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+== Where Are the Aliens? New Study Suggests They’re Stuck Like Us ==
+An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why humanity has never made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization.
+Ellyn Lapointe - October 15, 2025
+In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced alien civilizations exist somewhere, why haven’t we found evidence of them?
+That’s how the story goes, at least. But regardless of the circumstances surrounding its utterance, that question—known today as the Fermi paradox—has captured the minds of researchers ever since. In a new paper, which has not yet been peer reviewed, astrophysicist Robin Cordet proposes “radical mundanity” as one possible explanation.
+Cordet, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, suggests the galaxy is home to a modest number of alien civilizations that aren’t that much more advanced than our own. Because their technology is similarly limited, neither civilization can detect the other.
+“The idea is that they’re more advanced, but not much more advanced. It’s like having an iPhone 42 rather than an iPhone 17,” Corbet told The Guardian. “This feels more possible, more natural, because it’s not proposing anything very extreme.”
+https://gizmodo.com/where-are-the-aliens-new-study-suggests-theyre-stuck-like-us-2000672801
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+====== Database ======
+== The National UFO Reporting Center Online Database ==
+The NUFORC Databank is the largest independently collected set of UFO / UAP sighting reports available on the internet.   For 25 years, it has been the go-to resource for researchers and the general public interested in following the most recent first hand UFO witness accounts, or delving into a deep archive of historical reports.   The reports are freely available to the public to browse through the indexes below.   For any other use, including commercial use, please refer to our Terms of Service at the bottom of the page.
+NUFORC staff review each report, and grade them as follows:
+  *     TIER 1: The most dramatic sightings – strange structured craft or highly anomalous phenomena seen at close distance.  Indicated by a bright yellow Open! Link.
+  *     TIER 2: Objects exhibiting unusual characteristics such as incredible speed, non-inertial turns, unexplainable propulsion, etc. Indicated by a faded yellow Open link.
+  *     TIER 3: Other reports that cannot be easily explained.
+  *    TIER 4: Reports we feel are explainable by human or natural phenomenon. Explanations are rated as Possible (indicated by ?), Probable or Certain.
+Note: Reports received prior to March 2023 have not yet been graded.
+https://nuforc.org/databank/
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+==  Shocking radar footage shows Hellfire missile fired by US military bounce off UFO over ocean ==
+Shane Galvin - Sep. 9, 2025 / Updated Sep. 10, 2025, 6:57 a.m. ET
+The House Committee on Restoring Public Trust unveiled a shocking new video that shows a hulking US military weapon bounce off a UFO as it flew over the ocean.
+The wild footage shared by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) during the disclosure hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday shows a Hellfire missile fired by a US military drone striking a glowing orb that flew off the coast of Yemen.
+The speeding object was paced by a 100-pound Hellfire air-to-ground round fired by an MQ-9 drone, which made contact and bounced right off, as shown in the radar footage from October 30, 2024.
+The footage came from a separate MQ-9 drone, which recorded the orb spinning after the missile made contact and continuing on its way, UFO expert George Knapp said at the hearing.
+“There’s a server where there’s a whole bank of these kinds of videos that Congress has not been allowed to see — that the public has not been allowed to see,” Knapp said at the hearing.
+https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/shocking-radar-footage-shows-hellfire-missile-fired-by-us-military-directly-hit-ufo-over-ocean/
+== Newly Released Video Shows U.S. Reaper Drone Shooting at ‘UFO’ ==
+A grainy new video provides fresh fodder for America's UFO enthusiasts.
+Lucas Ropek - September 11, 2025
+A recent Congressional hearing revealed video of a Hellfire missile fired by a Reaper drone “bouncing off” an unidentified flying object, which has onlookers—Congress included—scratching their heads. The hearing took place in a House Oversight subcommittee meeting on UFO transparency that was partially hosted by MAGA congresswoman and state-sanctioned UFO investigator Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.
+The video sure is, uh, something. As Fox News melodramatically puts it:
+<blockquote>
+    A House hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) stunned lawmakers when video evidence showed a U.S. drone firing a Hellfire missile at an orb off Yemen—only for the object to remain intact and keep moving, raising urgent questions about technology beyond known military capabilities.
+</blockquote>
+The video was first shared publicly by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Missouri), who noted that it was “taken [on] October 30 of 2024″ and characterized it as an “MQ-9 drone tracking an orb or this object off the coast of Yemen.” Burlison said the footage is “presented as received from a whistleblower. Independent review is ongoing.”
+https://gizmodo.com/newly-released-video-shows-u-s-reaper-drone-shooting-at-ufo-2000657322