Mysterious creatures and UFO sightings baffle Pennsylvanians

Pennsylvania Ufologist Stan Gordon is reporting that UFO and other unusual strange incidents came in during 2008 from 50 counties - up from 37 counties the previous year. Giant birds - also known as Thunderbirds - Bigfoot and UFOs continue to be reported in the Keystone state.

Motorists in Wasgington County traveling along a major route in May pulled over to watch as a ''huge dark colored flying creature that looked more like a giant bat than a bird'' was low flying as it passed over the cars.

A Warren County woman reported in May that a Bigfoot-like creature climbed onto her home deck as she watched from inside.

While a major increase in UFO reports were coming from the eastern end of the state this year, Gordon reports that many unusual stories from the western end of the state include spherical, disc-shaped, luminous objects and triangular-shaped objects. Multiple witnesses from several locations reported a glowing whtie object on Sept. 5. Two Elk County hunters first saw glowing lights in the woods on Oct. 5, and soon discovered a glowing human-like form standing about 3 feet tall. On the same date in Tioga County, a cigar-shaped object was spotted approaching from the north.

Read Gordon's full report here.

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Latest UFO Sightings for January 28, 2009

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Florida-01-06-09-I was outside my house about 7:30 PM enjoying the night sky when I looked to the west and saw a very large, white lighted circular shape. The light was extremely close to the ground about 2000 feet and 10 miles away to the west over the Everglades. I watched for about 5 minutes and the object never moved. I first thought it was a helicopter with a search light: however a helicopter happened to fly in front of the object, and clearly was much smaller than what I was seeing.

The helicopter was much closer to me, so if the object was a helicopter then it would have appeared smaller do to the fact it was further west then the helicopter. I also saw a red light much higher to the northwest that also never moved for the 5 minutes but had to be 20,000 ft. and 3x the distance from the object.

I went into my house to get my wife and she came out and observed the sight with me. Her first thought was it was a planet (Venus), but was in the wrong position. After watching for another 10 minutes and the object never moving, my neighbors came by walking and I pointed out the light to them. They were amazed as I was how large and it was. source: www.mufon.com

Indiana-01-05-09-The night was very clear and cold with moonshine and no clouds. As I was closing curtains on the south side of the house, I stood and watched the sky for a while. Then from the east, an oval-shaped object came into view.

It had one solid, very bright white light and flashed a very bright white light. Right behind it, was a small sphere. It was a dull to light red color, following like a caboose on a train.

I compared the first object to other planes in the area, but it was not a plane. I have never ever seen anything like that. source: www.mufon.com

Nebraska-01-10-09-I was driving in Nebraska on highway 80 going west near Grand Island when I looked to the sky and noticed a big, circular object moving at a high speed. It was bright green, and glowing, and was a little smaller than the size of the sun.

I had no idea what it was when I first noticed it because it was too big to be anything identifiable. It seemed to be over 10,000 feet high, but no higher than 14,000. I spotted it midway in the sky and it quickly sank below the horizon never to be seen again.

I didn't see it for more than 45 seconds. I was stunned when I saw it and immediately thought it was a UFO. I was excited and scared and looked all around for other signs of UFOs. I considered calling the highway patrol, but knew they would do nothing about it. source: www.mufon.com

Northern Ireland-12-31-08-I was fascinated last night when I turned the news on and heard the story about the possible UFO sighting and wind turbine damage in England. It was just over a week ago I saw not only one, but two yellow orange lights in the sky as I gazed out the window of our house at 6 AM on Dec 31.

I didn't tell too many at the time, as I didn't think anyone would believe me and what I saw was really strange. It was not an aircraft as there was no noise. They seemed to hover for a short time and then they took off really quickly. It was faster than any plane I have ever seen in the sky.

The speed was unreal. I watched as one disappeared into the distance, and then the other just appeared to disappear. I am totally convinced that this was a UFO, but I guess I will never know. Alison from Poyntzpass, Co. Down, Northern Ireland,

South Jersey Ghost Research Investigation

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Burlington County Prison Museum
Mount Holly, NJ

Designed by Robert Mills, The Burlington County Prison Museum was once the oldest prison in continuous use in the United States and is now a National Landmark. When the last prisoners left in 1966, it had been open for 155 years. Today, the building is open for tours. There have been a lot of unexplained activities reported over the years including voices, objects moving or levitating, apparitions and much more.

