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 https://gizmodo.com/nasa-administrator-says-odds-of-finding-alien-life-are-pretty-high-2000742807
+== Scientists Just Updated the Rules for What Happens When We Find Aliens ==
+New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in the modern information age.
+Michael Garrett, The Conversation - June 9, 2026, 10:25 am ET
+The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realizing in a single dramatic instant that Earth is being visited by creatures from light-years away.
+Aliens are in the public consciousness once again thanks to Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, which follows a whistleblower’s attempts to reveal extraterrestrial visitations to the world.
+In reality, the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence is far more likely to emerge as a faint anomaly in astronomical data, followed by a slow, painstaking process of verification, peer review, and intense international deliberation. There might be no single Eureka moment and no lone scientist with the answer.
+As our telescopes have advanced, so too has the complexity of the world we live in. That is why a committee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has just voted to accept a major overhaul of the “post-detection protocols”–the scientific code of conduct for what happens after we find evidence of life beyond Earth.
+https://gizmodo.com/scientists-just-updated-the-rules-for-what-happens-when-we-find-aliens-2000769422
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 https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/the-us-military-just-released-a-bunch-of-uap-files-but-theres-no-there-there/
+== Pentagon Releases Second Batch of UFO Videos, First-Hand Testimony ==
+Posted by BeauHD on Friday May 22, 2026 08:30PM
+The Pentagon released a second batch of UAP files, including 50 videos and documents showing unexplained objects over the Middle East, Syria, Iran, and in NASA recordings. Despite the reports, the agency stresses that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin. The Guardian reports:
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+In one video from the Middle East in 2019, taken "likely from an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform operating within the US Central Command area of responsibility," according to the Pentagon, three UAP are captured flying in formation over the Persian Gulf. Another formation of four unidentified objects is seen flying past vessels on the water off Iran in a video from 2022.
+Footage taken over Syria in 2021 shows a mysterious object racing away at speed akin to instantaneous warp-speed acceleration from science fiction movies. Few of the objects seem to resemble flying saucers, discs or other traditionally perceived forms for UAP, although one October 2022 clip taken at an undisclosed location shows a cigar-shaped entity racing over what appears to be a residential area.
+</blockquote>
+https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/05/23/0039205/pentagon-releases-second-batch-of-ufo-videos-first-hand-testimony