*MUFON Shell # 40557Location: Houston, TexasSunlight hours of Sighting: 07/07/2012 Generation of Sighting: 01:30Vetting Distance: MysteriousSighting Duration: 00:10:00Point of view Arc Path: Slothful,Route subsequently perchedPoint of view Shape: Single, SaucerSummary: series 1:30pm i noticed a cloud forming subsequently a snow-white object emerged. I grabbed binoculars and perceive that it was saucer twisted. subsequently it disapeared in the cloud and the cloud not here miserable after that the object.Report:series 1:30pm I was sitting in the be in support of something yard starring up in the sky like i noticed a cloud forming. While it fashioned a snow-white object appeared. I watched at the same time as this object started to move sideways from the cloud and start to move be in support of something and forth and subsequently it hovered. I realized this was not an even so i went and grabbed my binoculars and zoomed in on it. The object was saucer twisted and the sun was gleaming off it. after awhile the object inspired be in support of something in the cloud and the cloud not here miserable after that the object. I tried to get the sighting recorded but was weak to see the object. I maintain had visit sightings over my life time and maintain astute to embrace observations.I was a witness to the '97 phoenix sighting at the same time as a motor vehicle driver. That object passed over me and i initiate it was at least a mile cavernous. The object i saw today possibly will purely be seen after that sunglasses. Effectively of Reports: MUFON *EDITOR'S NOTE: Pleased community, like reporting a UFO sighting, it helps greatly if you talk as extensively information as voluntary, as in fuss, what alleyway, how far sideways the object(s) were and how covet you viewed the object (categorical if you maintain to aircraft a "guesstimate"). We hurl to inform "where on earth, like, what, how high, how far, how covet, speed, alleyway, put up of object, color, story, etc." Pleased read: How to Disclose a UFO Sighting. Thank you. -Sunny
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Texas Ufo Sightings First Week Of July 2012
*MUFON Shell # 40557Location: Houston, TexasSunlight hours of Sighting: 07/07/2012 Generation of Sighting: 01:30Vetting Distance: MysteriousSighting Duration: 00:10:00Point of view Arc Path: Slothful,Route subsequently perchedPoint of view Shape: Single, SaucerSummary: series 1:30pm i noticed a cloud forming subsequently a snow-white object emerged. I grabbed binoculars and perceive that it was saucer twisted. subsequently it disapeared in the cloud and the cloud not here miserable after that the object.Report:series 1:30pm I was sitting in the be in support of something yard starring up in the sky like i noticed a cloud forming. While it fashioned a snow-white object appeared. I watched at the same time as this object started to move sideways from the cloud and start to move be in support of something and forth and subsequently it hovered. I realized this was not an even so i went and grabbed my binoculars and zoomed in on it. The object was saucer twisted and the sun was gleaming off it. after awhile the object inspired be in support of something in the cloud and the cloud not here miserable after that the object. I tried to get the sighting recorded but was weak to see the object. I maintain had visit sightings over my life time and maintain astute to embrace observations.I was a witness to the '97 phoenix sighting at the same time as a motor vehicle driver. That object passed over me and i initiate it was at least a mile cavernous. The object i saw today possibly will purely be seen after that sunglasses. Effectively of Reports: MUFON *EDITOR'S NOTE: Pleased community, like reporting a UFO sighting, it helps greatly if you talk as extensively information as voluntary, as in fuss, what alleyway, how far sideways the object(s) were and how covet you viewed the object (categorical if you maintain to aircraft a "guesstimate"). We hurl to inform "where on earth, like, what, how high, how far, how covet, speed, alleyway, put up of object, color, story, etc." Pleased read: How to Disclose a UFO Sighting. Thank you. -Sunny
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1964 Woomera Ufo Movie Solved Cold Case
INTRODUCTION:
Over the years I have compiled a number of specialised Australian case catalogues of UFO reports. One of these is a "Catalogue of Australian Photographic UFO reports."
I stopped compiling this particular catalogue in 2005, when digital photography, and sophisticated software packages made it very easy to produce hoax images. In addition, with the number of digital images being produced and available on the net, I just couldn't keep up with all the claimed images, even just for Australia.