The Burlington County Prison Museum is located in Mt Holly, NJ. The prison was built in 1811 and was designed by the famous architect Robert Mills (the designer of the Washington Monument). It is a large rectangle building made of stone and iron that looks more like a castle from the outside. It was used continuously as a jail until 1966. Since then, local legends spoke of the ghosts that inhabited the building. One in particular was the ghost of Joseph Clough, a convicted murderer who killed his mistress. He was held in the death row cell which consisted of an eye hook in the floor where he was always chained and an extremely small window. He was eventually hanged. The guards and other prisoners began to report hearing his moans and chains rattling from that cell. The guards and inmates also reported seeing someone in the empty cell as well as objects levitating in the cell.

In 1999 the county began a restoration project transforming the run down building into a museum and returning it to its original condition. As the work progressed, the construction workers began reporting strange events such as loud noises, voices and screams coming from various areas of the building.

They also reported having their tools disappear when they turned their backs only to find the missing items in another room or on another floor later on in the day. Eventually some workers were leaving early so they would not be the last ones in the building.

The county officials decided to contact a prominent local ghost research group, South Jersey Ghost Research, to see if they could verify the claims of the workers and to put their minds at ease. SJGR director Dave Juliano attended each investigation conducted and witnessed some of supernatural events first hand. On each investigation he set up a motion detector in the death row cell. During each trip the motion sensor detected an infrared heat signature of an object greater than 40lbs, but invisible to the naked eye. SJGR investigators were able to capture orbs on video and film simultaneously with the motion sensor chiming its alarm.

On the second visit, Dave Juliano obtained an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) seconds after the motion detector was triggered, of a man's voice saying "go out here."

Members of SJGR experienced objects moving as well, as did three reporters from The New York Times that were there during the initial investigation. A stretcher that was located in the cell next to the death row cell relocated itself… and it was actually the reporters who noticed it first.

Other members of the SJGR observed an apparition in one part of the building and found a single barefoot print on a dust covered floor of what was once the prison showers. SJGR investigations also yielded numerous photos, video clips and EMF (Electromagnetic Field) readings.

The November 2000 investigation was filmed for a television show later aired on MSNBC. An EVP of a spirit voice saying "Go out there" was recorded right after a motion sensor detected unseen movement in the Death Row Cell.

November 2003’s investigation yielded two unexplained temperature drops of 24 degrees and 13 degrees in the middle of a cell block on the second floor.

In May of 2002, two EVPs were obtained in addition to multiple EMF readings.

In March of 2005, 14 EVPs were recorded, motion sensors were triggered six times, and two EMF readings were obtained.

Some of the EVPs are what we consider “A-Class”, meaning the words are clear to everyone who hears them. On this trip a female’s voice saying “Johnny, deny it” was recorded, in addition to other spirit voices interacting with investigators saying “No” in response to the question “Is anybody in here?”, and “What is it?” as an investigator shows another investigator a possible anomalous photo.

EVP - deny it

EVP - no

EVP - what is it?

In March 2008 SJGR filmed an episode for a new show on Living TV in the United Kingdom called "Conversations with a Serial Killer." The basis of the program is to have a psychic visit places and try to contact deceased killers to see if they will confess and give more information about their crimes. Director Dave Juliano was using a laptop computer to attempt to record EVPs when he obtained “You keep ordering us around,” in response to the questions being asked by the television host and psychic.

On SJGR’s 10th trip to the museum on March 26, 2008 director Dave Juliano obtained two apparition photos using a new combination of pre-existing technologies (First Generation Nigh Vision monocular scope and a digital camera combined on a stationary tripod).

 

 

 

 

This is the first time a pairing of these technologies has yielded consecutive apparition photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Did Dana Point visitor spot flying saucer?

Orange County Register

A Dana Point visitor claims to have seen a flying saucer above the night time sea off the shore of Capistrano Beach.

At sunset on Dec. 30, Redlands resident Don Marshall was staying at his family's time share in Capistrano Beach. He and his wife took a walk along the beach that night. After his wife left, Marshall stayed to watch the sunset when he noticed a light in the sky.

"I was looking across the ocean to the horizon," Marshall said. "The lower part of the sky was layered with haze. A light appeared in the lowest, darkest section – an ill shaped light."

An avid birdwatcher, he grabbed his binoculars and shared them with a man nearby who said he was living out of his car. He said they took turns observing the moving saucer.

"The gold and orange/yellow light was obviously very odd. I was immediately puzzled.

"Then, I realized that my field glasses were hanging around my neck. I quickly focused, and there was the flying saucer clearly visible. It came into perfect focus. And, it appeared to be just sitting there at about a forty-five degree angle," Marshall said.

He observed for several minutes before he attempted to take a picture. The quality of the sunset didn't allow his digital camera to focus.

The saucer moved away toward the southwest and shrunk into the horizon before disappearing.

While no other reports of the flying object were reported, this is the second flying object report off our coastal area in three months. Three golfers said they saw a blue-hued object in the sky while playing at San Clemente's Shorecliffs Golf Course in October.

