Catalog of Extraterrestrial Objects

Objects 1-5

My hypotheses of the object's function are as follows:

The object may be an autonomous surveying probe, which would explain its small size.

It may also have a crew and/or passengers. In the case of having only a pilot, the species on board would likely be of a similar size to humans, possibly slightly smaller. In the case of passengers, the species would be much smaller, around the size of cats.

December 19, 2021

Object 4

After the UFO sighting, I inspected the area the object had passed over in search of something it might have dropped. Yesterday, I discovered a small metal canister, about 4 by 10 inches, lodged at an angle in the ground, as if it had been moving sideways at an extremely high velocity when it hit. Its direction was also aligned with the direction the UFO moved, evidence that the two were related. The canister had to be cut open, but it wasn't too difficult. It was apparently made of nothing more than a steel alloy. Inside, I found a set of complex circuitry. It was not built like electronics on Earth. What looked like the processor was several thin plates of some semiconductor sandwiched together, with an air gap between them. Instead of flat circuit boards, the wires were woven in an elaborate 3-dimensional arrangement to efficiently use space. Additionally, instead of square components, most components were triangular, seemingly to maximize the available edge length for attachment. There were also several other components of non-obvious function. I'm assuming, as of now, that they are sensors of some sort. That would make this cylinder a probe, designed to be dropped over the target location by an extremely fast vehicle. I decided not to interrupt what could very well be an extraterrestrial science expedition, and welded the canister shut before returning it to where it had landed.

January 29, 2022

Object 5

I recently conducted a solo expedition to the countryside of Scotland to search for artifacts. On my expedition, I made yet another fascinating discovery. While looking through an area of grass strewn with mossy rocks, I noticed one rock that was not shaped like the others. Instead of being rough, it was smooth and rounded, halfway buried in the ground, with strange hemispherical indentations of varying sizes in the surface. It was around 5 feet in diameter, and looked as if it had been there for at least 70 years, likely much more, as it was covered in a thick layer of moss. I brushed away some of it, revealing that the indentations in the surface were connected by a web of narrow linear channels, around half an inch deep by a quarter inch wide. I wondered if it was some sort of language, before realizing the patterns looked familiar. There was an irregular band around the object, where the indentations were much denser. It looked suspiciously like a rendition of a galaxy, as seen from within the disk. I assumed, therefore, that the indentations were meant to represent stars, and the bigger indentations likely corresponded to brighter stars. The most interesting detail, however, was the fact that the indentations were not arranged in the same way as the night sky as seen from Earth. I decided to pull the object from the ground to get a good look at the entirety. Then I would try to figure out where in the galaxy the night sky would be the same as the markings. It took a lot of effort to free the stone, which I later determined weighed about 15,000 pounds. I had to rent out a crane and an excavator to get it out of the ground, and after I did, I still had to figure out how to get it back home. Fortunately, both me and the artifact were able to hitch a ride on a cargo ship, and 16 days later, I was home. It took over 48 hours to move the artifact from the ship to a heavy-lift cargo truck, and finally to my lab. To accurately determine where it might have come from, I laser-scanned it, and from that scan created a map of the night sky. Then, I put the map into my computer, and had it search all the known stars within 50,000 light years for a match. Assuming an error of ~5-10 arc minutes, and taking into account proper motion of between 1 year ago and 1 million years ago, the computer looked overnight, and in the morning had returned a list of 3 potential matches.

The first potential match is JS-239416, a K3.2V orange dwarf in the constellation Andromeda. It's about 3,200 light-years away. Because of its distance, astronomers don't know yet if it has planets, but this new evidence shows it might.

The second potential match is JS-440285, a binary star in the constellation Gemini, composed of an M6.1V red dwarf orbiting a G5.7V yellow dwarf. It's a bit closer than the first potential match, around 930 light-years away. The main issue with this system is that it shows signs of being prone to strong stellar flares. Planetary atmospheres would be partially blown off every time stellar activity increased.

The final potential match is JS-781042, a K1.5V orange dwarf in the constellation Sagittarius. It's about 2,200 light-years away. The problem with this star is the fact that it has very strange emission lines which suggest that it was once a much more massive star that was stripped of its outer envelope, likely by a supernova. No alien life would have survived such an event, so it's quite probable that the star has no habitable planets.

Out of the 3 systems I reviewed, the one with the best chance of harboring a spacefairing civilization is JS-239416. Not a lot of stellar activity, no evidence of a recent, nearby supernova, and no massive gravitationally bound companions that could destabilize a planet's orbit.