Mars One's astronaut search is off to a quick start.

• UFO filmmaker talks close encounters - Thousand Oaks Acorn
• Congress to Discuss Search for 'Alien Earths' Today - Space.com
• Norwich man pens an alien adventure - Norwich Evening News
• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Take on Beer and Aliens in First Trailer for ‘The World’s End’ - Yahoo! Movies
• 78,000 People Apply for One-Way Trip to Mars - Time

• Little Billy loses grip on helium shark then pilots report near miss with blue and silver object - Scottish Daily Record
• Eerie UFO Conference lands at Bayfront Convention Center on Saturday - GoErie.com
• Stop the snark - Las Vegas CityLife
• Send Your Name and Message to Mars! - Science World Report
• Ex-Lawmakers Piqued, but Skeptical on ETs - ABC News

• Tiny 'Alien' Skeleton From Chile Still A Medical Mystery - Opposing Views
• Former Lawmakers Hear Testimony on UFOs - KLAS-TV
• 'Adopt-an-Alien Planet' Campaign Launches Today - Space.com
• 600 Chinese citizens join rush to live in Mars - The Hindu
• UFO sightings in the area - News 10

• 170 UFO Sightings in Iceland - IcelandReview
• Paradigm Research Group Hearing On Extraterrestrials Draws Six Former Members Of Congress - Huffington Post
• Cosmic Explanation for Life's 'Left-Handed' Amino Acids - Astrobiology News
• 'Sirius' Documentary Reveals DNA Test Results On Ata, The '6-Inch Alien' - Huffington Post
• Manned Mars Mission May Use Night Vision Gear in 2018 - Space.com

HuffPost Live featured a segment about theoretical invisible life that could exist on Earth.

• Saucer-Shaped Object Spotted Flying Over Russia - IBTimes India
• 1200 Aussies Saw Perth's 'Close Encounter' Therapist - International Business Times AU
• Anthropologists explain how to approach aliens parked in Earth orbit - io9
• Life on Mars? Finding It May Require Humans on Red Planet - Space.com
• UFO Flick 'Sirius Disclosure' Tries Bold New Crowdfunding Approach - Crowdsourcing.org

• UFO 'Witch' from Monterrey Mexico Revealed to MUFON Members - Studio City Patch
• UFO film series lands at South Florida Museum - Bradenton Herald
• Four Oddball Alien Planets Get Fingerprinted - Space.com
• Mars vs. Europa: Are we looking in the wrong place for alien life? - NBC
• Martian life signs: Meteorite amino acids - separationsNOW

Mars One announced that it will begin searching for the first Mars colonists in July 2013.

Researchers from fifteen UK universities have teamed up to search for extraterrestrial life.

Elon Musk recently explained that colonization is a long-term goal of the company.

• UFOs: Roswell and now Myrtle Beach - SCNow
• UFO Spotted Over Belvidere? - WIFR
• Golden 'UFO' appears in Argentina - GlobalPost
• Tom Cruise wants to travel to space and meet aliens - MSN NZ
• Mars rover's search for signs of life may come up dry - Nature

Recent discoveries by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate that the building blocks for life could be widespread across the planet.

• American UFO Reports Down 36 Percent After 2012 Spike - Huffington Post
• UFO Spotted Before Eiffel Tower Terrorist Scare (Video) - The Jewish Press
• 20 years since Cosford UFO mystery - Shropshire Star
• Has NASA's Curiosity Rover Found Clues to Life's Building Blocks on Mars? - Space.com
• UFOs responsible for missing socks - new evidence - Fenland Citizen

We talk about scientists who think Mars could still be habitable. We also talk about fireball UFOs and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

AIR DATE: 3/29/13

• UFO expert to lecture at Central Library - Mississauga
• Meet a martian on your way to Mars at Our Dynamic Earth alien invasion - STV (removed by source)
• The search for another Earth - Space.com
• Roland Emmerich Confirms Two ‘Independence Day’ Sequels In The Works - Geeks of Doom
• Peaceful Movie Aliens: 15 Visitors That Proved No Threat to Mankind - Moviefone

• Emmerich reveals details of Independence Day sequel - Yahoo! Movies UK
• Teen actress happy to ‘Host’ alien intruder - Boston Herald
• Local Man Provides Help For Alien Abductees - NewsChannel5
• Aliens have landed at Our Dynamic Earth! - allmediascotland.com
• Moving to Mars… permanently - Fairfield Mirror

• 'Fire ball' UFO sighting reported outside Houston - KSAT San Antonio
• Revelation: The world’s first UFO entertainment simulation - Gamasutra
• Easter eggs from space at beach UFO - Falmouth Packet
• Mysterious pond circles build viral buzz - USA Today
• Buzz Aldrin sees humans on Mars by 2035 - The Sheboygan Press

• Disc-Shaped Object Found Moving Over Sydney Skies - IBTimes India
• Alien Mysteries heads for US - C21Media
• Alien Hive: Creating alien babies is hard work on iOS, Android - Games.com
• Mars’ watery past - Times of Malta
• Life Could Have Thrived on Mars, but Did It? - Science Now

In this episode, we talk about circular contrails in England that some believe were caused by UFOs. That and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

AIR DATE: 3/22/13