In 1976, the Viking program’s orbiter and lander reached Mars, and the lander’s life experiments returned data that the scientists who had designed them had expected to see if living organisms were present in the soil. However, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fearing that a positive finding about life on the red planet would cause their Mars funding to be diverted to the manned spaceflight program, issued various denials and succeeded in clouding the picture sufficiently to insure that robotic programs would continue.
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This object over the Statue of Liberty doesn’t move like a balloon, and after crossing the sky, it stops. It’s not a known form of drone, so it could be a genuine unknown. It is not a computer graphic.
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Off the West Coast of the United States, methane gas is trapped in frozen layers below the seafloor. New research from the University of Washington shows that water at intermediate depths is warming enough to cause these carbon deposits to melt, releasing methane into the sediments and surrounding water.

Researchers found that water off the coast of Washington is gradually warming at a depth of 500 meters, about a third of a mile down. That is the same depth where methane transforms from a solid to a gas. The research suggests that ocean warming could be triggering the release of a powerful greenhouse gas.
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Unexplained booms are back. We are getting reports from both the US and the UK about these loud, shattering noises. If you have a boom to report, please write either earthfiles@earthfiles.com or news@unknowncountry.com. The report sourced here is typical of what we’re hearing from many different locations.

New Hampshire

Rhode Island
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