People who have had contact with aliens describe them as “talking inside their heads.” Now NASA is sponsoring a course on how to talk to extraterrestrials.

The UK newspaper the Telegraph, Tom Leonard quotes Jeffrey Lockwood, who is teaching the class at the University of Wyoming, as saying, “We’ve thought a lot about how we might communicate with other worlds, but we haven’t thought much about what we?d actually say.”

One way to do it might be to communicate mathematically. For instance, student Dixie Thoman wrote a poem about menstruation with the syllables arranged in a mathematical order known as the Fibonacci sequence. If crop circles are (as some people think) being created by ETs, then that’s often how they communicate with us.
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UPDATE: UFO landing in Australia? – UPDATE: First, it was a UFO that remained on the ground for 30 hours in an isolated area of southern Mexico. Then, a series of mysterious object crashes, including most recently an event in Needles, California that Unknowncountry continues to investigate. Now two readers report that they observed a falling object in the mountainous area where they live south of Brisbane, in Australia’s Queensland State.
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Father Gabriel Funes, the Pope’s chief astronomer, says that life on Mars could exist and that intelligent beings could exist in other solar systems and that the search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. Funes directs the Vatican Observatory near Rome. Few people realize that the Vatican funds several telescopes, including one right here in the US, in Arizona.

In BBC News, David Willey reports that, writing in the Vatican newspaper, Funes also addressed the subject of “the Catholic Church’s condemnation four centuries ago of the Italian inventor of the telescope, Galileo.” According to Willey, “Father Funes diplomatically says mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the page and look towards the future.”
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The latest round of UFO denial blames small orange candle lanterns and/or road flares attached to helium balloons for UFO sightings, but the real UFO wave continues worldwide.

There are two recent sightings that cannot be attributed to flares, candle lanterns, swamp gas or the moonlight reflecting off the wings of passing geese. The first one, in Australia, occurred as some miners were starting the night shift at a mine on an island off the remote Northern Territory.
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