Anyone who knows me, knows I have this weird obsession with trivia and facts. If there is a weird fact about nature, space, etc, ya girl probably knows about it. You don't know how many times I've heard my friends say, "How do you know that?" or "Why do you know that".
I have no idea either. I just like to know things, I guess.
Anyways, aliens have always been an area of interest for me, so I thought I would compile some cool alien trivia for my fellow believers (and non-believers).
Roswell
This is one of the OG alien events. In 1947, something crashed on the Roswell Air Force base. An initial press release stated it was something along the lines of a "metal disc", although the story quickly changed to the object being a crashed weather balloon. The world went wild. Stories circulated from employees and residents about the "truth" of the crash. Some sought to expose the real story of what happened, while others tried desperately to get the world to forget this event. Over the years, more "evidence" has come out, yet the story remains unclear. What actually happened? You already know my money is on aliens.
Area 51
One of the most not-so-well-kept secrets when it comes to alien theories. This military base is located 100 miles away from Las Vegas, but was for years not acknowledged by the government. It has been said that the building is an experimental flight facility, but the mystery surrounding the area is immense. The facility is in the middle of the desert, and top security clearance is required to get past the checkpoints guarding Area 51. More and more evidence has leaked over the years over the true nature of the facility, yet more questions than answers have been raised. What is going on in this facility? Why so much secrecy? Aliens, perhaps?
Message from Space
In 1977, Jerry Ehman, a professor, received a message from a satellite. He was immediately intrigued, as he felt that this was a message from space. The random numbers and letters that the radio waves generate may look like gibberish to the untrained eye, but what Jerry saw was a sign.It is dubbed the Wow! signal, because Jerry was so impressed he wrote "Wow!" next to the message he circled. Apparently the signal that was received was stronger than normal, and appeared to resemble the frequency of hydrogen. Earlier scientists had hypothesized that if aliens were to try to contact us, it would be in either a mathematical or chemical format in order to catch our attention. When scientists attempted to find the source of the signal, they couldn't find anything in the direction it came from. They hypothesized that maybe the source had moved (UFO anyone?), but they have always been stumped as to why the signal has only appeared once.
Maybe the aliens are playing hard to get. You don't know their life.
No matter what you believe, you gotta admit that not everything can be explained. There are vast portions of the cosmos that have yet to be explored and could hold any number of answers for the unexplained things we experience. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go dig out my telescope.
