Showing posts with label witchcraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label witchcraft. Show all posts

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012

Russian space agency Roscosmos try to identify origins of 'UFO' fragment that crashed in Siberian village!
The U-shaped object, resembling a silvery dome, is currently under inspection by Russian experts, after being covertly removed under cover of night from the possession of villagers who found it. Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9159519/Giant-UFO-fragment-falls-from-the-sky-in-Siberia.html

Protestesters in South African village mob the Rivers of Living Waters Church associated with witchraft and child abuse

Police struggled for a second day to prevent residents torching the church, which is at the centre of witchcraft and Satanism allegations.
Full article: http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/cops-protect-satanic-church-as-mob-rampages-1.1261308

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012

Elderly couple stoned by mob for supposedly practicing witchcraft in Zambia, 70 year-old woman dies.

A 70-year-old woman of Luanshya’s Fisenge township has been stoned to death by unknown people on suspicion that she was practising witchcraft with her husband. Copperbelt Commissioner of Police Mary Tembo said in an interview yesterday that the police in Luanshya have launched a manhunt for a group of people who allegedly stoned and killed Catherine Mwape, 70, of house number 176 Fisenge township. She said Mrs Mwape was stoned around 02:00 hours on Monday by unknown people who suspected her and her husband of practising witchcraft.
Full article: http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php/politics/2804-woman-stoned-on-suspicion-of-practising-witchcraft

Monday, November 14, 2011

Jesus appears on cliff in Ireland
Jesus Christ is said to have helped many people who were close to the edge. Now comes word that he might have gone over the edge -- and onto the side of a cliff in Ireland. Tourist Sandra Clifford's picture has got a lot of people excited.
Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/woman-photographs-jesus-on-cliff_n_1093107.html


Woman in Nepal village beaten for suspicions of using witchcraft!
A woman of Mahadeva-3 in Saptari district has been beaten by locals 13 times since past four years accusing her of practicing witchcraft, but the administration has not taken action against any offender till date. Siya Devi Mandal, 45, was dubbed a witch by her neighbors and thrashed brutally last November by her neighbors Shyam Prasad Mandal and his wife Rukmini Devi Mandal after the couple’s eight-year-old daughter complained of abdominal pain.
Full article: http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=38295

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

In Mozambique, Africa, six people arrested for lynching and killing two elderly citizens suspected of being witches!
The killings have led to the arrest of six people, Radio Mozambique reports. A non-governmental organisation says at least 20 Mozambicans have been killed this year for alleged witchcraft. Such killings affect several African countries, where superstitious beliefs are rife because of poverty and illiteracy, correspondents say.
Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15562195

Tuesday, Novemeber 1, 2011

After two failed doomsday predictions Harold Camping apologizes and retires
At age 90, Harold Camping doesn't have any more doomsday predictions. At least not right now. In a five-minute "apology," Camping appeared to be done predicting the Rapture. He apologized for some of his comments concerning the Rapture, but did leave the door slightly open, saying he is "checking [his] notes carefully."
Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/embarrassed-harold-camping-apologizes-rapture-missteps-173806400.html



Mexican citizens terrified of drug cartels turn to witchcraft!
In the dimly lighted back room of a modest house in this tourist city now largely devoid of tourists, Luis Tomás Marthen Torres, a warlock with 50 years of experience, closes his eyes and chants as he briskly rubs a stark white egg over the arms, chest and neck of a worried customer.
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/world/americas/mexicans-turn-to-witchcraft-to-ward-off-drug-cartels.html?_r=3&emc=eta1

Monday, July 18, 2011

After political shakeup, Zahi Hawass (and SEVERE critic of ancient alien hypothesis) is fired from his post as Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs!

After nearly a decade as chief of Egypt's antiquities, Zahi Hawass is now out of a job.  The 64-year-old archaeologist was fired yesterday by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf as part of a wider shakeup of his cabinet. Protestors at Cairo's Tahrir Square had been calling for his ouster as minister of antiquities for months. "All the devils united against me," Hawass told Science Insider.