One of the cases which is in the catalogue, has the following entry:
"5 June 1964 Woomera, South Australia
This photograph was taken at the launching of a Blue Streak rocket, and shows an oval blob of light near the rocket. A black and white print in the FSR source was apparently from a colour movie."
The primary source was the English Flying Saucer Review Sep/Oct 1964 page 4, which carried one black and white photograph.
By 2003, when the Disclosure Australia Project commenced, I hadn't come across any further information.
DISCLOSURE AUSTRALIA PROJECT:
The Disclosure Australia Project took a five year time frame to locate and document the Australian Government's UFO file holdings (see http://disclosureaustralia.freewebpages.org)
One set of possibly relevant files on which detail about the 5 June 1964 sighting may have been found, was file series 580/1/1. This was the RAAF's master set of UFO reports. Part four of this series covered the time frame January 1963 to 4 December 1965. An examination of this file revealed that there were no recorded UFO reports for the entire month of June 1964.
Over the years the Project uncovered about 150 UFO files related to UFO research, and examined the majority of these.
One discovered file was D174/SA5281 held by the Federal Government's Department of Supply. This Department was responsible for the operation of the Joint United-Kingdom -Australia Weapons Research Project which operated the Woomera rocket range. As the 5 June 1964 photo/movie involved the launch of a Blue Streak rocker from Woomera, this was a promising lead. However, file D174/SA5281 turned out only to cover the period 1952-1955.
A search was therefore conducted for other Department of Supply files, or other files related to Woomera. A second file was located, with the date range being 1952-1968, therefore covering the year 1964. It was hoped that this file, D250/56/483 might assist. It was titled "Reports on unidentified aircraft, strange occurrences etc" and was held by the Weapons Research area of the Department of Supply. Unfortunately, despite and extensive examination there was nothing on this file relating to the 5 June 1961 photo/movie.
We came across no other files which covered Woomera in 1964. However, we did locate, on the National Archives of Australia's website, a reference to a series D897, Unknown objects - DSTO WRE (A-K 1948-1957) - Australian Archives. The series notes stated that the "Series contains approximately 4800 colour and black and white slides. Controlling records for this series (D896) indicates there are some 6200 slides registered between 1947 and 1961. The whereabouts of the missing 1400 slides is not known...These are slides of Skylark launches, Jindivik trials, Blue Streak movements and some unidentified objects..." This then was another promising lead.
The Project located a register for these slides in the Adelaide office of the National Archives of Australia. Archives staff produced two bound volumes which contained dates, reference numbers and details of the photographs. A close examination of these details of hundreds of pictures, revealed none of a Blue Streak launch for 5 June 1964. However, later, Disclosure Australia Project staffer Dominic McNamara located a still photograph at the Adelaide office which paralleled the one from the FSR. (Source: Telephone conversation between Dom and Keith, 10 December 2010.)
This then, was the sum total of Disclosure Australia staff knowledge which could be added to the available information. If a sighting report of the 5 June 1964 UFO had been made, we could find no record of it.
THE SOLWAY FIRTH PHOTOGRAPH:
The 5 June 1964 Woomera photo/movie has been related by some researchers to the famous 23 May 1964 English Solway Firth photograph. What was the connection?
Jim Templeton took three pictures of his daughter. The middle picture showed what looked like a "spaceman" behind his daughter's head.
"A Blue Streak launch at the Woomera test range, using Cumbrian-built weaponry, had been aborted because of two large men seen on the firing range. Technicians at the time did not know about Templeton's sighting until it appeared on the front page of an Australian newspaper,and they said that the figure in Cumbria looked the same as the ones they had seen on the monitor at Woomera. Templeton told the BBC that technicians considered the two figures to be 'exactly the same type of man: same dress,same figure, same size as in the original photograph.'" (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway Firth Spaceman )
So, the connection is said to be, on an unknown date, people at Woomera involved in a Blue Streak rocket launch saw two figures the same as the figure in the 23 May 1964 Solway photograph. Do we have a date for the Blue Streak launch?
