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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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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).
Is this an alien skull? Mystery of giant-headed mummy found in Peru.
A mummified elongated skull found in Peru could finally prove the existence of aliens.
The strangely shaped head - almost as big as its 50cm (20in) body - has baffled anthropologists.
It was one of two sets of remains found in the city of Andahuaylillas in the southern province of Quispicanchi.
The skeletal sets were discovered by Renato Davila Riquelme, who works for the Privado Ritos Andinos museum in Cusco in south-eastern Peru.
He said that that the eye cavities are far larger than normally seen in humans.
Davila Riquelme said three anthropologists, from Spain and Russia, arrived at the museum last week to investigate the findings and agreed it was ‘not a human being’ and would conduct further studies.
He added: ‘Although the assessment was superficial, it is obvious that its features do not correspond to any ethnic group in the world.’
The remains of an eyeball in the right socket will help determine its genetic DNA - and clear up the controversy if it is human or not.
The second mummy is incomplete and is only 30cm (12in).
It lacks a face and seems to be wrapped in a layer as a placenta, fetal position.
The remains bear a striking resemblance to the triangular crystal skull in the 2008 Indiana Jones film Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - which turned out to be of alien origin and have supernatural powers.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063486/Is-alien-skull-Mystery-triangular-shaped-head-Peru.html#ixzz1eDXqOwpM
ETs on Earth are watching us
There are extraterrestrials living among us and some have been here a lot longer than we have. They are watching us. And the fact that the technology explosion dates from the Roswell incident is no coincidence.
These are among the hot topics that will be discussed at the first UFO Conference in Johannesburg next month.
And Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of former US president Dwight D Eisenhower, will be speaking on Roswell and the exchange of information between extraterrestrials and US officials which, it has been claimed, kick-started the information technology explosion.
Local author Michael Tellinger, who is hosting the conference, said there would also be 13 leading figures in ufology, genetics, microbiology, alchemy, ancient wisdom and numeric science.
Tellinger is well known for his controversial book, Slave Species of God, which explores the earliest origins of mankind and vanished civilisations in southern Africa.
In an interview, Tellinger, a former Wits pharmaceutics student, said he had “a passion for the cosmos and human history”.
He was influenced by the writing of Zecharia Sitchin, who translated the Sumerian Tablets, believed to be the oldest form of writing.
“The Sumerians recorded everything about their lives by writing it down, from music to crops and detailed records on their temples,” said Tellinger. This showed the Sumerians and Egyptians inherited their knowledge from an earlier civilisation that lived at the southern tip of Africa more than 200 000 years ago.
According to Tellinger, this vanished civilisation carved the first Horus bird, built the first sphinx and the pyramids, as well as created an accurate stone calendar. They used the power of sound and frequency as a source of energy and knew about the laws of nature.
Tellinger has also studied rocks found in ruins, particularly stone carvings of birds, which appear to be a common link in ancient civilisations, including Mayan, African and Egyptian. The dolerite has strong acoustic properties.
“There are certain stones that really ring well, that I call starter stones that were used the same way Egyptians used the Ankh as a tuning fork – for resonance of a specific frequency. The starter stones were used to generate sound frequencies that created a standing wave in a circle and created the cymatic shapes in either sand or ash that indicate the physical shape of the energy as it surfaces on Earth, creating an energy plug-point into mother Earth,” he said.
Many of the bird-shaped stone carvings have strong acoustic properties, for which there is no explanation in conventional archaeology, he said.
“It’s interesting that ancient African history and shamanic knowledge is directly linked to the Sumerian tablets.”
According to the translated tablets, this vanished civilisation started with the arrival of people from another planet in search of gold. Man’s obsession with mining gold is discussed at length in Slave Species of God, and will be addressed at the conference by David Hudson, a quantum physicist who works on the transmutation of elements.
