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Saturday, May 17, 2003
They're out there ... in the suburbs
Northern Territory, Australia - May 6, 2003 - Beachside residents thought they were being invaded by aliens when a set of mysterious bright lights appeared in the night sky.
"People were out on the road, pointing to the bright lights and yelling it was an alien invasion," mother of three Yvonne Morris said.
"People were just stunned."
The Northern Territory News was flooded with calls from people who all say they saw the same thing from their Nightcliff homes -- eight bright yellowish-orange lights in perfect formation over the Timor Sea.
Brad McDonald, 48, was at the Nightcliff Jetty fishing with family and friends when he saw the lights on Saturday about 9pm.
"I've never seen anything like it -- it was bloody strange," Mr McDonald said.
But he said he had a strange feeling before he saw the glowing lights.
"I thought it was odd before that because the fish were biting like hell, and then all of a sudden the tide went out."
He described the lights as bright orange-yellow about 1km away, and in perfect formation.
Ms Morris and her children were sitting on the verandah of their beachfront property when the orange-yellow lights first appeared.
"The eight lights were about 45 degrees from each other, and appeared to be fairly structured."
UFO sightings are fairly common in the NT -- no place more so than Wycliffe Well, 1100km south of Darwin, where Holiday Park owner Lew Farkas is the local expert on UFOs, having seen them with monotonous regularity over 18 years.
"The closest look I got of one was the spaceship's portholes, but I couldn't see the alien bloke inside," Mr Farkas, 54, said last night.
He said the formation described by the Nightcliff residents was similar to ones he had seen.
"It sounds like it was one mothership, with the other supporting craft on the side," he said.
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Researcher Is Calling All UFO Witnesses
AZTEC, N.M. - Researcher Stanton Friedman wants to interview witnesses to the famed Roswell, N.M, crash in 1947. It's the stuff of legend. At the time the Air Force touted the discovery of a flying saucer.
Friedman is convinced there was a cover-up and he wants to talk to people who were actually there. Friedman researched the site for the government years ago.
Now, he says he's racing the undertaker. He says there are people who know about Roswell, but don't know who to talk to.
Stanton's toll-free number is (877) 457-0232
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Counting on Distant Worlds: Math as an Interstellar Language
If some day we receive an information-rich signal from another star, no one expects it to be written in English, Chinese, or Swahili. Instead, researchers engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) often suggest that mutual comprehension will come through the language of math.
Sundar Sarukkai, a researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in India, suggests that mathematics on other worlds may differ considerably from ours. He is not convinced by the argument that something as basic as counting will lead to the convergent evolution of mathematics on Earth and on distant planets: "Even if numbers or counting can be a common genesis, who is to say that calculus is a universal, necessary consequence of mathematical thought?"
In Sarukkai’s view, the attempt to identify universal languages reflects humankind’s long-standing uneasiness with ambiguity. Typically, ambiguity is seen as an obstacle to understanding the world, as reflected in the eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Reid’s view that "there is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." As an antidote, scholars have been preoccupied over the centuries with finding languages that have fixed and definite meanings. "The search for 'universal' language or 'pure' language," say Sarukkai, "is part of human history in all civilizations. In part, this reflects an enormous distrust of ambiguity in meaning." Ironically, it is exactly the imprecision of any language that makes it work so well. As Sarukkai notes, "it is semantic ambiguity that allows individuals and societies to develop and flourish!"
If we cannot count on the universality of mathematics for interstellar communication, is there any hope of comprehending at least some of the meaning an extraterrestrial is attempting to convey? "Definitely yes," according to Sarukkai. But he doesn’t think we will stumble across a pre-existing universal language. Rather, we will need to invent languages for interstellar communication: "We always construct languages based on our needs, our capacities, and our traditions."
"I doubt we will ‘find’ a language ready for use," says Sarukkai. The key, in his view, is to expect some ambiguity as we attempt to bridge the vast distances that separate humans and extraterrestrials: "In looking for a language for interstellar communication, we should be looking not for one-to-one matching, but for some kind of mapping which allows us to understand ‘vaguely’ rather than with certainty."
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Are aliens hiding their messages?
Two physicists suggest a way in which aliens could send messages to each other across space that not only disguises their locations but also makes it impossible for a casual observer to even distinguish the messages from background noise.
The signaller splits the message into two parts, so that the photons are sent in opposite directions to mirrors located far from the home planet. The mirrors redirect the signals to the intended receiver, who recombines the photons to reconstruct the message.
The key idea is that the message is encoded not by the pattern or sequence of photons sent over time, but by their positions in space. For example, this can be done by shining the light beam through a stencil.
If the image is tiny enough, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - which limits the amount of information that can ever be known about a microscopic particle - means that measuring the position of the photons makes it impossible to gain accurate information about the direction in which they are travelling. So if you detected the message, it would be impossible to determine the origin of the two beams. "The mere act of reading the message introduces enough uncertainty to make it useless for direction-finding," explains Simmons.
Neither the intended receiver nor any eavesdropper would be able to locate the home planet of the sender. What's more, it would be impossible to detect the message at all without extremely sophisticated technology. In order to recombine the beams and recreate the message you would need to detect the arrival time of the photons extremely accurately to identify pairs of photons split by the sender. "Such photons are distinguishable from the background of stellar photons because they arrive very close together in time," says Simmons. "But any eavesdropper, like us, might not realise this and see only the background."
"The proposal is ingenious," says Jonathan Rosner, a physicist at the Enrico Fermi Institute in Chicago, although he says it is hard to tell if the method could work in practice. Paul Shuch, director of the SETI League in New Jersey, also points out that being able to disguise a sender's location would be extremely useful for secure military communications here on Earth. "In a few decades, when it's declassified, we may well find that such a technique is already in use."
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Man phoned at home to go UFO hunting
Lewisham UK - AN ALIEN hunter says he has caught a UFO on camera with a police helicopter chasing it.
Chris Martin, 42, was telephoned at home by his sister, Patricia Roberts, who was watching events unfold from her back garden at around 9.30pm.
He rushed to Prince of Wales Road, Blackheath, near Mrs Robert's Lochaber Road home, where he says he saw a flying object being tracked by the chopper nearby.
Mr Martin, of Patrick Connolly Gardens, Bromley-By-Bow, says he filmed the helicopter focusing its searchlight on a light-emitting flying object.
The father-of-one told News Shopper: "I can't say what it was, but it should not have been there, and was definitely a UFO.
"The police helicopter seemed to be chasing it and shining its searchlight onto it. I believe they were sent out to intercept the craft."
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