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UFO Filmed from Airplane over Seoul
A classic, saucer-shaped UFO was filmed from the window of an airplane flying over Seoul, South Korea. What is it?
As the passenger uses a video camera to catch the view of the city out the window, a saucer-shaped, white-colored unidentified flying object whizzes by, erratically flying in a crazy path. It dips upward for a second before it disappears from view.
The witness is clearly surprised, speaking a dialect which sounds eastern European. In any language, it's clear he is trying to call someone else's attention, but by then it's too late.
There has been a rash of new UFO sightings lately from airplane windows, but this one also has a segment of the video in which the object is magnified and enhanced. It doesn't help identify the object. It appears to be bowl-shaped and looks like no known aircraft.
So what is it?
Woman blames poltergeist for noisy parties
A young mother has been evicted from her home after telling neighbours a poltergeist was to blame for throwing all-night parties.
Leanne Fennell, 20, told neighbours that a ghost had been playing loud music and throwing empty beer cans into the garden of her home in Hull, East Yorks, when they complained about the noise.
Fennel has now been evicted from her council house after Hull City Council took her to court after ignoring a noise abatement order.
Council officers also seized four televisions, four DVD players and a CD player, which will now be destroyed, from the property in Wexford Road.
Furious neighbours had to put up with night after night of loud parties at Fennell's home - which regularly ran on until the early hours of the morning.
One neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: "She told us a poltergeist would keep switching the music on really loud when she was in bed."
"Some of the neighbours had a terrible time.
"There was always bottles and bottles of wine and cider just chucked in the garden.
"She had at least four huge bonfires to burn some of the rubbish that was in there.
"Some people complained and then she was warned by the council, but she didn't listen.
"Eventually, it went too far and we'd had enough."
Another neighbour said: "She was playing loud music at all hours. We reported her loads of times.
"It is nice to have some peace and quiet around here now she has gone."
On her Facebook page, Fennell says: "First and most of all I'm a proud mam to a beautiful little girl. I'm not fussy ... but a girl should try look her best 24/7.
"I also sin but I'm not the devil, so with me what you see is what you get. I love to party with my mates, well, the ones who can keep up with me that is."
Hull Magistrates' Court heard that loud music was heard coming from Fennell's home on January 13, 16, 18 and 19, after the noise abatement notice had been served by council nuisance officers.
She also ignored warnings to clear rubbish from outside the property.
Fennell was found guilty in her absence of four breaches of the abatement notice banning loud music and raised voices and another requiring her to remove rubbish from the garden.
Hull magistrates ordered her to pay fines of £370 and costs of £500 to Hull City Council.
Psychologist Manipulates Dreams By iPhone App
A psychologist has created an iPhone application to help people manipulate their dreams by playing pleasant 'soundscapes' during slumber.
Professor Richard Wiseman, who claims to be the most followed psychologist on Twitter, hopes to sweeten people's dreams using their smartphones.
The self-described "psychologist, author and magician" hopes to attract thousands of people to take part in the dream manipulation experiment.
Participants will download a specially designed app that turns their Apple device into a 'dream factory'.
After placing the phone on the bed it can detect when a sleeper is not moving - signifying the onset of dreaming.
The device then plays a customised 'soundscape' designed to evoke pleasant scenes such as walking in woods, lying on a beach or being in a peaceful garden.
The University of Hertfordshire's professor hopes the sound will influence dreaming, causing dreamers to conjure up situations and experiences inspired by what they are hearing.
A member of the inner Magic Circle, Prof Wiseman said: "Getting a good night's sleep and having pleasant dreams boosts people's productivity, and is essential for their psychological and physical wellbeing.
"Despite this, we know very little about how to influence dreams. This experiment aims to change that," Prof Wiseman said.
Launched at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, it is hoped as many as 10,000 people will take part in the mass-participation study.
Prof Wiseman teamed up with app developers Yuza, which created the Dream:ON software, and participants will be encouraged to share their dreams via Facebook and Twitter.
The programme can be downloaded for free from iTunes or via the Dream:ON app project site.
A national survey conducted for the experiment found that 21% of respondents had trouble sleeping and 15% suffered from unpleasant dreams.
There is, however, a downside to participation in the experiment - the app will not give participants a full night's sleep.
The study requires the app to wake up the sleeper post-dream, who then must submit a brief description of it to a 'dream diary' database.
Ghost photographed in Galway. Seriously
Do you believe in ghosts? Apparently there’s a nun haunting the Long Walk in Galway. We don’t know about you, but if we were ghosts we’d probably haunt somewhere a bit cooler than an industrial estate, in fairness.
The Galway Independent has unleashed pictures of the spectre that were taken by a local photographer. Jonathan Curran was taking photographs of the area when he caught the nun on camera. She was just hanging around, looking creepy. The usual.