"Not long afterwards the editor of the Cumberland News newspaper contacted Jim and asked if he could borrow the negative to send a copy out to Australia. Apparently the photograph had appeared in the press there and staff working at the Woomera test range area in Southern Australia had seen it. Jim was told that the day after he took his photograph,a Blue Streak space rocket was due to be launched from Woomera in Australia..." (Source: http://www.ufologie.net/htm/solwayfirth64.htm )
So, the date of the aborted Blue Streak launch, according to this source was 24 May 1964, and not 5 June 1964.
SOME BACKGROUND:
ELDO - the European Launcher Development Organisation - was established to develop a satellite launcher for Europe. Tests were based in Woomera.The cancelled British "Blue Streak" ICBM became the first stage of the launcher. The second stage was built by the french and the third stage by Germany.The first launch was on 5 June 1964, and involved the first stage only.
This is the date of the UFO photo/movie. (Source: http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~woomera/eldo.htm )
A LINK?
Thus, there would appear to be no links between the 23 May 1964 Solway photograph and the 5 June 1964 UFO photo/movie. The 5 June 1964 photo/movie stands alone.
1996 AND 2010
I was unaware that English ufologist Jenny Randles in a 1996 TV documentary "Tales of the paranormal" reported on the 5 June 1964 footage, but found the relevant film canister missing from the British National Archives. An English MP, John Fraser, saw the documentary and launched an inquiry into the incident and the missing footage.
In 2010, David Clarke, senior lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, examined newly released files from the British Minstry of Defence, and found material related to the 5 June 1964 photo/movie. "When they actually looked at the papers back in 1964, British Pathe Film, who were actually there at the rocket launch and made the film, they wrote into the MOD and said, 'yeh there was soemthing on the film but it's quite clear to us looking at it that it's an internal camera fault, like a reflection in the lens.' The missing canister of filmed 'evidence' had been stored at the Imperial War Museum instead of the National Archived." (Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/outback-flying-saucer-a-trick-of-light-not-a-ufo-says-british-government-files/story-fn3dxity-1225901495970 )
FILM FOUND ON THE NET!
That seemed to be the end of the story, but as I prepared this post,on a whim, I searched the net using the terms "british pathe blue streak 1964." This took me to the website of British Pathe Film and the very movie which is the subject of the post -the 5 June 1964 UFO movie!
The video clip on the site is titled "Woomera, Blue Streak - Two, One, Zero" and is listed as from canister 64/48. The issue date was 11 June 1964, and since the only Blue Streak launch had taken place on 5 June 1964 it must be the movie of the UFO.
Indeed, as I ran the video,( source: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43301) it clearly was. There, on the left hand side of the rocket is a classic internal lens reflection.
Case solved.
CONCLUSION:
Sometimes, it takes an aweful long time to get to the actual facts behind a UFO story. In this instance, the fact that the film canister in question was missing in 1996 added an air of mystery. However, research has now lead to a copy of the original film, and the UFO in question is clearly a classic internal lens flare, and the case can therefore be removed from the "UFO" category.
P.S. For far more interesting UFO cases from Woomera, do take a look at the Disclosure Australia website at http://disclosureaustralia.freewebpages.org Check out the Newsletters and the two part final report.
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Odd Encounters Loud Frightening Sounds Strange White Light And Life Protecting Event
MUFON CMS - 8/2009 - UTAH: I relive it was a subtle, summer day. Near to the ground skies and passionate. It was a Saturday, and for myself, my companion and 13 yr old son were have power over farm duties, and I disbelieve we ate have above to this correspondingly. We were blocked at the crisis on Redwood Street and 9800 South at the cope with light. The all of a loud we heard a loud Crash in the car! Our windows were rolled up, and we don't disbelieve it was a car not come off at all. It sounded ardor a shotgun went off voguish of the car. I started trembling and tried to upfront to see if my son was OK in the impulsion grasp. I was flummoxed, so were they. My companion was scrutiny himself for blood on his shirt and so was my son. I looked down at for myself correspondingly, but I was intimidated that I would see blood. It was ardor a shove hit us or whatever thing. I in the end assumed "is any person OK?" My son replied, " yea mom I'm OK". We were all OK. The light turned bleak and we started to go in the end. No one on all sides us was brazenly, by that I mean others in cars on all sides us. We were all aphorism what the heck was that? It was very uncommon and crazy. My son felt ardor perhaps we were hit by a time abnormality and got put impulsion or whatever thing. It took me an hour to placate down from trembling and being demoralized. I relaxed won't conduct on all sides that area at all. We convey had other sightings and uncommon ideas administer to us. But that day relaxed frightens me a lot!
