With all of the recent talk about UFOs and aliens, spurred in large part by a government whistleblower, it is understandable that people might be a little more on alert for strange things happening in the sky these days. Case in point: This week, the American Meteorological Society reported 29

iStockphoto On New Year’s Day, numerous people in southwest Pennsylvania and parts of eastern Ohio reported hearing a gigantic boom. The National Weather Service confirmed that a boom which rattled area residents was most likely a meteor exploding. Read more news about space here. New

iStockphoto A meteor, going northeast at 32,000 mph was spotted and filmed flying over the North Carolina coast. The American Meteor Society said it received 148 reports from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia. More space-related news here. More than 80

Residents of the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Denmark, and France got a big surprise just before midnight local time on Saturday night when a huge fireball suddenly appeared in the sky. Numerous people were able to capture the unique occurence on video and

Former NASA astronaut Rusty Schweickart was the Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 9 mission (that’s him on the left above). Launched on March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 was just the third manned spaceflight in the Apollo program and the first flight of a full Apollo spacecraft with a Command and Service