The paper reports that one of the images clearly shows a female figure that has the appearance of a 19th century Claddagh nun – we’re just grateful that they happened to have a ghost-nun expert on hand to identify the mysterious blob.
How did Mr Curran react to the discovery? He was “freaked” as apparently the 12 other pictures that he taken didn’t have the ghost nun in them. That means she appeared in the 13th picture…this is almost TOO good…
“The image was not visible either before or after the photograph was taken and was not captured in any of the other photographs, either going or coming. She just seemed to appear for a moment and then disappear. There were other people on the Long Walk that day, but they seemed oblivious to her presence,” he said.
The picture is causing a major stir in Galway as people try to distinguish whether the nun is actually a ghost or if she’s just an optical illusion. We love a good ghost story, but we find it hard to believe that a 19th Century nun was just roaming around an area that looks like an industrial estate. Wouldn’t she have better things to be doing? Here's a closer look at the above picture so you can examine it yourself:
William Henry, a Galway historian said that there were lots of hauntings around the Claddagh, Wolfe Tone Bridge and Long Walk over the years and that stories of the ‘Lady in White’ were told on a regular basis.
Clearly people in Galway have too much time on their hands. Or they’re actually starting to believe the tales told by drunken students who have seen “strange” things on the way home after a night out, only to realise that their “ghost” was in fact a post box.
Mr Henry said that the image of the nun was striking and “certainly stands out of place in a modern context.”
“She appears to be looking directly at the camera indicating an awareness of her surroundings,” he added.
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Proponents argue that because these objects appear to be technological and not natural phenomenon, and are alleged to display flight characteristics or have shapes seemingly unknown to conventional technology, the conclusion is then that t...hey must not be from Earth.
Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II (see foo fighter), further fueled in the late 1940s by Kenneth Arnold's coining of the term flying saucer and the Roswell UFO Incident.
Since then governments have investigated UFO reports, often from a military perspective- and UFO researchers have investigated, written about, and created organizations devoted to the subject. One such investigation, The UK's Project Condign report, notes that Russian, Former Soviet Republics, and Chinese authorities have made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UFO topic and that State military organizations, particularly in Russia, have done "considerably more work (than is evident from open sources)" on military applications which have stemmed from their UFO research. The report also noted that "several aircraft have been destroyed and at least four pilots have been killed 'chasing UFOs'.
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While technically a UFO refers to any unidentified flying object, in modern popular culture the term UFO has generally become synonymous with alien spacecraft.
Proponents argue that because these objects appear to be technological and not natural phenomenon, and are alleged to display flight characteristics or have shapes seemingly unknown to conventional technology, the conclusion is then that t...hey must not be from Earth.
Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II (see foo fighter), further fueled in the late 1940s by Kenneth Arnold's coining of the term flying saucer and the Roswell UFO Incident.
Since then governments have investigated UFO reports, often from a military perspective- and UFO researchers have investigated, written about, and created organizations devoted to the subject. One such investigation, The UK's Project Condign report, notes that Russian, Former Soviet Republics, and Chinese authorities have made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UFO topic and that State military organizations, particularly in Russia, have done "considerably more work (than is evident from open sources)" on military applications which have stemmed from their UFO research. The report also noted that "several aircraft have been destroyed and at least four pilots have been killed 'chasing UFOs'.
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'Yowie' may be wanted man
BUSH fugitive Malcolm Naden may have been as far east as Mount George in August 2009 when two women saw what they believed was a "yowie" on Nowendoc Road.
The Manning River Times reported at the time that the two women were approaching Connelly's Creek Gap "just the other side of Mt George" at 7.30pm and saw "a big hairy animal thing" illuminated in their headlights on the side of the winding road.
Faye Burke and Alana Garnett from Wingham said the hairy thing stood perfectly still "like it was at attention" and had dark "chocolate brown hair which was all matted."
Though the women maintained it was not a man dressed up but was in fact a yowie or big foot-like creature, by their description it could well have been Naden, whose computer-enhanced image recently released by police does have dark curly hair. He is also described as 177cm tall - five foot 10 in the old scale.
Described as an expert bushman, Naden has survived alone in the bush since June 2005 when he disappeared from his grandparents' house in west Dubbo. He is wanted on warrants for the murder of a 24-year-old woman in Dubbo in June 2005 and an aggravated indecent assault against a 15-year-old girl.
Police confirmed yesterday that the campsite raided last Wednesday was Naden's as his fingerprints were found there. A police officer was shot during the raid.
Naden has also been linked to a number of burglaries in the Barrington Tops area over the past few years. In January 2009 his fingerprints were found at break-ins at Bellbrook, west of Kempsey. In June 2010 he was as far south as Mount Mooney near Gloucester, where his prints were found again.