Full article: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/07/eqypts-antiquities-boss-is-sacke.html?etoc&elq=b4e8e8303a9c47cfb0ab71c4b529f35e

Nessie-like sea monster photographed in Alaska

A video from 2009 shows something mysterious moving across the surface of the sea that resembles an Alaskan version of the Loch Ness monster.  Some are claiming that the animal is a "Cadborosaurus," a type of reptile or lizard that got its name from Cadboro Bay, in British Columbia. They say that what's in the video is a sea serpent that dwells in the North Pacific and possibly other regions.
Full article:  http://news.discovery.com/animals/sea-serpent-sighting-alaska-hillstranded-110718.html

Bigfoot sightings frequent the town of Chatham, Illinois 


There’s something amiss in the backwoods of Chatham, something potentially big. Lately there’s been talk around certain areas of town of an unusual howling and screeching sound as well as evidence of some very large footprints.
Full article:  http://www.sj-r.com/ourtowns/chatham/x121481200/Messing-with-Sasquatch-may-not-be-such-a-good-idea



After weekend debut of new  Harry Potter movie, Fundamentalist Christians claim the film and books promote witchcraft and Satanism...again
The ‘Harry Potter’ book and film series may be a pop-culture juggernaut generating billions of dollars around the world, but not everyone is thrilled with the adventures of the young wizards.Religious fundamentalists, particularly Evangelical Christians, have long railed against J.K. Rowling’s handiwork, largely because they associate wizardry and magic with witchcraft and Satanism.
Full article:  http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/182140/20110718/harry-potter-christians-witchcraft-wizardry-satan.htm


UFO spotted over Minnesota
A Minnesota witness reports watching and photographing an unusual, silent object in the sky that moved horizontally, "paused for about three minutes," and then continued moving across the sky, according to July 18, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Full article: http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-national/minnesota-witness-photographs-silent-object

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Site near Stirling Castle in Scotland, may shed new light on the legendary King Arthur

A circular earthen mound near Stirling Castle has been linked variously to the legendary king, to British aristocrats and to Roman invaders, but its origins remain shrouded in history.  Now, for the first time, a team of archaelogists from Glasgow University is preparing to use hi-tech scanners to survey the ground beneath it, providing a clear insight into the mound’s beginnings.
Full article: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/scots-site-may-hold-the-key-to-arthurian-mystery-1.1101407?localLinksEn

Rise in belief of witchcraft in Britain goes hand-in-hand with unreported cases of child abuse
Hundreds of witchcraft abuse cases are going unreported across the country each year, it has been revealed.
Officials believe child protection officers are only tipped off in the most extreme cases when a child's life has been put in danger.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387034/Hundreds-witchcraft-child-abuse-cases-unreported-beliefs-spread-UK.html

Australian couple (and cult leaders?) claim they're Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene!
The pair, real names Alan John Miller, who once lived in Loxton in South Australia's Riverland, and Mary Suzanne Luck, operate from rural Wilkesdale near Kingaroy, where they have been joined by an increasing band of followers.  "My name is Jesus, and I'm serious," Miller said in a video recording from one workshop.
Full article: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/im-jesus-riverland-man-says/story-e6frea83-1226055976446

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Seven sheep sacrificed to drive evil spirits out of Kyrgyzstan parliament!
It has suffered two popular revolts, a bloody fistfight and a police raid that turned up a Kalashnikov.
The parliament chamber of Kyrgyzstan is clearly a place of discord, but MPs in the central Asian state have chosen an unusual way of soothing tensions, it has emerged.
Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/21/sheep-scarificed-kyrgyzstan-parliament

