UFOs

http://cufos.org/Roswell_fs1.html

In July of 1947, a rancher came upon a strange metal in his field and contacted authorities due to its strange characteristics.  Upon arrival, Colonel Blanchard ordered that the ranch be cordoned off.  When initial statements were made that it was a UFO, they were soon repealed and the Army claimed that it was a downed weather balloon.  Public interest faded, but after 20 years, people accused the government of covering up the incident with the story of it being a weather balloon.  No one knows what the true results of the situation was.

With this discovery, no more follow up was done, only speculations about the conspiracy.

My definition of a UFO is an unidentified flying object that we don't know the origins of.  A foreign plane can be considered a UFO, but I take the term to mean something of extraterrestrial origination.

I don't believe in UFOs because by now, I think there'd be concrete evidence that the government couldn't hide even if it wanted to.  There are many possibilities, but to this day I have no reason to believe in UFOs.

Astronomy Blogs

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/12031700-the-new-horizons-science.html

The Planetary Society: The New Horizons science mission to the Pluto-Charon System is about to begin 12/04/2014

After nearly a decade of travel, satellite New Horizons approaches the outer solar system to get images of Pluto and its moons.  It is the smallest satellite sent to the outer solar system, weighing only 30.4 kg.  Although the camera won't get high resolution images, they'll still be the highest resolution pictures of Pluto.  As it makes it's approach and rotates, the satellite will capture images of some different things and record data based on it's distance from Pluto.  It will take nearly two years for the job to be complete.