The "yowie" sighting occurred between these two points and dates.
Detectives from the Homicide Squad have been investigating the whereabouts of Naden under Strike Force Durkin. Enquries led them to bushland near Nowendoc. Sixty officers are now involved in the search.
A reward of $250,000 is now in place for information leading to the capture of Naden.
Our lake monster
The mystery as to the identity of the large fish which jumped out of Lake Burley Griffin near the Canberra Yacht Club and ate a seagull skimming across the surface of the water (Burley Monster, November 19) may have been solved.
''The Burley Monster is most likely to be a Murray cod, of which there are many large ones living in the lake,'' claims Nick Rusanov, of Isabella Plains.
''Not only do large cod eat yabbies, smaller fish and insects but they also they love feasting on birds.''
Nick, a seasoned fishermen of local waterways, cites a recent fishing trip to Yarrawonga on the Murray River as further evidence in support of his theory.
''All the other guys in the group were using yabbies and worms and didn't catch anything, apart from the odd carp or two, but my mate, Mick, who used a small dead bird he'd found as bait, reeled in a 40kg, 1.2m-long monster cod.''
In fact, the prized catch was so big that Mick didn't want to lift it up ''as he was worried he'd get covered in fish slime'', so he had to rely upon another mate, Ivan, to pose for the photo.
By Tim the Yowie Man
According to Nick, it seems that in the past, some local fishermen have taken advantage of the Murray cod's taste for birds, to try to reel in record catches. Nick remembers holiday fishing trips to Burrinjuck Dam (near Yass) with his family in the 1980s.
''I recall going into a number of local pubs on the main street of Yass and saw some really old black and white photos pinned upon the pub walls showing huge Murray cod - some were the length of a man, and probably weighed many hundreds of pounds,'' Nick says.
''Some old locals told us that the preferred bait for these monster fish were parrots - the more brightly coloured the bird, the better.''
While I certainly hope that the practice of using live birds as bait are long gone (and it's illegal), does anyone know the whereabouts of the monster cod photos that were once on display in a Yass pub?
DID YOU KNOW?
In the year 2000 there were a number of sightings of the ''Burley Beast'', including one by Emma Hodge and her mother Mary who were walking their dog, Remul, around the lake early one morning.
They say they saw an eel-like creature gliding on the surface. It was about 2m long. This led some to speculate that the lake could be home to our very own Loch Ness monster.
Centuries-Old Witches' Cottage and Mummified Cat Unearthed in Britain
PENDLE, England – A cottage believed to be linked to a famous group of 17th-century English witches and a mummified cat were unearthed by workmen in Lancashire, northern England.
The site, described by one archaeologist as "Lancashire's Pompeii," was discovered during a construction project, Sky News reported.
Water engineers found the 17th-century cottage during excavations in Pendle, and experts think it could be connected to the famous Pendle Witches, a group of 16 women tried for witchcraft in 1612.
It is thought the mummified cat -- found sealed into one of the walls -- may have been entombed in the wall while still alive, as paranormal protection.
"Cats feature prominently in folklore about witches. Whoever consigned this cat to such a horrible fate was clearly seeking protection from evil spirits," Pendle Witches expert Simon Entwistle said. "We're just a few months away from the 400th anniversary of the Pendle Witch trials, and here we have an incredibly rare find, which could well be the famous Malkin Tower."
Malkin Tower was said to be the site of a notorious meeting between the witches on Good Friday in 1612.
Frank Giecco, who led the team that unearthed the cottage, said, "It's like discovering your own little Pompeii. We rarely get the opportunity to work with something so well preserved. As soon as we started digging, we found the tops of doors and knew we were onto something special."
The cottage is said to be in remarkable condition and contained many 19th-century artifacts such as crockery, a cooking range and a bedstead. The construction project was put on hold while archaeologists investigate the site.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/08/centuries-old-witches-cottage-and-mummified-cat-unearthed-in-britain/#ixzz1g0U2buD6
Woolly Mammoth to Be Cloned
Within five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned, according to scientists who have just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Japan's Kyodo News first reported the find. You can see photos of the thigh bone at this Kyodo page.
Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, and colleagues are now analyzing the marrow, which they extracted from the mammoth's femur, found in Siberian permafrost soil.
Grigoriev and his team, along with colleagues from Japan's Kinki University, have announced that they will launch a joint research project next year aimed at re-creating the enormous mammal, which went extinct around 10,000 years ago.
Mammoths used to be a common sight on the landscape of North America and Eurasia. One of my favorite papers of recent months concerned the earliest-known depiction of an animal from the Americas. It was a mammoth engraved on a mammoth bone. Many of our distant ancestors probably had regular face-to-face encounters with the elephant-like giants.