“It has been discovered that gold in its mono-atomic state has interesting properties – it defies the laws of gravity, it’s a super conductor, has a healing effect on the body and, when it’s heated to 700 degrees it vanishes,” said Tellinger.
Tellinger wrote two further books, Adam’s Calendar, and continued it in Temples of the African Gods.
He admits that academics “would burn me at the stake if possible”, but defends his work: “I have a scientific approach to all my research and have worked with some remarkable scientists.”
So, are there extraterrestrials?
“Of course, there is huge UFO activity across the world. There are ETs from other planets living among us and some have been here for a lot longer than we have. They are also watching us. We need to rethink our origins.” - Weekend Argus
l See www.michaeltellinger. com or visit http://ufoscience consciousnessconference.blog spot.com/
Russian and US scientists gather to hunt down Yeti
SCIENTISTS from several countries, including Russia and the US, will gather in the Kemerova region of Siberia to hunt down the Yeti, after alleged sightings of the legendary creatures increased threefold in the area over the past 20 years.
Scientists from Russia, the US, Canada, Sweden, Estonia, Mongolia and China were invited to evaluate evidence of the creatures - the existence of which has never been proven - at a conference later this week, according to Russian radio station the Voice of Russia.
Alleged sightings of Yetis in Kemerovo and the neighboring Altai region, about 3200 kilometers east of Moscow, are up three times compared to 20 years ago, with scientists estimating that there is a current population of at least several dozen in the area.
Other evidence of the existence of the creatures - such as basic twig huts, twisted branches and footprints of up to 35 centimeters - also has been found in the area.
A group of scientists from the conference will be sent out to search the region's mountains to examine the evidence and try spot a Yeti.
It will be the first expedition of its kind since 1958, when scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences scoured Western Siberia trying to catch a Yeti.
Igor Burtsev, who heads the Moscow-based International Center of Hominology, said, "When Homo sapiens started populating the world, it viciously exterminated its closest relative in the hominid family, Homo neanderthalensis. Some of the Neanderthals, however, may have survived to this day in some mountainous wooded habitats that are more or less off limits to their arch foes."
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/russian-and-us-scientists-gather-to-hunt-down-yeti/story-e6frfku0-1226158499714#ixzz1Zxq98WWr
American Muslim Author Reflects Upon Ghost Hunting, Paranormal Reality TV, and Cultural Identity in a Post-9/11 American Society
Deonna Kelli Sayed is an American-Muslim author and wife of a United Nations diplomat. She is one of the few ghost hunting Muslims in the United States. Her new book, Paranormal Obsession: America’s Fascination with Ghosts & Hauntings, Spooks & Spirits, unveils how shows like SyFy’s Ghost Hunters offer unique commentary on a post-9/11 society and how the paranormal helped her rediscover her American identity.
Paranormal Obsession is the first book to apply a cultural perspective to an often clichéd concept.
The author utilizes her unique story as a globetrotting American Muslim and paranormal researcher to explore why paranormal reality TV has launched a new ghost hunting subculture. Sayed is an investigator with Haunted North Carolina, a family team of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), made famous by the TV program, Ghost Hunters. She considers the impact of paranormal reality TV on society as a paranormal investigator who is also a global citizen.
Paranormal Obsession balances the world of the unseen with biting academic inquiry. Sayed readily shares her spooky paranormal experiences at North Carolina locations such as the USS Carolina and Körner’s Folly. Additionally, she engages academics, scientists, paranormal reality TV show cast members, and fellow paranormal investigators to explore why people hunt ghosts in the first place.
"Paranormal reality TV resonates with so many around world," says Deonna Kelli Sayed. "In America alone, there are large numbers ghost hunting on any given weekend. I explore how this hobby is becoming a form of spiritual expression as well as one way understand our local identity in a global world. Paranormal interest allows us to tell new stories about who we are at this unique historical moment.”
