Bill Paxton, star of Aliens, Titanic and Apollo 13, dies at 61

ICE rips pranksters jamming hotline to report space aliens

The Trump administration is blasting pranksters who are jamming a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement hotline meant for victims of illegal alien crime in order to report encounters with space aliens. 

The Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office (VOICE), launched Wednesday by ICE, maintains the hotline for crime victims to call for assistance and support. However, critics mocked the initiative on social media with the hashtag #AlienDay, encouraging others to dial the VOICE number to report alien takeovers and encounters with space creatures.

An ICE official familiar with the situation told Fox News that, as a result of the fake reports, the VOICE hotline has experienced significant delays. The official further said the campaign to generate hoax calls is disrespectful to victims of real crime and their families — and a waste of government resources, as personnel in the call center are required to listen to the majority of callers reports.

Secretary Kelly made clear in his announcement Wednesday that this phone line is to be dedicated for the use of victims seeking information and resources, the ICE official told Fox News. There are certainly more constructive ways to make ones opinions heard than to prevent legitimate victims of crime from receiving the information and resources they seek because the lines are tied up by hoax callers.

The official told Fox News that ICE will adjust resources, if necessary, to ensure legitimate victims get the information and attention they need.

VOICE was created in response to President Trumps Executive Order titled Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States on Jan. 25.

All crime is terrible, but these victims are uniqueand too often ignored, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Wednesday as he unveiled the new office. They are casualties of crimes that should never have taken placebecause the people who victimized them often times should not have been in the country in the first place. 

Brooke Singman is a Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

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Ridley Scott: aliens are out there and one day they’ll come for us

Director says it is ridiculous to think that we are alone in the universe and believes superior beings will one day visit Earth

Alien creator Ridley Scott has said that he is convinced that there are extra-terrestrials out there and one day they will come for us.

The veteran director said he believed in higher beings as he prepared to release the sixth episode of the sci-fi horror series, Alien: Covenant, next month.

I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at Nasa said to me, Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it? Thats ridiculous.

The experts have now put a number on it having assessed what is out there. They say that there are between 100 and 200 entities that could be having a similar evolution to us right now.

So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it, he joked.

Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them you will be taken out in three seconds.

Alien: Covenant the second of the prequel films, is set in 2104 on board a spaceship carrying 2,000 cryogenically frozen colonists to a distant planet when they chance upon an uncharted paradise.

But their voyage soon turns into a gory nightmare that makes Aliens original chestbuster scene seem tame in comparison.

The neomorph aliens in the new film are based on the goblin shark which has a jaw which hinges in two ways. Its scary, hideous beyond belief actually, Scott said.

The 79-year-old British-born director who was also the brains behind Blade Runner said he never tired of scaring people out of their skins.

When I did the first Alien I had to get a sense of responsibility because the reaction to the kitchen (chestbuser) scene with John Hurt was beyond anything I expected and it was not good, he said.

But the film was very successful because people are perverse.

He said he could not believe the terror he had created when he went to see people watching the film. Everybody was half underneath the seat watching by the time you get to the kitchen scene. There was a woman underneath the seat with her husband holding her. I said this is not healthy.

Scott, however, claimed that he was unshockable.

Nothing scares me. I have a 9mm (pistol), he said.

If there is a problem I tend to close down into calm. When you walk in in the morning on a film and 600 people turn and all look at you, that is scary, he said.

Scott, who was knighted in 2003, is about to make a film about the Battle of Britain during the second world war, when the Royal Air Force fought off the German Luftwaffe.

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The Resistance Now: Star Wars, ‘aliens’ and Leonardo DiCaprio join the fight

Bill Paxton, actor in ‘Twister’ and ‘Aliens,’ dies at 61

(CNN)Actor Bill Paxton, whose extensive career included films such as “Twister,” “Aliens” and “Titanic,” has died, a representative for his family said in a statement. He was 61.

“It is with heavy hearts we share the news that Bill Paxton has passed away due to complications from surgery,” the statement said.

“Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor and filmmaker. … We ask to please respect the family’s wish for privacy as they mourn the loss of their adored husband and father.”

Moments after news of Paxton’s death broke, social media lit up with tributes to the versatile actor.

Actor Rob Lowe called Paxton a dear friend and “Renaissance man.”

“Devastated by the sudden loss of my close friend and one of the finest actors in the business, Bill Paxton,” Lowe tweeted.

