A Violent Encounter With An Alien Being

This anecdote was posted at the AboveTopSecret.com. Go to the link provided to follow the thread. There is some strong language...just a caution.

Dan Tanna posts:

It was the night of the 1st of July 2008, and I the wife and our little one were asleep in the bed, when I was awoken by one of those 'out of place noises' that any parent will tell you this: when a noise is out of place your mind becomes instantly alert.

So i opened an eye, saw the wife and little one were in the bed, so i thought 'hell' must be a noise outside.

Then a shadow flitted across the corner of the room, so i decided to lay still, as if it was a person in the room they were going to get the good news.

Then after about a minutes watching, this golden figure stepped towards the bed. It was appalling. I have never, ever in my life seen some thing so dreadful or absolutely horrific in my life.

Here is the drawing I did of this creature so you can see what i am on about.


It was 6 feet tall, well built, huge, and I mean huge eyes like a damn fish, and thats what its eniter being reminded me of. A two legged two armed fish / man type being. It was copper /bronze coloured, scaled and its clothing was a lighter golden colour and scaled too.

It seemed to watch the wife / baby for a while, and then reached out like it was going to touch one of them.

The first knife blow hit it right in the left eye as i pulled it down and towards me.

The second / third / fourth hit it in the throat and jaw area, and it really then decided it didn't want to play any more.

We rolled off the bed onto the floor and I really went totally mad on it to be honest. A rage, red rage sweeped through me at the thought that this 'thing' was trying to steal my baby /wife..

On the floor it tried to grab my arm, so I screamed at the wife for the good news.

She threw it at me, so i started with my left hand to smash against its skull and right side of the face.

here the being knew it was dead. i was I admit in a murderous rage by this point, and it knew it.

However it never gave up trying to escape, it rolled onto its front and tried to reach the door way, but it took maybe another thirty blows to the back and head.. I stood up, grabbed my ice axe from the shelf as the good news was stuck in its shoulder real deep and was about to deal a real killing blow to its skull when it rolled over onto is back.

It opend both palms, held its hands open palm up, and then just started to wobble and fade in and out. . . .but this thing was getting away so i tried leaping on it again.

It was like leaping onto a live wire.

I skipped backwards away from it, and it just vanished. Clean scott away right in front of us.

My heart was going fifty to the billion, and i looked around the room.

Then you know what we did ? we went to sleep! yes, i know, we went to sleep as a wave of tiredness washed over us both seems totally insane, and I agree with you, it IS totally insane.

But its what we did.

We woke in the morning like nothing had happend, got up, and it was only as I stood on one of my knives on the floor did it sink in. Its blade was snapped clean off, and was no where to be seen.

The room was spotless, we both looked at each other... and my wife said to me..

That wasn't a dream i had last night of you fighting that fish man was it ?

So....

if you laugh, you laugh. Fair enough.

But, if your reading this Mr Fish being, come back to my house ever again and Im going to make sure that my axe is buried deep in your skull and your dead body won't 'vanish' because ill parade your sorry arse on world wide TV. Oh and Mr Fish ? if you got the mustard to come back, please give me back the good news. I'll fight you for it.

POST 2.

The good news is (was) my very nasty japanese styled fighting knife.

I named it the 'good news' in a parody. because the real 'good news' is the gopsel and jesus.

If i give you my ' good news' your meeting Jesus real quick.... alot sooner than you anticipated.. This little bastard has it embedded in its back.

I pretty damn annoyed at this actually.

As for being a wind up ? not at all. Its a genuine, 100% encounter that i had, in my home, with a creature that was I feel trying to abduct either my wife, or my baby, or both.

The one thing that really, really bothers me ? is why on earth did we just say 'well lets go to sleep'.. I mean, I have been in alot of situations where i have been pumped stupid on adrenalin and sleep afterwards ? no way you jabber like a mad man for days afterwards...

Yet, we just went..to sleep ??


POST 3:

It took more than 100 solid shots to the face, neck, chest and back.. not counting the severe wounds to its head.

I admit i put this here because of the fact that I truely intended to kill this being stone cold dead. Its face was hanging off, its eye was totally destroyed, its neck was opend wide and yet not only did it not die.. but I have a horrible suspicion that we went to sleep and the room got 'tidied up' by 'some thing'..

