According to a tweet last night from KLAS Las Vegas 8 News Now investigative reporter George Knapp, the government shutdown has even affected the workers at Area 51, the top secret Air Force base in Nevada that is rumored to house crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft.

A cryptic website boldly teases 'The Biggest Discovery That will shake the earth.'

• Shock and awww... 'UFO crashes' into London primary school playground – The Independent
• Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 7 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets – LiveScience
• UFOs: Lost Time, Lost Clothes – Syracuse New Times
• To dream the impossible dream – The Economist
• Meet the Croppies – Pacific Standard

We discuss a recent military aviation magazine article that details Iranian air force jets being scrambled to intercept UFOs. That and other UFO and space news on this episode of Spacing Out!

AIR DATE: 10/4/13

• Authors, lecturers to come together at UFO Conference – Sentinel and Enterprise
• UFO activity in September, 2013 – Techi
• News media mistake commercial rocket flight for a UFO – Science Recorder
• Is discovery of extraterrestrial life being kept under wrap? – Daily Bhaskar
• Channel 5 to Debut Wanda and the Alien – World Screen

According to this Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, nearly 1,000 exoplanets have been confirmed.

• We are not ready to fight UFOs – The Voice of Russia
• A 'Cyborg Astrobiologist' To Study Alien Planets – Physics Central
• Super-Earth Alien Planet May Have 'Plasma' Water Atmosphere – Huffington Post
• UFO lecture presents evidence of phenomenon – The Stylus
• Alien Conspiracy Theorists Expect Biglaw To Uncover The Truth, Bill For It – Above the Law

• UFO crashes into North Harringay primary school playground – Tottenham & Wood Green Journal
• UFO over Indian Ocean? SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sparks sightings – NBC News
• NASA Cassini Discovers Plastic on Saturn's Alien Moon, Titan – Science World Report
• Dangerous Alien Invitation? – American Spectator
• Patchy clouds on Jupiter-like alien planet found – Economic Times

• UFO just a rocket: Expert – Jacaranda FM
• Number of Confirmed Alien Planets Nears 1,000 – Space.com
• UFOs Over Wittenberge, Germany, Videotaped With Night Vision – Huffington Post
• Talks will focus on UFOs – Napa Valley Register
• Only Spielberg knows – Troy Record

• UFO Sighting Above Smoking Ship Raises Alarms – KpopStarz
• ‘Ender’s Game’ TV spot features alien battle scenes in space – Los Angeles Times
• A Colonial UFO Sighting – Syracuse New Times
• Callers report UFO sightings in Augusta – Morning Sentinel
• The truth is out there! Are UFO secrets in hacked ‘X Files’? – Welwyn Hatfield Times