In Paranormal Obsession, Sayed considers how paranormal media culture is impacting discussions concerning religion, science, and cultural expression. She explores the limitations of institutional religion in dealing with paranormal encounters while delving into possible scientific innovations occurring specifically because of paranormal research. She also studies the ways paranormal interest is altering how the public experiences historical sites. Finally, Sayed probes the value of paranormal investigation as a form of cultural work that goes beyond the argument if ghosts really exist.
Sayed’s personal narrative is laced throughout the book detailing her journey from an international diplomat’s wife to a visible ghost hunter.
Readers get a dose of old-fashioned ghost stories, exclusive interviews with paranormal reality TV cast members, and a refreshing perspective to an increasingly global avocation.
About Deonna Kelli Sayed
Deonna Kelli Sayed is an American-Muslim cultural commentator and ghost hunter of global proportions. She has written for various lifestyle magazines in the Middle East. Deonna is an emerging author and currently the editor of Ghostvillage.com, the Web's most popular paranormal destination according to Google.com. She has appeared on various media programs and is a public speaker on a variety of topics from the paranormal to Islam.
About Paranormal Obsession:
Paranormal Obsession: America’s Fascination with Ghosts & Hauntings, Spooks & Spirits (ISBN-13: 978-0738726359, pages: 264, price: $15.95) was published by Llewellyn Publishers) in September of 2011. The book is available at online and traditional booksellers.
Contact the author for interview requests and for more information.
Paranormal Obsession is the first book to apply a cultural perspective to an often clichéd concept.
The author utilizes her unique story as a globetrotting American Muslim and paranormal researcher to explore why paranormal reality TV has launched a new ghost hunting subculture. Sayed is an investigator with Haunted North Carolina, a family team of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), made famous by the TV program, Ghost Hunters. She considers the impact of paranormal reality TV on society as a paranormal investigator who is also a global citizen.
Paranormal Obsession balances the world of the unseen with biting academic inquiry. Sayed readily shares her spooky paranormal experiences at North Carolina locations such as the USS Carolina and Körner’s Folly. Additionally, she engages academics, scientists, paranormal reality TV show cast members, and fellow paranormal investigators to explore why people hunt ghosts in the first place.
"Paranormal reality TV resonates with so many around world," says Deonna Kelli Sayed. "In America alone, there are large numbers ghost hunting on any given weekend. I explore how this hobby is becoming a form of spiritual expression as well as one way understand our local identity in a global world. Paranormal interest allows us to tell new stories about who we are at this unique historical moment.”
In Paranormal Obsession, Sayed considers how paranormal media culture is impacting discussions concerning religion, science, and cultural expression. She explores the limitations of institutional religion in dealing with paranormal encounters while delving into possible scientific innovations occurring specifically because of paranormal research. She also studies the ways paranormal interest is altering how the public experiences historical sites. Finally, Sayed probes the value of paranormal investigation as a form of cultural work that goes beyond the argument if ghosts really exist.
Sayed’s personal narrative is laced throughout the book detailing her journey from an international diplomat’s wife to a visible ghost hunter.
Readers get a dose of old-fashioned ghost stories, exclusive interviews with paranormal reality TV cast members, and a refreshing perspective to an increasingly global avocation.
About Deonna Kelli Sayed
Deonna Kelli Sayed is an American-Muslim cultural commentator and ghost hunter of global proportions. She has written for various lifestyle magazines in the Middle East. Deonna is an emerging author and currently the editor of Ghostvillage.com, the Web's most popular paranormal destination according to Google.com. She has appeared on various media programs and is a public speaker on a variety of topics from the paranormal to Islam.
About Paranormal Obsession:
Paranormal Obsession: America’s Fascination with Ghosts & Hauntings, Spooks & Spirits (ISBN-13: 978-0738726359, pages: 264, price: $15.95) was published by Llewellyn Publishers) in September of 2011. The book is available at online and traditional booksellers.
Contact the author for interview requests and for more information.
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