You know how it is with kids - a house gets messy. Our room the next morning looked like we had a maid in. No joke.


POST 4:

My Hiattsu has vanished.. as it was in this things back jammed fast in its shoulder. Thats why i grabbed the ice axe from the shelf. The broken knife is another blade that was used before it tried to wrestle me and we rolled off the bed.

Yes before any one asks, i do have many, many knives and assorted axes / ice axes in my home.


POST 5: A FELLOW MEMBER ASKED IF I REMEMBER ANY SMELLS / LIQUIDS

You know I do. It was like a runny marmalde - orange, sticky and see through, not like the thick dark liquid that is human blood. One detail i vividly remember and will never forget is they eye exploded like it was under pressure like a balloon, not like when you dissect a cows eye in a science glass - more a sudden explosive decompression than a slow deflation.

One odour was a metallic tang taste in the room like . . .like when you shoot off a few hundred rounds and the barrels starting to glow.. and you can taste the lead in the air mixed with gun powder.


POST 6: member asks if any thing else bothers me about the event.

The sleep bothers me alot actually. We just went 'oh well, off to sleep'.

No...Hot # I am stocked on adrenalin gibbering away... just...lets go sleep.

the wounds this thing took would of killed a human being with no doubt at all. My blades are always kept razor sharp, and I know how to use them to really hasten some ones demise.

This thing took it and more... it really was going to get an axe embedded in its head had it not decided to electrocute me.


POST 7: A member asked had i seen a UFO / Invited this creature into my home.

There is but without being really weird about it, I think i may have poked my nose where its not wanted to be honest.

Right, I seen some thing weird over the tree tops of culloden woods in inverness. So, I took to keeping an eye out.

I got three small low quality pics with a mobile phone that were not good enough to start a thread with in ATS, but I did share them in chat.

Then this.

It is bloody mad, and I know people are going to go .. wtf ?? you barking mad mate, and i truely understand...

but, at the end of the day I tried my level best to kill this being, and it took a licking and kept on kicking.

NOTE: I have no comment either way on this posting....though, I think the poster is serious. Here is a link to the thread LINK

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Sylvia Browne Embarking On Her Farewell Tour

Sylvia Browne wants a psychic reading, but for a woman who estimates she has given millions of them to clients around the world, getting one isn't so easy.

"I'd love to get a reading, are you kidding? Of course I would, but I've never been able to," laments Browne in a recent telephone interview from San Jose, Calif.

The self-described psychic, spiritual teacher and author says she has paid visits to several of her colleagues over the years, hoping for a glimpse of her life path, but no one has been able to see past the present.

"They've tried, but I don't know whether I scare them, or whatever. I mean, they've tried to do it, but then they just threw up their hands," she said. "I don't have any answer for it. I had one woman tell me, 'Your light is too bright, I can't get through it.' "

While it would be nice to be on the other end of a reading, Browne certainly has enough on the go to keep her mind from worrying about why that scenario won't play out. Her spare time -- the moments between readings, television appearances, seminars and multi-city tours -- are usually spent writing. Browne has released 45 books in 30 years and has five more ready and waiting to be printed.

"They just flow right out. During the day I'll think, 'Well that's it, I don't have anything more to say,' and I'll be lying in bed at night and think 'oh my God, I have to tell them about that,' and so I just write," she said. "I write on the plane, I write in-between shows. My daughter says the funniest thing. She says, 'Mom goes to the bathroom and comes out with a book.' "

The New York Times best-selling author and regular guest on The Montel Williams Show writes on the topic of this life, the afterlife, the "Other Side" and related spiritual items she says she learns about from her spirit guide Francine, a being she chose to guide her through life before she was born.

"This is hell and the other side is heaven and we're here to learn for God," she said.

Browne's belief system, which evolved into her church, the Society of Novus Spiritus, is embraced by some and despised by others. For all her fans and followers there are as many who dismiss her "psychic ability" as a ploy to swindle money from the wallets of gullible, vulnerable people. She sells out theatres, yet is the topic of investigations by skeptics and journalists alike. Fans say she has saved their lives; foes protest her credentials. Google her name and underneath her official website, StopSylviaBrowne.com pops up.