Dead alien hoax in Siberia revealed to be made out of meatloaf!
We said it was too good to be true and, sadly, it was.  The students behind the discovery of an alien's body at a UFO 'crash site' have admitted that it was a 'crummy' hoax made out of stale bread.  Friends Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19, shot the video that showed the alien's mangled remains frozen in snow in Irkutsk, Siberia.  The pair were questioned by police over their 'extraterrestrial discovery' but admitted to their stunt.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379214/The-loaf-How-frozen-Siberian-alien-really-BROWN-BREAD.html

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Romanian witches get legal recognition as a legitimate profession...but now have to pay taxes!  Witches threaten to curse tax collectors!
Romania's witches vow to take revenge on tax-hungry politicians. Self-declared witches in Romania are preparing to curse the country's rulers publicly for taxing their profession under an amended labour law. Poisonous mandrake plants are due to be hurled into the River Danube and queen witch Bratara Buzea has devised a spell involving cat dung and a dead dog.  Income tax of 16% and health and pension payments have been imposed.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12126670

Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia man leaves wife and children (but takes their savings), due to advice by local medium who claimed the the wife was a deadly demon!

A superstitious husband stopped having sex with his wife after a temple medium convinced him she was a danger to his life. The wife, who only wanted to be known as Loh, said her husband has now abandoned her and their two teenage children and is refusing to meet them as he fears for his life.

Full article: http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/6/nation/7745247&sec=nation

Monday, December 6, 2010

Two Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia accused of using witchcraft against their employer to be lashed 700 times!

A Saudi court gave heavy jail sentences to two Indonesian housemaids and ordered them lashed 700 times with a whip on charges of practising witchcraft to extort money from their employers, a local daily reported on Monday.  The two maids, aged 33 and 25 years, had used clothes and other personal items to cast a spell on the man and his family in Riyadh since they started working for him nearly three years ago, 'Alyoum' newspaper said.

Full article: http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/two-maids-jailed-to-be-lashed-for-sorcery-2010-12-06-1.325610

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Minnesota jeweler says the Second Coming is near...so he's selling everything cheap, till the end of time!
Larry Falter, owner of Superior’s LTD Jewelers, hit upon a novel idea for his latest TV commercial — blending a storewide sale with his belief that the second coming of Jesus is near.

Full article: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/185317/ 

Does China have the first unicorn-cow?
A cow with a horn smack dab in the middle of its forehead is leading some people to claim the supposedly fictional unicorn is alive and well and living in northern China's Hebei province.  According to Metro.co.uk, the cow's farmer, Jia Kebing, first noticed a small bump on the cow's forehead when it was born two years ago, but he didn't expect it to grow into an 8-inch horn.  But it has, and so has the cow's popularity, even though the presence of two normal horns makes the animal more of a "tri-corn" than a unicorn.
Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/chinese-unicorn-cow-horns-in-on-fame/19737389 

At least twelve people killed by angry mob in Haiti, blaming witchcraft for the cholera  outbreak


Tensions simmered in Haiti Thursday with its political future hanging in the balance, as protesters renewed charges of vote-rigging and cholera fears led to deadly mob violence.  As vote-counting continued ahead of the expected release of preliminary results on Tuesday, candidates in last weekend's presidential and legislative elections remained split over whether to endorse the outcome.  With the impoverished Caribbean nation in limbo, several hundred opposition demonstrators peacefully took to the streets of Port-au-Prince seeking annulment of the vote to determine the successor to Rene Preval.