In addition to more than 90 acting credits, Paxton was also a director on films such as “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” and “Frailty.”

Screenwriter Brian Lynch said Paxton was a talented director.

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“RIP Bill Paxton. great in everything, was the highlight of every movie he was in,” Lynch tweeted. “Underrated director too.”

Paxton’s death came in the middle of his first season as Detective Frank Rourke in his last TV series, “Training Day.”

But the entire season’s episodes were already completed in December, CBS said Sunday.

It was not immediately clear what will happen to the series.

“We are shocked and deeply saddened this morning by the news of Bill Paxton’s passing,” CBS and Warner Bros. Television said in a joint statement. “All of us here offer our deepest sympathy to his wife, Louise, and his two children.”

From Texas upbringing to Hollywood stardom

Paxton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1955. He accidentally entered the national spotlight at age 8, when he went to see President John F. Kennedy visit Dallas on November 22, 1963.

A photo of Paxton hoisted above the crowd became a famous photo from the day of Kennedy’s assassination.

Texas Supreme Court Judge Don Willett shared the photo and called Paxton a “good guy, great actor and proud Texan.”

Growing up, Paxton became “a huge fan of Clint Eastwood’s,” he told CNN in 2005.

“I’ve never really gotten to know Clint. I’ve met him a couple of times, but he has no idea what a mentor he’s been to me.”

Paxton’s career took off in the 1980s, with roles in “The Terminator,” “Aliens” and “Near Dark.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who famously starred in “The Terminator,” said his costar’s best role wasn’t actually on camera.

“Bill Paxton could play any role, but he was best at being Bill — a great human being with a huge heart,” Schwarzenegger tweeted.

In the ’90s, Paxton played a police chief in “One False Move,” an astronaut in “Apollo 13” and a storm chaser in “Twister.”

Helen Hunt, who co-starred with Paxton in “Twister,” said Paxton “acted his heart out.”

But Paxton said he always wanted to make films, not just act in them.

“I’ve kind of modeled myself as a filmmaker/actor,” he told CNN after directing “The Greatest Game Ever Played” in 2005.

“That was always my dream, to make films.”

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Bill Paxton, ‘Titanic’ And ‘Aliens’ Star, Dead At 61

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Alien pulled over in Georgia, police say

Police in a Georgia town had a close encounter with a non-human life form — well, sort of. 

George Gordon, a spokesman for police in Alpharetta, says that when a police officer pulled a man over Sunday on a suburban highway, a life-sized doll of a big-eyed, large-skulled alien was riding in the front passenger seat.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported the encounter, saying the driver was clocked at 84 mph (135 kph). Not quite warp speed, and Gordon later told The Associated Press: “He did not mention as to `why’ he had an out of this world passenger.”

The driver got off with a verbal warning — and some laughs from the officer — who took photographs of the safety-belted alien police later posted on social media.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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NASA debunks Anonymous claim of imminent alien life discovery

Last week a YouTube video purportedly posted by hacker collective Anonymous said that NASA was set to announce the discovery of intelligent alien life.

However, thats untrue!

While were excited about the latest findings from NASAs Kepler space observatory, theres no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life. For years NASA has expressed interest in searching for signs of life beyond Earth. We have a number of science missions that are moving forward with the goal of seeking signs of past and present life on Mars and ocean worlds in the outer solar system. While we do not yet have answers, we will continue to work to address the fundamental question, are we alone? said  Laurie Cantillo, NASA Lead Communications Specialist, in a statement emailed to Fox News.

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Ten new planets outside earths solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially support life on them recently had been found by the Kepler space observatory, NASAs planet-hunting telescope.

The 10 planets are among 219 new planets announced by NASA last Monday.

The latest research is based on observations made by Kepler during the first four years of its primary mission.

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Anonymous centered their video also on comments made by Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate, at a recent congressional hearing of the committee on Advances in the Search for Life on April 26.

Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history, Zurbuchen said.

With all of this activity related to the search for life, in so many different areas, we are on the verge of one of the most profound discoveries, ever, he added. And as we know from experience, NASAs scientific discoveries of today continually drive impactful research for tomorrow that goes far beyond the initial observations.

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No aliens yet for $100 million ET hunt

Broad Haven UFO sightings marked 40 years on – BBC News

No encounters: most ambitious alien search to date draws a blank

Only intelligent signals Breakthrough Listen project detected in first year are from mobile phones and other Earthly devices

Astronomers who have been listening for signals from alien civilisations in the most intensive hunt for extraterrestrials yet have found no evidence of life in its first year in operation.

