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Mysteries solved, secrets revealed, and questions finally answered
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Hello? UFO desk? I’m calling to report a…
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What brought down these five airplanes?
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The celebrated aeronaut found Earth-bound life difficult to navigate.
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A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla
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Moments and Milestones: Travel Air’s Mystery Ship
Moments and Milestones: Travel Air’s Mystery Ship
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Igor Kuznetsov reopened the Gagarin inquest to find out.
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What changes the speed of spacecraft flying by Earth?
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For some pilots, a good-luck charm is standard equipment.
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…on the Missing Persons File
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A new team sets out to solve old disappearances.
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Avi Loeb talks about his newest book, How Did the Stars and Galaxies Form?
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A modern fighter salutes a veteran.
In researching a reader’s letter about “Department of Flying Saucers” in the Sept. 2010 issue, I came across a report on the Web site, UFO Casebook, which claimed that General Omar Bradley had been flown overseas to view alien beings retrieved from a UFO crash site in the Arctic Circle. The report …
It’s not new material, but if you haven’t seen this, you owe it to yourself to take a couple minutes to watch. Austrian skydiver Paul Steiner did some ambitious wing walking earlier this year in this Red Bull video, with a pair of Blanix gliders flown by Ewald Roithner and Kurt Tippi high above the…
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A $1.5 billion particle detector, on the fly.
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You may have read about the X-37B, the U.S. Air Force’s new unmanned orbital spaceplane, in our January issue. The secretive satellite with space-shuttlesque delta wings made its first launch on April 22 of this year atop an Atlas V rocket, and has been in orbit since, visible on the web via a numb…
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As in, worst case.
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Stripped-Down Spaceflight in Denmark
However the Copenhagen Suborbitals project turns out, you have to give these people points for nerve. The eventual plan is to launch a human to an altitude of 100 kilometers inside a capsule barely large enough to fit one person, standing up. For the moment, the Danish team would be happy just to l…
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