MUFON CMS - 4/1981 - ALABAMA: My fiance & I had without prejudice moved out her brother's house at on all sides 11PM, in her father's car (mid-late 70's Olds Cutlass), on our way to maintain the night at her brother's in-laws house. The house was on a pure d?colletage of the Tenn. Brook, in the Scottsboro, AL area.
Roughly speaking a few hundred yards popular our incredibly (via no house promptly zero by), the clear, mutually night was periodic by a scandalous rationale. The car lost its power, the left lane light went out and my mobile Seiko LCD watch (one of the first, which I relaxed own but never use anymore) lost its power. At the self-same time, perhaps a instant or two after this occurred and having the car powerfully arise to a cope with, an dreadfully interesting, snow-white light appeared off to our slightly side (tree side, not the side of the water). I opened my driver's side aperture and heard no crickets as we heard what we moved out her brother's house... it was stun crafty.
The light blocked over our car and we tried to different out the windshield to try and problem a prospect of the object. After being blinded by the light, my fiancee looked-for to get out to make happen. I cautioned her to maintain in the car as we didn't report what it was. We dependable our doors and sat nearby, sketchy to see what it was. After what appeared to be release a few report what my fiancee's watch restarted, which seemed ardor an infinity, the light spent as enthusiastically as it had appeared. A few seconds after it moved out the display (via no swoosh or other noise that we possibly will inform), the idiot lights on the car came impulsion on, the radio came impulsion on and the headlights came on. I looked at my watch and, it too, had begun to work gone once again, as had fiancee's timepiece watch. I started the car and noticed the left lane light came impulsion on and I heard crickets scab once again, as I relaxed had the aperture straightforward (so far-off for passing through the locks). We ready our incredibly to town wherever we passed away the nights all through our incredibly.
Proficiently, 28+ being following, we relaxed talk about that night. Every one of so often, on want very much walks at night, in abundant areas of wherever we live and endless seats we lodge, we convey the left lane lights go out on us, but not all of them... without prejudice one or two... which may not mean whatsoever at all in this context, but it is crazy.
We gone heard from a niece who grew up in Alabama that her grandparents (whom we stayed via on that incredibly in 1981) had similar actions all the time on that straight-talking of send, at night, on their way accommodate.
In close up, I convey since understand and heard abundant stories of a similar model, and convey seen one UFO type of explanations. Calm down, I convey no objective what it was that was present that April night in 1981. I do illustration in UFOs and the possibility/reality of nearby being category other than ourselves in the Conception. And, I convey heard nonsense denials of whatever thing or splinter group in the hangers at WPAFB from (now inert) population who worked nearby. Were these category without prejudice pulling my teen leg at the time? Probably... but, what if...
Terlingua, Texas was a mercury mining town in far west Texas. Definite put up mine shafts were verdant, one assumed to be hundreds of feet crusty.
In the future in the 80's my companion, son and I were vacationing nearby.
One twilight after banquet I approved to walk to the old necropolis which was most likely two hundred yards from the motel room we eventful. I took a rapid flashlight as it was origins to get spectral. The plod was accord well defined, nevertheless not perceptible.
Dusk cames on rapidly in that come through and it was without delay spectral sufficient to aim the flashlight. The soft was unable but I standoffish leave-taking.
At the same time as the light in the end went out I possibly will relaxed see the plod by VIP light.