The Breakthrough Listen project began to eavesdrop on the universe with the Green Bank observatory in West Virginia in January last year, but the most intelligent transmissions the telescope has picked up so far appear to be from satellites or mobile phones and other earthly devices.

Data released by the project on Thursday revealed eleven of the most promising signals detected, but after close inspection scientists concluded that the radiowaves probably came from humans rather than other intelligent lifeforms.

These are the signals that look most like what wed expect to see from a distant technology, but when we looked at them closely were were able to determine that its most likely theyre interference, said Andrew Siemion, the director of the Berkeley Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence centre.

The Green Bank telescope listened for signals in the range from one to two GHz coming from 692 of the nearest stars to Earth. Our results mean that fewer than 1% of the stars within 150 light years are constantly transmitting in this range, but it doesnt mean they are not transmitting at all, Siemion said.

Studies in the 1960s and 1970s identified the one to two GHz frequency band as the most promising hunting ground for alien transmissions. Having found it to be silent, the astronomers now intend to scour higher frequencies in the hope that alien transmissions lurk there.

A really important part of the Breakthrough programme is to explore as much of the electromagnetic spectrum, both radiowave and optical signals, as we possibly can, Siemion said.

The astronomers look for high energy signals at a steady frequency and position in the sky. The problem is if you take a radio telescope and look for signals like that you find lots and lots, and of course most are coming from our own technology. The big challenge is to discriminate between distant technology and our own technology on Earth.

Funded by the Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner, the $100m project was launched in 2015 as the most ambitious search for alien life to date. The operation began at Green Bank, the largest steerable telescope in the world, but others including the Parkes observatory in New South Wales, Australia, are also involved.

Parkes allows the astronomers to listen for transmissions from stars in the southern skies, including Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri. Last year, they discovered what might be a habitable planet in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth.

Another observation last year, involving the peculiar behaviour of a distant sun, prompted a flurry of speculation that aliens might have built a megastructure around their home star. Follow-up observations seemed to kibosh the theory, however, when scientists found no evidence of transmissions coming from the region.

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Bizarre transparent ‘alien cylinder’ spotted on live NASA feed

UFO experts claim a mysterious object captured flying past the International Space Station (ISS) on NASAs live feed is actually an alien cylinder.

Baffling footage shows the item suddenly appearing out the window of the space station, getting closer before fading away.

Conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring, who runs UFO Sightings Daily, shared the footage, writing: I noticed a UFO in the distance that was coming closer and closer to the space station.

The UFO was partially cloaked, which made it look transparent.

In the deep blackness of spaces, blending into the environment means you will be safer from other alien species that may not be friendly.

This story originally appeared on The Sun.

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NASA Says Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus Could Harbor Alien Life

Alien life looms? Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate, experts say

An exoplanet 40 light-years from Earth may be the best place to look for signs of life outside our Solar System, scientists say.

An international team of astronomers used the European Southern Observatorys High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) in La Silla, Chile and other telescopes around the world to discover the so-called super Earth LHS 1140b, which orbits the faint star LHS 1140.

A light year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion miles.

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Scientists are excited by the prospects for life on LHS 1140b.

What we think is so significant about this planet is that not only is it at the right distance from its host star that we think that liquid water and possibly oceans can exist on its surface, but also this star is only 40 light years away which is incredibly close, Jason Dittmann of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Fox News, via email. If we shrank the entire Galaxy to the size of the United States, the distance between the Earth and this planet would be smaller than Central Park. So this planet is really Earth’s next door neighbor.

Dittmann, who is lead author on a study detailing the discovery, explained that LHS 1140 is a very quiet star, which bodes well for conditions on LHS 1140b. We don’t see (LHS 1140) giving off lots of high energy flares which might harm the planet’s atmosphere or anything on its surface, he wrote. So it could potentially be a very stable nice place.

The study was published in the journal Nature on Thursday.

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LHS 1140b was first identified by the MEarth project, which searches for exoplanets using the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) on Mount Hopkins, AZ. and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) on Cerro Tololo, Chile. Astronomers noticed dips in light as LHS 1140b passed in front of LHS 1140.