"It wouldn't be terrible if everybody believed in you, but I could care less," she says of her critics. "If you're doing what you know in your heart is pure and you do what God -- you believe that's what he wants you to do -- you can't let that bother you."

And for those who say she's faking psychic talent to make money: "Well, they should read my financials and then they wouldn't say that. I told somebody the other day that you've never seen a psychic on the Forbes 500, have you?"

While Browne does have plans to slow down, it's certainly not because of her critics. It's because she's a 72-year-old grandmother. The famous soothsayer is embarking on her farewell tour, the last time she will be travelling through North America speaking to audiences eager to hear her beliefs and visions from beyond.

"Three years ago I did 60 (shows) in a year and I must have been trying to kill myself. I don't know what I was thinking. In one year, that's crazy," she said. "I'm 72 and I'm tired of schlupping through airports."

Stepping away from touring, however, doesn't mean she's retiring altogether. Brown says she still plans on writing and providing readings both in-person and over the phone (the latter at a cost to the client of $850 for 20 to 30 minutes).

Although she can't have a reading of her own, critics are around every corner and life on the road is not as easy as it once was, Browne never feels alone with her gift. According to the controversial celeb, there's a little bit of psychic energy in all of us.

"Oh, I think everybody is psychic but not everybody is a psychic," she said. "Like I said on television once, 'I think we all had a cellphone from God but we dropped it.' "

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British UFO Sightings: 'Bizarre' Level

Plotted on a map of Britain, the sightings can be seen to stretch from Liverpool to Dover and from Llanelli to Derby.

Whatever the explanation, experts agree that the number of suspected flying saucers has hit unusual highs this summer.

Malcolm Robinson, who studies the phenomenon, said: "Something very bizarre is happening in the skies over the UK."

The founder member of Strange Phenomena Investigations, added: "There has been an unusual number of sightings recently.

"Some experts believe it could be linked to global warming and craft from outer space are appearing because they are concerned about what man is doing to this planet."

Among mysterious flying objects spotted in recent months was a 'glowing' disc spotted above the M5 motorway.

Royal Navy aircraft engineer Michael Madden said he watched the UFO for three minutes before it 'zoomed off' near Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.

Earlier, in Basingstoke, witnesses claimed to have seen a fleet of 12 orange objects in the night sky for half an hour.

And in St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan a police helicopter crew gave chase to another UFO after it appeared to veer at speed towards their aircraft.

One UFO spotter however was left red-faced after his report of a mysterious flying saucer in South Wales turned out to be nothing more other-worldly than the moon.

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BBC Video: Great Britain's Closest UFO Encounters - Episode 1

BBC video presentation of some of Great Britain's best documented UFO / OVNI encounters.

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Haunted 'Robert The Doll' To Be Featured At Atlantic Paranormal Society Convention

For the first time in more than a century a 'haunted' doll will leave its home in Key West.

The straw filled Robert the Doll belonged to Key West artist Robert Eugene Otto, received the doll as gift when he was a young boy in the late 1800s by a nurse who looked after him.

As the legend goes, the family would often hear Robert having a conversation with the doll – and the doll answering back in a voice distinctly different than Robert's voice. Otto never went anywhere without the doll and blamed it for many strange events and mishaps around the house.

After his death, the doll frightened others who lived the home and was eventually relegated to an attic room. But that's not where the story ends. Robert the Doll reportedly used to taunt children from the attic window as they walked past the house.

A regular stop on the city's ghost tours, Robert the Doll will be featured at a paranormal conference in Clearwater. The doll is scheduled to appear at the Atlantic Paranormal Society Convention on July 19 and 20.

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Bigfoot Conference Bolstered By Ben Lomond, California Sighting

Jason Williams said he saw it one night in Ben Lomond.

The 18-year-old was shooting at coyotes with an air rifle from his backyard on Scenic Way when he saw a dark figure -- about 7 feet, light brown hair, muscular build, about 400 pounds -- walking upright through the bushes behind his house, he said.

"I immediately put out my cigarette and started towards my house," he said of the February night. "If there was something that big around, I didn't want to be outside."

