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Couple seeks to crack Brigantine ice fall mystery: A type of Meteor?

MICHAEL PRITCHARD
The Press, Atlantic City
Wed, 24 May 2006 12:00 UTC
Brigantine - It was a pretty typical Saturday evening for Dan and Jean Ciechanowski as they worked the barbecue and chatted with neighbors this past weekend.

Then it happened.

Dan Ciechanowski heard a noise that he described as the sound a missile makes and saw something moving across the sky at a 45-degree angle.

It smashed into a vacant lot next to his property with a crash that shook the foundation of his house.
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Question

'UFO' crashes into KwaZulu-Natal sea

News24.com
News24.com
Mon, 22 May 2006 12:00 UTC
Port Shepstone - The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is monitoring a mysterious situation on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast.

"Numerous" eye-witnesses reported an unidentified flying object crashing into the sea on Saturday.

NSRI Shelley Beach station commander, Eddie Noyons, said eye-witnesses had reported an unidentified object - possibly an aircraft - crashing into the sea behind the breaker line off-shore of the Port Shepstone High School.

Police, rescue craft and a fixed wing aircraft were alerted to the scene to investigate.

Noyons said: "Following a full-scale search of the area covering 12 square nautical miles nothing has been found.

Comment: Another possible explanation: a meteorite.

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Question

Ice crashes through college gym - No one is injured by the 2-foot chunk and no one knows yet where it came from.

Darrell R. Santschi
The Press-Enterprise
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:00 UTC
A 2-foot-long chunk of ice that looked like compacted snow but whistled like an artillery shell crashed through the roof of the Drayson Center at Loma Linda University on Thursday morning.

No one was injured when the ice hit sometime between 8:55 and 9:15 a.m. The ice broke into pieces in the lattice work above the floor of the unoccupied Opsahl Gymnasium.

©The Press-Enterprise
A chunk of ice that ripped through the roof of the Drayson Center on Thursday also tore through a coating of tar paper and plywood underneath, then through a layer of insulation and the ceiling of the gymnasium.

Maintenance workers retrieved a chunk about twice the size of a man's head, double-bagged it and stuck it in a freezer to save for Federal Aviation Administration officials.
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Telescope

Large ice slab drops on Oakland

William Brand and Ian Hoffman
insidebayarea.com
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:00 UTC
Oakland - Did it come from outer space? Was it a transport vehicle for illegal aliens of the extraterrestrial kind? The tail of a comet grabbed by gravity?

Jokes were flying Saturday morning after a block of solid ice, measuring more than two feet on a side, crashed to earth with a tremendous bang, digging a three-foot hole in the grass at Bushrod Park, 5800 Shattuck Ave.

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Comment: More information from this account of the ice slab incident:
"It was totally amazing. ... I saw this flash, like a streak. Then I saw this explosion, like a big boom! I came over and it (the field) was all covered with ice. Some were this big," Purat said, making a head-size circle with his two hands.


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Wolf

Texas' Blood-Sucking Monster - El Chupacabra's Popularity Has Spread to Art Exhibits, Films

Joy Victory
ABC News
Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:00 UTC
In south Texas, its frightening name resurfaces in the news every few months - especially after another neighborhood pet or farm animal mysteriously dies.

"El Chupacabra," they say, "is back."

Parents are cautious, warning their children to stay inside at night or risk a face-to-fang encounter with the chupacabra - a red-eyed, spiky-haired, blood-sucking creature with a green-blue tint to its hide.

The chupacabra haunts the minds of the residents in La Frontera, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Here, an amalgamation of cultures blend, represented by Gulf shrimp tacos, polka-inspired Tejano music, and young, white girls who also hold quinceneras, the Mexican teen rite-of-passage celebration.

Comment: Comment: The most dangerous blood sucking monster to come out of Texas is George W. Bush. He's worse than ten-thousand Chupacabras!

