Scholars Propose Faster Hunt for Lost Civilizations in Images of Mars and Moon

THE INTERNET — A short academic paper on searching for technosignatures beyond radio emissions has drawn notice from The Anomalist, which carried a digest entry by its writer credited as WM. According to the digest, the paper's author David Freeman remarks that the five-page study proposes a more refined and much faster way of picking likely candidates on rocky bodies of the solar system.

The digest observes that the approach is, naturally, founded on human creations and concepts. It nonetheless treats the proposal as a practical step in looking for signs of past civilizations in images of Mars and the Moon.

Farther afield, the digest says Natalie Wolchover writes of worlds that may be more habitable than Earth. The entry calls this a welcome blow to anthropocentrism, widening the field for life exploration to super-Earths orbiting K-dwarf stars rather than only Earth twins around Sun-like stars.

On the earthlier matter of unidentified flying objects, Grateful Nzenwa, reporting in Yahoo News, asks why sightings so often involve strange movements. According to the digest, Nzenwa weighs parallax and uncertainty of distance, moving and zooming sensors, and the fact that apparent hovering or sharp turns are not always what they seem. Infrared imagery, drones, balloons and birds, the piece adds, can all confound the human eye.

The digest closes with Ivan Petricevic of Curiosmos, who reports that Matthew Brown, described as a whistleblower, offered a mind-controlled UFO theory and a human breeding claim. Per the digest, Brown combined things he says he learned with his own speculation on consciousness, inherited abilities, oral traditions and supposed UFO programmes in an interview with Jesse Michels. These remain claims; the digest offers no corroboration.