Marshall said it is likely no one else saw the saucer that night because he only saw it with his binoculars, and it wouldn't have been easy to see without them.

"There something unexplained out there, and that is irrefutable," he said.

 

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Wakefield rapist wanted jail English lessons

Yorkshire Evening Post

A Romanian ex-convict brutally raped a young woman in Wakefield because he wanted to be sent to a British jail to learn English.

Ali Majlat, 35, attacked the 21-year-old woman as she waited on a platform at Wakefield Kirkgate station.

He raped her in an underpass before robbing her of her mobile phone, purse and a bracelet at 8.30pm on Sunday October 12 last year, Leeds Crown Court heard.

The court heard after his arrest Majlat told a psychiatrist he decided to rape the woman because he wanted to go to jail where he would be fed, housed and be taught English.

Doctors ruled Majlat is not mentally ill.

Majlat raped the woman after traveling to Wakefield to visit his brother at the city's maximum security jail.

He fled to London but was arrested days later after a nationwide British Transport Police appeal.

The court heard Majlat said he entered the UK intending to visit his brother immediately after being released from a Romanian jail last June after serving time for theft and attempted robbery.

In September he was jailed for eight weeks by Horseferry Road magistrates in London for burglary.

Judge Alastair McCallum asked Majlat's defense counsel: "Is it right that he (Majlat] said 'When I was at the railway station I thought I should rape this lady in order to get a place to eat and sleep and learn the English language."

Mark McKone, for Majlat said: "He does say words similar to that." Mr McKone said his client had been sleeping rough for some time.

Judge McCallum said: "That's bizarre ... Is it going to be part of the mitigation that the reason for committing this offence was to get into an English jail so he had somewhere to sleep and learn the language?"

Mr McKone said it would not be a mitigating factor, but added: "It is the defendant's explanation."

Judge McCallum asked the Crown Prosecution Service to investigate Majlat's criminal history in Romania.

And he said he wanted to know if there was any procedures in place to alert customs officers to criminals like Majlat traveling to the UK from Romania under EEC regulations.

Majlat, of no fixed abode, had admitted rape and robbery.

He will be sentenced in April.

Judge McCallum said he was considering imposing a life sentence.

Det Supt Dave Shipperlee, of British Transport Police, said: "This was a violent and sustained attack on a young woman who must have been absolutely terrified.

"Police conducted an intensive investigation to catch the man responsible. I would like to reassure the public that incidents such as this are extremely rare on the railway network and also to thank everyone who came forward with information to help us in our investigation."

Blue car-shaped UFO hoons over Australia

Newspost Online

Melbourne, Jan 18 : In yet another incident of UFO sightings, a mysterious blue car-shaped UFO has been spotted flying across the sky over northern Australia.

Amateur photographer Mark Schmutter, who claims to have taken the snaps of the mystifying object, says that it looked like a car.

“It does look like a car but what would a car be doing up in the sky?” the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.

Schmutter said he was standing on the ninth-floor balcony of a friend’’s CBD apartment in Darwin, when he saw the object move across the sky about the speed of a plane.

Then it flew straight upwards before it disappeared into the sky.

“I decided to go out on the balcony and take some shots of Darwin,” he said.

“I just held the camera up and I saw this thing flash through the sky and I thought ”Oh my goodness what was that?”, and then it came back again so I hit it with the camera.

“But it wasn”t an airplane, no noise … it was a fair way away, you know, but I didn”t hear any noise,” he added.

Schmutter, of Lyons, said he had no idea what it was - be it a strange, newfangled aircraft or a UFO shaped like a muscle car.

The Top End Flying Club last year suggested many of the local sightings of UFOs could actually be Sigma-4 ultralight aircraft - informally dubbed the flying sperm - which fly slowly and with little noise.

UFO group plans southeastern Pa. conference

Philly.com

NEWTOWN, Pa. - Some people are turning their attention from football playoff and presidential coverage in an otherworldly direction at a weekend conference in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Those who feel drawn to the convention being organized by the Pennsylvania Mutual UFO Network will talk more about unidentified objects than incompleted passes and more about alien abductions than inaugurations.

The confab is Saturday at Bucks County Community College in Newtown Township, 25 miles northeast of Philadelphia. The UFO group says Bucks County outpaces other areas with 71 UFO reports in 2008, including sightings over Sesame Place and the Oxford Valley Mall.

Pennsylvania MUFON director John Ventre says the group's investigators conclude 10 percent were hoaxes and 10 percent were man-made satellites or have other plausible explanations. They have no earthly explanation for the rest of the sightings.

