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style="padding: 0px; margin: 1em;"><b style="padding: 0px;">SSC2007-03</b>&nbsp;- Dust makes this cosmic eye look red. The eerie&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-03/index.shtml" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Spitzer Space Telescope image</a>&nbsp;shows&nbsp;<a href="http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu//" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">infrared</a>radiation from the well-studied&nbsp;<a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060112.html" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Helix Nebula</a>&nbsp;(NGC 7293) a mere 700 light-years away in the constellation&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(constellation)" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Aquarius</a>. The two light-year diameter shroud of dust and gas around a central white dwarf has long been considered an excellent example of a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.noao.edu/jacoby/pn_gallery.html" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">planetary nebula</a>, representing the final stages in the evolution of a sun-like star. But the Spitzer data show the nebula's central star itself is immersed in a surprisingly bright infrared glow.&nbsp;<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702296" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Models</a>&nbsp;suggest the glow is produced by a dust&nbsp;<a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041210.html" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">debris disk</a>. Even though the nebular material was ejected from the star many thousands of years ago, the close-in dust could be generated by collisions in a reservoir of objects analogous to our own solar system's&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Kuiper Belt</a>&nbsp;or cometary&nbsp;<a href="http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/Oort_cloud.html&amp;edu=high" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Oort cloud</a>. Formed in the distant planetary system, the comet-like bodies would have otherwise survived even the dramatic late stages of the star's&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">evolution</a>.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px;"></p></blockquote><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">NASA</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">JPL-Caltech</a>, Kate Su (<a href="http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(109, 132, 162);">Steward Obs</a>, U. 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line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="list-description" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em;">Space is big, and if you have read our list on&nbsp;<a title="25 Crazy Facts About Our Universe" href="http://list25.com/25-crazy-facts-about-the-universe/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 55, 15); text-decoration: none; border: none;">25 crazy facts about our universe</a>&nbsp;then you know it’s also incredibly complex. As you scroll through these photos not only are you seeing some of our universe’s enormity, but you are also looking back in time thousands of years. So allow yourself be humbled because these are the 25 most incredible photos of our universe.</div><div class="singlepage-inpost-ad" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 155px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">25</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Sombrero Galaxy</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6609" title="sombrero galaxy" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sombrero.png" alt="sombrero galaxy" width="610" height="341" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">One of the most photogenic images in our universe, the Sombrero Galaxy is roughly 28 million light years away from Earth. It’s not hard to see where it gets its name from and scientists suspect that it probably has a super massive black hole at the center. The image you see is actually a mash up of several other images taken by both the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">24</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Ant Nebula</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6610" title="ant nebula" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/antnebula.png" alt="ant nebula" width="610" height="402" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Resembling the body of an ant, what you are looking at is actually a star in process of dying. Those jets of gas being shot out into space are actually moving at about 620 miles per second. Don’t worry though, the nebula is located approximately 8,000 light years from Earth (from left to right the image above spans a length of about 1 light year)</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">23</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Helix Nebula (Eye of God)</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6612" title="Helix Nebula (Eye of God)" src="http://list25.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/helixnebula.png" alt="Helix Nebula (Eye of God)" width="610" height="459" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Taken in 2003 by the Hubble Space Telescope, this image of a dying star 700 light years from the Earth saw heavy circulation on the internet and became one of the most famous deep space pictures yet.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">22</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Whirlpool Galaxy</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6618" title="whirlpool galaxy" src="http://list25.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/whirlpoolgalaxy.png" alt="whirlpool galaxy" width="610" height="423" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – NASA/ESA</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">What has become a classic picture of deep space, the Whirlpool Galaxy is actually visible from Earth if you can get your hands on some quality binoculars. It is believed to spiral the way it does due to the gravitational disturbance caused by the dwarf galaxy in the upper right.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">21</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Crab Nebula</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6622" title="crab nebula" src="http://list25.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/crabnebula.png" alt="crab nebula" width="610" height="542" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">About a thousand years ago a star exploded in the night sky and was recorded by astronomers all around the world. Records show that Chinese, Arab, and Native American stargazers all observed the event to be visible in broad daylight for almost 1 month and at night for over 2 years. It was until recently, however, that we could get a closeup.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">20</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">The Enigmatic Cloud</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6629" title="nebula IRAS 05437+2502" src="http://list25.com/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif" data-lazy-src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/enigmaticcloud.png" alt="nebula IRAS 05437+2502" width="610" height="504" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">It’s technical name being nebula IRAS 05437+2502, little is known about this obscure nebula near the central plane of our galaxy. First discovered by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983, it was recently spotted again by the Hubble.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">19</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">N90</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6634" title="N90" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/N90.png" alt="N90" width="610" height="595" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Technically within the Small Magellanic cloud just outside the Milky Way, this star forming region is quite far from its center giving it a breathtaking backdrop with numerous galaxies in the distance.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">18</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Centaurus A</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6636" title="centaurus a" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/centaurusa.png" alt="centaurus a" width="610" height="632" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">This image of Centaurus A using the most advanced instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3, reveals previously concealed portions of this spectacular galaxy.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">17</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">The Edge-On Galaxy</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6638" title="ESO 510-G13" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/edgeon.png" alt="ESO 510-G13" width="610" height="311" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Technically named ESO 510-G13, this image gives you an idea of what a spiral galaxy like ours looks like when captured edge-on.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">16</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">The Flocculent Spiral</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6640" title="NGC 2841" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spiral.png" alt="NGC 2841" width="610" height="477" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Unlike our galaxy, NGC 2841 has much shorter spiral arms rather than long extensive limbs and is therefore known as a flocculent galaxy.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">15</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">The Red Spider Nebula</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6641" title="The Red Spider Nebula" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/redspider.png" alt="The Red Spider Nebula" width="610" height="340" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">This extremely warm nebula is home to one of the hottest known stars in the universe and it generates stellar winds with waves over 100 billion km high.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">14</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Tarantula Nebula</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6646" title="tarantula nebula" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tarantulanebula.png" alt="tarantula nebula" width="610" height="623" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Consisting mostly of ionized hydrogen gas, this nebula located in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a place of extremes and due to numerous supernova remnants it is one the brightest nebulae in our intergalactic neighborhood. Another fun fact – it’s home to the heaviest star on record.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">13</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Galactic Wreckage</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6644" title="galactic wreckage in stephan's quintet" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/galacticwreckage.png" alt="galactic wreckage in stephan's quintet" width="610" height="680" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">Known as Stephan’s Quintet, this groups of galaxies appears to be constantly running into each other making for some intense intergalactic stargazing.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">12</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Orion Nebula</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6648" title="orion nebula" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/orion.png" alt="orion nebula" width="610" height="610" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – Hubble Space Telescope</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">As the closest star forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula is 24 light years in diameter and 1,500 light years from Earth. It is actually visible to the naked eye if you look in the direction of the Orion constellation.</p></div><div class="list-meta" style="float: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); width: 610px;"><div class="list-number" style="float: left; padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaBold, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; width: 50px; font-style: italic;">11</div><div class="list-title" style="float: left; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 22px 10px 20px 25px; width: 485px;"><h4 style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(12, 43, 69); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal !important;">Andromeda Galaxy</h4></div></div><div class="list-entry" style="padding: 15px 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; width: 610px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6611" title="andromeda galaxy" src="http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/andromeda.png" alt="andromeda galaxy" width="610" height="419" data-lazy-loaded="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">photo – NASA/ESA</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px;">No list of space pictures would be complete without on of our nearest galactic neighbors, the Andromeda Galaxy. One of the only things in the night sky outside of the Milky Way that is visible with the naked eye, it spans approximately 200,000 light years.</p></div></div></div></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/nebula/2013-08-14-13 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/nebula/2013-08-14-13 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:08:17 GMT <p align="center" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/quransearch.htm"><img src="http://www.answering-christianity.com/quran_logo.gif"></a></p><p align="center" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF"><small><a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com//%22#&#92;"">Search and find articles and topics quickly and accurately!&nbsp; See different advanced ways to search for articles on this site.</a></small></font></p><table border="0" width="100%" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" align="right"><form><p><small><font face="Arial">Further Topic Research:&nbsp;<small><select name="search" size="1">&nbsp; 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font-size: medium;"><font color="#FF0000"><big><big>Aliens and UFOs in the Noble Quran:</big></big></font></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">The following article was taken from:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7906/" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7906/</a>.