Scared and confused, the teenager called his dad, who called Michael Rugg, a local Bigfoot aficionado and founder of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum.

Rugg firmly believes that a Bigfoot lives in Ben Lomond, and this summer he and other Bigfoot researchers and eye-witnesses will convene to discuss the creature's existence at Bigfoot Discovery Day II.

Among the presenters are Bigfoot notables Jeff Meldrum, Richard Noll, Kathy Moskowitz Strain and David Paulides.

"Scientists don't want their names associated with this," said author Paulides, adding that this makes coming up with proof, aside from personal accounts and muddy footprints, challenging for die-hard believers.

To help authenticate his research, Paulides, author of "The Hoopa Project," which chronicles three years of Bigfoot research on the Hoopa Indian Reservation near Redwood National Park, had all 45 people interviewed in the book sign affidavits swearing the truth of their testimonies.

But sworn statements are a small step. So far, no DNA has been analyzed, no skeletons have been found, and no live Bigfoots have been studied up close, said Terry Bowyer, professor and chair of the Idaho State University Biology department, where Meldrum is a tenured professor of anatomy.

"Bigfoot research is not viewed horribly favorably by the scientific community," he said. "But our professors have the academic freedom to study what they wish."

Bower noted that he studies Bigfoot on his own time, but courses on Bigfoot are not offered at Idaho State.

Despite naysayers, Rugg believes in the legitimacy of the sightings in Santa Cruz County. He has plotted the places where they happened on a giant map of the county inside his Bigfoot museum.

Rugg says there have been 13 sightings and upward of 40 incidents where people heard Bigfoot screams in the past 150 years.

But he said not all reported sightings have been accurate.

"Last year, someone dressed up as Sasquatch and streaked Discovery Day," he said. A visitor snapped a photo, which came in handy later when Rugg received suspicious e-mails containing blurry photos of a gorilla-like animal cavorting in the brush.

"You can tell it's Photoshopped," he said. To double check, he super-imposed the photo of the streaker over the submitted photos and confirmed they were the same person.

Also, Rugg said people often confuse Bigfoot with wildlife.

"Some sightings are more than likely bears," he said, and people often confuse Bigfoot noises with cougar screams or coyote calls, he added.

As for this winter's sighting in Ben Lomond, Rugg says it was likely the real deal.

When Rugg arrived on the scene to investigate, the trail was cold. He did, though, find a trail he said was "twice as wide as a normal human's," and dead chickens on nearby property that had been plucked with only the breasts eaten.

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UFO Mystery Along South African Cape Coast

Was it an Unidentified Flying Object, was it a ship in distress or was it just people firing off red distress flares? The mystery remains...

On Saturday night, Mark Thompson, NSRI Bakoven station commander said the mystery started: "At 21:10 our station was alerted to a red distress flare sighting about 500m off-shore at Bantry Bay.

"Within minutes of this report, further ones of distress-flare sightings were received from Lambert's Bay, Yzerfontein, Bakoven, Hout Bay, Strandfontein on the West Coast, and also from Gansbaai (on the south coast).

Thompson said: "All sightings reported were from credible and co-operative witnesses."

One vessel known to be at sea at this time was the 37ft yacht, Mr B, sailing from Cape Town to Langebaan.

No meteor acitvity

It had left Cape Town at 13:00 on Saturday and could not be contacted, the location and fate of the yacht remaining a mystery.

Dr Peter Martinez of the SA Astronomical Observatory confirmed that while there were no significant reports of meteor activity at the time of the reports, the possibility could not be completely ruled out.

Further investigations would be conducted to assist in determining the possibility of meteor activity and/or space craft re-entry.

Thompson said NSRI Table Bay launched the rescue craft Spirit of Vodacom and a search operation covering Table Bay and along the Atlantic Seaboard was initiated.

"As the search operation progressed, NSRI Hout Bay launched rescue craft MTU Nadine Gordimer to join in the search.

"NSRI stations at Bakoven, Yzerfontein, Lambert's Bay and Mykonos were all alerted and volunteers posted along the coast to watch for further flare sightings.

