Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Nottingham is high in witchcraft, ghost and UFO reports say police

The force revealed there were 46 reports of witchcraft, three UFO sightings and 34 incidents involving ghosts.
Chief  Inspector Ted Antill said there were calls where officers did attend the scene of "ghost sightings".
Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-14028703

Psychologist and skeptic Richard Wiseman explains the science behind people's beliefs of ghosts and the paranormal in his new book Paranormality.

Richard Wiseman doesn't believe in spooks — and he doesn't think you should, either. Once a professional magician, the University of Hertfordshire psychologist has always been intrigued by the unusual side of the human experience, conducting research on luck, lying and the paranormal.
Full article: http://www.livescience.com/14904-paranormal-experiences-hint-ghosts.html

French village of Bugarach (population of less 200) chosen by New Age/ End-of-the-World believers as the place to go...causing panic amongst population

A tiny remote village in southern France is being billed as a haven against the end of the world by Apocalypse devotees.
Full article:  http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1019969--for-doomsday-believers-this-is-the-only-place-that-will-survive-dec-21-2012

Friday, April 1, 2011

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!


James Randi Foundation hands out annual 'Flying Pig Award to NASA astrobiologist (and others such as 'Dr.' Andrew Wakefield) for supposedly finding life within meteorites on April Fools Day!

When NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover announced, again, last month that he'd found evidence of microscopic life on meteorites, he probably didn't expect to receive the high honor of a Flying Pig Award.
But now, the man who some claim is the scientific equivalent of the boy who cried wolf, is getting honored for an achievement some say is dubious.
Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/01/skeptic-mocks-nasa-researcher-with-flying-pig-award-for-findin/

Huffington Post lists 'World's Greatest Hoaxes' for April Fools Day, including the Loch Ness Monster photo, Hitler's diary and the Alien Autopsy!

Though many of them seem absurd in retrospect, colossal hoaxes have been making fools of people around the world for centuries.  From alien encounters to foreign invasions, some of these hoaxes were even examined by scientific experts and reported by some of the world's most respected publications before being disproved.
Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-day-hoaxes-_n_843675.html#s260407&title=Famous_Loch_Ness

Friday, March 11, 2011

SETI releases Android phone app which allows users to help 'hunt' for aliens

The Seti Institute launched a private beta test on Thursday of SetiQuest Explorer in the hope that amateur astronomers will help with tasks that cannot be done well by computers. The app runs on Android 2.2 but will be available on the iPhone this summer. There is also a desktop version for any computer running Flash Player 10.2. "We want to tap into the brain power of the world," Jill Tarter, director of the non-profit Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, said.
Full article: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-apps/2011/03/11/seti-releases-alien-hunting-android-app-40092107/

Founder of the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Space to propose treaty banning weapons in space by Earthlings and aliens!

It's a good thing the outer space battles in "Star Wars" happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away -- because under a new space-based weapons treaty drafted by aerospace and military experts, humans and aliens alike would be barred from waging war above Earth.
Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/11/new-treaty-would-ban-space-weapons-for-earthlings-and-ets/

British Wiccan warlock pleads authorities to release him from indoor probation due to religious reasons

a warlock who worships the goddess of the moon, curfews can be a bit of a hindrance.  So when Cerwyn Jones found himself being punished by a court for carrying a five-inch ceremonial knife in a pub he was quick to plead special Wiccan circumstances.  The 52-year-old was sentenced to four months of staying indoors between the hours of 7pm and 7am.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365093/Criminal-caught-carrying-knife-curfew-lifted-persuading-court-warlock.html

Astrologers believe 'supermoon' may be at fault for the Japanese earthquake

The powerful tsunami that today slammed into Japan's eastern coast comes just two days after warnings that the movement of the moon could trigger unpredictable events on Earth.  Astrologers predicted that on March 19 - a week tomorrow - the so-called 'supermoon' will be closer to Earth than at any time since 1992, just 221,567 miles away, and that its gravitational pull will bring chaos to Earth.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365225/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Did-supermoon-cause-todays-natural-disaster.html