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</p><font color="#007d00" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><h1 align="center">ALIENS IN THE QURAN</h1><p><font color="#007d00">&nbsp;</font></p><font color="#007d00"><h2>Introduction</h2><p><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></p><font color="#000000"><p align="justify">On 7th August 1996,NASA&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#1">(1)</a>&nbsp;scientists made an announcement that made front page headlines throughout the world.Within a Martian meteorite,they had found evidence of a microscopic lifeform that may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#1">(2)</a>&nbsp;Although other studies were later published which challenged this conclusion,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#1">(3)</a>&nbsp;numerous recent discoveries,for example,the discovery by the Galileo spacecraft,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#1">(4)</a>&nbsp;in February 1997,of a possible red-coloured sea under the ice crust of Jupiter's moon,Europa,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#1">(5)</a>&nbsp;are raising hopes that we may soon be able to get an answer to one of the oldest and most interesting questions asked by humans-"Is anyone out there,or are we alone in the universe?"</p><p align="justify">However,it may be that none of us may live to see the day when scientists will give us a definitive answer to this question.For Muslims,that should not be a problem.We already have the answer.Although many Muslims are unaware of the fact,the Quran&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#2">(6)</a>&nbsp;explicitly mentions the existence of extraterrestrial life.</p><p align="justify">The existence of creatures of a spiritual nature,such as angels,in the universe,is accepted as a fact by all Muslims,as well as people of other religions, such as Christians.The point that generates excitement among the public,and scientists is the question of whether material lifeforms like ourselves,which can be found by science,do actually exist outside the earth.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#2">(7)</a>&nbsp;The objective of this article is to present evidence from the Quran for the existence in the universe,of MATERIAL lifeforms ("Life as we know it").<font color="#007d00"></font></p><font color="#007d00"><h2>"Dabbatun"</h2><p><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></p><font color="#000000"></font></font></font></font></font><p align="justify"><font color="#007d00" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><font color="#007d00"><font color="#007d00">In Sura 42,Verse 29 (42:29) of the Quran,we are told,&nbsp;<font color="#980517">"Among His (God's) signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth,and the living creatures that He has scattered through&nbsp;<b><i>them</i></b>&nbsp;:and He has power to gather them together when He wills."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(8)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">Before proceeding further,a point or two must be noted.The word "sama",translated "heavens",is also the Arabic for "sky".One may object that the verse refers to creatures in the sky (which would be birds),not in the heavens.However,birds are mentioned seperately from creatures of the heavens in 24:41,<font color="#980517">&nbsp;"Seest thou not that it is God Whose praise all beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate,and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread?..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(9)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">In a note to 42;29,Muhammad Asad states,"In the Quran,the expression "the heavens and earth" invariably denotes the universe in its entireity."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(10)</a>&nbsp;The Quran mentions that inanimate objects also worship God:<font color="#980517">"Do they not look at God's creation, (even) among (inanimate) things- how their (very) shadows turn round,from right to left,prostrating themselves to God..."(16:48).&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(11)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">Therefore,may not the creatures spoken of in 42:29 in the heavens,be inanimate creatures of God.No.The next verse,16:49 goes,<font color="#980517">&nbsp;"And to God doth obeisance all that is in the heavens and earth,whether moving (living) creatures or the angels...".&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(12)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">The word translated "living creatures" here is the same as that in 42:29- "Dabbatun".Comments Asad,"The word dabbah denotes any sentient,corporeal being capable of spontaneous movement and is contrasted here with the non-corporeal,spiritual beings designated as "angels" ".&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(13)</a>&nbsp;In other words,42:29 is referring to precisely the type of lifeforms that science is searching for,not some metaphysical entities.Yusuf Ali says,"Dabbatun:beasts,living,crawling creatures of all kind."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(14)</a>&nbsp;This is the same word used in 2:164,<font color="#980517">"...in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth...are signs for a people that are wise,"&nbsp;<font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(15)</a>&nbsp;and in 24:45,<font color="#980517">"And God has created every animal from water:of them are some that creep on their bellies;some that walk on two legs;and some that walk on four. God creates what he wills..."<font color="#000000">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(16)</a>&nbsp;Commenting on 42:29,Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmani says,"From the verse it appears that like on the earth,there are some kinds of animals- living creatures- in the heavens also."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(17)</a>&nbsp;On the same verse,Yusuf Ali comments, "Life is not confined to our one little Planet.It is a very old speculation to imagine some life like human life on the planet Mars...it is reasonable to suppose that Life in some form or other is scattered through some of the millions of heavenly bodies scattered through space."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#3">(18)</a>&nbsp;From such remarks,the reader will realize that Muslim scholars are well aware of the fact that 42:29 clearly mentions the existence of aliens.<font color="#007d00"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#007d00"><h2>Is there any alien intelligent life ?</h2><p><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></p><font color="#000000"><p align="justify">Although the discovery of any form of life outside the earth would be dramatic,humankind is especially interested in knowing whether there is any alien intelligent life in the universe.NASA previously had a program on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).Although now scrapped due to budget cuts, private SETI organizations&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(19)</a>&nbsp;have now been made which continue the search.The Planetary Society,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(20)</a>&nbsp;a private organization,in which the film director Steven Speilberg&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(21)</a>is a member of the Board of Directors,has the largest SETI program in the world.So far, no sign of alien intelligent life has turned up.Can the Quran provide an answer?</p><p align="justify">Sura 27:65 commands,<font color="#980517">"Say:None in the heavens or on earth, except God,knows what is hidden:nor can they perceive when they shall be raised up (for Judgement)."<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(22)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">This shows that,like humans,there are other creatures in the universe that will also be raised from the dead.We are told in 19:93-96,<font color="#980517">"Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to (God) Most Gracious as a servant.He does take an account of them (all),and hath numbered them (all) exactly.And everyone of them will come to Him singly on the Day of Judgement.On those who believe and work deeds of righteousness, will (God) Most Gracious bestow love."<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(23)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">From these verses we learn that there are alien lifeforms that,like us,will also be judged according to the works that they do during their lives.Among them are the believers.Therefore,naturally,there will also be those aliens who are unbelievers.The believers will be rewarded.The lifeforms being descibed in the above verses can hardly be expected to be microorganisms.The Quran is referring to creatures of a level of development that makes them morally accountable beings.They must be organisms possessing qualities which we would ascribe to intelligent lifeforms.</font></font></font></font></p><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><p align="justify">In Sura 72:14-15,jinn (a type of spiritual lifeform,which the Quran mention as living on the earth) say,<font color="#980517">"Amongst us are some that submit their wills (to God),and some that swerve from justice.Now those who submit their wills- they have sought out (the path) of right conduct:But those who swerve- they are (but) fuel for Hell-fire."<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(24)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">The Quran mentions that good jinn will be rewarded with Paradise.Summing up from all the above verses,it is clear that Judgement Day is for creatures in the whole universe (Sura 39:68-<font color="#980517">"The Trumpet will (just) be sounded when all that are in the heavens and on earth will swoon, except such as it will please God (to exempt).Then will a second one be sounded,when,behold,they will be standing and looking on!")&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(25)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">and like jinn,aliens will also be sharing Paradise and Hell with humans.In fact,the Quran mentions that Paradise is of a size like that of our present universe- 57:21,<font color="#980517">"Therefore (vie) with one another for the pardon of your Lord,and for a Paradise as vast as heaven and earh, prepared for those who believe in Allah and His apostles."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#4">(26)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">Therefore, it is not surprising that when we are sharing this universe with aliens,we should share Paradise and Hell with them too.The Quran shows us,therefore,that not only do aliens exist,but among them are also intelligent beings.<font color="#007d00"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#007d00"><h2>Where can aliens be found?</h2><p><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></p><font color="#000000"><p align="justify">Knowing that aliens,including intelligent lifeforms exist elsewhere, our next question would be,"Where do they live?"Scientists naturally expect them to live on planets.They look for other planets around other stars- planets that have the right conditions to harbour life- in other words,other earths.In October 1995,scientists announced the discovery of the first extrasolar planet around the star 51 Pegasi.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#5">(27)</a>&nbsp;Since then,there have been a string of discoveries of other planets.At the time of writing of this article,fifteen planets have been claimed to have been discovered.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#5">(28)</a>&nbsp;Although some of these objects have been dismissed as brown dwarfs (including the object around Pegasi 51) by some scientists,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#5">(29)</a>&nbsp;at least some of the fifteen objects are agreed upon as being planets.Scientists believe that on potential moons around planets found to be orbiting two stars, the right conditions may exist for life to be present.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#6">(30)</a></p><p align="justify">In Sura 65:12,we are informed,<font color="#980517">"God is He Who created seven heavens and of the earth a similar number..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#6">(31)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">This verse,although usually translated properly,is very commonly misinterpreted by commentators.They give their interpretation that space is divided into seven zones,and likewise,as Yusuf Ali puts it,"the crust of the earth is built up of geological strata one above another".&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#6">(32)</a>&nbsp;This interpretation arises due to a misunderstanding of what a "heaven" is as mentioned in the Quran.Before continuing further about the topic of aliens,it is necessary to clear up this confusion.The answer can be deduced from verses in the Quran itself and comparing them with our current scientific knowledge about the universe.</font></font></p><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><font color="#980517"><font color="#000000"><p align="justify">From the verses above,we learn this from the Quran:a heaven is a material entity which arose from the same material as the earth originated from.Initially,there was one gaseous mass.A cleavage process occured resulting in the making of the "seven heavens" and "all that lies between them".The sun,moon and earth are constituants of a heaven.Therefore,a heaven must be larger than a star (sun).When the end of the universe is at hand,the heavens,which till then were in an expanding universe (51:47) will come together.Then,the way our present universe came into being,in a similar manner,a new creation will come into being,containing other heavens and another earth.Any astronomer reading these verses can tell you that there is only one entity that fits the description of a heaven in the Quran- a "heaven" in the Quran must be referring to a "galaxy".According to modern science,the universe arose from a singularity,at the Big Bang,and has since,been expanding.From a primordial gas cloud arose hugh fragments from which the galaxies and their clusters arose.Today,the galaxies are moving apart from each other in space.They are seperated by intergalactic space in which may lurk invisible dark matter,making upto 90% of the total mass of the universe.if there is sufficient dark matter,at some time in the future,the universe will stop expanding and enter a contraction phase in which the galaxies will finally come close together in a Big Crunch marking an end to the present universe.The universe would have returned to a singularity state similar to that from which the present universe arose.Then,once again,scientists predict,a new universe may rebound from the singularity of the Big Crunch,as another Big Bang gives rise to a universe with its own galaxies and planets etc.Verses in the Quran agree amazingly with our current ideas about the universe!</p><p align="justify">The purpose of our lengthy divergence from the main topic of this article was to prove that the "seven heavens" are not zones into which the universe is divided,but large astronomical entities, the galaxies.Some people have interpretted a heaven as being a solar system.However,while this view may seem appropriate for some verses,it does not tally with all the verses.