Lastest UFO Sightings for January 21, 2009

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Arizona-01-03-08-I was facing north on my driveway talking on the telephone. It was a clear night, and unseasonably warm for December. In the sky north of Benton, I saw an orb of light descend quickly towards the ground.

It moved at a speed which is unlike I have ever seen any typical aircraft. The light was a solid bright yellow, and had to be within a mile from where I was standing.

The craft moved rapidly down, and abruptly stopped still above a tree line. It wasn't too far from the ground when it stopped, probably 50 feet above the trees. The aircraft then flashed slightly brighter, and disappeared. No noise. No trail. It just vanished. source: www.mufon.com

Florida-01-02-09-I was driving on 26 W Okeechobee Rd, Hialeah, FL, United States, south in the front passenger seat to Miami Beach for a work related issue. I was looking at an airplane when I saw a cloud in the far south change from white to yellow and back to white.

It looked interesting, so I locked on to it, when out of nowhere I started to notice something. At first I thought it was a bird, but as it got closer, I did not notice any wings or anything related to a bird.

I also thought it could be a balloon, but balloons don't stay in one spot. I could see that the object was pretty low in the sky, and I told the passenger with me to take a look. Now, there was no doubt, the object was metallic. I was totally shocked, and couldn't speak for a minute or two.

My Blackberry doesn't have a camera, so no pictures or video, but I know what I saw will stay with me for a long time.

Michigan-12-18-08-I was driving down Grand River, and spotted a vertical object hanging in the sky. It was moving very slowly in a rotating motion, like a top being spun.

The object was shaped like an acorn or diamond, and there were protrusions sticking out of the sides. I pulled my car over to a parking lot and the object disappeared before I could get a good look at it and take a picture of it on my cell phone.

It either faded away or took off very fast. source: www.mufon.com

Oregon-12-29-08-On December 29, 2008, at 3:20 PM in Florence, while walking the grass field of Woahink Lake Park, Lane County, the sky suddenly thundered, and rumbled enough for us to take a immediate action for shelter to protect us from lightning.

But there was no lightning, just amazing sound of thunder. Out of the overcast sky a UFO appeared to drop. Thunder bellowed so deep.

The UFO appeared long and sleek. The front was V-shaped, with tapered wings and tail. The tail itself didn't look right. I have seen pictures of refueling jets before, but the tail seemed too large for any aircraft to fly. The tail protruded out to the body, somewhat slender at first, but fanned out to upward curve, like a scorpion tail, large. The tail was flat on the top.

The UFO dropped out of the sky right above us. It wasn't there. And then it was. It dropped of the sky from above and headed West toward the sand dunes, then the Pacific Ocean. The color was orange and silver.

With the way this object dropped out the sky, the speed was well beyond the sound barrier. The rumble explains the reducing speed sound. Maybe. The UFO proceeded at low flight level on the horizon, and disappeared rumbling over the tree tops to Pacific Ocean. submitted by Cheryl and John source: http://ufos.about.com

Latest UFO Sightings for January 12, 2009

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Borneo-01-01-08-I was going on a photo assignment during the New Year Eve, heading toward a resort hotel to cover the fireworks display. I positioned myself at a Tungku Beach facing the hotel from a distance, so that I could catch the fireworks and the hotel all in one frame.

When the fireworks started, I began firing shots with my camera using a cable release connected to my Canon EOS 5D digital camera + Canon 70-200MM F2.8 IS (L) lens and a Manfrotto tripod stand. The fireworks were at the Empire Hotel and Country Club. They lasted for about 20-30 minutes. Without checking my LCD screen on my camera as most of the shots were burst frames, I left the area.

When I was processing the RAW images captured from the camera, I realized there was one shot which had something appearing on the left side of the screen so I zoomed in to see what it was. I was shocked! In the image, the object seemed to be hovering above the water, and it looked as if it was not too far away from us.

Strangely, the object wasn't seen with my naked eye when I was there. There were thousands of people gathered around the same area to view the fireworks, and possibly one of them may have seen the object. I might have seen it, but it was quite dark from my view. Or maybe, I was drawn to the fireworks so I didn't notice it. source: www.mufon.com

Great Britain-01-01-09-I watched three star-like objects move in a straight line, one after the other. They approached from the north shore of Llandudno over the Great Orme, and disappeared towards the west shore heading west toward Ireland.

They were yellow/orange/green, and very bright like stars, but there was no sound and no trail. They were low in the sky moving at a steady pace and on a straight course.

I watched them with my 16-year-old daughter for about ten minutes before they disappeared over the houses to the left of my house. It was a very cold night (minus 3c), and very clear although there was a freezing fog.