The key to cloning the woolly mammoth is to replace the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those extracted from the mammoth's bone marrow cells. Doing this, according to the researchers, can result in embryos with mammoth DNA. That's actually been known for a while.
NEWS: Prehistoric Dog Found With Mammoth Bone in Mouth
What's been missing is woolly mammoth nuclei with undamaged genes. Scientists have been on a Holy Grail-type search for such pristine nuclei since the late 1990s. Now it sounds like the missing genes may have been found.
In an odd twist, global warming may be responsible for the breakthrough.
Warmer temperatures tied to global warming have thawed ground in eastern Russia that is almost always permanently frozen. As a result, researchers have found a fair number of well-preserved frozen mammoths there, including the one that yielded the bone marrow.
Is it such a good idea, however, to clone animals that have long been extinct? For a while there's been some discussion of a real-life Jurassic Park setup containing such animals. Introducing these beasts into existing ecosystems could be like bringing in a potentially invasive species that would try to fill some space presently held by other animal(s). Even if the cloned animals were contained in special parks, there could still be a risk of spreading.
So if the woolly mammoth is successfully cloned sooner rather than later, we'd probably be left with more questions and controversy than answers, at least in the short term.
Image: Woolly mammoth. (Credit: WolfmanSF/Wikimedia Commons.)
Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, and colleagues are now analyzing the marrow, which they extracted from the mammoth's femur, found in Siberian permafrost soil.
Grigoriev and his team, along with colleagues from Japan's Kinki University, have announced that they will launch a joint research project next year aimed at re-creating the enormous mammal, which went extinct around 10,000 years ago.
Mammoths used to be a common sight on the landscape of North America and Eurasia. One of my favorite papers of recent months concerned the earliest-known depiction of an animal from the Americas. It was a mammoth engraved on a mammoth bone. Many of our distant ancestors probably had regular face-to-face encounters with the elephant-like giants.
The key to cloning the woolly mammoth is to replace the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those extracted from the mammoth's bone marrow cells. Doing this, according to the researchers, can result in embryos with mammoth DNA. That's actually been known for a while.
NEWS: Prehistoric Dog Found With Mammoth Bone in Mouth
What's been missing is woolly mammoth nuclei with undamaged genes. Scientists have been on a Holy Grail-type search for such pristine nuclei since the late 1990s. Now it sounds like the missing genes may have been found.
In an odd twist, global warming may be responsible for the breakthrough.
Warmer temperatures tied to global warming have thawed ground in eastern Russia that is almost always permanently frozen. As a result, researchers have found a fair number of well-preserved frozen mammoths there, including the one that yielded the bone marrow.
Is it such a good idea, however, to clone animals that have long been extinct? For a while there's been some discussion of a real-life Jurassic Park setup containing such animals. Introducing these beasts into existing ecosystems could be like bringing in a potentially invasive species that would try to fill some space presently held by other animal(s). Even if the cloned animals were contained in special parks, there could still be a risk of spreading.
So if the woolly mammoth is successfully cloned sooner rather than later, we'd probably be left with more questions and controversy than answers, at least in the short term.
Image: Woolly mammoth. (Credit: WolfmanSF/Wikimedia Commons.)
Eyes on stalks: ancient predator a real monster
A group of scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island in South Australia has turned up a Cambrian predator with horror-movie specs: razor serrations in a circular mouth, claws at the front of its head, and compound eyes on stalks.
Taagged Anomalocaris (roughly “irregular shrimp”, or perhaps “abnormal shrimp”), the meter-long beauty seems to be a top predator from 500 million years ago.
What’s got the boffins excited, according to University of New England palaeontologist Dr John Paterson, is that it’s the first time a fossil has shown sufficient surface detail to prove that it had compound eyes.
The Anomalocaris fossil, which showed up in the Emu Bay Shale fossil ground, yielded thousands of small, hardened lenses that made up each of the critter’s 3cm-long eyes, according to Nature.
Paterson says his group’s examination of the fossils turned up an impressive 16,000 lenses per eye – far ahead of modern insects like ants (with 1,000 lenses) or houseflies (with 3,200). According to Eureka Alert, only dragonflies have comparable resolution.
This suggests that not only did Anomalocaris have fearsome hunting equipment, it also had good eyesight for hunting.
Its status as an “apex predator” is also attested by trilobite fossils showing damage from predator attacks, and coprolites that contain the remains of its prey. The presence of this predator would also have fed into the evolution of other Cambrian creatures, in an arms race between predator and prey.
Other members of the team included Dr Michael Lee of the University of Adelaide and Adelaide Museum, and Dr Jim Jago (University of South Australia and Adelaide Museum).
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