12/16/2003
AFP - Agence France Press

Malaysian villagers claim UFO sighting
An unidentified flying object was sighted hovering over a quiet village in northern Kedah state near the Thai border, the second such sighting there in two years, a report said on Tuesday. more...

12/12/2003
China Daily.com (China)

Ufology in mysticism (UFOs in China)
UFOs, flying saucers and ET conjure up images from Hollywood films and blurred photos in tabloid newspapers. But a number of true believers in China, many of them highly educated, see merit in exploring unidentified flying objects and alien encounters scientifically. more...

12/6/2003
The Associated Press

Sci Fi Channel-backed researcher sues NASA over UFO files
A researcher backed by cable television's Sci Fi Channel plans to sue NASA for records she contends the agency has of a UFO that reportedly crash landed and was recovered by government workers in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1965. more...

11/25/2003
CenturyChina.com

Airline Pilots In Close UFO Encounter Over China
A shimmering blue and white object hovered past the cockpit window of the Xiamen Airlines plane as it started its decent into Nanjing. It drifted across the path of the passenger jet, the pilot later told officials, then accelerated sharply and disappeared at lightning speed into a bank of cloud. His story might have been dismissed as a delusion had it not been for the fact that two other pilots in different planes hundreds of kilometres apart independently radioed similar reports to air-traffic controllers within minutes of each other. more...

11/25/2003
Las Vegas City Life

Weird science: UFO Crash Retrieval Conference was a mix of serious and silly
Life imitated "The X Files" when several hundred UFO buffs thronged Sunset Station last weekend for the First Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference. more...

10/31/2003
Japan Today

Close Encounters in Japan
The skies above Japan are alive with extraterrestrial activity, according to the nation’s foremost UFO research group and its fearless leader. Matt Wilce examines the evidence. more...

10/20/2003
Bahraine Tribune

UFO Seen In Bahrain Skies
People from around the country have reported seeing an Unidentified Flying Object in the skies of Bahrain emitting strange lights for about a minute at around 11pm on Friday. more...

10/18/2003
Mansfield News Journal, Ohio

UFO still puzzles 30 years later
Thirty years ago tonight, strange things were happening in the skies over north central Ohio. A close encounter in Mansfield, that has since become known as "The Coyne Incident," is still raising eyebrows among believers and UFO investigators. more...

10/15/2003
NewsNet5, Ohio

Woman Says She Captured UFO On Tape
Gaze into the dark sky and you might be surprised at what is there. The phrase UFO conjures up all kinds of thoughts. For some in Geauga County, it might have been more than a thought when they saw something glowing. more...

10/14/2003
Billy Cox, Florida Today

UFO Expert Comes To Brevard (Florida)
George W. Bush raised a few eyebrows during the 2000 presidential campaign when he responded to a question about releasing government files on unidentified flying objects. "It'll be the first thing he (Dick Cheney) will do," Bush said. "He'll get right on it." more...

10/3/2003
ERIC BARTELS, Portland Tribune

Reach out and touch the extraterrestrial (Portland, OR)
The difference between the now-defunct 24 Hour Church of Elvis and the Portland Alien Museum is that nobody at the church really believed Elvis was alive. more...

10/2/2003
The Sun News, North Carolina / Myrtle Beach Online

Lights in South Carolina sky spur UFO theories
Wingfield and her friends aren't the only people seeing strange things in the Grand Strand's nighttime sky. more...

1/14/2003
Pravda, Russia

Half Of Chinese Population Believes In UFOs
Hundreds of scientists and engineers conduct thorough studies of the unidentified phenomenon. According to Chinese ufologists, aliens live among humans. Ugologists also claim that recently aliens started to show more interest in China. Most recent UFO was spotted in Nanking, China. more...

1/11/2003
Diario El Tribuno (Salta, Argentina)

Argentine Farmer Claims Having Seen UFO And Occupants
"It was incredible. We could see an object with impressive lights, side by side, spinning in a circle at high speed. Then other lights appeared which came and went over the same spot. It made our jaws drop," were the first words uttered by Julio Espinoza, a farmer and shepherd from La Poma. more...

11/28/2002
BBC

Ministers lift lid on UFO secrets
Details of a mysterious "glowing" UFO seen close to an RAF base more than 20 years ago have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. more...

11/28/2002
Reuters

Britain to Publish Files on UFO Sightings
The British government will publish files on reported UFO sightings as part of a shake-up of its laws on freedom of information. Among the documents to be published is the "Rendlesham File," which deals with one of the country's best known sightings of an unidentified flying object. more...

11/18/2002
Washington Post

A Trip as Far Away as Space-Time Will Allow
Earlier this month, George Washington University and the Sci-Fi Channel sponsored a symposium at the university where serious people took up these two topics. Scientists agreed that we won't be doing star trips anytime soon, but "soon" may not mean much in the context of the cosmos. more...

10/22/2002
CNN

Clinton aide slams Pentagon's UFO secrecy
A former White House chief of staff and an international investigative journalist want to know what the Pentagon knows, calling on it to release classified files about that and other incidents involving unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon," ex-Clinton aide John Podesta said Tuesday. more...

1/14/1997
National Enquirer, 1/14/97

UFOs Are Real - I've Seen Them Says NASA Astronaut (Interview with Astronaut Gordon Cooper)
Space hero Gordon Cooper, one of the original "Right Stuff" astronauts, says he knows that UFOs exist ­ because he's SEEN them! In a world exclusive interview, Cooper has broken his silence to become the first astronaut to speak openly about alien spacecraft. He says there's been a massive government cover-up of UFOs for nearly 50 years ­ and insists the American public has a right to know the truth. more...