The New Year's fireworks had long since ended, and it was eerily quiet. We went to bed after they had gone, but got up ten minutes later when we heard the sound of a helicopter and planes over the Great Orme. We couldn't see them as they were over the horizon, but assumed they had been dispatched to seek the strange objects. source: www.mufon.com

Great Britain-01-01-09-While walking back from shops in Cookham, I looked up and saw a big orange glow in the sky. I thought it was a plane as I'm on a fly path, but there were no navigation lights that I could see.

All I could see was a big orange glow coming across the sky. I watched it for two minutes, and it kept moving. I am sure it was not a plane, as I have seen so many, and know this was not an airplane. More than anything else, I am anxious to know if anyone else might have seen this thing. source: www.mufon.com

Ukraine-09-20-08-On the evening of September 20, 2008 a Canadian friend of mine and I were driving down Blvd. Lesi Ukrayinky in downtown Kyiv at approx 11:40 PM when I looked out the window to the southeast and saw about six red lights in the sky in the form of a "W" or "M" spread out widely. The lights were clearly visible, and traveling below the clouds in a south to north direction. We stopped the car to get out and get a better look.

After staying in view for about another 45 seconds, they faded out one by one in sequential order from left to right. These were followed by two more lights which traveled the same trajectory, and seemed to move from the horizon to almost directly above us in about 20 seconds.

The color of all the lights was a uniform glow that was of a color which seemed like a combination of orange, pink and red.

There was no twinkling and no sound, just a steady light source which seemed to have a black leading edge to the light. The lights seemed to flow as if they were gliding across the sky as opposed to exhibiting forced air displacement characteristic of a plane. The gliding was as effortless as a light source on an oscilloscope. I would guess they were at an altitude of about 2,000 feet and below the clouds.

During the incident I managed to phone another Canadian friend who was here as well, and he made it to his apartment window in time to see the last light for a few seconds before it faded. The whole incident seemed to take no more than two minutes from start to finish.

There were dozens of cars on the street at the time, but no one seemed to notice and no one stopped in our vicinity.

I later checked the BBC for the current weather in Kyiv and it showed winds in a southeasterly direction at 11 MPH. The lights were going against the wind south to north and they literally crossed the sky in a matter of seconds. They definitely didn't seem like flares and seemed to have an intelligent control to them as they first came to a full stop before fading. For the next few minutes my friend and I couldn't stop talking, wondering what we had seen.

Later I checked a Ukrainian web site called 'Ukrayina Anomalnaya' and was surprised to see a report of a similar incident which had taken place over Kyiv several days earlier on September 6 or 7, 2008. source: www.mufon.com

Tok flying object gets attention of UFO center

Fort Mill Times

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A mysterious object in the sky that rattled Tok and perked ears with a sonic boom-type sound Dec. 29 was seen by others as far away as Healy.

While officials said the object was likely a meteor, at least one Alaskan reported the sight to the National Unidentified Flying Object Reporting Center in Washington state, and others recounted similar odd-objects-in-the-sky stories from years gone by.

Several people in Tok reported the mysterious noise shortly after 3 p.m. Dec. 29. The state troopers also fielded a call, and chalked the incident up as a meteor following confirmation with the Federal Aviation Administration in Fairbanks.

Since then, others have reported seeing a bright object on a northeastern trajectory around the same time, but from distant locations.

Tony Mueller of Healy was driving southbound near milepost 262 of the Parks Highway when a bright light seemed to explode.

"I was amazed that it was so bright in the daylight," he wrote in an e-mail.

The light display happened so fast, he couldn't pinpoint a location.

"It just came out of nowhere, quite amazing," he wrote.

Others revealed on the News-Miner Web site that they'd witnessed a bright, flaring light around the same time - one from the Elliott Highway 15 miles northwest of Fairbanks, and one from about three miles north of Healy.

A Delta Junction man was snow-shoeing about 30 miles northwest of Tok when an erratic vapor trail traced several loops through the sky, according to a report he filed with the National UFO Reporting Center. As he watched, face turned skyward, an echoing boom resounded. Figuring a rocket or jet had twisted out of control, he rushed home and called for his wife to witness the vapor trail, which was slowly dissipating but still visible, according to the report.

Center director Peter Davenport has studied UFOs - or, ufology - for 14 years. While it's difficult to speculate on the Alaska phenomenon without having witnessed the event himself, Davenport confirmed that objects flown by intelligent life from outer space are not out of the realm of possibility.

"I can't say that a genuine UFO never forms a contrail or some kind of trail behind it," Davenport said. "From my experience, it is a very rare occurrence."

But spotting UFOs is not all that rare, he said, pointing to around 59,000 reports stored on the center's Web site.