Scientists then harnessed the HARPS instrument to make follow-up observations, confirming the presence of the super-Earth and its 25-day orbital period around LHS 1140. Astronomers estimate that the planet is at least five billion years old with a diameter 1.4-times larger than Earth. However, LHS 1140bs mass is thought to be seven times greater than Earth, which could indicate the exoplanet is solid with a dense iron core.

Our new planet is a temperate, rocky planet orbiting a small star with very little activity (flares, winds or UV radiation), Xavier Bonfils, an astrophysicist at the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, who participated in the study, told Fox News. Set against this backdrop, scientists are hopeful that the exoplanet has retained its atmosphere.

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This is the latest in a string of exciting space discoveries.

Last year, for example, the discovery of Earth-like planet Proxima b, which is about 4 light years from Earth, was announced. Earlier this year, NASA announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, nearly 40 light years away from Earth.

Also this year, astronomers announced the discovery of 60 new planets orbiting stars close to Earths solar system, including another super Earth. The 60 new planets are orbiting stars that are mostly some 20 to 300 light years away.

Bonfils and his fellow CNRS and IPAG scientist Xavier Delfosse think that LHS 1140b may be the best candidate yet for future observations to study its atmosphere, if one exists. The LHS 1140 system might prove to be an even more important target for the future characterisation of planets in the habitable zone than Proxima b or TRAPPIST-1, they wrote, in a statement.

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Dittmann told Fox News that LHS 1140b will be close enough to the James Webb Space Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope could potentially detect oxygen in its atmosphere. If we can do that, it would potentially be very exciting, because Oxygen is the gas that we breath and so we’re relentless pursuing and trying to detect more and more things that might make this planet look like a piece of home on the Earth, he said.

The James Webb Space Telescope launches next year. The Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to be completed in 2025.

Experts from a host of organizations participated in the research, including MIT, Caltech and the University of Colorado.

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Churchill essay on the possibility of alien life discovered in US college

Winston Churchills essay Are We Alone in the Universe? was penned the year before he became prime minister, and reveals his keen interest in science

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New contender in hunt for alien life discovered by astronomers

Exoplanet LHS 1140b is believed to be about 40% larger than Earth and lies 39 light years away in the constellation of Cetus, orbiting a red dwarf star

A rocky planet that orbits a red dwarf star has been revealed as the latest contender for the best place to hunt for life beyond the solar system.

The newfound world was spotted as it crossed the face of its parent star and cast an almost imperceptible shadow that was detected by the MEarth-South observatory in the Chilean desert.

The planet lies 39 light years away and is believed to lurk in the habitable zone where liquid water could support life as we know it around a star named LHS 1140 in the constellation of Cetus, the sea monster.

Jason Dittmann at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said the new exoplanet, known as LHS 1140b, was the most exciting he had seen in 10 years. We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science: searching for evidence of life beyond Earth, he said.

Astronomers now discover new planets with such frequency that what is considered to be the most promising home for extraterrestrials changes from month to month. In February, scientists spotted seven planets around another star at a similar distance to LHS 1140, a discovery that meant the search for life elsewhere could begin sooner than many thought. Last year, astronomers raised the prospect of life on Proxima b, a planet circling our nearest star a mere four light years away.

What makes LHS 1140b notable is that it is not bombarded with as much high-energy radiation that batters other planets around similar stars. Intense blasts of radiation can strip away tenuous atmospheres and harm any life beneath. In the more hospitable environment on LHS 1140b, a vast magma ocean could have fed steam into the atmosphere, replenishing the planet with water, the scientists said.

Further measurements of the planet by the European Southern Observatory in Chile found the planet to be about 40% larger than Earth, but with seven times the mass, which astronomers believe could be explained by it being rocky with a dense, iron core. Details of the discovery are reported in the journal Nature.

• This article was amended on 20 April 2017 to correct lead author Jason Dittmanns name.

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‘Arrival’ Author Thinks Film’s Written Alien Language ‘Ought To Be Possible’

Spacecraft discovers possibility of alien life, then runs out of fuel

Scientists say discovery of ingredients for life on Saturns moon Enceladus is bittersweet as spacecraft prepares to end 20-year mission

Could there be life in our own solar system?

This is the question posed by the discovery of hydrogen gas erupting in plumes from Saturns moon Enceladus, indicating the likely existence of an energy supply for microbial life.

The presence of hydrogen, detected by the Cassini spacecraft and announced by Nasa on Thursday, is seen as tantalising evidence that in the ocean beneath the moons icy surface chemical reactions are taking place that are strikingly similar to those that occur at hydrothermal vents on the Earths ocean floors.

