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How Many Aliens Are in the Milky Way? Astronomers Turn to Statistics for Answers

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-many-aliens-are-in-the-milky-way-astronomers-turn-to-statistics-for-answers/

In the 12th episode of Cosmos, which aired on December 14, 1980, the program’s co-creator and host Carl Sagan introduced television viewers to astronomer Frank Drake’s eponymous equation. Using it, he calculated the potential number of advanced civilizations in the Milky Way that could contact us using the extraterrestrial equivalent of our modern radio-communications technology.

Sagan’s estimate ranged from “a pitiful few” to millions. “If civilizations do not always destroy themselves shortly after discovering radio astronomy, then the sky may be softly humming with messages from the stars,” Sagan intoned in his inimitable way.

Man says he's discovered UFO "crash site" in Meddon Woods, Bideford

Link: https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/farmer/18583747.man-says-discovered-ufo-crash-site-meddon-woods-bideford/

A man has discovered what he believes to be a UFO "crash site" - deep in a wood in Devon writes John Bett. Ben Landricombe was on a walk in the countryside when he found a huge area that had been flattened.

He said it looks like the foliage and trees has been squashed by something falling at speed from the sky. He said that the trees were snapped as if a flying disc had descended and hit them from a height.

Ben Landricombe was on a walk in the countryside when he found a huge area that had been flattened. He said it looks like the foliage and trees has been squashed by something falling at speed from the sky.

He said that the trees were snapped as if a flying disc had descended and hit them from a height. Ben, from Plymouth, Devon, can't see any logical explanation for why the trees would have fallen in this way - and that it could be a UFO crash site.

Ben found the landing zone in Meddon Woods, in Bideford, Devon, on Monday, July 13, and recorded a video of the site.

In the video, he says: "Something has definitely crashed here - look at this. Boom - weird. Massive gap in the woods, all the trees."

Space oddity: Mexican group claims alien base offers hurricane protection

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/17/mexico-hurricanes-alien-base-gulf-coast

Gulf coast cities have little to fear from extreme weather thanks, apparently, to extraterrestrials lurking underwater

As communities on Mexico’s Gulf coast brace themselves for what is predicted to be a grueling hurricane season, a group of stargazers in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas are confident that a unique form of disaster preparation will keep their city safe.

Members of the Association of Scientific UFO Research of Tamaulipas, or Aicot, believe that an inter-dimensional underwater base of extraterrestrial origin has protected the coastal cities of Ciudad Madero and Tampico from hurricanes for more than 50 years.

Aicot’s president, Juan Carlos Ramón López Díaz, claims to have visited the base – known as Amupac – via astral projection, which he says he induced through meditation and a pescatarian diet.

“It’s also recommendable to ascend ancestral constructions, like temples and pyramids, that have stairs at a 45-degree angle,” he says. (Hills sloping at such a gradient will also do, if one doesn’t live near pre-Columbian ruins.)

Ciudad Madero suffered four direct landfalls in the 20th century, including Hurricane Inez in 1966 which killed 74 people in Mexico alone.

López and his allies believe that the base was established some time after that.

Explanations of exactly how and why the alien visitors are protecting Ciudad Madero vary, even among fellow investigators. López believes it’s not Amupac itself, but the esoteric power of Aicot members’ belief in the base. “The collective mind is charged with this concept, so it generates a large...