</p><p align="justify">The Quran mentions the creation of seven heavens.Asad explains that,"...as regards the "seven heavens",it is to be borne in mind that in Arabic usage...the number "seven" is often synonymous with "several"."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(44)</a>&nbsp;I have shown that the heavens are the galaxies and we can see that millions of them exist.Even if we assume that the heaven are some other astronomical objects that arose from the primary gas cloud,they definitely are not literally seven in number,but in the millions.</p><p align="justify">The relevance of this to our discussion on aliens is that the Sura 65:12 tells us that,as God has created "seven Heavens",He has created,<font color="#980517">"of the earth a similar number..."<font color="#000000">&nbsp;Therefore,as there are millions of galaxies,God has also created millions of earths scattered throughout the universe.Usmani comments on 65:12,"The earths as well,He created seven (Usmani thinks literally seven.We know it actually means "many"),as given in the Tradition of Tirmizi etc.It is possible they are not visible, it is possible they are visible,but people think them to be stars or planets,as the scientists of today have predicted the possibility of life on Mars etc..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(45)</a>&nbsp;An important thing to point out in 65:12 is that God does not use the word "worlds",but specifically,"earth".An 'earth' would be a planet that harbours life.Scientists also often speak of looking for other earths.They mean not just any planet,but one sustaining or capable of sustaining life.In his book,The Bible,The Quran and Science, Maurice Bucaille writes,"...it comes as no small surprise to the reader of the Quran to find that earths such</font></font></p></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><p align="justify"><font color="#007d00"><font color="#007d00">Sura 21:30 asks,<font color="#980517">"Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation),before we clove them asunder?..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#6">(33)</a><font color="#000000">Sura 41:11-12 tell us,<font color="#980517">"Then turned He to the heaven when it was smoke,and said unto it and unto the earth:come both of you,willingly or loth...Then We ordained them seven heavens...and inspired in each heaven its mandate;and We decked the lowest heaven with lamps..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#6">(34)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">and Sura 71:15-16,<font color="#980517">"See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,and hath made the moon a light therin,and made the sun a lamp?"&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(35)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">Sura 51:47 informs us,<font color="#980517">"And it is We who have built the universe with (Our creative) power;and,verily,it is We who are steadily expanding it."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(36)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">Asad,comments on the above verses as follows:about 21:30,"...the above unmistakable reference to the unitary origin of the universe- metonymically described in the Quran as "the heavens and the earth"- strikingly anticipates the view of almost all modern astrophysicists that this universe has originated as one entity from one single element,namely,hydrogen,which became subsequently consolidated through gravity and then seperated into individual nebulae,galaxies,and solar systems,with individual parts progressively breaking away to form new entities in the shape of stars,planets and the latter's satellites";&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(37)</a>&nbsp;about 41:11,he explains the word "smoke" as,"a gas- evidently hydrogen gas,which physicists regard as the primal element from which all material particles of the universe have evolved and still evolve..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(38)</a>&nbsp;and says about the verse,"explaining this passage,Zamakhshari observes:"The meaning of God's command to the skies (heavens) and the earth to "come"... is this:He willed their coming into being..."";for 41:12,he explains "seven heavens" as,"a multiplicity of cosmic systems";&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(39)</a>&nbsp;about 51:47 he says,"the phrase "inna la-musi'un" clearly foreshadows the modern notion of the "expanding universe"- that is,the fact that the cosmos,though finite in extent,is continuously expanding in space."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(40)</a>&nbsp;Finally,three more verses need to be referred to- 50:38,<font color="#980517">"And verily We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them...and naught of weariness touched us"&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(41)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">,21:104,<font color="#980517">"The Day when We shall roll up the heavens as a recorder rolleth up a written scroll.As We began the first creation,We shall repeat it.(It is a promise binding) upon Us.Lo!We are to perform it"&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(42)</a>&nbsp;<font color="#000000">,and 14:48,<font color="#980517">&nbsp;"One day the Earth will be changed to a different Earth,and so will be the heavens..."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htm#7">(43)</a><font color="#000000"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p></font></font></font></font></font></font> https://samz.at.ua/blog/aliens_in_books/2013-08-14-12 Samz 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handout photo. Maybe those science-fiction scenarios about killer robots from space invading the Earth aren't so far-fetched after all. Aliens bearing little resemblance to Steven Spielberg's cuddly " et"="" might="" actually="" eye="" earth="" for="" its="" potential="" slaves="" and="" to="" plunder="" natural="" resources,="" say="" scientists="" interviewed="" in="" "aliens:="" the="" definitive="" guide,"="" a="" new="" documentary="" being="" broadcast="" sunday="" discovery="" canada.="" canadian="" press="" ho-freddie="" claire,="" arrow="" media="" ,="" handel="" productions"="" title="Professor Michio Kaku is shown in a handout photo. Maybe those science-fiction scenarios about killer robots from space invading the Earth aren't so far-fetched after all. 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Aliens bearing little resemblance to Steven Spielberg's cuddly " et"="" might="" actually="" eye="" earth="" for="" its="" potential="" slaves="" and="" to="" plunder="" natural="" resources,="" say="" scientists="" interviewed="" in="" "aliens:="" the="" definitive="" guide,"="" a="" new="" documentary="" being="" broadcast="" sunday="" discovery="" canada.="" canadian="" press="" ho-freddie="" claire,="" arrow="" media="" ,="" handel="" productions"="" class="lightbox-enabled" style="outline: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; float: right;">Enlarge Image</a></p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 13px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: italic;">Professor Michio Kaku is shown in a handout photo. Maybe those science-fiction scenarios about killer robots from space invading the Earth aren't so far-fetched after all. Aliens bearing little resemblance to Steven Spielberg's cuddly "ET" might actually eye Earth for its potential slaves and to plunder its natural resources, say scientists interviewed in "Aliens: The Definitive Guide," a new documentary being broadcast Sunday on Discovery Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Freddie Claire, Arrow Media , Handel Productions</p></div></div></div><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">MONTREAL - Maybe those science-fiction scenarios about killer robots from space invading the Earth aren't so far-fetched after all.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Aliens bearing little resemblance to Steven Spielberg's cuddly "ET" might actually eye Earth for its potential slaves and to plunder its natural resources, say scientists interviewed in "Aliens: The Definitive Guide," a new documentary being broadcast Sunday on Discovery Canada.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">In short, they might be a lot like humans were when they explored new lands.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">But don't go running for the shelters just yet.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Even if aliens are headed for us now, space travel can take thousands of years using currently known technology, which probably rules out the possibility of any malevolent ETs touching down during our lifetime, anyway.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Producer Alan Handel says aliens are a "never-ending preoccupation" for people, so making the documentary was a no-brainer. He says surveys indicate that many Canadians believe extra-terrestrials exist and may already have dropped in.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"I just think it's a really neat concept to say 'OK, let's take it seriously and let's go to some of the best scientific minds in the world and see what they have to say.'"</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">However, "Aliens: The Definitive Guide" isn't a tale of extra-terrestrial terror and instead entertainingly poses an exhaustive list of questions about who may be beyond the stars.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">What planets might have life? How might its inhabitants get here? What would they look like? And what are their possible intentions?</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">These are some of the queries pondered in the two-hour film by Montreal's Handel Productions and U.K.-based Arrow Media.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A theoretical physicist at City University of New York scoffs at anyone who tries to suggest we're the only life forms in the universe.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"Gimme a break," Michio Kaku says in the documentary.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"I mean, how many stars are out there in the universe anyway? The Hubble Space Telescope can see about a 100 billion galaxies — that's the visible universe," he says. "Each galaxy consists of 100 billion stars. Do the math."</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">For the benefit of viewers who might be a little less adapt at math than your average theoretical physicist, Kaku is kind enough to provide the tally: "10 sextillion — that's one with 22 zeros after it."</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">All the scientists agreed that any alien who touched down on Earth would be pretty advanced scientifically.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">It's not the first time Handel has tackled a subject that would be considered more in the realm of sensational supermarket tabloids. Their last definitive guide documentary was on Bigfoot and the next one in the works looks at time travel.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"We tried to have a lot of fun with it," Handel says of the "Aliens" documentary. "There's a playful tone at times."</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Handel describes himself as a "professional skeptic" when it comes to extra-terrestrial life and UFOs.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">He says he was surprised by the number of planets that might support life in some form and the extent of the likelihood that alien life could visit Earth.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"It was really surprising to me. I had no idea. I think it's a program that's full of surprises and revelations and information that will be new to most viewers."</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">He noted that science fiction can often cross the line into science fact, and pointed to one of his other previous films, "How William Shatner Changed The World." That documentary discussed how some technology in the old "Star Trek" TV shows and movies had actually become real.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"A lot of stuff that seemed far-fetched back then was in fact really pretty visionary," he said.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"It's interesting to do a kind of reality check on science fiction and see how far away we are from that vision being real, or real down the road."</p></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/everything_you_always_wanted_to_know_about_space_aliens_explored_in_documentary/2013-08-14-11 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/everything_you_always_wanted_to_know_about_space_aliens_explored_in_documentary/2013-08-14-11 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:59:24 GMT <div class="cavity full top" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 946px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; 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The end!</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">I suppose that the decent thing to do would be to warn you guys that if you read any further you might in fact not want to see this movie, but I will not warn you because at this point I am of the belief that the fewer people who pay money to watch this heavy-handed disaster the better. To that extent, read on. I am planning on giving away major plot points and revealing the killer's identity (it was Timmy). Oh, and I didn't like this movie very much. You should also be aware of this. Very, very aware.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">I do want to tell you right away that despite its rather trite nature, this movie has single-handedly taught me some of the most important and life-changing bits of information that I may ever learn. I mean, this stuff is more important than when my Mom told me, "Pants, then shoes," or when my guidance counselor in high school advised me that I could have a lovely career in welding or plumbing services at the local tech school if I only applied myself. Well, I showed her. I showed them all.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">The information contained in this film may one day save the lives of millions of people and other animals such as sloths. I need to reiterate how unbelievably and amazingly important this movie has become in my life and how important it will become in the life of anyone who has ever needed advice on how to deal with aliens or talk to Jesus. My entire approach to extra-terrestrials and perhaps Jesus as well has changed dramatically. And asthma. Also asthma. I was very surprised to hear life-saving advice in a major motion picture, as I am used to getting most of my advice from watching the commercials that play during the airing of old game shows from the 1950's in the wee hours of the morning, but hey, I'll take what I can get.