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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 In a new paper, which has not yet been peer reviewed, astrophysicist Robin Cordet proposes “radical mundanity” as one possible explanation.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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+== SETI Thinks It Might Have Missed a Few Alien Calls. Here’s Why ==
+The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.
+Matthew Phelan - March 9, 2026
+Scientists hunting for radio signals from any form of advanced extraterrestrial life that might be out there trying to contact us are now starting to wonder if something has been messing with their work.
+A new study published by researchers at the SETI Institute, short for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has tested the possibility that “space weather” could render strong premeditated alien broadcasts into the kind of fainter radio signals that SETI typically ignores.
+“SETI searches are often optimized for extremely narrow signals,” according to Vishal Gajjar, an astronomer at the SETI Institute and lead author on the new work, published this past Thursday in the American Astronomical Society’s Astrophysical Journal.
+https://gizmodo.com/seti-thinks-it-might-have-missed-a-few-alien-calls-heres-why-2000730730
+== SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed ==
+Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals
+Simon Sharwood - Tue 10 Mar 2026 05:27 UTC
+The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.
+As explained in a paper and post published last week, SETI points out that it has focussed its attention on narrowband signals and tries to compensate for interstellar events that might distort signals.
+The organization’s new research points out that solar winds or coronal mass ejections may distort signals within aliens’ star systems. SETI therefore hasn’t been looking for likely signals that We Are Not Alone, because it assumed that alien civilizations transmitted narrowband signals.
+“If a signal gets broadened by its own star’s environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it’s there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we’ve seen in technosignature searches,” said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, Astronomer at the SETI Institute and lead author of the paper.
+SETI’s researchers made that suggestion after studying data describing signals sent by human-made probes and finding signal distortion on many missions – the paper mentions Mariner IV, Pioneers 6, 10, and 11, Helios 1 and 2, Viking missions to Mars, Mars Express, Venus Express, and Rosetta missions.
+https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/seti_admits_its_search_for/
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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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+== Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space ==
+“I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that.”
+Stephen Clark – Mar 4, 2026 2:32 PM
+DENVER—Last month, President Donald Trump took to social media with an announcement that he would direct the Pentagon and other federal agencies to “begin the process” of disclosing government files related to alien life and UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). It was the latest chapter in a yearslong slow burn of sensational claims, congressional hearings, and yes, the military’s release in 2020 of intriguing videos that do, indeed, appear to show things that defy simple explanations.
+Subsequent reports from NASA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) did not find any link between the unexplained phenomena and aliens, but that didn’t stop enthusiasts from wanting to know more.
+“To date, in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, there is no conclusive evidence suggesting an extraterrestrial origin for UAP,” a NASA blue-ribbon panel wrote in a 2023 report. “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,” the DNI report stated in 2021.
+Government officials have said little about Trump’s most recent social media post on the matter. The president cited “tremendous interest” in the files, whatever they might contain. Perhaps the most famous UAP videos released by the Pentagon to date were captured by cameras on Navy fighter planes operating over the sea.
+https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/space-command-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-question-of-uaps-in-space/