UFO Buster Radio News – 341: UK UFO Files - USA?, Starlink on Deck, and Avi Loeb

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UK to Release UFO Files to Public, Will United States be Next? Link: https://929nin.com/uk-to-release-ufo-files-to-public-will-united-states-be-next/

The UK just decided to make its classified files on UFOs public, and Americans want the same here.

At least that's the result of a Piplsay survey.

According to the survey, 23% of the nearly 31,000 respondents claimed to have seen something they couldn't explain and 27% think extra terrestrial entities are real. 34% weren't sure. Those numbers track pretty consistently with the numbers from the UK participants so the whole UFO phenomenon seems to be intriguing people world wide.

While less than a third of the Americans in the survey believed in alien life, a full 58% think the U.S. government is investigating it, and 61% are in favor of the United States government releasing its classified files to the public.

There's no doubt that our government has a lot of X-File information they're not sharing with us. After the Tic-Tac UFO information broke out they even renamed the whole Unidentified Flying Object subject to Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. Was that to make it a more specific type of event? Or was it something to throw off searches for UFOs? We may never know.

Live coverage: SpaceX readies Falcon 9 for fifth Starlink mission

Link: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/13/live-coverage-spacex-readies-falcon-9-for-fifth-starlink-mission/

Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s fifth batch of Starlink broadband satellites.

A Falcon 9 rocket has been lifted into position at launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as SpaceX prepares to launch its fifth batch of Starlink satellites. The payload fairing housing the 60 broadband satellites is attached to the rocket.

The rocket is being prepared for a static test fire of the rocket's nine Merlin first stage engines on Friday followed by a launch on Saturday at 10:46 a.m. EST (1546 GMT).

Forecasters at the 45th Space Wing are predicting a 70% chance that weather conditions will be acceptable for launch. Winds and cumulus cloud are the primary concerns.

Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

The mysterious signal is repeating every 16 days. A Harvard researcher says it could be of "artificial origin."

Link: https://futurism.com/harvard-prof-deep-space-signal-alien-civilization

Earlier this month, Canadian researchers announced they’d discovered a powerful radio signal, emanating from a distant galaxy in bursts every 16 days.

And Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard University’s astronomy department, told Futurism this week that he thinks one possibility is that the signals are coming from an alien civilization.

To be clear, Loeb also acknowledged that the signals — “fast radio bursts,” or FRBs — could be generated by young neutron stars called magnetars, or by another, yet-undiscovered natural phenomenon.

“But at the moment we do not have a smoking gun that clearly indicates the nature of FRBs,” he wrote in an email. “So all possibilities should be considered, including an artificial origin.”

One concrete possibility, he said, is an extraterrestrial civilization using a beam of energy to propel cargo through space — and that the Canadian researchers picking up radiation leaking away from it.

Loeb pointed out that he previously examined that concept in a 2017 paper, however, and found that the energy required to move cargo with energy beams would be absolutely staggering. In fact, he said, such a beam would require about as much energy as the entirety of sunlight that hits the Earth.

“This would require a huge engineering project, far more ambitious than we currently have on Earth,” he wrote. “So the main technological challenge is in the huge power that the radio beam need[s] to carry.”...