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Aliens are a tricky subject. We didn't really know much about them until the movie "Signs" came out. In fact, we knew next to nothing. Things we thought we knew included:</p><blockquote style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 25px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aliens have big eyes.</b>&nbsp;We're talking large, here. XBox-big. We know this because the people who have been abducted by aliens say that they do and draw crazy pictures of aliens with enormous eyes, so they must, right? I thought so.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aliens enjoy rectal probes</b>&nbsp;and probing and therefore probably enjoy scat porn as well. They're all fecal freaks. Bottom-feeders. Back-alley Sallies. And they like poop, too, additionally, also, LOL!</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aliens fly in dorky space ships</b>&nbsp;that resemble paper plates glued together. This means that they are smarter than us and that they have amazingly advanced technology that can easily defeat our primitive junk, but for some reason they are content with abducting genetic mutants and human freaks from small desert towns. These people later participate in the Art Bell show.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will come to Earth to either study us or kill us.</b>&nbsp;They will not come here to have quiet croquet matches on the lawn with us nor will they come to purchase a two-year warranty for their product at Best Buy. They do not use the new Pentium 4 processor and they will not be playing Warcraft 3 with us on Battle.net. They will study us or kill us, one of the two.</p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="imgcap right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(160, 160, 160); margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 1px; float: right; display: block; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); text-align: center; max-width: 100%; width: 232px;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/news/images/08-2002/08-10-2002-kids.jpg" width="232" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; max-width: 100%; display: block;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px 6px; display: block; font-size: 11px;">The creepy children from "Signs."</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">You see, we don't know very much at all about aliens at all! The aliens in our pre-"Signs" world lay shrouded in mystery. Just when I thought that they always would and that I'd have to make the rest up by myself, out from the shadows steps brilliant director M. Night Shymamamalyanan to shed light on this very difficult enigma by giving himself a major role in his own movie and putting his name in the credits more times than Drew Curtis places his name on Drew Curtis presents Drew Curtis' Fark.com by and for Drew Curtis. Drew Curtis. Mr. Shylamalnamalnan is truly one of the greatest heroes of our time simply for answering the questions we've had about extra-terrestrials for so long.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">The movie begins well. I'll give it that much. The mood is set nicely with eerie crop circles appearing in Mel's corn field and evil aliens with no pants are mysteriously spotted on top of his barn. This is the only positive thing I will probably have to say about the movie.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">The animals around Mel's farm are going crazy, including the two large German Shepherd dogs that Mel owns. The local police lady says, "The animals are acting as though there is a predator afoot," but last I checked, when a dog thinks that there is a predator afoot, it PROTECTS YOU and does not TRY TO BITE OFF YOUR HEAD such as these dogs do. The culmination of the weird animals include a touching scene in which the little boy kills his dog by IMPALING IT WITH A MEAT FORK. I am not joking. Dog-on-a-stick.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Soon, television reports that the aliens are appearing all over the darn place and plan to invade, OH NO! Apparently this also includes them appearing and invading lovely Bumblefuck, Pennsylvania where Mel and his family live. This brings us at last to new and important point about aliens number one:</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="imgcap left" style="border: 1px solid rgb(160, 160, 160); margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 1px; float: left; display: block; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); text-align: center; max-width: 100%; width: 193px;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/news/images/08-2002/08-10-2002-target.jpg" width="193" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; max-width: 100%; display: block;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px 6px; display: block; font-size: 11px;">A prime target for invading aliens!</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aliens want to come to your farm house</b>, which is located in the middle of nowhere. Previously, I would have thought that if you live in an isolated part of the country that you would be safer from a hostile alien take-over invasion thingy than if you were located in a large city, but now I realize that this is not the case. The aliens, rather than going after people in large numbers, will want to find your small family and do whatever it takes to get at the very low number of people inside of your house. Moving to Wyoming or building a protective bunker in Montana will not help you! The aliens are very interested in tiny groups of people holed up in a remote space far from civilization, so don't bother. You are doomed. DOOMED.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">You see, this is something that we never would have guessed! We never knew that aliens would do this and were therefore previously susceptible to evil alien invasion. Now, all of this has changed thanks to the miracle of film-making and the superb directing talent of M. Night Shyhshlammimanlan. This brings me to the next part of the movie that turned out to be so revealing about the true nature of visitors from other worlds:</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="imgcap right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(160, 160, 160); margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 1px; float: right; display: block; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); text-align: center; max-width: 100%; width: 136px;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/news/images/08-2002/08-10-2002-door.jpg" width="136" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; max-width: 100%; display: block;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px 6px; display: block; font-size: 11px;">The only protection you will need.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aliens may have very advanced technology but they just can't figure out doors</b>, as evidenced by the multiple scenes in which the aliens are trying to get at the family but are thwarted time and time again by wood. The family boards up the windows of the house and the aliens, despite their spacecrafts that are able to transport them across what are probably multiple hundreds of parsecs and then turn invisible, cannot figure out how to get inside. They just end up banging on the doors a lot and making a bunch of noise.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Farmer: 1<br></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Aliens: -34645</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">For some reason, the aliens are able to break through the glass windows, but doors stump them to the extent that the expert director, M. Night Shyamonlamnonanalman's character is able to trap one by shutting it inside of his kitchen pantry. At one point, the asthma kid says cryptically, "They are great problem solvers," but I guess he wasn't referring to their ability to turn a door knob or break through the wood placed across the windows. Maybe he was referring to those crazy-smart dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park" that could work complicated algebra and trigonometry problems.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Wood saves the day later in the movie as well when Mel's younger brother with Down's syndrome whacks an alien senseless with his baseball bat. The alien seems powerless to save itself and doesn't seem to realize that it should probably move out of the way. Go team wood! This tip is very important because if evil aliens ever do invade we now know that all we need to do is shut the doors and we'll be fine. We are also very fortunate to have a lot of Home Depots and lumber supply companies so close to and in our major cities. But if need presses, it has become obvious that all you will really need to do is go and cut down a tree or chop up some wood to arm yourself with the best protection from aliens that there is.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Just when this movie appears to have given all of the helpful and vital advice at any one movie could possibly give, out of nowhere comes a third piece of information about our alien friends:</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="imgcap left" style="border: 1px solid rgb(160, 160, 160); margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 1px; float: left; display: block; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); text-align: center; max-width: 100%; width: 267px;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/news/images/08-2002/08-10-2002-ocean.jpg" width="267" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; max-width: 100%; display: block;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2px 6px; display: block; font-size: 11px;">DEATH! DEATH! DEATH!!!</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;<b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aliens are able to be killed by water.</b>&nbsp;I don't mean that they drown like people do, I mean they can't touch water because it dissolves their skin and they melt and bubble like cheese on top of a cooked pizza. To top this off, they wore no clothing to protect themselves from evil dihydrogen oxygen. The folks in the movie beat them back with water and they suddenly leave Earth, apparently for someplace less wet.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">This new fact begs several questions, the first of which is: Why would aliens choose to invade a planet that is composed primarily of something that kills them on contact? That is just not very bright. If we were looking around for planets to invade and there was one planet absolutely filled with 15 Molar HCl where it rained acid and the creatures there were mostly comprised of acid, and the very air contained acidic vapor, wouldn't you think we'd maybe look for other planets? Just a thought I suppose.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Another problem here is that the director, M. Night Shamamlyamanlyanalon's character knows how to kill the aliens at the beginning of the movie and tells Mel the answer in one of the most poorly-acted scenes since his movie with the annoying kid and the dead people and the stuff. He might as well just have said something along the lines of, "By the way, Mel, they don't like water, I think. You see, I am the direct-- I mean, I am moving to the lake! Because I wrote this scen--errrr, I am going to the lake!!!!"</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">I am very lucky to have seen this movie because it has taught me so much about aliens and prepared me for their eventual and seemingly inevitable invasion. I now know what to do if these horrible creatures should ever attack and I thank my lucky stars (and God; God is good says M. Night Shayalamanmlmnaononam!) that I live close to large bodies of water and to many trees. I am also glad that there are doors in my house because I have excellent protection from these creepy aliens.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Movies like this are mainly why I dislike seeing things in the theater from the month of April through the month of September. Everything that comes out in that time period is designed to rake in maximum profit for as little quality as can possibly be afforded. Now that M. Night Whatever has a shitload of money one would hope that he would be making better movies in the future, and it is that faith that keeps me going because I honestly did like his last film, "Unbreakable." If there's one thing I know, however, its that this guy has a serious issue with water, because water was the one weakness of Bruce Willis in that movie as well. Maybe he should attend some counseling and then attempt to create a movie subsequently.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">In the mean time, now that I know more things about the true nature of aliens, I am going to go make myself a tinfoil hat so that they can't read my secret thoughts.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/bluesquare-dark.gif" width="10" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;">&nbsp;Cranky Steve is Open For Business!</b></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Hey gang, remember&nbsp;<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/cranky/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);">Cranky Steve?</a>&nbsp;The rotting old guy who&nbsp;<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/cranky/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);">reviews maps</a>&nbsp;from the depths of the central sewer system? Well to tell you the truth, I forgot about him as well. There was apparently a really big rain in his town and all sorts of horrible stuff ended up in the pipeline. I heard rumors that Cranky Steve was actually swept off his feet by a wave of feces, chicken bones, and dead rats, disposing him into a pocket of sewage about 1000 feet underground. I'm not sure if this rumor is exactly 100% true though, as I heard it from a guy who had no shoes and a bucket on his head.</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Nevertheless, you can't keep a cranky man down, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/cranky/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);">Cranky Steve's Haunted Whorehouse is back again</a>, reviewing the absolute worst Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal Tournament maps in existence. The Whorehouse will soon be branching out into different games as well, so&nbsp;<a href="mailto:shittymaps@somethingawful.com" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);">send any horrible map for any current game to the Haunted Whorehouse</a>&nbsp;and they'll make sure to inform the public of how terrible it is so you guys don't have to waste your bandwidth downloading what you think is a cool map but turns out to be a 40-meg representation of the map author's bathtub. I mean, with screenshots like these, how can you go wrong?