1. Astronomers Margaret Turnbull and Jill Tarter of the Carnegie
Institution in Washington, D.C., have compiled a list of 17,129
nearby stars most likely to have planets that could support complex
life.

2. Astronomer Frank Drake made the first scientific attempt to
contact alien beings in 1960, when he used an 85-foot radio dish at
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia to listen
for signals from two nearby sunlike stars.

3. The more sophisticated efforts of the SETI Institute in Mountain
View, California, haven't fared any better. Since 1995, this
privately funded project has scanned more than 1,000 stars, at a
cost of $5 million a year, for alien radio squeaks.

4. Download software from the SETI@home project to sift for alien
signals on your home PC. 187,000 other people have.

5. Most likely spots for alien life in our solar system: underground
refuges on Mars, hot spots on Saturn's moon Enceladus (whose south
pole is dotted with geysers), and Jupiter's moons Europa and
Callisto (whose icy crusts may conceal vast, underlying oceans of
water).

6. Perhaps the earliest UFO sighting occurred in 1450 B.C., when
Egyptians saw bright circles of light in the sky. Some UFO
obsessives interpret Ezekiel: 1 in the Bible as a UFO report.

7. In a 2003 Harvard study, seven of 10 self-professed abductees
stated under hypnosis that they had been used for breeding or sexual
experiments by their alien captors.

8. Allan Cheyne, a psychologist at the University of Waterloo in
Ontario, says that those who believe they've been abducted by aliens
are often prone to experience sleep paralysis.

9. In space, no one can hear you sneeze: Streptococcus mitis, a
bacterium that infects the nose and throat, was inadvertently sent
to the moon aboard the Surveyor 3 probe. The bugs were still alive
when Apollo 12 astronauts retrieved the probe's camera two and a
half years later.

10. On September 30, 2006, the French Center for National Space
Studies beamed Cosmic Connexion, a TV program aimed at
extraterrestrials, at a sunlike star called Errai 45 light-years
from Earth. The video should reach them in 2051.

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