• UFO expert to take on European Parliament - Your Local Guardian
• UFO meet-up group provides research, discussion - Greece Post
• ‘Santa Claus’ fireball over Europe was from Russia - Russia Today
• OVNI 'Mother Ship' Explodes Over Tijuana (Video) - Gather
• Metal Sphere Falls From Space on Africa - Huffington Post

• Zombie and UFO queries are wasting police time, warns chief - The Telegraph
• Calls report ‘UFO sightings’ - Aberdeen Evening Express
• What is the Trekhgorny UFO? (Video) - Gather
• Are Aliens On The Moon? Scientists Want YOU To Join The Search - Huffington Post
• Poof to Life as You Knew It - New York Times

• 2011's Top UFO Sightings And Paranormal News (VIDEO) - Huffington Post
• National Geographic's UFO hoax over Connecticut mall - Digital Journal
• We should scour the moon for ancient traces of aliens, say scientists - The Guardian
• Two new Earths and the search for life - CNN
• The Darkest Hour is the best worst movie of the year - i09

Mars makes the list of ET-friendly planets using two new rating systems.

The first official trailer for Ridley Scott's upcoming movie Prometheus debuted today.

A student in Taiwan claimed he missed class because he was abducted by aliens.

• NASA to Announce Discovery of New Alien Planets Tuesday - Space
• UFO sightings over Christmas increase at Bray's Point with scientific phenomena - HULIQ
• Did the Military Really Try To Smuggle a UFO Through Kansas In Plain Sight? - Gizmodo
• Glastonbury 'UFO calls hotspot' - MSN (removed by source)
• UFO Over the Las Vegas Strip (VIDEO) - Huffington Post

The first footage has been released from Ridley Scott's upcoming alien movie Prometheus.

• UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES OF 2011 AND INTO 2012 - Discovery
• UFO – drifting lanterns - SunLive
• UFO and alien sightings on the rise in Somerset - This is Somerset
• How Would an Extraterrestrial Arrival Affect the Markets? - Benzinga
• New method to find ET - News24

• 'Prometheus' Poster: Teaser for Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi Epic - Moviefone
• No, we didn't learn how to make toast from an ancient alien - EMC Frontenac
• Zombies, UFOs, werewolves and witches...all reported to Lincolnshire Police via 999 - Spalding Today
• ‘Sesame Street’ Meets ‘Office Space’ with an ‘X-Files’ Twist - TubeFilter
• Seattle's Space Needle at 50: The rush job is holding strong - Los Angeles Times

Scientists in the academic world are active in the search for extraterrestrials, and take the subject extremely seriously.

• Anyone Out There? A New Way to Look for Alien Life - Time
• South Africa UFO Convention Theory: ETs Raid Earth For Gold - Huffington Post
• Why it’s so hard to hunt for aliens - Washington Post
• Coast UFO account baffles experts - Gold Coast Bulletin News
• Beyond the laughter curtain, this Main Line group provides forum for sharing UFO experiences - Main Line Times

A team of scientists recently proposed a wider set of criteria for planets that could support life.

• Photographer captures stunning images of UFOs above Hatfield - Welwyn Hatfield Times
• ET can be found - professor - News24
• Video: Are those UFOs over Seattle? - Seattle P-I
• Jupiter's moon gives hope of alien life in outer space - News.com.au
• If aliens really did land, what would they say? - AOL

• UFO expert speaks about nuclear sites - Collegiate Times
• Prince Philip's UFO Interest Inspires New Biography - Huffington Post
• I Just Saw A Real Life UFO - Seattle P-I
• Professor leads strategic shift in alien search - The Daily Princetonian (removed by source)
• The Hidden Sea That May Prove Aliens Exist - Yahoo

• If ET shows up, smile and invite him (her, it) to dinner - Times and Transcript
• Scientists: Advanced alien technology may exist in solar system - Digital Journal
• What to Expect When You're Expecting Aliens - The Atlantic
• This Dentist Says He Time Traveled - Studio City Patch
• Mystery of the 'alien corpse' woman stored in her fridge for two years - Daily Mail

• Alien signal still a mystery - expert - News24
• Voices of Faith | Do you believe there is life on other planets? - Kansas City Star (removed by source)
• 12 Juicy Bits From the Prince Philip Biography - The Daily Beast
• AMC Looks To UFOs For Thunderstruck - Horror-Movies.ca
• Nevada believers scoff at White House dismissal of UFOs - Mohave Daily News

• Extraterrestrial-life believers want truth from the White House, but only their truth - Westword
• New Orleans UFO Mystery Revealed - Huffington Post
• NASA: New Mars rover will look for the ingredients of life - Los Angeles Times
• When the aliens invade us . . . - Engineering News (removed by source)
• Syfy's 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files' Hits Season Highs in Adults 18-49, 25-54 and Total Viewers - TV By The Numbers

According to NASA, strange structures were detected on the large asteroid as it passed Earth.

• Kirk beamed up! Man who was ‘abducted by aliens’ plays for Boston United - Boston Standard (removed by source)
• Beaming me up: Extraordinary column of red light shines down from the sky - Daily Mail
• Alien gestation - The Scottish Sun
• Aliens may be in our solar system, we're just not looking hard enough - Daily Mail
• Medellin kite kid 'shocked' by UFO confusion - Colombia Reports