</p><p align="center" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/cranky/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/cranky/maps/q2/goodfun/goodfun-14.jpg" width="233" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;"></a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/cranky/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);"><img alt="" src="http://i.somethingawful.com/cranky/maps/ut/ufotown/ufotown-04.jpg" width="233" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;"></a></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">So&nbsp;<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/cranky/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);">head on over and check out the new and improved Haunted Whorehouse,</a>&nbsp;now with 148% more Vitamin Suck! Huzzah!</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PS:&nbsp;</b>Don't forget to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:shittymaps@somethingawful.com" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147);">send in the worst game maps you can find!</a>&nbsp;Or die!</p><div class="pb" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;"></div><p class="signoff" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;">–&nbsp;<span class="author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/author/4/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(41, 112, 147); text-decoration: none;">Integral</a></span></p></div></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/everything_about_aliens/2013-08-14-10 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/everything_about_aliens/2013-08-14-10 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:57:59 GMT <div id="sl" class="promo" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; border-bottom-width: 0px;"><h2 style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(77, 74, 66); line-height: 1.3;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/arnold.htm" zt="18/1[B/ai" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2;">UFOs - Pilot Reports</a></h2><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/arnold.htm" zt="18/1[B/aj" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/ufos/1/4/S/6/-/-/ufoplane.jpg" title="B J Booth" alt="UFOs and Planes" style="border: 1px solid rgb(158, 156, 143); mar... <div id="sl" class="promo" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; border-bottom-width: 0px;"><h2 style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(77, 74, 66); line-height: 1.3;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/arnold.htm" zt="18/1[B/ai" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2;">UFOs - Pilot Reports</a></h2><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/arnold.htm" zt="18/1[B/aj" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/ufos/1/4/S/6/-/-/ufoplane.jpg" title="B J Booth" alt="UFOs and Planes" style="border: 1px solid rgb(158, 156, 143); margin: 0.25em 0px;"></a><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Often, UFO reports are judged by who made them. Some reporters are just trusted more than others. Here, we are looking at cases that involve pilot reports. Check out some of the best.</p><div class="more" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.65em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; border: 0px; line-height: 1.65; text-align: right;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/arnold.htm" zt="18/1[B/ak" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Read More »</a></div><div class="h4" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.65;">Notable Pilot Reports</div><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; position: relative; z-index: 0; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><li style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/a/gorman.htm" zt="18/1[B/al" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Gorman Dogfight with UFO</a></li><li style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/mantell.htm" zt="18/1[B/al" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Death of Thomas Mantell</a></li><li style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/americawest564.htm" zt="18/1[B/al" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">America West 564 UFO</a></li></ul></div><div id="blog" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; float: left; width: 335px;"><h3 style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/" zt="18/1[C/aq" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); cursor: pointer;"></a></h3><h2 style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(77, 74, 66); line-height: 1.3; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/13/pilot-encounters-unknown-craft-over-lake-michigan.htm" zt="1/1jS" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Pilot Encounters Unknown Craft over Lake Michigan</a></h2><div class="date" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tuesday August 13, 2013</div><div class="entry" style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here is a great article derived from a 1981 pilot statement. Over Lake Michigan, Captain Phil Schultz, 54, was flying a TWA flight heading from San Francisco to JFK in New York.<p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">In a fairly clear sky, it happened; "A large, round, silver, metal object descended into the atmosphere from above and to the left of my airplane to about 40,000 feet overhead and passed off to my left," Schultz stated.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Check out all of the details at&nbsp;<a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/august2013/a/A-Plane-Ufo-Encounter.htm" zt="1/1UH" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Pilot Encounters Unknown Craft over Lake Michigan</a>, and be sure to add your comments.</p></div><ul class="meta hl" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 1.1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; position: relative; z-index: 0; clear: right; line-height: 18px; height: 1.65em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="comment f" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border: 0px; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/13/pilot-encounters-unknown-craft-over-lake-michigan.htm#gB3" zt="18/1[C/bY" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Comments</a>&nbsp;(1)</li><li class="permalink" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/13/pilot-encounters-unknown-craft-over-lake-michigan.htm" rel="bookmark" zt="18/1[C/as" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Permalink</a></li><li class="share l" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.3em; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(255, 102, 0); background-image: url(http://0.tqn.com/f/t1/shbo.png); background-position: 8px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http%3a%2f%2fufos%2eabout%2ecom%2fb%2f2013%2f08%2f13%2fpilot%2dencounters%2dunknown%2dcraft%2dover%2dlake%2dmichigan%2ehtm&amp;zItl=Pilot%20Encounters%20Unknown%20Craft%20over%20Lake%20Michigan" zt="18/1Z0/[3" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Share</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(77, 74, 66); line-height: 1.3; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/11/multiple-ufos-seen-over-luxor-hotel.htm" zt="1/1jS" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Multiple UFOs Seen over Luxor Hotel</a></h2><div class="date" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sunday August 11, 2013</div><div class="entry" style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In July, a very interesting video was shown on Youtube and other video sites. The video was compiled from several that were captured by a man from London.<p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">What they appear to show are many unknown objects over the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas. The verdict on the shots is quite diverse, with some claiming to see many UFOs, while others say what is shown is nothing more than birds eating moths.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Take a look at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/489088/20130711/ufo-sighting-2013-luxor-casino-alien-vegas.htm" zt="1/XL/X[" target="_new" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Multiple UFOs Seen Over Luxor Hotel In Las Vegas</a>, and see what you think.</p></div><ul class="meta hl" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 1.1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; position: relative; z-index: 0; clear: right; line-height: 18px; height: 1.65em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="comment f" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border: 0px; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/11/multiple-ufos-seen-over-luxor-hotel.htm#gB3" zt="18/1[C/bY" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Comments</a>&nbsp;(2)</li><li class="permalink" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/11/multiple-ufos-seen-over-luxor-hotel.htm" rel="bookmark" zt="18/1[C/as" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Permalink</a></li><li class="share l" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.3em; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(255, 102, 0); background-image: url(http://0.tqn.com/f/t1/shbo.png); background-position: 8px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http%3a%2f%2fufos%2eabout%2ecom%2fb%2f2013%2f08%2f11%2fmultiple%2dufos%2dseen%2dover%2dluxor%2dhotel%2ehtm&amp;zItl=Multiple%20UFOs%20Seen%20over%20Luxor%20Hotel" zt="18/1Z0/[3" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Share</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(77, 74, 66); line-height: 1.3; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/09/ufo-moves-at-great-speed-over-missouri.htm" zt="1/1jS" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">UFO Moves at Great Speed over Missouri</a></h2><div class="date" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friday August 9, 2013</div><div class="entry" style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our latest article comes from the National UFO Reporting Center. Mr. Davenport, the director tells us that the eyewitness is a very intelligent and reliable witness.<p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">His report is about a UFO sighting that occurred in St. Louis, Missouri on June 4, this year. As he was sitting in a fast food restaurant parking lot, he spotted an unknown object in the sky moving in a circular motion.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">See the rest of his great report at&nbsp;<a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/august2013/a/Ufo-Reported-Over-Missouri.htm" zt="1/1UH" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">UFO Moves at Great Speed over Missouri</a>, and your comments are welcome.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"></p></div><ul class="meta hl" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 1.1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; position: relative; z-index: 0; clear: right; line-height: 18px; height: 1.65em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="comment f" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border: 0px; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/09/ufo-moves-at-great-speed-over-missouri.htm#gB3" zt="18/1[C/bY" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Comments</a>&nbsp;(2)</li><li class="permalink" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/09/ufo-moves-at-great-speed-over-missouri.htm" rel="bookmark" zt="18/1[C/as" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Permalink</a></li><li class="share l" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.3em; text-decoration: inherit; list-style-type: disc; display: inline; float: left; line-height: 1.2; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(255, 102, 0); background-image: url(http://0.tqn.com/f/t1/shbo.png); background-position: 8px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http%3a%2f%2fufos%2eabout%2ecom%2fb%2f2013%2f08%2f09%2fufo%2dmoves%2dat%2dgreat%2dspeed%2dover%2dmissouri%2ehtm&amp;zItl=UFO%20Moves%20at%20Great%20Speed%20over%20Missouri" zt="18/1Z0/[3" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Share</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(77, 74, 66); line-height: 1.3; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ufos.about.com/b/2013/08/07/readers-submits-sighting-in-virginia.htm" zt="1/1jS" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Reader Submits Sighting in Virginia</a></h2><div class="date" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wednesday August 7, 2013</div><div class="entry" style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following information was sent to me by a reader in reference to the article&nbsp;<a href="http://ufos.about.com/od/june2013/a/Kentucky-Police-Helicopter-Encounters-Ufo.htm" zt="1/1UH" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Police Helicopter and UFO Dogfight</a>.<p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">This reminds me of something I witnessed several years ago. In Broadford, VA, 8 miles north of my hometown, Saltville is the largest electrical substation on the east coast.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">It handles millions of volts and switches power back and forth between southwest Virginia, and Ohio. One night, I and 2 friends were riding around sipping beer as country boys are apt to do.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Now being veteran beer drinkers and only having a couple apiece, we were NOT drunk. If you put it in, you have to let it out, so we stopped at the gate to the substation to do so.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">While standing there, we observed a strange light come through the sky over the substation. Out of nowhere there appeared 2 jets; I assume they were military jets, because of engine sound, speed, and the fact it was a pair.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">They came up one on each side of the object. They kept pace for a good distance, then without slowing down the object shot straight back between the jets.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">The 2 jets and the object kept circling and repeating this maneuver 3 times, before the object took off due north leaving the jets behind.