...but The Bad Astronomer Phil Plait says otherwise about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and gives links to relief organizations

The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan last night has done a vast amount of damage. I’m seeing lots of information scattered around the web, and figured a post listing them might help.  First, if you need info about the quake, CNET has a long list of links for finding lost loved ones, information on the quake in general, and more.
Full article: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/11/japan-earthquake-info/

Sunday, December 12, 2010

JFK's personal secretary list of 'suspects' of those she believed may have been involved in his assassination goes on auction.

John F. Kennedy's closest aide was the queen of conspiracy theorists.  Evelyn Lincoln, his personal secretary, wrote down a list of sus pects in her beloved boss' assassi nation -- and it included both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.  The never-before-seen personal note, scribbled by Lincoln as she sat aboard Air Force One return ing to Washington on the day of JFK's death, lists those she thought might be behind the pres ident's murder.  The note, estimated to be worth $30,000, is now on the auction block.  Lincoln was Kennedy's per sonal secretary from 1953 until his death on Nov. 22, 1963, and was riding in the Dallas motorcade that fateful day. She died in 1995 at age 85.

Full article: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/jfk_aide_unusual_suspects_7oeoNgAM8ynCmDHRJQn2OO


Speculation abound over video of the 'Ropen' (demon flyer), a living dinosaur flying in the skies of Papua, New Guinea

The person who recorded and posted one of two YouTube videos claims it shows something huge, reptilian, and mysterious flying above a Papua New Guinea beach. He tries to describe it as definitive proof that the Ropen, a "living dinosaur," has finally been caught on video; it's a claim that supports what many creationists believe is evidence that humans and dinosaurs actually lived (and still live) at the same time. However, after all the pop-up captions, commentaries, and a few blurry camera shots, the claim that the ropen does exists appears to be premature.

Full article: http://www.helium.com/items/1920508-ropen-video-proves-nothing

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Crop circle appearing in English countryside of Warminster 

 Full article:  http://www.warminsterpeople.co.uk/groups/ufoactivity/Warminster-Crop-Circle-Link-UFO-activity/story-5779314-detail/story.html


UFO caught on camera near Peterlee, England

A dad says "there is something out there" after claiming he has footage of a UFO above his home.
Paul Simpson, 28, captured this unidentified flying object on his camcorder after spotting the unusual-looking sphere in the skies above his house.  He was left astonished after witnessing the black object, which had an orange glow, in the sky above Eden Hill, in Peterlee.

Full article: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/UFO-spotter-We-aren39t-alone.6428495.jp 

Heinrich Himmler hired alchemist to create gold out of stone at Dachau concentration camp

Nazi chiefs believed they could turn stones, sand and soil into gold, according to a new book.  Heinrich Himmler, head of Hitler's SS police force, was tricked into thinking that precious metals could be produced in this way - and then used to buy weapons to strengthen the Third Reich.  The Nazis set up a secret unit in the Dachau concentration camp before the Second World War, and appointed Karl Malchus, an alchemist, who convinced Himmler that he could make gold from stones, soil and even paraffin.

Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296020/Nazis-tried-turn-sand-gold-Foolish-SS-chief-Himmler-set-secret-alchemy-unit-Dachau.html

Research done by analyst at MIT reveals whats behind many of the recent UFO sightings over China

Those probably were not UFOs that hovered over China recently, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyst said.  The images of the UFOs have caused quite a stir in China and on blogs around the world.  But many of the images appear to be faked with the software program Photoshop and the ones that were not faked seem to depict the launch of a Chinese ballistic missile, said Geoffrey Forden, an MIT weapons analyst.
Forden, who also specializes in Russian and Chinese space systems, published his analysis on a blog called "Arms Control Wonk."

Full article: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/china.ufo.debunked/#fbid=C1z3qCaXNrv