Astronomers discover distant solar system with five planets
Washington Post - 11/7/2007
Astronomers have discovered a fifth planet orbiting a distant sun, marking the first time that another solar system with that many circling bodies has been found. The central star, named 55 Cancri, has smaller and larger planets circling on paths similar to those in our solar system. R

First planet with water is spotted outside Solar System
AFP - Agence France Presse - 7/11/2007
Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had spotted the first planet beyond the Solar System that has water, the precious ingredient for life. he watery world, though, is far beyond the reach of our puny chemically-powered rockets -- and in any case is quite uninhabitable. R

Giant boomerang-shaped objects over Fort Stockton, TX, 1972
HBCCUFO Research, Brian Vike, Director - 4/28/2007
"There was an Elementary School just a few yards from the corner of Main and Colpits and right up above the school was a Silver object about the size of a Football Field. It hovered about 50 feet above the school and it was shaped like a boomerang. From my position I figured that it was about 10 to 15 feet thick. But the strangest thing about the incident was, how the people in Ft. Stockton reacted to it."

Multiple pilots witness large object near Guernsey, United Kingdom
The Guernsey Press & Star - St Saviour, Jersey, - April 26, 2007 - 4/28/2007
Two experienced airline pilots on separate flights saw something up to a mile wide off the coast of Alderney on Monday afternoon. ‘It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. It was 2,000ft up and stationary,’ one of the pilots said. "At first, I thought it was the size of a 737. But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."

The 1973 UFO Chronology: A World-Wide Wave (NICAP.org)
Francis Ridge, NICAP.org - 4/25/2007
This is a 35-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1973, a major, world-wide sighting wave. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1973 chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID].

Potentially habitable planet found outside solar system
Associated Press, Apr 24, 2007 - 4/24/2007
For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe." R

Signs of water seen on planet outside solar system
Reuters, April 10, 2007 - 4/11/2007
Evidence of water has been detected for the first time in a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer said on Tuesday, a tantalizing find for scientists eager to know whether life exists beyond Earth. R

The 2006 Canadian UFO Survey: Analysis of UFO Reports in Canada
Geoff Dittman and Chris Rutkowski - 4/10/2007
The most important findings of this study include the fact that the yearly number of reported UFO sightings in Canada remains high, and 2006 saw the third-highest number of sightings ever recorded. People continue to report observing unusual objects in the sky, and some of these objects do not have obvious explanations. Many witnesses are pilots, police and other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgement. Although most reported UFOs are simply lights in the night sky, a significant number are objects with definite shapes observed within the witnesses’ frame of reference.

Annual Canadian UFO survey records 736 reported sightings last year
CP (Canadian Press), April 9, 2007 - 4/10/2007
Aliens and spaceships are a bit passe these days, but 736 reported UFO sightings across Canada last year shows an "underlying, real phenomenon" going on, says one of the country's top UFO researchers. R

Witness Robert Taylor of Dechmont Woods, Scotland case passes
The Economist, March 29, 2007 - 3/30/2007
It was a “flying dome”, 20 feet wide, hovering above the grass. No sound came from the object, and it did not move. It seemed to be made of grey metal, shiny but rough, like emery paper. About half-way down it had a circular platform, like the brim of a hat, set with small propellers. There were darker areas on it that might have been portholes.

UFOEvidence.org topic page on France UFO Program GEIPAN
UFOEvidence.org - 3/23/2007
Since 1977, the national space agency of France CNES has been helping civilian and military authorities understand the precise nature of Un-identified Aerospace Phenomena (PAN). The unit involved is the Rare Aerospace Phenomena Study Department (SEPRA) based at the CNES technical centre in Toulouse.

French Get a Look at Nation's UFO Files (Washington Post)
Washington Post, March 23, 2007 - 3/23/2007
The material dates as far back as 1954. Over the next several months, the space agency will post it to enhance scientific research seeking to explain what the French government calls "unexplained aerospace phenomena." R

France opens secret government UFO files covering 50 years
AFP (Agence-France Press), Mar. 22, 2007 - 3/22/2007
France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. R

Former Arizona Governor Now Admits Seeing 'Phoenix Lights' UFO
Leslie Kean, Mar. 17 2007 (Credit: UFO Updates) - 3/22/2007
Ten years after the Arizona UFO incident known as the 'Phoenix Lights', former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington, III, now says that he himself was a witness to one of the strange unidentified flying objects, even though he originally did not say so publicly. R

Disc-shaped object seen hovering over Chicago O'Hare Airport
NUFORC / UFOEvidence.org - 1/3/2007
At approximately 16:30 p.m. (Central) on Tuesday, November 07, 2006, Federal authorities at O'Hare Airport received a report that approximately a dozen witnesses were observing a small, round disc-shaped object, metallic in appearance, which hovered over Gate C17 at that airport.