"We are being visited by UFOs certainly on a weekly basis, and probably more on a daily basis," he said. Most alarming is the possibility an alien presence is already on Earth, influencing events here, he said.

Davenport issued a plea for witnesses to record their recollections by logging onto the center's Web site at http://www.nuforc.org. The more reports, the better for his ongoing studies, and already too few of those who see a UFO are willing to speak out, he said.

"The trick to my kind of investigation is finding the witnesses," Davenport said. He estimates that one of 10,000 Americans who see such a sight actually report it.

"It is very distressing," he noted. "People think UFOs are unusual. I counter by saying there is nothing more unusual than the human being and human behavior. Human beings are vastly more bizarre than aliens or UFOs could ever be,"

Tony Delia isn't prepared to say he saw a UFO about 11 years ago. Just the same, he's certain the objects that lit up the sky about 50 miles south of Tok were neither meteors nor stray satellites.

He was washing dishes a few nights before Christmas in the village of Mentasta when his daughter, then 5, ran outside to tape a snowflake decoration to his truck. Moments later, she called out for her dad.

"She pointed up in the sky, and we saw these huge balls of fire, different colors," he described.

Around 20 people living in the village stepped outdoors, lifting their faces to the brilliantly lit Alaska night sky. Eight or nine objects of varied size and color dipped over the mountains to the northeast, hovering over the mountainside, changing formation, colors and sizes before their eyes.

"The whole village was out looking," Delia reflected. "I've never seen anything like it. I've seen meteors. I've seen satellites. I don't want to say I've seen UFOs, because I don't know. There's something out there we don't know, we can't explain."

Brazil Intelligence Agency Investigated UFOs in 1970s

Latin American Herald Tribune

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The SNI, the 1964-1985 military dictatorship's intelligence agency, investigaged UFO sightings for several years, a Brazilian newspaper reported Sunday.

Classified government documents describe several missions carried out in different states as part of "Operation Saucer," the daily Folha de Sao Paulo said.

The documents were released, in part, due to a request from the Brazilian UFO Commission, which requested them on the basis of the constitutional right to access public papers, the newspaper said.

The SNI, now known as the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, or Abin, participated in an air force mission in the Amazonian states of Maranhao and Para between the end of 1977 and the beginning of 1978.

The operation was launched after newspapers in those states reported the sighting of "mysterious lights that caused deaths and hallucinations" among those who saw them, Folha de Sao Paulo said, adding that some eyewitnesses suffered from "symptoms of paralysis, superficial burns, intense heat, trembling and tiny holes in the skin."

Some reports filed by intelligence officers, who slept by day and worked at night, described "bluish lights" that traveled at a high rate of speed across the sky.

"There is no agreement among the team members about what has been seen, but it appears that position is due to fear of being ridiculed by colleagues," one of the documents says.

The documents include sketches of the unidentified flying objects described by eyewitnesses and intelligence officers.

The drawings of UFOs made by air force and SNI personnel appear similar to depictions of alien spacecraft in popular television shows of the period, such as "Lost in Space," Folha de Sao Paulo said.

Ghost Hunters Seek Northern Ireland Apparition

UPI.com

COALISLAND, Northern Ireland, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Paranormal investigators are flocking to a Northern Ireland village after locals reported dozens of encounters with a ghost known as the "white lady."

The apparition has been the subject of dozens of reported sightings during the past six weeks near the ruins of a farmhouse just outside the village of Coalisland, The Daily Mail reported Friday.

Villagers described the purported ghost as an old lady with a sad expression, but none have been able to give any details about the woman's face.

Locals said up to 60 parked cars loaded with ghost hunters hoping for a glimpse of the white lady have lined the sides of the road near where the sightings were reported at midnight.

Warren Coates, of the Northern Ireland Paranormal Research Association, speculated that the ghost may be the spirit of a woman who died in a car accident in the area.

However, some were more skeptical of the paranormal claims.

"If you ask me, it's more likely to be a reflection of the moon on the river that flows through the area. Although the talk is that what was seen was in the shape of a person," said Desmond Donnelly, a Sinn Fein councilor.

It's Raining Pelicans??

The Seattle Times

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.

Weak, disoriented birds are huddling in people's yards or being struck by cars. More than 100 have been rescued along the California coast, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro.

Hundreds of birds, disoriented or dead, have been observed across the West Coast.

"One pelican actually hit a car in Los Angeles," said Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildrescue, a bird-rescue operation. "One pelican hit a boat in Monterey."

While some of the symptoms resemble those associated with domoic-acid poisoning — an ocean toxin that sometimes affects sea birds and mammals — other symptoms do not. Domoic acid also apparently has not been found in significant amounts offshore, although more tests are needed.