Full article: ttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gk_FU_dwxdIJzfSSz8IyS3oSsL6g?docId%3DCNG.f9a0b4d03dfba10ea4d940df1f67012d.451

Friday, November 26, 2010

Grandma accused of witchcraft in Ghana burnt to death!
A 72-year-old grandmother suffered one of the most barbaric of deaths when she was burnt alive by a mob at Tema Site 15 after being accused of being a witch.  A student-nurse, who appeared on the scene, attempted to rescue the old woman from her ordeal but she died of her burns within 24 hours of arrival at the Tema General Hospital.  Five people who allegedly tortured and extracted the confessions of witchcraft from Ama Hemmah before drenching her in petrol and setting her ablaze have been arrested by the Tema Police.
Full article: http://www.graphic.com.gh/dailygraphic/page.php?news=10378 

New photo at Loch Ness brings hope to Nessie hunters!
Richard Preston, a landscape designer, has been the latest person to spot a mysterious shape that might be the Loch Ness monster and capture a series of images on camera.  While working on Aldourie Castle gardens on the banks of the Loch Ness, 27-year-old Mr Preston spotted a shape on the loch's surface out of the corner of his eye.

Full story: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/212120-loch-ness-monster-the-latest-sighting/

Mary Rodwell, founder of ACERN (Australian  Close Encounter Research Network) and alien abduction therapist to get TV programing in Australia
AN Agnes Water woman who is a world leader in alien abduction counselling will feature in an SBS documentary alongside her son – a self-confessed UFO sceptic.  Mary Rodwell, who runs the Australian Close Encounter Research Network (ACERN), and her son, Chris Rodwell, a Melbourne veterinary surgeon, are the subjects of a documentary that focuses on the mother-son relationship as Ms Rodwell tries to educate her son about extraterrestrial visitations.

Full article: http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2010/11/26/agnes-alien-expert-to-star-in-documentary/


'Flying object' falls to the sky in Florida
Several Polk County viewers called FOX 13 yesterday evening to report something in the sky.  The callers believed the object may have been a meteor or other object entering Earth's atmosphere.  Photos sent by one viewer showed the bright object with some sort of vapor or smoke trail behind it. They were taken at around 5:45 p.m.  It's not clear if the object was a passenger jet with its exhaust trail illuminated by the setting sun, or if it was a meteor or piece of space junk being burned up as it entered the atmosphere.  FOX 13 has been unable to reach any experts who could confirm either theory.

Full article: http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/polk/ufo-in-sky-over-polk-112610

Monday, September 20, 2010

Wiccan community angered over Christine O'Donnell's negative portrait of witches and witchcraft

Delaware's Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell may have lost the Wiccan vote. O'Donnell's decade-old remarks about having "dabbled into witchcraft," which resurfaced on Friday, were ill-informed and disappointing, some in the pagan community have said.  "Any political candidate that is going to equate witchcraft with Satanism is ill informed and is not likely to get the support of people involved in nature religion," Reverend Selena Fox, the High Priestess & Senior Minister of the Circle Sanctuary, told the Huffington Post. Her non-profit organization is dedicated to promoting paganism and nature spirituality.

Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017026-503544.html?tag=mncol;lst;2

Sunday, September 19

Tea Party candidate Christine O' Donnell admits to dating Satanist and dabbling into witchcraft in her youth

The remarkable clip – which was aired this weekend – rocked the campaign of the conservative politician who was backed against the Republican establishment by Sarah Palin and the populist Tea Party movement.
"I dabbled into witchcraft - I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. ... I dabbled into witchcraft,” Miss O’Donnell said, apparently seriously, in the segment shown by liberal comic Bill Maher on his current show Real Time.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/8011702/Christine-ODonnell-the-Republican-contender-admitted-she-dabbled-in-witchcraft.html 

UFO sightings near nuclear missile silos is genuine say ex-military personal
Consider it the second barrel of the double-barreled shotgun, or the "two" of the proverbial "one-two punch"; the first being Leslie Kean's new book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record and now the upcoming press conference being co-hosted by researcher Robert Hastings and former missleer (Minuteman I launch officer - Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander) Bob Salas.

Full article: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/185304 

Palmdale, California missing cult members found, safely, at local park, police question cult leader and hospitalize her for mental evaluation
Missing members of a break-off religious group, who were reported missing by their families Saturday, have been found alive and well at a park in Palmdale.  The 5 adults and 8 children were spotted late Sunday morning at Jackie Robinson Park in Palmdale, according to sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.  They're all alive and well, Whitmore said. They told deputies they had no intention of harming themselves. Sheriff's officials say there is no criminal investigation planned. But they are interviewing the leader of the group, 32-year-old Reyna Marisol Chicas, of Palmdale, to try to figure out why the group went missing.

