• Moment BBC film crew is held at gunpoint after trying to sneak into Nevada's Area 51 - Daily Mail
• Annual conference on extraterrestrial beings to be held in Westmoreland - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
• UFO Briefly Halts Israel Air Traffic, Investigation Continues - International Business Times AU
• Greenwich museums to host new exhibitions - Opodo
• Mars Curiosity Discovers Evidence of Alien Life (Spoiler: It's Us) - The Atlantic Wire

The country's vice president recently spoke at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Beijing.

The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada is hosting a special lecture on September 22 titled Military UFOs: Secrets Revealed. Speakers at the lecture include Nick Pope, former UK UFO desk officer; Col. Bill Coleman, former chief spokesperson ...

Curiosity's landing site has been dubbed Quad 51—no relation to Area 51, according to NASA.

Annie Jacobsen is working on a TV adaptation of her book.

• Will Smith's Son Jaden Asks Barack Obama If Aliens Exist - Huffington Post
• Top secret! Atomic Testing Museum pulls back the curtain on Area 51 - Las Vegas Weekly
• Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Search Gets Harder - The Costa Rica News
• When Aliens Attack: 'Battleship' Strategy with SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak - Space.com
• Lease Your Own Space Station - UFO Daily News (removed by source)

• UFO Amnesty: Ex-Army Colonel John Alexander Seeks Amnesty For Military Who Witness UFOs - Huffington Post
• Is that a picture of a UFO flying over Colleyville, Texas? - Fort Worth Star Telegram
• Hypothesis on alien life gains heft - Columbia Daily Tribune
• UFO Flying Over Shearwater? No It’s A Cyclone Helicopter - Ottawa Citizen
• National Atomic Testing Museum unveils Area 51 exhibit - Las Vegas Sun

We talk with the people behind the new Area 51 exhibit at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, and hear from George Knapp, the journalist who initially broke the story about Area 51. That, plus current space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

AIR DATE: 5/4/12

This year's San Diego County Fair will have an extraterrestrial theme, and will include UFO exhibits.

• Ex-UNO prof believes in God, UFOs - Omaha World-Herald
• Russian Roswell UFO Debris Is Part Of Area 51 Exhibit At National Atomic Testing Museum - Huffington Post
• Science Fiction or Fact: ET Will Look Like Us - LiveScience.com
• Readers report sightings of big black cat and UFO - Whitby Today
• Facebook Plans For Inevitable QR Code Space Race - Gizmodo