Rescuers are wondering whether the illness is caused by a virus, or even by contaminants washed into the ocean after recent fires across Southern California. Many of the birds also have swollen feet.

"These birds are on the freeway, getting run over," said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the rescue center in San Pedro. "A bunch we've seen have been hit. They've been landing on yards five miles inland. When some of the people have captured them in parking lots, they just sit in the corner. They just go pick them up."

"Maybe the weather has been particularly difficult on them," said Heather Nevill, a veterinarian tracking the problem for the International Bird Rescue Research Center. "Maybe the fish stocks are particularly low. It might be more than one thing, all coming together at once."

'I tripped and fell ... honest'

OMG! I think I have heard it all now!

The Sun

SHOCKED surgeons were forced to use their imagination after operating on woman with a huge can of hairspray stuck in her bum.

Mirela Gradinaru, 37, arrived at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, in agony, begging docs to help.

But she refused to tell surgeons how the can came to be lodged in her rear even after a successful operation dislodged the canister.

‘ This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray ’

Mirandolina Prisca, a doctor at the clinic, explained: "We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the operation. The patient was fine after it.

"She was very embarrassed. She was clearly in a lot of pain, however it got there."

"This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray," said one hospital worker.

And perhaps unsurprisingly the docs never got to the bottom of this medical mystery!

Woman allegedly tries to kill hubby with eye drops

MyWay

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A 40-year-old southwest Missouri woman is accused of trying to kill her husband by spiking his tea with a half bottle of Visine eye drops. Greene County deputies said the woman was jailed Thursday night on $100,000 bond on a first-degree assault charge.

She was arrested late Wednesday after a co-worker told Greene County deputies that the woman told her about the plot to kill her husband.

A probable cause statement said the husband told investigators he'd been having stomach problems for the past two months.

The statement said poison control experts told a detective that ingesting too much Visine would lead to a coma and other "serious symptoms."

Authorities say the woman researched other means of killing her husband when the first attempt didn't work.

UFO over UK wind farm sparks theories

American Chronicle

Questions are increasing about damage to a wind turbine in the UK on Jan. 4, 2009, that reportedly occurred at the same time witnesses reported a large glowing orange unidentified flying object (UFO) nearby.

International mainstream media are now reporting on the unusual case.

Witnesses, who are reported to be reliable according to news accounts, said the object appeared to have "tentacles" and an octopus-like appearance.

The UK newspaper "The Sun" quoted witness John Harrison as saying he saw a "massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground" above the wind turbine farm. "It was huge. With the tentacles it looked just like an octopus," he said.

Other witnesses claim to have seen the same thing, according to news reports.

BLADE TORN OFF

The wind turbine is located near Conisholme, England. The 213-foot-high turbine had one of three 20-meter blades torn off.

The turbine is owned by the company Ecotricity and manufactured by the German company Enercon, which is reportedly examining some of the damaged parts.

Speculation about the cause includes the possibilities mechanical failure or impact from some kind of flying object, man-made or otherwise.

A representative of manufacturer Enercon was quoted in the media as saying he does not think it was a mechanical defect related to the wind turbine's construction.

According to news reports in the UK, unmanned stealth aircraft called "Taranis" are being tested in the region by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The black delta-wing craft are being developed to carry bombs, according to UK news reports.

UK press reports say that the MoD does not plan an investigation because there was no evidence of a potential threat in British airspace.

UFO EXPERT'S VIEWS

However, Nick Pope, a UFO expert who formerly worked for the MoD's UFO office, told the "Louth Leader" newspaper that he feels the MoD should investigate.

Pope stated, "My view is something big must have hit the wind turbine to cause that damage and it appears in this case that the UFO witnesses are very respectable, and clearly not people who are making this up."

He speculated that the aircraft could be of foreign origin. "Looking at the geography of the Louth area, taking in the coast, it is always possible some people could be seeing secret Russian reconnaissance aircraft, perhaps even unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)."

Pope said, "The Russians could have a new secret craft which they are using to probe at our defenses so I think we should be looking into this, and the MoD should be involved."

Pope also told the paper, "This case is particularly exciting as we usually just get eyewitness reports or a few grainy images of lights in the sky, but here we can physically see the effects, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to do forensic analysis of the turbine blades."

He continued, "This of course, raises another question – are the right people doing the investigation into this? I think the police should be involved and cordon off the site and launch a detailed search and sweep of the area. They could bring in metal detectors to search for debris from the blades.

Pope added, "Areas of the country can suddenly become hotspots although there is no logical reason for this. Often it is because people don't report what they have seen for fear of ridicule and disbelief, but once somebody gets the ball rolling and the media pick up on it, this makes other people less afraid to come forward."

