Thursday 13th May 2010

NASA spacecraft shuttlejacked by aliens?

We're not experts, but if we had to pick the one place where crime levels should be at absolute zero, we'd pick deepest darkest space. Alas, it appears that even there you shouldn't fly your spacecraft in the wrong neighbourhood.

A German UFO expert has claimed that a NASA spacecraft may have been hijacked (shuttlejacked?) by aliens - who are now attempting to contact us.

Hartwig Hausdorf claims that Voyager 2 - an unmanned probe sent into space some 33 years ago to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus (stop sniggering) and Neptune - has started transmitting peculiar signals.

NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life found it (and spoke Flemish), but last month the probe began sending back distorted messages.

"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe, thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth," the author of UFOs - They Are Still Flying told German newspaper Bild.

Voyager 2 is currently more than 8.5 billion miles from Earth. Perhaps the alien criminals are trying to put Six Music on and the reception isn't so hot.