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Thanks to Rusty</p></div><ul class="meta hl" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 1.1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; position: relative; z-index: 0; clear: right; line-height: 18px; height: 1.65em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></ul></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/aliens_and_ufos/2013-08-14-9 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/aliens_and_ufos/2013-08-14-9 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:52:44 GMT <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: sans-serif;"><span dir="auto">Alien (law)</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" style="font-size: 0.8em; position: relative; width: 782px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;"><div id="siteSub" style="display: inline; font-size: 12px;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); width: auto;"></div><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; margin-top: -1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#mw-navigation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); ... <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: sans-serif;"><span dir="auto">Alien (law)</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" style="font-size: 0.8em; position: relative; width: 782px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;"><div id="siteSub" style="display: inline; font-size: 12px;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); width: auto;"></div><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; margin-top: -1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#mw-navigation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#p-search" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="dablink" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">"Resident alien" and "Resident aliens" redirect here. For the album, see&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Alien" title="Resident Alien" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Resident Alien</a>. For the book, see&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Aliens" title="Resident Aliens" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Resident Aliens</a>. For non-human intelligent creatures, see&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" title="Extraterrestrial life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Extraterrestrial life</a>.</div><table class="vertical-navbox nowraplinks" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" style="font-size: 11px; float: right; clear: right; width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; border-spacing: 0.4em 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.4em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><tbody><tr><th class="" style="padding: 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 255); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status" title="Legal status" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Legal status</a>&nbsp;of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person" title="Person" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">persons</a></th></tr><tr><th class="" style="padding: 0.1em;">Concepts</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0px 0.1em 0.4em;"><ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Citizenship</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration" title="Immigration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Immigration</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Illegal immigration</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization" title="Naturalization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Naturalization</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_to_Remain" title="Leave to Remain" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Leave to Remain</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness" title="Statelessness" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Statelessness</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th class="" style="padding: 0.1em;">Designations</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0px 0.1em 0.4em;"><ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_detention" title="Administrative detention" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Administrative detainee</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong class="selflink" style="white-space: nowrap;">Alien</strong></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Citizen</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_citizenship" title="Multiple citizenship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dual-citizen</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Illegal immigrant</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_worker" title="Migrant worker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Migrant worker</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native-born_citizen" title="Native-born citizen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Native-born citizen</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization" title="Naturalization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Naturalized citizen</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Political prisoner</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Refugee</a></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><br></p><ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness#Stateless_person" title="Statelessness" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stateless person</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th class="" style="padding: 0.1em;">Social politics</th></tr><tr><td class="plainlist" style="padding: 0px 0.1em 0.4em;"><ul style="line-height: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_law" title="Immigration law" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Immigration law</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Illegal immigration</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nationalism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality_law" title="Nationality law" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nationality law</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)" title="Nativism (politics)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nativism (politics)</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: right; font-size: 13px;"><div class="noprint plainlinks hlist navbar mini" style="display: inline; font-size: 11px;"><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); display: inline; white-space: nowrap;"><li class="nv-view" style="margin: 0px; display: inline; word-spacing: -0.125em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Legal_status" title="Template:Legal status" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; padding: 0px !important;"><span title="View this template" style="font-variant: small-caps;">v</span></a></li>&nbsp;<li class="nv-talk" style="margin: 0px; display: inline; word-spacing: -0.125em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Legal_status" title="Template talk:Legal status" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; padding: 0px !important;"><span title="Discuss this template" style="font-variant: small-caps;">t</span></a></li>&nbsp;<li class="nv-edit" style="margin: 0px; display: inline; word-spacing: -0.125em;"><a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Legal_status&amp;action=edit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span title="Edit this template" style="font-variant: small-caps;">e</span></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">In law, an&nbsp;<b>alien</b>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person" title="Person" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">person</a>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country" title="Country" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">country</a>&nbsp;who is not a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen" title="Citizen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citizen</a>&nbsp;of that country.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: inline-block; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#Categorization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Categorization</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#Specific_jurisdictions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Specific jurisdictions</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#Common_law_jurisdictions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Common law jurisdictions</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#Other" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Other</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#Etymology" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Etymology</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Categorization">Categorization</span><span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: -0.25em; margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Categorization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;veaction=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Categorization" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit<span class="ve-tabmessage-appendix" style="font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.43em; padding-left: 0.5em; background-image: none !important; display: inline !important;">beta</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: -0.25em; margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Types of "alien" persons are:</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">An alien who is legally permitted to remain in a country. On specified terms, this kind of alien may be called a&nbsp;<b>legal alien</b>&nbsp;of that country. This is a very broad category which includes tourists, guest workers, legal permanent residents and student visa resident aliens.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">An alien who has temporary or&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_resident" title="Permanent resident" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">permanent residence</a>&nbsp;in a country may be called a&nbsp;<b>resident alien</b>of that country. This is a subset of the aforementioned&nbsp;<i>legal alien</i>&nbsp;category.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">An alien who is visiting a country be called a&nbsp;<b>nonresident alien</b>&nbsp;of that country. This is a subset of the aforementioned&nbsp;<i>legal alien</i>&nbsp;category.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">An alien who is present in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization is known as an&nbsp;<b>illegal alien</b>&nbsp;of that country.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">An&nbsp;<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_alien" title="Enemy alien" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">enemy alien</a></b>&nbsp;is an alien who is a national of an enemy country.</li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Specific_jurisdictions">Specific jurisdictions</span><span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: -0.25em; margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Specific jurisdictions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;veaction=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Specific jurisdictions" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit<span class="ve-tabmessage-appendix" style="font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.43em; padding-left: 0.5em; background-image: none !important; display: inline !important;">beta</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: -0.25em; margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><table class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-content ambox-globalize" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 78.1875px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(242, 133, 0); background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><img alt="Globe icon." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/48px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png" width="48" height="40" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/73px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/97px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;"></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 537.21875px;"><span class="mbox-text-span">The examples and perspective in this article&nbsp;<b>may not represent a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; padding: 0px !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important;">worldwide view</a>&nbsp;of the subject</b>.&nbsp;<span class="hide-when-compact">Please&nbsp;<a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;action=edit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); 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margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: -0.25em; margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Common law jurisdictions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;veaction=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Common law jurisdictions" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit<span class="ve-tabmessage-appendix" style="font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.43em; padding-left: 0.5em; background-image: none !important; display: inline !important;">beta</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: -0.25em; margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">An "alien" in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">England</a>&nbsp;was someone who was born outside of the monarch's dominions and who did not have allegiance to the monarch. Aliens were not allowed to own&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_property" title="Real property" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">land</a>&nbsp;and were subject to different taxes from&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject" title="British subject" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">subjects</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In Australia, alien status is regarded in relationship to citizenship status. The following documents normally constitute evidence of Australian citizenship:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a valid&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_passport" title="Australian passport" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Australian passport</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a birth certificate issued by or on behalf of an&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Australian state or territory</a>&nbsp;(only for those born before 20 August 1986)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a certificate of evidence of Australian citizenship</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">an Australian naturalisation certificate</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a certificate of Australian citizenship by descent</li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Some people who live in Australia are not Australian citizens - they are either permanent residents; temporary residents; or illegal residents (technically called "unlawful-non citizens").<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;Most non-citizens (i.e. those who lack citizenship documents) travelling to Australia must obtain a visa prior to travel. The only exceptions to this rule are members of the British royal family, and holders of New Zealand passports and citizenships who may apply for visas after travel according to the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Tasman_Travel_Arrangement" title="Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement</a>.