not be detectable. Wright said that to hide a Dyson Sphere, it would require big amount of engineering across the whole civilization. That particular civilization would build massive radiators that give off heat that would be undetectable against the cosmic microwave background.

The project by Wright to search for Dyson Spheres is not the first one. Fermilab researchers did the same research in the 1980’s and they initially found candidate sources. However, on closer look, they discovered that those candidate sources were giant stars or dusty objects that absorb starlight and then reradiate it.

Wright and his team will get access to data not yet accessible to Fermilab’s researchers. They will be scanning 3 different infrared sky surveys which include Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) of NASA which is way more sensitive than IRAS, about hundreds of times. They will be searching galaxies that may have a large number of stars surrounded in technological complex structures.

If Wright and his team find something not normal, a long process for confirmation will immediately start. A process that likely needs telescopes and astronomers around the world. Wright said that they will not conclude right away without further examinations from experts. He mentioned that many times there were strange objects discovered in the past only to discover that they are natural phenomenon after thorough investigations. Nikolai Kardashev thought at first that he discovered great candidates for Type 3 civilizations but later knew that they were quasars.

The probe into whether the existence of extraterrestrials is true or just a fictional concept is likely to remain in eternity unless one could present valid evidence that these supernatural creatures really exist. But the discovery of a planet which is estimated to be just 4 light years away from earth is considered to be hosting extraterrestrial life.

The revelation of new planets is made possible by powerful telescopes which are purposely created to find evidence that aliens may be just out there hovering in the universe, waiting to be encountered by humans. In fact, since the early 1990s, hundreds of exoplanets have been unveiled using these high-tech telescopes. According to astronomer Bob Nichol at Portsmouth University in the UK, the discovery of new planets increases the possibility that humans may find extraterrestrial life in the near future.

At Geneva Observatory, researchers theorized that the newly discovered planet may be capable of support life since it is too close to its own sun, which is also a common indicator that it has neighbor planets that are also orbiting the star in the same system.

Two super telescopes are expected to take launch in the next decades: the Extreme Large Telescope (E-ELT) of Europe and the radio telescope Square Kilometer Array (SKA). These two devices are built for only one aim, which is to look for signs of extraterrestrials on other planets. Astron general director Mike Garrett of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy sees the capabilities of these new telescopes to effectively detect alien life in the future.

Several months ago a huge blast shook Hazard, leading investigation by emergency teams of the county that eventually ended at an abandoned mine. When fumes within the mine were rejected as the reason of the blast, no proper answers were ever provided. One popular theory surfaced explaining that a piece of iced space rock in the form of an asteroid came into the earth’s atmosphere and erupted as it was heated in the process.

Even though this is a credible idea, some witnesses remember witnessing a smoke and even a fire ball in midair. The blast was instantly plucked up by the large group of sky viewers searching for strange flying objects as evidence that something took place that evening in the skies above Hazard.

Just a simple search in major search engines on UFOs in the Appalachian Mountains, you can get lots of footages and reports about alleged aliens filling in the skies. Many are like spots of lighting, have camera glitches, and from less reliable eye witnesses. However, some, even if not proven aliens, are at least intriguing and strange.

Many believe that UFO sightings give a couple of unanswered questions, such as what are they and why are they moving to the mountains?

One such story that is presently getting large curiosity is a report coming from Pike County. A sparkling thing was witnessed in the sky on October 16, 2012 above various areas in Pike and Letcher counties. The object was identified as being long, reflective, and transparent. A number of images and footages of the UFO were obtained.

The sister papers of Herald in Williamson, West Virginia cited a thing being noticed there just hours before. The photographs obtained at both sightings appear similar and both were noticed in complete daylight, and were not just whizzes of light on an evening sky.

As documented by alien researchers, any extraterrestrial guests are most probably looking to investigate our planet much like people carry out with our NASA quests into outer space.

Now then for what reason are they heading to the Appalachian Mountains? People who believe in aliens would think it is because of the rich natural resources like fossil fuel, natural gas, wood, and different forms of rocks. Individuals who do not believe in aliens would probably have similar answer, however they would think it is natural event by these ample resources.

If it turns out aliens being are going down to investigate our mountain ranges, it makes sense that they would select places that best describe the planet Earth. When people have dispatched rovers to Mars, they have researched samples and delivered back images. Presently people actually have a piece of our most sophisticated technology on Mars’ surface delivering back data.