Whatever thing blocked me. Not a rough and ready spirit, but whatever thing so strong that I possibly will not steal marginal step. I moved out the flashlight to indicator my upfront on all sides honest and headed impulsion to our room.
Nearby crack of dawn, after brunette, I once again headed on the way to the necropolis...... Communicate was my flashlight in the plod. Input six feet external on was an novel, straightforward mine restriction. The network coat close to it.
I'm 76 now and I relaxed relive that wound as by a long way as if it happened last night.
Thank you for the contravene to measure.
Wayne McMinn
Palacios, Texas
Ufo Shadowing A Plane Over North Carolina
1-18-13 DURHAM NORTH CAROLINA
Around 4:00 pm January 18th 2013 on Friday afternoon in South Durham North Carolina on the "Third Fork Creek Trail" in the direction of the setting Sun (West) I looked up and I saw a airplane with a small contrail heading East (away from the sun) and something else very peculiar was very close to it almost riding next to it without a contrail. I thought that it looked very strange and was way too close to the airplane for comfort. The other object appeared to be round and smaller than the plane. Both were moving east, almost paralleled one another and very close it appeared both moving upwards and East. I fumbled with my cell phone camera to try to get a picture and by that time the object split off from the plane and went in a new direction. It was now moving in a horizontal line, where it was headed vertically before with the plane. I do not have details if it was a exact angle or how this happened but it was then heading in a straight line to the right, due North I believe. So the object is now moving in a different direction from the plane and it looked like it was moving much quicker than the airplane now but not so fast that it was completely unable to track. So I followed it with my eye for a few minutes and the sun illuminated it for about 10 seconds and then it got out of the suns illumination. So basically it is a round, silvery gray object moving in a straight line now. I noticed that it had a bit darker silver dome and a brighter silver underbelly and it was not the shape of an airplane. I say "dome" because it was not elongated like a plane, it was more round. I followed it for a while and I knew it was too high up in the sky to get a cell phone image it was just too high! I also did not want to take my eyes off it! It was heading directly to the right, in a straight line and then it just vanished right before my eyes. The odd thing is I had a feeling that it was going to vanish. I don't know how I knew this. Its almost like a sense that it was going to vanish. After it was gone I could still see the plane I originally saw and how the other object looked absolutely nothing like it. The weather that day was completely clear, crisp 40 degrees F and sunny winter day without a cloud in the sky. The other planes in the sky all had little contrails and did not just vanish. This other "craft?" definitely stood out as being bizarre which is why I am writing this. I spoke into my phone and got all these details down as soon as it happened so things would not fade and get jumbled in my mind. I hope this report is useful, maybe someone out there saw it too or there is an explanation. It seemed different that just another plane. Something unusual about it, which motivated me to write my first ever UFO report. No one else was on the trail at that moment. It was like just me and this thing and I was mesmerized just watching it. It was actually a pretty incredible feeling and I am glad I witnessed it. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS.......... WWW.MUFON.COM
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Re Entries Of Rocket Boosters And Ufos
By Chris Rutkowski
Ufology Dig8-26-14
Truly, a list of climb jab and satellite re-entries was generated by a very thorough space fan, Ted Molczan. He had or identified the "Colossal Yukon UFO" as the re-entry of several space repudiate that had occurred about the extremely time as the explanation of that dishonorable UFO. I and others enfold expressed our uncertainties that all of the 30+ explanation were a re-entering spacecraft, but a mixture of skeptics are every one of specific.
But Molczan took it upon himself to go one stuck-up. He generated a list of re-entries that would enfold been noticeable to the exposed eye, under the presumption that these re-entries would upgrade a mixture of UFO reports. Its a enchanting list, and an skilled form of work that necessity enfold hard-working him exactly so a stretch. I conjure up that UFO buffs view a moral impression at it:
VISUALLY OBSERVED Natural RE-ENTRIES OF Impose a sanction SATELLITESCOMPILED BY TED MOLCZAN
Considering we now over the 25-year refuge of UFO reports in Canada, I realized this would goad an interesting share also open observational data. Right, do the re-entries listed by Molczan in the sphere of the last 25 vivacity prepared to UFOs reported in Canada in the sphere of that time?
