NASA footage sparks UFO paranoia

The release of raw archival NASA footage that allegedly shows UFO activity has sparked new debate about extraterrestrial life — and the enduring power of conspiracy theories. One clip shows a pair of cylindrical lights caught by a shaky hand-held camera while the other one captures what are claimed to be alien craft zig-zagging in front of a space shuttle's window. But while the footage has

U.S. Air Force Aims to Launch Space Plane Next Year

It has been a long haul to the launch pad, but the U.S. Air Force and Boeing are gearing up to loft the X-37B – an unpiloted military space plane, SPACE.com has learned. Tucked inside the shroud of an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), the winged craft will be boosted out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, orbit the Earth and then make an auto-pilot landing in California. The X-37B OTV-1

Paul Haney, former 'voice' of manned space flight, dies at 80

Email Picture NASA Paul Haney monitors the flight of the Gemini VII spacecraft from his console in Mission Control in Houston. He resigned from the agency just months before the first lunar landing. The journalist joined NASA in 1958 as a public information officer and started providing commentary from Mission Control for TV feeds in 1963, serving

The Truth Behind NASA's UFO Videos

NASA/YouTube An innocuous clip from shuttle mission STS-80, posted on YouTube as proof of the existence of UFOs. #story .gallery_container p.caption{display:none !important;} #story .gallery_container p.strut{color:#000;} An innocuous clip from shuttle mission STS-80, posted on YouTube as proof of the existence of UFOs.

UCSB To Relocate Art Gallery

UCSB’s annual Undergraduate Art Show, scheduled for the week of June 8, will be moving from its customary home in the University Art Museum to the Old Gym this year due to construction. The 2009 Undergraduate Art Show will be held June 8 through the 13th in the Old Gym, marking the first time the gallery has been held outside of the campus museum. The museum is currently undergoing a seismic

UCSB Makes Photon Find

Quantum research physicists at UCSB have made a scientific breakthrough by controlling particles of light. Physicists Max Hofheinz, Haohua Wang, John Martinis and Andrew Cleland trapped photons in a qubit, sometimes called an “artificial atom,” and were able to control it in order to create a superposition of states - where multiple states of photons exist simultaneously. The researchers were

Atlantic and East Pacific Ocean Hurricane Seasons Begin for 2009

Summer soon begins in the Northern Hemisphere and, on June 1st, the Atlantic hurricane season kicks off. What do Atlantic and Pacific Ocean surface temperatures and heights tell forecasters about what they can expect this season? Although peak hurricane time doesn't arrive until late-summer and early fall, there are some oceanic signals that