Alien or not, unusual events in Earth keep people searching and thinking about them. It is due to this search that breakthrough and knowledge can be learned.

Extraterrestrials

Mars has been the subject for the search for extraterrestrial life for more than 30 years. Many researchers believe that the Martian planet is capable of hosting life-forms but the Viking missions of NASA brought back nothing but inconclusive results. But an announcement by Genomics maverick Craig Venter may bring light to the hope for evidence on extraterrestrials.

Venter stated at the Wired Health Conference in New York that he is aiming for the launch of a DNA sequencer to the red planet to beam back the genomes of any microbes from aliens. He believes that DNA on Mars is searchable if explorers only know the methods of looking for them.

It has been theorized that the raw materials of life could have disseminated throughout the solar system during the early times and that life may come forth numerous times from the same ingredients. Besides, scientists think that life may have travelled between Earth and Mars million years ago in which collision of asteroids could have sent a vast number of rocks career between the neighboring planets.

It has been also said that the appearance of DNA in one planet could only mean that there is life on it, and that this can be found on Mars, which seems to wait to be fully investigated with the right tools and application of methods.

Venter refused to explain further about his plan but admitted that such may have slim changes of search for extraterrestrials. Besides, lead scientist Michael Meyer for Mars Exploration Programme of NASA supports the possibility that NASA may include DNA sequencer in the next rover launches on Mars.

Over 33 million citizens in U.K. accept extraterrestrial life as true while only more than 27 million, which is less than half of the country’s population, who believe in God’s existence.

That is the revelation by online research of 1,359 adults who were questioned a number of things varying from perception in alien visits to Earth, doubts of UFO information cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials versus belief in God, and whether or not humans really gotten on the moon.

The online survey, done by Opinion Matters, disclosed the following information:

• Fifty two percent think UFO information has been prevented to come out because knowledge of their presence would jeopardize government stability.
• Forty-four percent believe in God.
• One in ten individuals has claimed witnessing a UFO.
• One-fourth more men than women assert to have witnessed UFOs.
• Twenty percent of participants think UFOs have arrived on Earth.
• Over five million British people think the Apollo moon landings were manipulated.

Even though the survey was made as part of launching of the video game, “XCOM: Enemy Unknown,” it was an appropriate sampling of beliefs that can be used to stand for the entire people of the U.K., according to the organization that carried out the survey.

The online survey has been conducted with an autonomous panel through a legitimate research organization, according to Karen Brooks, executive at Opinion Matters, a renowned market research organization that made the study.

She further explained that surveys can be executed face-to-face, over the phone and on the internet. She continued that the online survey was a U.K. adult sample, which is very large, and working at it on the internet is a fast, efficient method of taking to that individuals. She pointed out that they ensure that all questions are agreeable from a research perspective.

However, many are doubtful of the findings, such as Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, an Anglican priest who played a big role at the World Dialogue Council, an organization that encourages healthier relations between the West and Islamic societies.

Having handled a particular volume of job with statistics on religious beliefs, Macdonald-Radcliff is fundamentally doubtful regarding what these data suggest, and especially if there is a narrow, selective base. He explained that around 1,000 people cannot represent the entire nation with this kind of survey.

Macdonald-Radcliff mentioned that he actually does believe that the failure to explain what they are asking to people is a relatively crucial failure for the survey.

People have been claiming to have seen aliens and ufos up in the sky. But up to present, no one can fully support the idea that there are other beings outside the Earth that might be more powerful than humans. However, that concept is directed disputed by what some scientists suggested about.

According to experts who wrote in the “Astrobiology” journal, Earth could have been coming from extraterrestrial microbes before it raised humans. This theory is based on estimations which showed the possibility of rock fragments from other galaxies that had landed on Earth long time ago.

The research report speculated that such fragments could have contained dormant bugs or embedded microorganisms capable of surviving through space even with high cosmic radiation levels. Experts believe in a process called lithopanspermia which suggests life travel from Earth to other planets outside the solar system. This could mean that humans might be also called as extraterrestrials that have evolved from the earliest times long before Earth is fully formed.

Lead researcher Edward Belbruno of Princeton University further stated the likelihood of lithopanspermia in which universe is filled with life similar to Earth. Thus, it suggests the idea that there are other humans exist in other galaxies or planets in the form of extraterrestrials as well.