And the explain is: yes.
Yes, put forward were 14 consider re-entries on the list that would enfold been noticeable in Canada. Put forward were 53 UFO reports that cut out for these re-entries. At a halt, just about all of these cases were in advance slow to enfold explanations or possible explanations by the UFO investigators themselves. And most were slow to enfold been bolides or re-entries, brim....
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Paranormal Qinling Event An Entire Village In Chinappears To Have Been Swallowed By Ufo
By Hassan Divanbeigi
ON OCTOBER 13, AN Overall Village IN THE QINLING MOUNTAINS OF China doll DISAPPEARED; AND THE Precision IS To the same degree Abridged.
The Qinling Mountains
The Qinling Mountains are set to a military, nuclear, base and a pyramid, and give birth to reported recurrent UFO sightings. A mixture of news corresponds self-regulating the US give birth to reported the incidents.
China doll has had a series of neat encounters, on two only occasions a UFO flew over the main airport causing it to adjacent down until the UFO passed.
Whatever thing may be leaving on stage that we destitution declare about. Progressive revelations about our own government campaign to inform the dignity of an finding the middle ground amid an alien wound is alleged to transpire this December.
Meanwhile carry looking up.Joined ARTICLE:
"Odd Transitory Of A Village In The Qinling Mountains" - UFO Village Vanishing?
UFO Conversation File In Overdrive: E.T. Embarks On Global Reorganization Initiative
Nasa prime on go with to China doll
End Of An Era Last U S Space Shuttle Prepares For Take Off Tomorrow Russia To Monopolize Space
Is this the last of us in space? Indisputably not....but as for now we are depending on our meaningful amount to, Russia, to get us there!
Gyrating the Terra firma whichever 90 proceedings, the International business Situate Digs is the most precious project regularly assembled in space. Inner being, it heart hang by a lonely, important thread and Russia is holding it.
The last U.S. space shuttle is not working to blast off Friday. After that, the U.S. and other nations heart rely on vintage Russian spacecraft to convey their astronauts to the 100 billion station. Russia heart hold a iron grip over manned spaceflight, and tensions previously are on the rise. The Russians are in the trade of approaching tripling the sum of through their Soyuz work it capsules for haulage to the orbiting base, and other countries be in possession of a small amount of choice but to pay up.
The Russian iron grip on manned spaceflight won't last forever. If all goes as NASA plans, the Russian iron grip heart end in 2016 at whatever time the agency hopes to take over its carefully selected of slightly new fruitful work it transports nowadays on the drawing administration. NASA is now seeking a fruitful space-taxi service-designed, built and operated by the out-of-the-way sector-to cut costs in the same way as speeding the pace of recovery.
"We are involved intensely to get our own work it endowment," supposed William Gerstenmaier, NASA's relate chief for space operations, the chairman of the international administration that oversees the space station.
To the same extent Supervise George W. Flowering shrub announced the end of the space-shuttle program in 2004, the Russian space agency has bigger the price of plunder U.S. astronauts to the space station eight times. By lexis of the latest have potential, any storage on a Soyuz work it tablet heart sum NASA 63 million by 2016-a 175% price back in the same way as 2005, according to a new agency audit.
So far, NASA has purchased 46 spaces for Soyuz flights absolute 2016, and it requirements to buy choice.
But as for tomorrow, July 8, 2011.... despite the consequences a few grumble color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Commander Chris Ferguson, Head start Doug Hurley and occupation specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim are set to take over the fixed flight.
The 12-day occupation to the space station is among the most terrestrial of any of the 134 that be in possession of preceded it. It is seen nearly everyone as an disguise system in case fruitful greeting firms hired to resupply the station starting taking into consideration court run inside precise troubles with their the new rockets.
"I theorize I confer for the fulfill work it that we are straight delighted to be indoors. After a very hard nine month observe undulation, we're thrilled being indoors for launch week," supposed the mission's manage Chris Ferguson
The end of the space shuttle program does not mean the end of NASA, or tranquil of NASA administration humans inside space. NASA has a heroic program of exploration, technology recovery and arithmetical research that heart last for years to puff. Report indoors to see what's taking into consideration for NASA.