Full article: http://www.ktla.com/ktla-palmdale-mass-suicide,0,7148024.story


Scientific community reminds public of UFO sightings...'that's Venus your looking at!'

Scientists generally issue a warning when Venus shines bright. They usually say something like: It’s not a UFO – it’s just the brightest planet shining brighter.  With eyes turned to the sky more than usual, Venus can startle those who normally don’t look up. Shortly after sunset, low in the west-southwest sky, you might notice Venus, which will be the brightest it has been in all of 2010.

Full article: http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/09/19/scientists-issue-a-reminder-it-is-not-a-ufo-it-is-simply-venus-shining-bright/

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Budapest couple finds image of the Devil on their bathroom tile
The appearance of the Satan image has left her family fearing that the bathroom in their Budapest home has been possessed by the forces of evil.  Husband Laszlo, 52, had renovated the room at great expense, fitting it with a heavenly new bath, shower and tiles – but it’s made life hell.  Forty-seven-year-old Mrs Csrefko spotted the terrifying horned image after her first shower.  She told The Sun: ‘I was naked coming out of the shower and I could suddenly see his eyes staring into me. I just screamed and ran.’  Laszlo added: ‘We can't clean it off and it wasn't there when we put the tiles up. It just appeared overnight and nothing can move it.  ‘The room is always ice cold no matter how high we turn the heating up and we've just stopped using it because it's too spooky.

Full article:http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3139107/Devil-appears-in-bathroom-tile.html

Chinese mass UFO sightings due to light reflections from outdoor lamps against camera lenses says astronomers
After a weeklong analysis of recent UFO sightings over Hong Kong, a scientist has concluded that the unknown objects were "ghost images" -- reflections of light generated by outdoor lamps caught by camera lenses.  According to China's People's Daily Online, Wang Sichao, a planetary astronomer at the Purple Hills Observatory (part of the Chinese Academy of Science), is convinced the UFOs' circular appearance had a very terrestrial explanation.  "I have analyzed and researched the UFOs," Wang said. "The closer the outdoor circular lamps are to the video image center, the brighter the 'ghost images' will be.

Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/astronomer-hong-kong-ufos-were-ghost-images-of-lamps/19634523

Man arrested for defrauding victims with 'witchcraft'
 Despite making promises of being able to conjure spirits to solve marital or other personal problems, a Brampton, Ont., man is charged with practising witchcraft to exorcise money from a victim.  Peel police aren't revealing much about the allegations against the suspect, but detectives at 21 Division are asking for other victims to come forward.  "We really don't care if you want to practise witchcraft, as long as you don't allegedly defraud people," Peel police Sgt. Zahir Shah said.

Full article: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/09/15/pf-15355431.html

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Hunting party, lead by a psychic Dean Maynard, hunt for the 'Beast of Windermer' or Bownessie 'as the English Nessie' 

But for the past four years, a rumour of another ‘beast’ has circulated around the Lake District.  A team of investigators have now taken it upon themselves to find the now legendary ‘Bownessie’ in the waters of Windermere.  The crack team will descend onto the shores of the famous lake on Saturday.  Psychic Dean Maynard will lead the team after a recent sighting tip-off.  The excursion is the second the team has carried out in as many years, first hunting for the ‘monster’ in the summer of last year.