&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In the United Kingdom,&nbsp;<b>alien</b>&nbsp;means a person who is not:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_citizen" title="British citizen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">British citizen</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a citizen of Ireland,</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_citizen" title="Commonwealth citizen" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Commonwealth citizen</a>, or</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_protected_person" title="British protected person" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">British protected person</a>.</li></ul></li></ul><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._law" title="U.S. law" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. law</a>, an&nbsp;<b>alien</b>&nbsp;is "any person not a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_citizen" title="United States citizen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citizen</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_national" title="United States national" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">national</a>&nbsp;of the United States."<sup id="cite_ref-alien_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-alien-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;The U.S. Government's use of&nbsp;<i>alien</i>&nbsp;dates back to 1798, when it was used in the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts" title="Alien and Sedition Acts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alien and Sedition Acts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;U.S. law makes a clear distinction between aliens and immigrants by defining immigrants as a subset of aliens.<sup id="cite_ref-alien_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-alien-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;Although U.S. law provides no overarching explicit definition of the term "illegal alien," the term is used in many statutes<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;and elsewhere (e.g., court cases, executive orders). U.S. law also uses the term "unauthorized alien."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;U.S. immigration laws do not refer to&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigrants" title="Illegal immigrants" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">illegal immigrants</a>, but in common parlance the term "illegal immigrant" is often used to refer to any illegal alien.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;Because at law, a corporation is a person, the term alien is not limited to natural humans because what are colloquially called foreign corporations are technically called alien corporations. Because corporations are creations of local state law, a foreign corporation is an out of state corporation.</li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other">Other</span><span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: -0.25em; margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Other" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_(law)&amp;veaction=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Other" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit<span class="ve-tabmessage-appendix" style="font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.43em; padding-left: 0.5em; background-image: none !important; display: inline !important;">beta</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: -0.25em; margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">On&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_passport" title="Latvian passport" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Latvian passports</a>,&nbsp;<b>alien</b>&nbsp;is used for&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)" title="Non-citizens (Latvia)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">non-citizens</a>&nbsp;(<i>nepilsoņi</i>): former citizens of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">USSR</a>&nbsp;who don't have voting rights for the parliament of Latvia but have rights and privileges under Latvian law and international bilateral treaties, such as the right to travel without visas to both the EU and Russia, which is not possible for Latvian citizens.</p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Etymology">Etymology</span><span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; 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vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.43em; padding-left: 0.5em; background-image: none !important; display: inline !important;">beta</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: -0.25em; margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"Alien" is derived from the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Latin</a>&nbsp;<i>alienus</i>, meaning stranger, alien, foreign.</p></div></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/alien_law/2013-08-14-8 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/alien_law/2013-08-14-8 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:45:59 GMT <header class="mtm mbl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-top: 10px !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><h1 class="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 33px; direction: ltr; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;"><a href="http://io9.com/5692584/6-real+life-alien-conspiracy-theories-even-more-unbelievable-than-fiction" data-id="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories</a></h1></header><div class="row post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr; width: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(34, 34,... <header class="mtm mbl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-top: 10px !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><h1 class="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 33px; direction: ltr; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;"><a href="http://io9.com/5692584/6-real+life-alien-conspiracy-theories-even-more-unbelievable-than-fiction" data-id="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories</a></h1></header><div class="row post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr; width: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 0px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><p data-textannotation-id="68a4f1416421787926c8ce171b8272d4" class="first-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Disappointed by&nbsp;<a href="http://io9.com/5688875/skyline-is-the-most-pointless-movie-of-the-year" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Skyline</a>? Tantalized by Castle's&nbsp;<a href="http://io9.com/5691420/the-night-nathan-fillion-was-abducted-by-aliens" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">X-Files-y episode</a>&nbsp;this week? Want an alien conspiracy with some meat on its bones (or exoskeleton, as the case may be)? Here are six of the greatest real-life alien conspiracy theories.</p><div class="inset_placeholder" id="inset_placeholder_5688875-5691420" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px; direction: ltr; max-width: 100%;"></div><p data-textannotation-id="63e8c9ad110ac2a5dc58fea6c0685ede" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Image by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jimnicholsufoart.com/gallery/ufoart/index.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Jim Nichols</a>.</em></p><p data-textannotation-id="f28b8aa50beb4b7f73b34237fae4d3c9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Actually, "real-life" is kind of a dubious term when talking about this kind of thing. The world of alien conspiracies is an improbably complex and interwoven one. It's filled with weird personalities, unexplainable events, half-remembered government secrets, and countless races of alien visitors, all with their own agendas.</p><p data-textannotation-id="852b7b88abd1cfc5db198aea28b89146" class="has-media media-300" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word; width: 335.65625px; float: left;"><span class="img-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both;"><img data-asset-url="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6q7cxoozjpg/ku-medium.jpg" data-chomp-id="18lsz6q7cxoozjpg" alt="Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories" height="356" width="300" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6q7cxoozjpg/ku-medium.jpg" class="transform-ku-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 299.65625px;"></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="d78f5ef489ef55a90743e369595ba1c5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Roswell</strong></p><p data-textannotation-id="472c8d3480f2df6a8167edb358190643" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">So let's start with arguably the grand-daddy of UFO conspiracy events: the supposed<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Roswell UFO incident</a>. In 1947, the Roswell Air Force Base issued a press release saying that they'd found a mysterious metallic disc on a nearby ranch. The press was, of course, intrigued, but the base quickly changed their wording slightly: they'd found what appeared to be the remnants of a weather balloon.</p><p data-textannotation-id="7059cbfb752459dd4545be7267acbec4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">The change was not quick enough, of course: the local papers ran giant headlines saying that the air force had recovered a crashed alien spaceship. And in the years since, that story has stuck, as accounts surfaced from employees at the base that include multiple crash sites, massive cover-ups, and even a reported alien autopsy (a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_autopsy" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">film released in 1995</a>&nbsp;purported to depict the actual autopsy, but it its creator admitted that "most" of the footage was fake, thereby sort of discrediting&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">all</i>&nbsp;of the footage).</p><p data-textannotation-id="613349e6195b01fa552cf2eb63844b03" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Die-hards still stand by these scant accounts of fishy dealings at Roswell. The supposed cover-up has permeated public perception of the base, leading to a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Men_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Star Trek plot</a>, a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_That_Ends_Well" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Futurama episode</a>, and even an&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_(TV_series)" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">entire TV series</a>, among many others. It also launched a veritable squadron of alien conspiracies. Some still believe that the spaceship remnants and alien bodies have been squirreled away in some sort of secret military enclave.</p><p data-textannotation-id="ac73dbb8ff8024f1af02cb463322bb96" class="has-media media-640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word; width: 671.328125px;"><span class="lightBoxWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block;"><span class="img-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both;"><img data-asset-url="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6w4h2hdyjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg" data-chomp-id="18lsz6w4h2hdyjpg" alt="Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories" height="480" width="640" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6w4h2hdyjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg" class="transform-ku-xlarge" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px;"></span></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="8dedab8b94350d028d81cde0eff1156f" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Area 51</strong></p><p data-textannotation-id="d92d335ad49a42476d1fe5b5662d3e81" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">And&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51#UFO_and_other_conspiracy_theories_concerning_Area_51" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Area 51</a>&nbsp;might just be that military enclave. The actual base has long been a very closely-guarded secret, including wide "trespassers will be shot" stretches around the base itself and a large no-fly zone surrounding it.</p><p data-textannotation-id="233344dd7b68a372b3392ad9a97384d4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">According to conspiracy theorists, what we can see of Area 51 is just the tip of the paranoid iceberg. The base allegedly features elaborate underground labs, hidden tunnels, a dedicated extra-terrestrial runway that can disappear and reappear, and research programs dedicated to reverse-engineering alien technology.</p><p data-textannotation-id="7f4f3e78d8e326f37f08b39630e4b151" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">In one particularly colorful and alluring detail, two different alleged former Area 51 employees reported working side-by-side with an alien being named "J-Rod" on cloning alien viruses and on a telepathic translator device (it's funnier if you imagine J-Rod as Jar-Jar; I'd watch that movie).</p><p data-textannotation-id="cec4ba0c04ac37c18b9233d8b9f71468" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">And the mystery of Area 51 is still only one example of the vast network of supposed government cover-up of alien contact.</p><p data-textannotation-id="03abb0a2c0d71349671f0df676e3415e" class="has-media media-640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word; width: 671.328125px;"><span class="clear-both flex-video widescreen" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-top: 25px; padding-bottom: 363.71875px; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; overflow: hidden; clear: both; display: block;"><iframe mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitAllowFullScreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" class="youtube" height="360" width="640" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gzRhPGwJAJI?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=1" id="youtube-gzRhPGwJAJI" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 635.328125px; height: 388.71875px;"></iframe></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="a6e66a3dcf1767c3727173ec44b70c03" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Project Blue Book and the Majestic 12</strong></p><p data-textannotation-id="6d0ea85f8fb33b4e0f5d5e1458561285" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">The government has been relatively transparent with&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Project Blue Book</a>. It was an endeavor for the US government to catalog and examine every instance of supposed alien contact, visitation, and spacecraft reported to them. The project spanned years (and many incarnations), and its official result was that there existed no substantial evidence that these incidents were the result of alien visitation.