Author: UAP Staff

Say the words “alien invasion” and the stories most people think of are those told in movies like Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996), in which the battle lines between good and evil are cleanly divided. HG Wells dreamed up this template in 1897, with Martian invaders laying waste the home counties in The War of the Worlds. Half a century later, John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes (1953) envisaged the melting of the ice caps not as the by-product of human negligence but as the result of a hostile intervention by alien forces.In writing my novel Conquest, I was determined to…

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Running through walls, becoming invisible, and viewing faraway places with the power of your mind might sound like purely fantastical — and fictional — abilities. But they’re completely real for many of the characters in The Men Who Stare at Goats.In the 2009 film, journalist Bob Wilton travels to war-torn Iraq to follow an intriguing lead. He gets wind from a source that there’s a secret U.S. Army program designed to create “super soldiers” who can harness the power of extrasensory perception (ESP) and wield a range of supernatural abilities.Warning: Spoilers!Sure enough, Wilton meets the central figures in the program,…

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Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Earth season 1, episode 4.Nibs’ wild therapy session in Alien: Earth episode 4 raised an important question: are the Lost Boys actually human anymore? The Lost Boys are human-synthetic hybrids. As Alien: Earth has already shown, the consciousnesses of dying children were implanted into synthetic bodies. It’s why the Lost Boys all behave like children, and the entire program is the Prodigy Corporation’s effort to achieve immortality. But we don’t know for sure that’s what actually happened. Several different members of the cast of Alien: Earth voiced concerns about the process. Arthur Sylvia,…

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What if first contact wasn’t peaceful? What if the invaders were already among us?That’s the unsettling thrill that alien invasion films thrive on—tapping into the primal fear that something smarter, stronger, and totally indifferent to human life could drop from the sky at any moment.But these movies are more than just spacecrafts and laser beams. Behind the spectacle, they double as cultural weather reports—charting everything from Cold War anxiety to modern-day social unrest.Alien invasion stories, on the surface, imagine the end of the world, but deep down, they reflect the world as it already is—only amplifying our deepest insecurities: immigration…

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Summary Danger, the sentient incarnation of the Danger Room, is currently working against the mutant nation of Krakoa due to their ban on artificial intelligence. Danger has the potential to be a gamechanging character in the upcoming climax of the Krakoan era, as she possesses valuable knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of the X-Men. The X-Men have the opportunity to either make amends with Danger and convince her to join their cause, or she could be crucial to Orchis’s annihilation of mutantkind, allying herself with other dangerous artificial intelligences inside the villainous organization. Her decision could determine the outcome…

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In just one decade, a longtime fashion mainstay has been relegated to the sidelines of both haute couture runways and bargain clothing racks: fur.In 2014, over 140 million minks, foxes, chinchillas, and raccoon dogs — a small, fox-like East Asian species — around the world were farmed and killed for their fur. By 2024, that number plummeted to 20.5 million, according to an analysis from the nonprofit Humane World for Animals using data from governments and industry. (Disclosure: I worked at Humane World for Animals, formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States, from 2012 to 2017, but…

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Auburn, N.Y. — Schweinfurth Art Center’s three summer exhibits, “Nancy Crow: Sequences, Riffs, and Drawings,” “The Palace at 3AM” by Buffalo artist Gary Sczerbaniewicz, and “I Am a Friend of Dorothy” by Rochester-area artist Kevin Carr, will open at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 10.The opening is 4 to 6 p.m. at the Schweinfurth, with light refreshments available, and is free and open to the public. Carr’s exhibit, which is part of the Emerging Artist joint project of the Schweinfurth and Cayuga Museum of History & Art, is located in both locations. The Cayuga Museum will also host an opening from…

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Fighter pilots have reportedly experienced close encounters with UFOs, but they remain tight-lipped due to fear of repercussions.Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee claims that after being approached by British RAF pilots with UFO sightings akin to those of their U.S. colleagues, he realized the stark absence of whistleblower protections in the U.K. that would enable them to speak out.Consequently, these incidents go unreported, and the public remains uninformed, unlike in America where pilots can disclose their experiences mostly without consequence.To battle this silence, Lee has established an advocacy group named UFO Disclosure U.K. to push for the declassification of Britain’s X-Files.He…

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Project Stargate was a classified U.S. government program that explored psychic phenomena for intelligence gathering purposes. It operated for over two decades, employing remote viewing techniques to collect information on various targets.Origins and ObjectivesProject Stargate began in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland. The CIA and U.S. military initiated the program in response to reports of Soviet psychic research during the Cold War.Its primary objective was to develop and utilize remote viewing capabilities for intelligence collection. Remote viewing involves using extrasensory perception to gather information about distant or unseen targets.The project aimed to gather intelligence on foreign military installations, locate hostages,…

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