Shot from car park

"They also were to investigate for any overdue vessels and to investigate boat trailers abandoned at launching sites that might suggest vessels or craft still at sea.

"NSRI Hermanus investigated a flare report near Gansbaai which appeared to be unrelated to the suspected flares reported along the West Coast after police confirmed witnesses seeing the flare being activated near a car park in town."

"After the search, covering a vast area of the West Coast, the 'missing' Mr B yacht was confirmed to be safe at Langebaan about 09:00 on Sunday morning.

"Along the West Coast, witnesses were questioned extensively on what they saw.

No signs by 03:00

"It appeared to be similar type of sightings with most witnesses claiming what they thought was a flare arcing downwards at a 70-degree angle, very bright and appearing to be very close in-shore and very close to the person observing the sight.

"NSRI rescue craft covered a large area searching for any signs of vessels in distress, but by 03:00 no signs of vessels in distress or further reports of flare sightings led to rescue craft being recalled until new information could verify a rescue requirement.

"Maritime Radio Services broadcast an all-ships alert and there were no further suspected flare sightings."

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Orbs / Anomalies - Maine Graveyard

The following text and images were submitted by Lindsay Niles:


I'm in Maine visiting some family. They all went out leaving me alone for the day. At dusk I decided to take a walk down to the cemetery at the end of the street to get some photographs. The cemetery is over 200 years old, and home to many unmarked graves. I now reside in the Midwest and most of the cemeteries there are far more modern and nearly laid out since space is somewhat limited. You never see anything like an old New England graveyard in that part of the country. So I wanted some pictures to take home with me.

At first I started off just framing some nice shots and clicking then reviewing them on my digital camera's screen to make sure they were in focus. Then, after a while, I started to take shots at random and stopped checking them on the screen. During that time is when I got the next three photos.

The first one shows a bright red light at the far end of the graveyard. I did see this after I took the picture but didn't think too much of it. It was only after I saw the next photo that I wondered if perhaps I'd captured the same anomaly when it was farther away.


The next shows an orangeish ball of light that looks to be in motion. I didn't see this photo until I got home and downloaded them onto my computer. Initially I thought the light was outside the graveyard and in the woods beyond it but you can see in the zoom (which shows the image at "actual pixels") that it is within the cemetery itself.


The last photo shows a small white orb that seems to be moving as well. I was quick to dismiss this one was a moth of something that was going by until I zoomed into view it at actual pixels. It has a trail of a misty substance following it.


None of these photos have been edited, save for resizing and cropping. No adjustments to the color, contrast or sharpness have been made. There are no reflectors on the outside or inside wall of the graveyard that would likely cause a reflection like anything in these. There were no cars on the roads when I took these. I was careful not to get any in the pictures I was taking. Since this is a small town locals are leery of anyone they don't know walking about taking pictures in the old cemeteries so I tried to be discreet. The only two houses in the area are outside the frame in all of these shots. I'd love to hear what you think of these! If you want to see the full size raw photos, just ask. I think they're pretty neat. I'd go back down there tonight if I didn't think one of the neighbors would call the cops.

NOTE: Thanks for the submission, Lindsay. The red orb is very interesting...in my experience, rarely do these exhibit in such a hue. On that same image, there is either a carved relief on the front of the headstone (in the middle of the image on the reversed side) or this is an anomaly as well. There does seem to be some plasmic traces with the other orb as you stated. I look forward to comments from other readers.

We always welcome reader submissions and attachments. Please send us an email ...thanks for reading!

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Video: Crop Circle Formed in 7 Minutes!

Amazing video of an actual crop circle formation presented by Jaime Mausson at the 2008 International UFO Congress. The videographer/researcher also interviewed.

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Video: The Secret War Against Iran

In an article in the "New Yorker", Seymour Hersh says that the president got up to 400 million dollars in a “Presidential Finding” and that top democrats were involved. An unidentified source told Hersh: "The finding was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change." The funds were requested at the same time that a US National Intelligence Estimate late last year stated that Iran had halted any kind of Nuclear Weapons program they may have had by 2003. Despite the report the Bush administration and many in congress continue to talk about Iran as a nuclear threat. In an interview with CNN, Hersh talked about Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: "They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," As well, a non-binding resolution with bipartisan support is moving quickly through the house. The resolution calls on the White House to ban the export to Iran, of refined petroleum or gasoline and for "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran," and would give the President free reign in dealing with Iran including a naval blockade.


