Mystery Space Object Sends ‘Inexplicable’ Signal to Earth  

This image obtained December 2, 2015 from NASA shows the Sun’s light reflected off a body of water as the International Space Station orbits Earth. (NASA/AFP)
This image obtained December 2, 2015 from NASA shows the Sun’s light reflected off a body of water as the International Space Station orbits Earth. (NASA/AFP)
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Mystery Space Object Sends ‘Inexplicable’ Signal to Earth  

This image obtained December 2, 2015 from NASA shows the Sun’s light reflected off a body of water as the International Space Station orbits Earth. (NASA/AFP)
This image obtained December 2, 2015 from NASA shows the Sun’s light reflected off a body of water as the International Space Station orbits Earth. (NASA/AFP)

A mysterious object in space has been sending an “unexpected” pulsing signal to Earth that is “unlike anything ever seen before.”

The object, which is inside our own galaxy, has been sending signals that are so unique they have completely stumped scientists.

The British LBC website quoted Nasa scientist Richard Stanton, who discovered the signal, as saying that he can’t rule out the possibility that the signal is coming from an alien civilization.

In a study published in the Acta Astronautica scientific journal, Stanton laid out his discovery of an unexpected “signal” coming from a sun-like star about 100 light-years from Earth in May 2023.

The signal was a pulse of light from the star that increases, then decreases and then increases again very quickly - something that the scientist says qualifies it as “strange.”

Even stranger, though, is that the unique signal from the Ursa Major (Great Bear) constellation was repeated again, exactly 4 seconds after it was first sent to Earth.

The pulses of light were completely identical, which according to the study, has never been seen in previous searches.

The “unique” signal also made the light from its nearby star behave strangely, and made the star “partially disappear in a tenth of a second,” according to Stanton.

“In over 1,500 hours of searching, no single pulse resembling these has ever been detected,” he added.

“The fine structure in the star's light between the peaks of the first pulse repeats almost exactly in the second pulse 4.4 seconds later. No one knows how to explain this behavior,” he said.

The study shows that a very similar signal was recorded in 2019, but was simply dismissed at “birds” at the time, which Stanton has ruled out.

The scientist also ruled out “common signals”, which can come from meteors, satellites, airplanes, lighting, atmospheric scintillation, and system noise.

Stanton said the signals from those sources “are completely different from these pulses.”

The study describes many different potential sources for the signal, including refracting light moving through the Earth’s atmosphere, which Stanton said was unlikely.

Other possible sources he discussed were starlight diffraction from a distant object in the solar system, or eclipses caused by Earth’s satellites or asteroids moving through our solar system.

But Stanton said that, in these early stages of research, it is impossible to rule out the involvement of alien intelligence.

“None of these explanations are really satisfying at this point,” said Stanton. “We don't know what kind of object could produce these pulses or how far away it is.”

“We don't know if the two-pulse signal is produced by something passing between us and the star or if it is generated by something that modulates the star's light without moving across the field,” he added.

Stanton said: “Until we learn more, we can't even say whether or not extraterrestrials are involved!”



Beijing Warns of Geological Disasters as Storms Lash Baoding Again

 Pedestrians are reflected in rainwater as they cross the street after the downpour subside in Beijing, China, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP)
Pedestrians are reflected in rainwater as they cross the street after the downpour subside in Beijing, China, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP)
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Beijing Warns of Geological Disasters as Storms Lash Baoding Again

 Pedestrians are reflected in rainwater as they cross the street after the downpour subside in Beijing, China, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP)
Pedestrians are reflected in rainwater as they cross the street after the downpour subside in Beijing, China, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP)

Beijing issued on Saturday a warning for geological disasters including landslides and mudslides after intense rainfall the day before, with storms circulating China's north unleashing for a second time a year's rain on nearby Baoding.

The Beijing meteorological agency's alert for 10 of the city's 16 districts came as local authorities also warned of flash floods in mountainous areas.

In neighboring Hebei, extreme overnight rains in Fuping, a part of the industrial city of Baoding, saw records broken at a local weather station with 145 mm (5.7 inches) per hour of precipitation, state broadcaster CCTV said.

The Xizhuang station recorded a maximum rainfall of 540 mm over an eight-hour period, superseding Baoding's average annual rainfall of about 500 mm.

Just a day ago, storms dumped similar amounts of precipitation on Yi, another part of Baoding.

The rain held destructive power, CCTV said, affecting more than 46,000 people and forcing 4,655 of them to evacuate.

Northern China has witnessed record-breaking precipitation in recent years, exposing densely populated cities including Beijing to flood risks. Some scientists link the higher rainfall in China's usually arid north to global warming.

China's Water Resources Ministry has issued targeted warnings to 11 provinces and regions, including Beijing and Hebei, for floods arising from small and medium-sized rivers and gushing torrents from mountains.

The alert also sought to ensure that reservoirs and silt dams are safe during floods.

Across the country, heavy rainfall has caused 13 rivers scattered through seven provinces to swell past their flood warning levels by as much as 1.4 m (4.6 feet), CCTV reported, citing the ministry's findings on Saturday morning.

Among them, one tributary of Inner Mongolia's Dahei River and another of Shaanxi's Yanhe River recorded their biggest floods since records began.

The storms are part of the broader pattern of extreme weather across China due to the East Asian monsoon, which has caused disruptions in the world's second-largest economy.

In a separate bulletin, CCTV also said two small reservoirs in northeastern Jilin province were operating above the flood limit, as rivers continue to swell. Local authorities have begun activating five large reservoirs to help with flood water discharge.

Extreme rainfall and severe flooding are highly monitored by Chinese authorities as they challenge the country's ageing flood defenses, threaten to displace millions, and wreak havoc on a $2.8 trillion agricultural sector.