More UFO sightings shake Suffolk

Eveningstar.co.uk

STRANGE lights in the sky over the Suffolk countryside are set to spark fresh excitement over little green men and flying saucers.

UFO watchers believe the county is a gateway to the universe - a portal for visiting alien craft - with many reported sightings of unexplained phenomena over the years.

The latest sighting of four balls of light travelling slowly across the landscape from Grundisburgh towards the Mendlesham mast comes at a time when similar unexplained lights have been seen over Cumbria and Fife in Scotland.

In addition, a strange light was seen in the sky shortly before a 213ft wind turbine in Lincolnshire suffered serious damage in a mysterious incident.

But the Suffolk lights may be easier to explain as they were seen on New Year's Eve and early New Year's Day - and could have been Chinese lanterns floating across the landscape on light winds.

Felicity Tack, of The Street, Framsden, saw three fireballs of light together and fourth not far away at about 12.30am on January 1.

“They were quite large and just moving very slowly across the sky - three of them above the A1120 and another over towards the Mendlesham mast,” she said.

“They were like red balls of light, very bright indeed.

“My husband and I watched them for about ten minutes. At first we thought they were helicopters but there was no sound and we have no idea what they were.”

Another woman at Grundisburgh reported seeing the same number of lights drifting in the sky near her home four hours earlier at about 8.30pm.

One motorist, who drove into Ipswich, to pick up his daughter from New Year celebrations, said the lights could easily have been Chinese lanterns. “The sky was full of lanterns floating around wherever you looked,” he said.

In Cumbria, families reported seeing strange lights on December 28 but are sure they were not Chinese lanterns as some moved very fast and vanished, others converging together.

Investigations are currently taking place into the damage to the wind turbine at Conisholme, Lincs, which ripped one blade off the machine and left another mangled. Theories include a UFO hitting it, a mechanical failure, and ice falling from an aircraft.

The Ministry of Defence does not investigate UFO sightings - only checking what military aircraft might have been in the area.

Family of Afghan rape victim cut her open and removed fetus

The mother and brother of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face charges after they cut her open and removed her fetus without sedation, it has been reported.

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Veteran Pilot Catches UFO on Tape

MyFox Dallas

A veteran pilot recently videotaped a formation of lights in the skies over New Jersey that several witnesses also saw.

Paul Hurley captured the red lights in a diagonal formation hovering above his back yard in Whippany.

"A little scary. We didn't really know what they were. They were very bright red lights," Hurley said. "I've been in the aviation industry for about 20 years, so I knew they weren't airplanes."

People outside a Morristown sports arena also saw the lights. Some even called police and local media outlets.

"It didn't seem to be moving at all. It was very distinct, very distinct. I've never seen anything like it," Jason Ragel said. "New Jersey's like the melting pot of the world. So, I guess if it's time for UFOs, if they're coming, they might as well come here first."

"It was kind of strange, just that they looked very like, in a formation, that they had a purpose," Kelly Kaminski said.

Local police said the spectacle might have been a helium balloon with flares attached to it. However, there is not yet an official explanation for the lights.

British Wind Turbine Possibly Hit by UFO

FOXNews.com

A wind turbine in northeastern England stood wrecked Wednesday with one of its giant 65-foot blades torn off — after it was hit by a UFO.

Locals were woken by the 4 a.m. smash after strange lights were spotted streaking towards the 290-foot-tall generator on a wind farm.

Baffled power chiefs said of the smash in Conisholme, Lincolnshire: "We have a team investigating."

There was no trace of the missing blade.

A UFO expert said: "We are very excited."

A woman motorist told how she saw a UFO zoom towards the wind farm and strike the turbine.

Dorothy Willows — who lives half a mile from the scene of the hit-and-run — was in her car when "strange lights" loomed in the evening sky.

"The lights were moving across the sky towards the wind farm," she said. "Then I saw a low flying object. It was skimming across the sky towards the turbines."

Unexplained lights spotted over Harlech Castle on New Year’s Eve

OBSERVERS reported seeing a ‘cluster’ of unexplained lights in the sky over Harlech on New Year’s Eve.

Several witnesses spotted the five lights hovering over Harlech Castle on Wednesday.

Dennis Davies, 47, had been on duty as a Welsh ambulance services NHS trust first responder.

He said: “It was quite strange. On New Year’s Eve at 11.40pm I saw a cluster of five lights hovering in mid air above the castle. They floated up slowly and vanished. I called a friend who also saw them.

“I also know people at a local care home saw them too. At least six people altogether.”

Officials couldn’t explain the mysterious lights.

A North Wales Police spokeswoman said the force had received no report of any lights.

And Welsh historic monuments body Cadw said there were no events at its sites across Wales that night.

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