Author: UAP Staff

When Kate McKinnon was asked to name a Saturday Night Live sketch that was “perfect from start to finish,” she had an easy answer that’s also a little bit surprising — to Andy Samberg, anyway.”The first of the alien abduction character sketches,” she told Esquire and former fellow cast member Samberg, referring to Season 41’s famous “Close Encounter” co-starring Host Ryan Gosling.”And I had nothing to do with that,” McKinnon said. “Streeter Seidell and Mikey Day just wrote it and handed it to me on the morning of the read-through and were like, “We wrote this, I don’t know.””I didn’t…

If technologically advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in the Milky Way, they are likely to be both extremely rare and much older than our own, according to new research. Presented at the EPSC–DPS 2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, the findings reveal the specific planetary conditions needed for such civilizations to arise, which may be so limited that the nearest example could be located 33,000 light-years away—potentially on the far side of our galaxy. The new research builds on the idea that specific planetary factors are essential for life and technological development. Led by Dr. Manuel Scherf and Professor Helmut Lammer of…

I Am Not Your Enemy, by Reality Winner, Spiegel & Grau, 336 pages, $30 During World War I, the Committee on Public Information—a short-lived agency Smithsonian Magazine would describe in retrospect as “Woodrow Wilson’s propaganda machine”—ran an advertisement titled “Spies and Lies.” “German agents are everywhere, eager to gather scraps of news about our men, our ships, our munitions,” the ad warned. “But while the enemy is most industrious in trying to collect information…he is not superhuman—indeed he is often very stupid, and would fail to get what he wants were it not deliberately handed to him by the carelessness…

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. with the integration of Rubrik Identity Resilience into the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform. The new integration is designed to advance identity security by allowing customers to roll back malicious identity changes surgically and restore identity providers to a safe state. The integration seeks to address the fact that, as identity-driven attacks increase in speed and sophistication, organizations are under pressure to protect hybrid identities across on-premises and cloud environments. CrowdStrike says Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security already protects every identity, human,…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump admin will hold off on new tariffs against Chinese goods over Russian oil purchases unless European countries also impose steep duties, stressing that Europe must play a bigger roleUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday the Trump administration would not impose new tariffs on Chinese goods over Beijing’s purchases of Russian oil unless European countries also applied steep duties of their own.In an interview with Reuters, Bessent stressed that Europe must play a stronger role in cutting off Russia’s oil revenues to help end the war in Ukraine.Call for stronger European…

Just when it seemed like the AI race had already been claimed by the usual giants — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and Perplexity, which among others counts Jeff Bezos of …

In terms of cyber counterintelligence, the strategy sets one of its goals in combating foreign intelligence activities. “Although an increasing number of countries and non-state actors have these capabilities, we are most concerned about Russia, the PRC [People’s Republic of China], Iran and North Korea. In addition, a growing number of commercial firms are flooding the market with high-quality cyber intrusion tools, expanding the pool of FIE [foreign intelligence entity] actors that can threaten our networks and people,” the document states. Cyber operations of FIEs should be limited by building partnerships across various sectors, including federal, state and local governments, the…

Sentient, an artificial intelligence development platform backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has released an open-source AI search framework that it says outperforms leading closed-source competitors.The company announced the public release of Open Deep Search (ODS) on April 2, describing it as a high-performance, developer-friendly alternative to platforms like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.Sentient’s ODS aims to empower developers with open-source “Loyal AI” models, which Sentient says preserve the original intent of their developers.The firm’s fingerprinting technology allows developers to protect intellectual property while maintaining model openness — aiming to solve the biggest issue of open-source AI, the challenges of…

Alien abductions, a staple of UFO lore, have fascinated and terrified people for decades. Through early accounts and cultural influence, the phenomenon has woven itself into the fabric of modern myth and entertainment.Early Accounts and ReportsThe notion of alien abductions can be traced back to mid-20th century. One of the earliest and most influential cases was the 1961 abduction of Betty and Barney Hill in New Hampshire. They claimed to have been taken aboard a spacecraft and subjected to medical examinations.Another significant account involves Brazilian farmer Antônio Villas Boas in 1957. He reported being abducted and examining an alien. These…

Mundane wayward space snowball, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system’s latest and only third ever confirmed interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is almost certainly a comet.But lingering questions about the object means it’s not yet an open and shut case. Amid that uncertainty, famed Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is pushing the possibility that the interstellar interloper is an “extraterrestrial artifact” — perhaps even an “alien mothership” — here to menace or observe us. Which, though it sounds scary, could be interpreted as a good thing.”The discovery of an extraterrestrial artifact would reset our priorities to explore the real estate beyond…