</p><p data-textannotation-id="412113b7b8a07fb1d8538aae64179a17" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">But that didn't stop conspiracy theorists. In addition to challenging the rigor of the study, some "experts" on the subject stand by the claim that Blue Book became a distraction and cover-up from the reality of alien visitation, which included a top secret international squad called<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Majestic 12</a>&nbsp;to perpetrate the elaborate smoke-screen. Amongst the alleged weaponry of this massive cover-up are disinformation campaigns, character assassination, and elaborate webs of government lies.</p><p data-textannotation-id="f83325d75d2d2ee91525ca1be674dcef" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Another weapon in the cover-up arsenal is the network of supposed&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Men in Black</a>&nbsp;responsible for doing the actual dirty work. You've seen them in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_%28film%29" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Will Smith movies</a>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_%28The_X-Files%29" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">the X-Files</a>, but die-hard alien conspiracy theorists claim they're everywhere, as CIA agents, or as shape-shifting aliens, or even inter-dimensional beings. Some even report encounters with these men in black (like the account in the video above), and some say they have the smashed cameras and bruises to prove it.</p><p data-textannotation-id="5d87efbb2daf63d8839825a55b2c1173" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">But WHY would the government try to cover up alien invasions? Just what are they hiding?</p><p data-textannotation-id="c025ba959500e10e762015db30a1b0f7" class="has-media media-300" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word; width: 335.65625px; float: left;"><span class="img-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both;"><img data-asset-url="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6s6hiq3cjpg/ku-medium.jpg" data-chomp-id="18lsz6s6hiq3cjpg" alt="Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories" height="446" width="300" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6s6hiq3cjpg/ku-medium.jpg" class="transform-ku-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 299.65625px;"></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="cfdd861b35faf436cd963556179cece6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Reptilians</strong></p><p data-textannotation-id="9371ac5339a6d8c8cd80a743bcd120d0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">The cover-up might just be so that world leaders can&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">hide their true reptilian nature</a>. Conspiracy theorist (and very creative thinker)&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">David Icke</a>&nbsp;is the man primarily responsible for the paranoia about secret shape-shifting reptile-like aliens invading<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slitheen" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Slitheen-style</a>&nbsp;and replacing high-ranking political leaders. There are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwKcjRD1DNE" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">countless videos</a>and images all over the internet purporting to depict these reptilians slipping and revealing their true selves.</p><p data-textannotation-id="f7d6ccb1c5ece4e4b1677c50f3dcb162" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">One of my favorite details about Icke's worldview is that of the Red Dresses. These are personality-less software constructs of the reptilian invaders installed at high rank to facilitate the aliens' plans. This particular theory is what leads to stunning images like the one above, which reveals a few of the "red dresses" in their true form.</p><div class="inset_placeholder" id="inset_placeholder_5684920" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px; direction: ltr; max-width: 100%;"></div><p data-textannotation-id="14355ad2dc34098991eff3e84e816c2b" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Another proponent of this reptilian-invasion worldview recently gained a bit of notoriety when discussing her own version of the conspiracy. Her name is Colleen Thomas, and&nbsp;<a href="http://io9.com/5684920/an-important-update-on-the-secret-alien-war-in-america" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">she wants to warn us all</a>&nbsp;of the impending shadow-government dirty bombing and a Draconian-Reptilian invasion.</p><p data-textannotation-id="6218a46db97b161321356f9f478cdb19" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">These reptilian usurpers and shape-shifters are supposed to have been around for millennia, manipulating all of human history for their own gain. But Icke and his reptilian cronies aren't the first to propose alien invasions in ancient history.</p><p data-textannotation-id="f6d2e2528c8be86e9e7ce4fc1b8aef5f" class="has-media media-300" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word; width: 335.65625px; float: left;"><span class="img-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both;"><img data-asset-url="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6s6jereajpg/ku-medium.jpg" data-chomp-id="18lsz6s6jereajpg" alt="Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories" height="216" width="300" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6s6jereajpg/ku-medium.jpg" class="transform-ku-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 299.65625px;"></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="51f57101f90cd57152ee191233c7f3d0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Ancient Astronauts</strong></p><p data-textannotation-id="d9e0ad9be3bb9d6fb815a5ea83437f36" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">As long as we're talking about extraterrestrials secretly influencing human history, we have to talk about the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">"ancient astronauts."</a>&nbsp;Erich von Däniken, in his landmark (in certain circles) book,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods?" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Chariots of the Gods?</a></i>, posits that Earth has been the frequent recipient of alien visitors. These visitors have brought with them advanced technologies, some of which helped build the pyramids, the Moai statues on Easter Island, Stonehenge, and more.</p><div class="inset_placeholder" id="inset_placeholder_5675108" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px; direction: ltr; max-width: 100%;"></div><p data-textannotation-id="8f821547433fe12ef3912f722915d0f8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Many religions have developed as a response to this particular conspiracy, and we've&nbsp;<a href="http://io9.com/5675108/meet-the-unarians-the-most-awesomely-bad-ufo-cult-in-human-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">covered some of the most absurd ones before</a>. Hidden histories like this tend to have religious implications. But, as the next item demonstrates, they sometimes have unexpected political implications.</p><p data-textannotation-id="27be24994bba107b0e08f3e7428e6a1d" class="has-media media-300" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word; width: 335.65625px; float: left;"><span class="img-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both;"><img data-asset-url="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6s6kgm04jpg/ku-medium.jpg" data-chomp-id="18lsz6s6kgm04jpg" alt="Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories" height="226" width="300" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18lsz6s6kgm04jpg/ku-medium.jpg" class="transform-ku-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 299.65625px;"></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="2e8333487443e4c5359fb818e86e6d29" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Esoteric Hitlerism</strong></p><p data-textannotation-id="d62b7653a40185bcb499230d2138e9e4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">As with&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">any internet discussion</a>, it all eventually turns to a discussion of Nazism. And alien conspiracy theories are no exception, with my favorite of the weird extraterrestrial conspiracies,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Nazism#Esoteric_Hitlerism" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Esoteric Hitlerism</a>.</p><p data-textannotation-id="1bd338962abef3f102818d16b4d38d2d" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Spearheaded by Miguel Serrano, Esoteric Hitlerists believe that the Aryan race is descended from an alien species of the highest order. Finding evidence in the story of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(108, 0, 75); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Nephilim</a>&nbsp;in the bible, Serrano believes that an ancient alien civilization came to Earth to enlighten man. They bred with ancient earthlings, and the Aryan race are the only race alive that maintains any of the purity in their blood of these lofty ancestors. Serrano taught that the alien gods were hiding, with Adolf Hitler, in an icy underground fortress, from which they will one day emerge with fleets of spacecraft to usher in the Fourth Reich.</p><p data-textannotation-id="aa7fcf072cf98e16ad69537057b6d59d" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Yikes.</p><p data-textannotation-id="ade26d74eabc7f85a5abd49044db954b" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">So if you are disappointed by a fictional portrayal of the secret alien interactions with humanity, you can always fall back on the real things that people believe. Sometimes, especially in the case of Esoteric Hitlerism, not only is the truth stranger than fiction - some people's version of the truth is just&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">too</em>&nbsp;strange for fiction.</p><p data-textannotation-id="ade26d74eabc7f85a5abd49044db954b" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><br></p><p data-textannotation-id="ade26d74eabc7f85a5abd49044db954b" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px 18px; font-size: 15px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 100%; word-break: break-word;">Samz</p></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/many_great_ufo_incidents/2013-08-14-7 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/many_great_ufo_incidents/2013-08-14-7 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:42:27 GMT <div>Are Aliens real?</div><div><br></div><div>Well Are aliens real or are they something that us humans like to believe exist.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>There is no evidence which can guarantee that aliens exist, but this does not mean that aliens are not real. There is plenty of evidence that suggests they do exist and may have even once visited our planet Earth.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>As I said none of this evidence is enough proof to say aliens exist, but it is unxeplainable so it is still open for investigaion. The majority of videos and photographs are never acceptable as they are one of the easiest things to edit using a pc with the correct software. I believe the only way everyone would believe they exist is if a real life alien or maybe even a deceased alien would be enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Some people believe they have been abducted by aliens and even sometimes on several occasions. Some of these accounts were only spoke about when the patient was under ... <div>Are Aliens real?</div><div><br></div><div>Well Are aliens real or are they something that us humans like to believe exist.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>There is no evidence which can guarantee that aliens exist, but this does not mean that aliens are not real. There is plenty of evidence that suggests they do exist and may have even once visited our planet Earth.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>As I said none of this evidence is enough proof to say aliens exist, but it is unxeplainable so it is still open for investigaion. The majority of videos and photographs are never acceptable as they are one of the easiest things to edit using a pc with the correct software. I believe the only way everyone would believe they exist is if a real life alien or maybe even a deceased alien would be enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Some people believe they have been abducted by aliens and even sometimes on several occasions. Some of these accounts were only spoke about when the patient was under hypnosis. It has been said that some aliens may have used some device that would try to make the person forget about what happened, or may possibly have been so traumatic that the brain blocked the memory out. Some abductees claim to have had implants put insided there body, but once examined the objects was not proved to be of an extraterrestrial origin.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>UFO's have you ever seen a UFO in the air. These are also not classed as valid evidence because anything could be accountable for these, as they are unidentified. Most skeptics believe that it is secret military aircraft. As we can only travel through space pretty slowly considering its size and we can not prove that a wormhole also knowns as a "door in space" is possible we dismiss the possibility that another race may be able to either travel faster or has mastered the complex of a wormhole.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>There is a very small amount of UFO investigators who actually say that UFO's are actually time travelers. They believe that the UFO is being manned by someone visiting us from the future for reasons we do not know.There have been a number of stories which suggest people have literally vanished from the face of the earth somehow. Until one of these "missing people" return &nbsp;with some sort of concrete evidence suggesting they have travelled through time or space it does not matter.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Investigators say that radar and other data exist which has proven alien visitations, but say that top government officials have hidden this information from the general public.</div><div><br></div><div>None of this proves that aliens are real or not it just proves until there is enough evidence there will allways be an argument between the believers and skeptics.</div><div><br></div> https://samz.at.ua/blog/are_aliens_real/2013-08-14-6 Samz https://samz.at.ua/blog/are_aliens_real/2013-08-14-6 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:54:05 GMT