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!”



Marseille Airport Suspends Flights Due to Wildfire as Public Warned to Stay at Home

 Smoke rises over Marseille as a fast-moving wildfire spreads on the outskirts the city, southern France, July 8, 2025. (Reuters)
Smoke rises over Marseille as a fast-moving wildfire spreads on the outskirts the city, southern France, July 8, 2025. (Reuters)
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Marseille Airport Suspends Flights Due to Wildfire as Public Warned to Stay at Home

 Smoke rises over Marseille as a fast-moving wildfire spreads on the outskirts the city, southern France, July 8, 2025. (Reuters)
Smoke rises over Marseille as a fast-moving wildfire spreads on the outskirts the city, southern France, July 8, 2025. (Reuters)

A wildfire spurred by hot summer winds reached France's second-largest city Tuesday, grounding all flights to and from Marseille, injuring at least nine people and forcing many residents to evacuate or barricade themselves indoors as smoke choked the Mediterranean air.

A big city hospital switched to generator power, train traffic was halted in most of the surrounding area, and some roads were closed and others tangled with logjams.

More than 1,000 firefighters were deployed to tackle the fire, which broke out near the town of Les Pennes-Mirabeau before racing toward Marseille. Some 720 hectares (acres) were hit by the blaze, the prefecture said.

Nine firefighters were injured, according to the prefecture, or local administration. No dead have been reported.

The prefecture said in a statement Tuesday evening that “the situation is under control,″ though the fire has not yet been extinguished. It described the fire as “particularly virulent.″

It came on a cloudless, windy day after a lengthy heat wave around Europe left the area parched and at heightened risk for wildfires. Several have broken out in southern France in recent days.

Light gray smoke gave the sky over Marseille’s old port a dusty aspect as water-dropping planes tried to extinguish the fire in the outskirts of the city, which has some 900,000 inhabitants.

Hundreds of homes were evacuated. The prefecture urged people in the affected areas to stay indoors and off the roads. With the fire approaching Marseille, the prefecture also advised residents in the north of the city to keep windows closed to prevent toxic smoke from entering their homes.

One distressed family watched the smoke over their neighborhood in the hills above the port city and showed AP how the roof of their neighbor's house had been damaged in the fire as they worried about their own.

Marseille airport announced that the runway had been closed at around midday. The prefecture said train traffic was halted, notably after a fire neared the tracks in L'Estaque, a picturesque neighborhood of Marseille.

As a safety measure, the city's Hospital Nord switched to generators “due to micro power cuts.”

“The aim is to secure the imaging sector. We are not worried as we have a high level of autonomy,” the University Hospitals of Marseille said, adding that because of the disrupted traffic it asked workers to remain at their posts until the next teams starts its shift.