In the fissures of the Earths oceans, a process called serpentinisation produces hydrogen when salty water reacts with hot rocks. This is what allows microbes, which use hydrogen as a source of chemical energy, to thrive in the ocean depths, raising the question of whether equivalent biology might have emerged on Enceladus.

Although we cant detect life, weve found that theres a food source there for it. It would be like a candy store for microbes, said Hunter Waite, programme director for the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and lead author of the Cassini study.

Based on the observed concentration of the hydrogen in the plumes, scientists calculate that the hydrothermal activity on Enceladus produces more than enough energy to sustain a hypothetical colony of alien microbes.

Enceladus is a mysterious enigmatic object that now shows it has all of the ingredients for life, which is why scientists are so jazzed about the discovery, said Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT. Hydrogen gas sets up a way for life to extract energy from chemistry a main way microbes exploit energy to live here on Earth.

However, the discovery of an available food source poses a new puzzle: why, if something is alive on Enceladus, is it not consuming all the available fuel? The surplus of hydrogen could be an indication of the absence of life, or of a very inactive microbe lurking in the oceans depths.

Until 11 years ago, Saturns tiny moon, with a diameter about the length of England, was regarded as an unremarkable object. But then Cassini discovered plumes coming from its south pole, indicating the presence of liquid water, often the first item on the checklist when seeking out the places in the universe that might host life.

Since then, scientists have ticked off some of the other chemical elements thought to be required carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and now hydrogen (the other two, phosphorus and sulphur, have yet to be detected but are almost certainly present).

Prof Andrew Coates, a Cassini scientist based at University College Londons Mullard Space Science Laboratory, said: There are four things you need for life: liquid water, the right chemistry, a source of energy, and enough time for life to develop. This gives that chemical imbalance, that gives you a source of energy.

As Saturn moves in its orbit, the plumes have been observed to vary in intensity and it is not known whether conditions would have been stable enough for a chain of reactions leading to the emergence of life to occur uninterrupted. On Earth, it took millions of years after favourable conditions appeared for life to spark into existence. We dont know if there has been enough time or not on Enceladus, said Coates.

With the first three of the four prerequisites ticked off, Coates now considers Enceladus, along with Jupiters moon Europa, to be the most likely place in the solar system to discover microbial life today.

Coates describes this as a bittersweet realisation. The results, frustratingly, come just as Cassini is running out of fuel after 20 years in space. In September, Cassini will pass through the inner edge of the ring system and plunge into Saturns atmosphere where the probe will be vaporised in what Nasa describes as the missions grand finale. With no Saturn missions scheduled, it will be at least a decade before another Enceladus flyby, let alone a landing.

The great mystery of whether humans are alone in the universe and what other lifeforms might look like from basic microbes to advanced civilisations remains out of reach for now. But Cassinis findings add to scientists growing confidence that there are places beyond Earth where life might find a viable home and that some of them are probably within reach of a spacecraft.

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Global hotspots for alien invasions revealed – BBC News

UFO hunters spot ‘weird orb’ while lost in hills near Boston

Three UFO hunters snapped a photo of a mysterious object while they were lost in the Blue Hills near Boston last week, according to reports.

Ramona DiFrancesco and her friends were lost for several hours Thursday night and had to be rescued by state police, WHDH-TV reported.

Here’s a photo of the alleged UFO in Blue Hills Reservation tonight. State police had to rescue the 3 hikers/UFO hunters. @7News pic.twitter.com/fsAfoX2q0A

— Adam Bagni (@AdamBagni) June 9, 2017

DiFrancesco, 18, of Plymouth, told the station she and her friends spotted UFOs they had never seen before Thursday night.

Well, we saw these two ships that had these like bright spotlights and then we saw this like weird orb that was like a spotlight, sort of, she told the station.

She showed a WHDH reporter a photo of the mysterious object she said had been taken with a Nikon camera.

BREAKING: Only on @7News: @MassStatePolice had to rescue 3 hikers in Blue Hills Reservation tonight who were hunting for…well…UFOs. pic.twitter.com/sS76XZ8rqh

— Adam Bagni (@AdamBagni) June 9, 2017

They got lost on Buck Hill, The Boston Globe reported.

Our phones were dying, the paper quoted DiFrancesco as saying. We didnt have any flashlights. We were a little unprepared.”

