An object described by NASA as 'artificial' came close to colliding with Planet Earth, say the space agency's top scientists. The craft is now moving away from us, but it's only by sheer luck that the close encounter did not end in disaster.

NASA has admitted that the object could not have been an asteroid. And in a startling later confession, it announced that it believed it to be "artificial" and "a spacecraft".

The object, known by the cover name 'asteroid' 2010 KQ, was tracked by the Near-Earth Object Program, based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California. This is the organisation tasked by the Government to keep track of alien craft approaching Earth.

In an official statement, suppressed until after the object had passed, NASA announced:

"Observations by astronomer S J Bus, using the NASA-sponsored Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate that 2010 KQ's spectral characteristics do not match any of the known asteroid types, and the object's absolute magnitude (28.9) suggests it is only a few meters in size."

However, William H Carpenter, of the Carpenter Foundation for Space Conspiracies, said: "The data about the size is clearly disinformation. Not only could they not track an object that small for so long, why would they even mention it?"

He added: "Clearly our planet came close to destruction at the hands of an alien craft - and now they're telling lies about it."

Without saying how they know, NASA scientists now claim that they expect the spacecraft to return in 2036.

"Clearly, they're trying to put us off the scent," said Carpenter. "I think 2012 is more likely."

An unmanned Russian lunar rover, missing for the past 40 years, has turned up on the Moon - and now we know why it disappeared. It was stolen by aliens.

"It's a problem NASA never talks about," said William H Carpenter, head of the Carpenter Foundation for Galactic Law Enforcement. "People imagine the biggest problems with aliens are abduction and the possibility of interstallar war. But on a day-to-day basis, the real issue is petty theft."

The Soviet-era Lunokhod 1 rover landed on the Moon in 1970. For nearly a year it bumbled about the Mare Imbrium, thanks to its Polonium-210 atomic power pack, sending back information to its Communist masters. Then it disappeared.

Now NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which is circling the Moon taking snaps of the surface, has found the missing vehicle.

NASA has released fuzzy images it says are the Soviet rover. But inside sources say they have much higher resolution images that are being kept secret.

"The reason is simple," says Carpenter. "The pictures show evidence that the Lunokhod has been adapted for use by aliens. According to my sources, small seats have been added, and the whole vehicle has been given a custom paint job featuring strange symbols."

NASA has so far refused to comment on the rumors. However, it's well known within space circles that theft is a serious problem for rovers and other planetary exploration vehicles. The US, Russia and the UK have all had missions end abruptly when their satellites, probes and buggies have inexplicably vanished - most notably on Mars missions.

Now it seems that the problem started 40 years ago and much closer to home.

Not everyone within the US space agency accepts the theft theory, though.

"I find it hard to believe," said one NASA scientist. "Why would aliens steal some Russki POS like the Lunokhod when, around the same time, our boys on the Apollo 14 and 15 missions were blasting around the lunar surface in American hot rods? I mean, have you seen the Lunokhod?"

Some scientists likened the Lunokhod 1 and its lander craft (right) to a 'flying dustbin'. But Carpenter thinks the aliens may have made a smart choice.

"Aside from the fact that it was unmanned, so the aliens didn't have to bother with abducting anyone, the Lunokhod was actually pretty robust," he said. "And that's what you want when you're driving around the hostile, unforgiving surface of the Moon. The American lunar rovers were much sleeker and better equipped. But you just know that, one week past the warranty period, they'd have broken down."

New body scanners installed in US airports have nothing to do with fighting the War on Terror. They are designed to reveal implanted alien probes. And if they find one, it's bad news for you.

This is the warning given by William H Carpenter, founder of the Carpenter Foundation for Alien Insurgency.

"Many of those who walk among us are victims of a secret war," he says. "It's a war that the authorities deny is happening. And it's a war in which you will see no bodies. But the countless victims number tens of thousands."

For many years, Carpenter claims, extraterrestrial visitors have been abducting American citizens and implanting mind control devices.

"These poor souls have become little more than alien terrorist zombies," he says. To the casual observer, the victims may continue to live normal lives. "They may play computer games, text their friends, watch Fox News and even give all the outward signs of being normal, red-blooded American patriots," says Carpenter. "But the blood that flows through their veins owes its allegiance to reptilian masters."

The probes are mostly placed in the head. But reports from abductees suggest many other forms of insertion. "This is why the TSA - the airport security arm of the New World Order - is insisting on whole body scanners," says Carpenter. "You never know where you're going to find these things."

The implants connect via the nervous system to the reptilian part of the brain, which humans inherited from Anunnaki Reptilian aliens originating from the Alpha Draconis star system. These extraterrestrial visitors bred with humans to produce a global elite. Since then, they have visited regularly to create a secret army of slaves, worker drones and assassins.

