IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or just plain bizarre. The search tool employs IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software and the UFO Crawler should help users precisely target and gather information from relevant sources, including thousands of documents and files collected in the vast Anomalies Network archive, as well as multiple global resources across the Web on topics such as such as ghosts, conspiracy theories and extraterrestrials, the companies said in a statement. Previously, using a conventional Web search engine, a search on a term such as Area 51, for example--would return thousands of irrelevant and inaccurate results, the companies said.The companies hope to tap a growing national interest in UFOs and all things odd. Indeed UFO sighting do seem to be on the rise. For example: * In February at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, pilots, managers and mechanics at the United Airlines terminal saw an odd, disc-shaped object hovering silently overhead, just below the dense cloud layer. * This week in the UK people reported an odd object floating across the moon. * Also in February calls poured in to police and TV stations after many residents of the metropolitan Phoenix region observed a line of four bright lights near the horizon. In addition to launching UFOCrawler today, The Anomalies Network is also introducing numerous site enhancements to enable better collaboration among users as well as major performance enhancements to the site. The 10-year old Anomalies Network, touts itself as being the world's largest alternative information source. It also announced site enhancements that include new content and features to help more users contribute and collaborate and share information based on their interests. According to a press release the site will feature a new user-driven search and RSS subscriptions as well as account access also enable users to customize and view only information of interest to them. The site is also undergoing major performance improvements including the deployment of the NetliOne Platform for global site caching powered by Netli, as well as further network improvements at their state of the art datacenter hosted by Silicon Valley Web Hosting.
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how about lions, tigers and bears oh my?
the truth is out there in the big blue, as long as money is to be made.
Yawn
Better to hook Ol'Blue up with public access full spectrum skywatching web cams to watch for and detect flying anomalies.
Of course, this idea won't sit well with our military and national security agencies, now will it?
Open your eyes
SETI is a bigger waste of time, IMO. Probably why the government axed it. The lack of an ET to Earth transmission doesn't stop skeptics, astronomers, and scientists of all kinds from believing that ETs exist, somewhere. Where's the proof? A belief in ETs is nothing more than being akin to a religious belief, at this point. Sure, we exist here but that doesn't equate to instant life out there. Why believe until there is empirical evidence to know beyond a shadow of a doubt? But they do.
These same "educated" people laugh and sneer at UFO witnesses and abductees who say they've experienced the extraordinary firsthand. The very people who have passed mere belief and entered into the realm of knowing. No, they don't possess the alien ashtray and smoking jacket of an ET, but they claim to have experienced the unbelievable. What they define their experience as isn't central to their claims, but concentrate on the source(s) of their experience instead. Mental illness, time travelers, myth, religious type manifestations, misidentification of common objects, etc. Who really knows? I'm not so arrogant and conceited to call them all hoaxers, liars or any of the convenient explanations so thoughtfully labeled upon them by "those who know better." It's entirely possible that there is life out there as the scientific community resonates, but it's also possible that the life out there is already here. It may not matter to them whether we believe they exist or not.
To the last comment, are you
To the last comment, are you for real? Basically you are saying we are the only race in this vast universe, Sorry to burst your bubble but you are either not very bright or another religious nut who still thinks that the earth is flat.
Most people believe in God (Myself is one of these people) but you cannot see God, but you accept that God does exist. So saying that you have to accept that we are not the only species in the universe.
Its like for example: Hide a key under a brick, you know that key is there even if you cannot see it. Doesnt mean its not there just because it cannot be seen.
Even the Bible says WORLDS without end, Not WORLD but WORLDS. Human life is not the only species in this vast universe of ours that we call our back garden. And just like the creatures that live and breathe in our own back gardens, also goes for life in the universe.
God cannot be seen = we accept he is real.
The same goes for our Ancestral brothers.
Are we the Aliens that everyone calls these creatures from outside of our own world, Alien is a bad word, even quite racist in a way.
Other races from other worlds are the same as us, we all live in the same universe, but as for them visiting earth, maybe they do and maybe they don't.
My final thought is this: If we exist who is to say other species don't and anyone who says its impossible, is not very clever, because if they cannot exist, then we shouldnt either.
I agree
I agree
UFOs
The UK UFO research group shut down last year for lack of anything to do.
UFOs fill an emotional need for some people. "Unidentified" doesn't mean "space aliens". Unsolved crimes aren't imputed to space aliens, so why unknown aerial phenomena?
There has long been no burning need to investigate them since they've obviously caused no harm.
All identified "U"FOs have been natural phenomena, hoaxes, etc. Why not then the unidentified ones?
And, if they were intelligently manned, why have they played hide-and-seek for decades, if not centuries?
Whether they are, or aren't....
Those who are not interested in things like "UFOs" or "Time Travel" are simply not interested and perhaps are more than skeptical about such things.
As a former administrator of the site, I can't tell you that they DO exist either. I can tell you I AM skeptical, but instead of writing something off before you have a firm grasp of the facts, maybe you should visit the site first.
There are two things I detest as a researcher. Those who believe, and those who do not believe (the severe debunkers, the incredible disbelievers).
The fact is neither group takes science into account, neither will cite facts properly and neither side has the real answer. It's only those who take the time to examine, with an objective eye, all the findings of the various reports, researchers' information and those who were eye witnesses to events, and then correlate the data with hard core science who are finding answers.
Believers and Skeptics alike are at opposite ends of a very broad spectrum of people, but they are no where near in the majority.
As for the government knowing, looking or pulling money? That's all very questionable to me. SETI is a viable program, and if you believe you're alone in the entire universe, save for the other thousands of life forms on this planet, then you're almost certainly wrong about it.
As an amateur astronomer of 40 years now, I will predict that not only are their other intelligent life forms out there, I will say there are MANY types, and many sorts of societies. I will further postulate that we will meet them someday, if they aren't already visiting us.
Finally, I will say that science does not know everything, and we have only begun to scratch the surface of physics, what we can do, where we can go and how we can manipulate the very fabric of space/time/gravity.
Star Trek, the tv series was a science fiction story, and yet, today we have communicators (cell phones) that can talk around the world. The military and private companies are developing a "phaser" like device that can stun, without killing. We have "sensors" in place on other planets today.
Ladies and gentlemen, I predict that the UFO phenomenon was only the beginning of what is to come. Visit the site, and speak with some of the researchers and other visitors there before you decide to write this off as "garbage".
Thanks...
Rick Donaldson
Former Forum Administrator and Moderator
The Anomalies Network
tired of debunkers
Look, i dunno if UFO's are truly real. But im tired of debunkers claiming "optical illusion" , blah...blah..etc... Al though i have no pics my mother, father and myself saw what we thought was a "star" in the night sky about 10 years ago in Arizona. It was not a series of light, not a slow moving object, and did not hover. It was a night, my mother first noticed it by saying "Is that a aircraft or something? " We all looked, and to our surprise this "star" made movements contraindicating all present physics. It zigged, zagged, criss crossed the sky (in a very small area). It turned on a dime, defying the laws of enertia. then shot off like a bat out of hell and dissapeared. This makes me neither a believer or a non believer. But it was unlike any UFO sighting I have ever heard of. Im still open to debate. But what we saw was unearthly.