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Bizarro Earth

Phantom Barnoldswick bomber mystery deepens with new sighting


Telegraph and Argus
Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:00 UTC
Two years after it vanished off the local radar, the phantom bomber of Barnoldswick has returned.

In January 2004, a retired policewoman and her husband reported seeing what looked like a Lancaster bomber flying impossibly low over the Rolls-Royce site at Bankfield.

Eerily, the craft made no noise and the two witnesses were so shocked by what they saw that they almost crashed their car.

Soon after, a Skipton aerial phenomena expert was inundated with phone calls from people all over Craven who reported similar sightings.

Most described what they saw as a low-flying Second World War bomber, grey in colour and with no markings. Several said they had seen it on the same day.
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Bizarro Earth

Mysterious Orbs Of Light At North Texas Church


CBS 11 News
Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:00 UTC
In the world of the paranormal, experts say there are many phenomena that can occur involving light. But one North Texas church has reported not only the appearance of orbs, but other religious manifestations.

Riverwalk Fellowship Church is a charismatic church in Haltom City. The services aren't exactly traditional and neither are some of the reported phenomena happening there lately.

The church's senior pastor Steve Solomon, a Messianic Jew (a Jew who believes Jesus is his/her messiah) has reported, among other things, an oil substance manifesting on the balcony and on the baptismal and the pulpit of the sanctuary.

One of the church's prayer intercessors, Velma Alexander, was the first person to discover the oil when entering the sanctuary one day and simply touching one of the columns in the church. She says her initial reaction was, "Somebody better call Pastor Steve, 'cause oil don't come outta wood and brass!" Alexander said when the pastor first heard about it he thought something had broken, thus their investigation into the matter began.

Comment: Wanna see some "orbs?" Have a look at Laura's recent photo album of Auch Cathedral. One photo in particular is absolutely studded with orbs.

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UFO

Ancient Russian Manuscript Describes 19th Century UFO Sightings


MosNews
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:00 UTC
Nowadays reports of UFO sightings appear in the media so frequently that they hardly catch anyone's eye. More often than not the alleged UFOs turn out to be signal rockets, meteorological probes, airplanes or their traces. But this certainly does not apply to sightings registered centuries ago - when no rockets or airplanes existed at all. Moscow daily Komsomolskaya Pravda publishes a document from a personal archive that tells of a UFO spotted over Kremlin back in 1808.

Diagram of a UFO flight over the Kremlin

"I found this document in the personal archive of a Moscow senator Peter Poludensky, who worked for the Tsar's Secret Service and died in the middle of XIX century. Apparently the manuscript attracted his attention for some reason," says Alexander Afanasyev, an expert of the Russian State History Museum, department of manuscripts.
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Coffee

Vietnam man handles three decades without sleep

Vu Phuong Thao
Thanhnien News
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:00 UTC
As songbirds awaken the early risers at dawn on the farm, one resident is already up; in fact, he never slept - not once in the past 33 years.

You'd think going without sleep for that long may have its drawbacks, but not for the man in central Quang Nam province who has never been ill after decades of insomnia.

His inability to sleep has not only made him famous, but also represents a "miraculous" phenomenon worthy of scientific study.

Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights.

"I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said.
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UFO 2

Visitors from this world and beyond

Debra Mayeux
The Daily Times
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:00 UTC
Aztec -- At 5 a.m. March 25, 1948, an unidentified flying object was spotted on a military radar. It was reportedly flying over Northern New Mexico, before crashing in a field in Hart Canyon north of Aztec.

It was a saucer-shaped ship, 100 feet in diameter, and there were small charred bodies inside, according to eyewitnesses -- military personnel, locals and police officers.

This is the stuff legends are made of. But for some Aztec residents and big-time ufologists, this had the makings of a story that would put Aztec on the map.

Leanne Hathcock, Aztec librarian, and Scott Ramsey, a friend from North Carolina, began the Aztec UFO Symposium nine years ago with the purpose of propagating the story and the small town it hailed from.
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