A state police helicopter spotted them and officers led them down a trail on foot.

They were not hurt.

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Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge to publish book about UFOs

Former band members forthcoming non-fiction book, Sekret Machines: Gods, is designed to shake people up, to make them question their assumptions

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Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say

A giant hole on Mars has scientists baffled and some UFO researchers are theorizing it could be the work of extraterrestrials.

In a video obtained by conspiracy theorist Youtube channel SecureTeam 10, a deep depression in the surface of Mars has astronomers questioning what it is.

Tyler Glockner, who runs SecureTeam 10, said the hole is estimated to be hundreds of feet across. The rocky terrain of Mars — which like Earth, has polar ice caps — does not account for what the depression is, Glockner added.

The images come courtesy of NASA’s Mars reconassiance orbiter, which has been exploring the planet.

Below is the video in its entirety:

NASA has given several possibilities of what could have caused the hole, including meteorites, lava tubes, ancient floods and volcanoes. But conspiracy theorists have other ideas.

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Glockner said the hole shows artificial characteristics, noting that it looks as if it has been hollowed out. Glockner added that the hole could also be an entrance of an underground civilization.

SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organization describes itself as the “source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet.”

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Actor John Hurt of ‘Elephant Man,’ ‘Midnight Express’ and ‘Alien’ dies at 77

(CNN)Actor John Hurt, the gravelly voiced British actor who garnered Oscar nominations for his roles in “Midnight Express” and “The Elephant Man,” has died at the age of 77, publicist Charles McDonald said Friday.

McDonald offered no other details of Hurt’s passing.

Known for playing tormented characters, Hurt memorably died on screen in the 1979 space adventure “Alien” when a creature exploded from his chest during lunch in the spacecraft mess hall. CNN’s “The Screening Room” in 2007 ranked it among its Top 10 favorite movie deaths.

Hurt always stayed busy, working more than six decades in television, movies and voice work in England and the United States. He recently played a priest who counsels Jacqueline Kennedy in last year’s biopic “Jackie,” according to IMDb.

“I’m very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work,” he said, according to his IMDb bio. “There are others who’d say, ‘No, wait around for the right thing’ – and they will finish up a purer animal than me. … Of course, I don’t do everything by any means: I do turn lots of stuff down, because it’s absolute crap. But I usually find something interesting enough to do.”

Accolades poured in on social media.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland tweeted: “My deepest sympathies to John Hurt’s family, friends and fans. He was a dear friend.”

Actor Elijah Wood tweeted: “Very sad to hear of John Hurt’s passing. It was such an honor to have watched you work, sir.”

Hurt was born in Shirebrook, a coal mining village in Derbyshire, England, the son of an an engineer and one-time actress and an Anglican clergyman and mathematician, IMDb said.

He trained to become a painter but, after being accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, worked on the stage in the early 1960s.

Hurt appeared in the first two Harry Potter movies, playing wand maker Garrick Ollivander, and did voice work and narration in movies like “Watership Down,” “The Plague Dogs,” and “Thumbelina.”

Some of his top television roles included Caligula in “I, Claudius” in 1976, General Woundwort in “Watership Down” and the War Doctor in “Doctor Who.”

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to Drama.

Hurt was married four times and was married to Anwen Rees-Myers when he died. Hurt was an alcoholic for years but said he quit drinking in 2005, according to IMDb.

A grand scheme never guided his life, he said.

“I’ve just been whipped along by the waves I’m sitting in,” he said, according to IMDb. “I don’t make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?”

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Aliens may already be here, space exec says

In an interview with “60 Minutes,” real estate mogul and Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow said he is “absolutely convinced” aliens have visited Earth.

In a wide ranging discussion with Lara Logan, the 72-year old Bigelow said that extraterrestrials have visited the planet already. 

“There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence,” Bigelow said. “And I spent millions and millions and millions — I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”

Bigelow who grew up in Las Vegas and still lives there, said that his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO, which sparked his interested. It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car, Bigelow stated. And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.

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The billionaire businessmen also said that he had close encounters himself, but would not go into further detail. 

He said he did not care whether people thought he was crazy when openly discussing the existence of extraterrestrials, saying it would not “change reality of what I know.”

Additionally, Bigelow discussed his aerospace company, which is currently working on building a space station, which it hopes to send to space by 2020.

It has already sent an inflatable human-rated habitat to space, known as BEAM. The structure is currently attached to the International Space Station. 

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