Meteor Showers - August 12, 2004

it's that time of year again, the time to look up.. it's the Perseid Meteor showers with the peak occuring at 2am on Thursday, August 12th. At the peak you can expect to spot 2 dozen meteors per hour.

Cassini SUCCESS! - June 30, 2004

The Cassini Probe successfully entered into an orbit around Saturn today, beginning what will be a 4 year tour of Saturn and it's moons, circling just 12,000 miles above the cloud covered surface of the planet. We look forward to the images that will result from this feat, as well as the scientific data that is sent back.. Remember to check back in January, when Cassini will launch the Titan probe!

Cassini goes into orbit - June 30, 2004

The Cassini probe goes into orbit tonite around the planet Saturn. It will spend the next 4 years circling the planet while sending back detailed data on the ringed giant and it's 31 (approx.) moons.. It will launch a second probe that is to study the great moon Titan.. we here at Taken by Aliens await the first photos and will of course post what we can here..

Spaceship One Completes Mission - June 21, 2004

Spaceship One completed their mission to be the first non-government ship to enter into space! With a 'major' glitch in the system the ship was still able to break the deep space barrior by a mere 400 feet earning the pilot the first set of 'astronaut wings' ever to be awarded to a civilian.. This is just the beginning!

Bootids Meteor Showers - due June 22-23 / 26-27

Although there is some speculation as to when or even if these meteor showers will develop the last time they were spotted they were nothing short of awesome!

Helping Hands: Training Monkeys to assist the Disabled - June 17, 2004

Yes folks, it's a "Monkey College" located in Boston, Mass. This organization has trained 93 monkeys to assist the disabled and the paralyzed with every day life. An excellent idea given that opposeable thumb that a monkey possesses it is able to assist in ways that a dog cannot. Monkeys have been kept as pets for some time now although many advocates wouldn't well.. advocate it.. my grandmother even had one for a time (a lloonngg time ago!).. My question is though.. hasn't anyone seen "The Planet of the Apes"? or maybe the question should be.. Did these guys see "Planet of the Apes" one too many times? ok.. so I'm on the fence with this one.. great idea.. should prove to be extremely helpful to those that need them.. but doesn't life imitate art?

Wild 2

and Nasa does it again with some awesome photo's of the Wild 2 comet. It seriously does look like giant footprints on the side of this rock.. This particular comet is astounding everyone, it's not your typical dusty ice ball, but a gravity defying, pock marked, non-dusty marvel that is not to be missed.

Pheobe - June 13, 2004

Well the pictures are finally up on www.nasa.gov and they are SPECTACULAR! I've posted one of them here for you to take a look..

An incredibly rugged and broken moon with the speculation of containing ice under the initial dark layer!

New Zealand Meteorite - June 13, 2004

A meteorite crashed thru the ceiling of a home in Auckland New Zealand. The grapefruit sized rock has already begun a bidding war for the piece of the big dark and set off a huge search for more of the precious stones. We will attempt to contact the home-owners to see if we can get them to donate it to us, although the lure of easy money I'm sure will take precidence over our investigation. We were able to find this picture, however, on TVNZ.co.nz!

SpaceShipOne set to takeoff - June 21

The first commercial spaceship is set to take off June 21st from the Mojave desert. We will be following this story extremely closely over the next couple of weeks here so keep checking back.. This is HUGE people, finally a chance for the non-space traveler (not the typical astronaut variety or the abduction variety) to make it to the great big dark! This event is already being referred to as the "Woodstock" of space travel, if you can't make it there, follow the developments here!

Cassini due to flyby Pheobe - June 11

The Cassini spaceprobe is due to take the closest photos ever of Saturn's moon "Pheobe". Pheobe is not your usual Saturn moon, orbiting in the opposite direction from the majority of Saturn's 30+ other moons it is significantly darker in color. We here at Taken by Aliens.com are looking forward to seeing these new photos and will certainly post them here as soon as they become available...

UFO's - Sightings over Campeche, Mexico

we've all read the news reports about the infrared video footage taken over Campeche Mexico of unidentified flying objects that were invisible to the naked eye, yet recorded on infrared video by the Military. What the news reports didn't include was the fact that this area is full of ancient Mayan ruins! The Mayans who are reknowned for their astrological carvings and study of the universe around them. Is this just a coincidence? You can view some excellent photo's and drawings of the ruins at this website.

Puget Sound, Meteor or UFO Washington State -

This week, June 2, 2004 it was reported in the news that a "possible meteorite" exploded over Puget Sound lighting up the nite sky for miles around. The articles even quoted people from the nearby military base.. nearby military base.. hhhmmm... very interesting..