"They do this by implanting these probes that overcome a person's free will," says Carpenter. "If you encounter anyone in a dead-end job, civil service post or official capacity who seems unconcerned about their circumstances, chances are they're a Reptilian mind-control slave."

Now the Government is searching for these probed individuals - but maybe not for the reasons you'd think.

"The authorities want to keep tabs on these people," says Carpenter. "But it's not to eradicate them. Not yet. I have evidence that whenever a body scanner detects one of these slaves, that person simply disappears."

What's happening to them?

"I think it's something to do with the forthcoming Disclosure event," says Carpenter.

According to a number of sources, the Government is about to reveal the existence of aliens as part of a scheme to implement a One World Government.

"They're marshalling their forces. Building their zombie armies," says Carpenter. "Trust me. When these alien slaves return, it will be the end of the world as we know it.

Out in the uncharted wilds of New Mexico, mysterious alien beings are rustling cattle. Not content with mutilating the occasional cow, the extraterrestrial bandits have started stealing livestock wholesale.

One farmer has lost nearly a third of his herd and others report scores of missing animals.

"It always happens at night," said one farmer. "Or, you know, when we're not around to see it happen."

Another, who described himself as "devastated" and "still waiting for the insurance check", said: "They used to just take the parts they needed. It was annoying, but we could live with that. Now the little green sons o' bitches are taking the whole damn thing! And not just one cow, but dozens of 'em."

However, some scientists view this as a breakthrough in our understanding of these interstellar visitors.

"We always assumed that they were taking cow parts for analysis," says William H Carpenter, founder of the Carpenter Faith Foundation for Extraterrestrial Science. "The parts of the body they used to concentrate on suggested they were especially interested in reproductive issues. But now a different picture is emerging."

Carpenter believes the days of experimenting are over. "You'll notice," he says, "that human abductees are always returned unharmed. Probed, but unharmed. But these cows aren't coming back."

His conclusion is startling.

"They're eating them," he says. "I've always maintained that alien visits to this planet are connected with their search for resources. Perhaps their own planet is in ruins. Now they've located a new source of food."

So what does it tell us about aliens?

"They like burgers," says Carpenter. "And maybe they're partial to barbeques. But who isn't?"

And the revelations don't end there. In his 2009 book, Moment of Destiny: How the Promised Land will come to us, Carpenter claimed that aliens have been walking among us for years. In fact, he says, the human race - at least, certain influential and gifted members of it - are descended from extraterrestrials. These new developments prove his hypothesis, he says.

"They are so like us. The amount of beef they seem to be consuming, and the fact that they're stealing it, means they've learned to fit in with human society. They have become indistinguishable from ordinary Americans."

Our response to this turn of events should be gratitude, says Carpenter.

"After all their abductions and experiments, they seem to have made their choice," he says. "And we should be glad that their taste runs to beef - not humans."

The famous 'Ida' fossil - claimed by some to be the missing link with our monkey forefathers - isn't human at all, but an alien!

The $1 million, 47 million year-old fossil was said by its owners to be a common ancestor of both mankind and chimps. But according to Erik Seiffert of Stony Brook University in New York, writing in the highly respected journal Nature, "Our analysis and results have convinced us that Ida was not an ancestor of monkeys, apes, or humans."

According to alien fossil expert William H Carpenter, "Seiffert and his co-authors stopped short of the obvious conclusion - perhaps out of fear of retribution from powerful forces within the Government and the church. But it's obvious to me that they're right. It's not human. It's not a chimp. What else does that leave?

"It's of alien origin."

The similarities with early hominids are understandable, says Carpenter. "You can see why they got confused."

While Ida - aka, Darwinius masillae - isn't human, that doesn't mean there's no link.

"This is proof of interbreeding between extraterrestrial beings and early man," Carpenter claims. "This is why chimps went in one direction and humans as we know them another. This is the start of our separation from the apes, and it's all due to insemination by ETs."

The Ida fossil might be a first-generation hybrid, says Carpenter, or just an alien that didn't make it home. "Perhaps he was exhausted."

At his fortified compound in the Nevada desert, Carpenter says he has a collection of fossils charting repeated interbreeding between alien visitors and humans, "some as recent as the last century," he says. "And I have evidence that it continues to this day, particularly among so-called celebrities. What other explanation is there for their existence?"

Carpenter also says he is himself the result of such interbreeding. "I was created for a special purpose by a highly developed race of extraterrestrials for a mission of global importance," he says, "and one day they will return to explain what it is."

In the meantime, Carpenter is considering legal action to claim the Ida fossil for himself, "As the only known living relative."