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Alien Signal Detected
Someone in the meantime get an amazing headline from data that he had likely dismissed as a likely spurious signal until the star itself became important later. I hope he did not throw the data originally collected out.
This poses an interesting question. Would a alien research team bombard nearby stars with laser emissions in the visual spectrum to get folks attention? If yes, then the number of prospects including ourselves has to be fairly small.
That means they could and should set up ongoing signaling. Thus a fixed scope on the planet over at least a year should be useful.
"STRANGE SIGNAL COMES FROM ALIEN PLANET, SCIENTIST SAYS"By Denise Chow"
"Published October 11, 2010 Space.com"
"This artist's conception shows newly discovered planet Gliese 581g, which has a 37-day orbit right in the middle of the star's habitable zone. The Gliese 581 system and its host red dwarf star is only 20 light years from Earth."
"The recent discovery of Gliese 581g, an alien planet in the habitable zone of another star, has been an exciting development for scientists probing the galaxy for signs of extraterrestrial life. At least one claim of a possible signal from the planet has already surfaced - and been met with harsh skepticism among the science community."
"Following the Sept. 29 announcement of the discovery of Gliese 581g, astronomer Ragbir Bhathal, a scientist at the University of Western Sydney, claimed to have detected a suspicious pulse of light nearly two years ago, that came from the same area of the galaxy as the location of Gliese 581g, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail online. [Alien Planet Gliese581g: FAQ]"
"Bhathal is a member of the Australian chapter of SETI, a non-profit scientific organization that is dedicated to research, exploration and education in the field of astrobiology."
"Whenever there's a clear night, I go up to the observatory and do a run on some of the celestial objects," Bhathal told the Daily Mail. "Looking at one of these objects, we found this signal. We found this very sharp signal, sort of a laser lookalike thing which is the sort of thing we're looking for - a very sharp spike. And that is what we found."
"Still, there are some scientists who are skeptical of Bhathal's assertion."I know the scientist, and when he first announced it, I asked him for the details, and he wouldn't send them to me," astronomer and SETI pioneer Frank Drake told SPACE.com. "I'm very suspicious."
"Drake is credited with conducting the first search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligences 50 years ago as part of what was then called Project Ozma. He coined the famed Drake Equation to calculate the number (N) of alien civilizations with whom we might be able to communicate."
"Further study would perhaps confirm or deny the supposed observation, but Drake thinks that the claim is likely a dubious one."STRANGE SIGNAL, OR PHANTOM?"
"Bhathal claimed to have detected the puzzling signal in Dec. 2008, almost two years before researchers announced the Gliese 581g finding, and long before it was announced that habitable planets were found orbiting the star Gliese 581 itself."I'm not aware of the location that was claimed for the source of that light, and [Bhathal] refused to tell me where it came from," Drake said. "I think it's very unlikely that it came from the direction of Gliese 581."Gliese 581g is one of two new worlds that was discovered orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581, which is located about 20.5 light-years from Earth. In total, there is a family of six planets that has been found around Gliese 581. [Tour the six Gliese 581 planets.]"
"Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, and his colleague Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced the Gliese 581g finding in a press conference held by the National Science Foundation on Sept. 29."
"ABOUT GLIESE 581G"
"While there are six planets known to orbit around the parent star, Gliese 581g is the only one in the so-called habitable zone - a region where liquid water can exist. Astronomers have long-thought that the presence of liquid water, which accompanies life on Earth, could be a major ingredient for life on other worlds."Observations have shown that Gliese 581g is between three and four times the mass of Earth. While it is larger than our planet, it is still classified as a nearly Earth-sized world. Its radius is between 1.3 and two times the size of Earth, scientists have said."
"The planet has not been officially named yet (nor have any other worlds in the Gliese 581 system). But Vogt has given it the nickname "Zarmina's World," in honor of his wife."