Full article: http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/hunt-for-the-beast-of-windermere-1.756207?referrerPath=home 

Russian territorial president of Kalmyk, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, claims to have been visited by aliens in yellow suits, and hopes to see Russia create a center of UfOlogy 
Colourful Kalmyk president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is ready to make contact with outer space once he leaves office next month.  The long-serving leader of the south-western republic has repeatedly claimed to have met aliens – and he wants to see Russia create a centre for UFOlogy to help explore what happened to him.  “In many countries that I visit there are laboratories that investigate UFOs and make contact,” he told journalists at a press conference in Elista. He did not specify anywhere. He added that he had talked about extraterrestrial civilisations with foreign dignatories, including heads of state gzt.ru reported.

Full article: http://www.mn.ru/politics/20100909/188032755.html

Romanian witches scare lawmakers proposing a tax levy for witches and fortune tellers!
Abracadabra, we'll turn all of you into toads!  That's what Romanian senators may have been fearing when they rejected a proposal to tax witches and fortune tellers.  Lawmakers Alin Popoviciu and Cristi Dugulescu of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party drafted a law where witches and fortune tellers would have to produce receipts, and would also be held liable for wrong predictions, a measure which was part of the government's drive to increase revenue.  Romania's Senate voted down the proposal Tuesday. Popoviciu claimed lawmakers were frightened of being cursed.

Full article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/09/banish-tax-romanian-witches-frighten-lawmakers-voting-levy/

Woman regenerates lost fingertip!?
After running inside from a rainstorm one Friday evening last January, Deepa Kulkarni leaned against the doorway with her right hand to take off her boots. Then, in an effort to make sure the dog didn't get out, someone slammed the door hard, and it landed right on her pinky.  Kulkarni thought the door had only bruised her finger, but then she looked down and saw the tip of her pinky lying on the floor.

Full article: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/09/pinky.regeneration.surgery/index.html#fbid=0zDOSJZ0-Em&wom=false

German police arrest brothel madam for using 'voodoo magic' to force Nigerian girls into prostitution
German authorities were first alerted to the exploitation in the winter of 2009 when they arrested 20-year-old prostitute during a routine check at a Bonn bordello for having false identification.  She told officers that her "madam" had forced her into selling sex, handing over all of her earnings and not informing police using “voodoo magic” from the victim’s native country.  “Should she fail to adhere to this, she was threatened with sickness, madness and even death,” police said in a statement.  The madam reportedly used “voodoo packets,” which contained items such as finger nails, body hair, clothing and photos.  “The victims believe that the person who possesses these packets exercises power over them,” the police statement said.

Full article: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100909-29717.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=146

Friday, September 3, 2010

Pub at Magazine Hotel in Wallasey, England almost burns down...because of an old witches curse!
The landlords of a Merseyside pub which was almost destroyed by a fire believe a mysterious curse is to blame.  The blaze at the 250-year-old Magazine Hotel in Wallasey caused £200,000 worth of damage and left managers Linda and Les Baxendale living in a caravan for three months.  A small fabric witch figure which hung from the ceiling of the main bar was stolen two nights before the fire.  And with a history of accidents befalling those who dared to touch it, the couple are convinced the two are connected.  The official cause was a power surge which blew up the pub's fuse box, starting a fire.

Full article: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/09/03/witch-curse-blamed-for-wirral-magazine-pub-fire-100252-27193227/2/

French town of Ares, with it's very own alien spacecraft landing pad, gets a visitor...only it's not E.T.

Arès, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, has decided to try and attract Martians to its triangular “UFOport” with its very own fake Martian craft.  Made by a local artist, the man-made UFO “landed” on the strip yesterday and, it is hoped, will entice any hesitant extraterrestrials in search of a runway. A plaque reads: “Reserved for voyagers of the universe”.  The operation has been dubbed: “‘Allo Arès, ici UFO.” Arès built the pad in 1976 after a local airport electrician and UFO nut complained to local authorities that France had no alien craft strips.  The local mayor liked the idea and decreed that extraterrestrial visitors would be exempt from airport tax and could take part in any local boules or mud-skating competitions.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/7980046/French-towns-UFO-landing-pad-welcomes-first-visitor.html