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CARLO BASILONE (VOICEOVER): According to the New Yorker issue of July 7-14, "Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran." The article is by Seymour Hersh. He says that the president got up to $400 million in a presidential finding, and that top Democrats were involved.

Courtesy: The New Yorker

VOICE OF SEYMOUR HERSH, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST & AUTHOR: Under law, any covert operation has to debrief to the Senate and House intelligence committees, in this particular case the Senate and House Democratic and Republican's leaders of the intelligence committee, and also the house speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, and Republican leaders of the House and Senate. I mean, you're talking about a very classified presidential finding.

BASILONE: An unidentified source told Hersh, "The finding was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change." The funds were requested at the same time that a US National Intelligence Estimate late last year stated that Iran had halted any kind of nuclear weapons programs they may have had by 2003. Despite the report, the Bush administration and many in Congress continue to talk about Iran as a nuclear threat. In an interview with CNN, Hersh talked about Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

(CLIP BEGINS)

Courtesy: CNN

HERSH: Their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapon program.

BASILONE: As well, a non-binding resolution with bipartisan support is moving quickly through the House. The resolution calls on the White House to ban the export to Iran of refined petroleum or gasoline, and for "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran," and would give the president free rein in dealing with Iran, including a naval blockade. A similar bill is being tabled in the Senate.

JOE LIEBERMAN, US SENATOR (ID-CT): Good morning, everybody.

BASILONE: Senator Joe Lieberman was asked if the resolution would be an act of war against Iran.

LIEBERMAN: Well, of course, I think that the Iranians training and equipping Iraqis who have killed hundreds of American soldiers is an act of war by the Iranians.

BASILONE: Hersh says that not everyone in the administration thinks an attack on Iran is a good thing, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

HERSH: Well, Gates late last year went to a closed-door meeting of the Democratic caucus. This was an off-the-record meeting. And so, with that kind of confidence, Gates spoke rather openly. If we bomb Iran, he said, our grandchildren will be fighting jihadists. In other words, we'll be dealing with al-Qaeda or that ilk for the next couple of decades, generations. It was very troubling to the members. They asked a lot of questions about it, and he assured them he was speaking only for himself, obviously.

BASILONE: Others have also suggested that force might not be the best way.

TRITA PARSI, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: The historical pattern in Iran has been that when attacked, people rally around the flag. We saw that in 1980 when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. This was at a time when Iran was in great chaos. The revolutionary regime had executed a large number of people from the Iranian military. Khomeini's grip on power was not as strong. He was in a very intense power struggle. But then Saddam invaded, thinking that Iran was weak, thinking that the Iranians would not unify. And within weeks, you had 100,000 volunteers rushing to Khuzistan region in order to expel the invaders. And a lot of historians argue that the Khomeini government did not survive in spite of Saddam's attack; he survived because of Saddam's attack. And if history were to repeat itself, which it so often does, then an attack on Iran would not weaken the government in Iran; it would strengthen it. An attack on Iran would not help the pro-democracy forces in Iran; it would kill it. An attack on Iran would not prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb; it will probably cause it to rush towards a nuclear bomb.

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MUFON Report: Strange UFO Encounter - Ewing Township, New Jersey

This report was submitted to MUFON on July 5, 2008:

I was returning from Quick check on Pennington Rd in Ewing Twp, NJ to pick up an item for my son in the morning that he requested.It was a hot summer night, clear skies in the end of week of July 2006. There were several men working on the street with construction near the Mobil gas station not far from the intersection of Olden/Pennington Ave. There were cars out, but it was not very busy. I attempted to turn on my radio of car once i left the store,but it was not working correctly.I even thought, umm. something is wrong with the radio is it so static..so, i turned it off. Approx.1:25 am after leaving the store, I made Right turn onto Olden Avenue in direction to the High School, pass McDonald's and pass offices on my left hand side of car. At that point pass the little white stone bridge of the near the church property, across the street, i viewed a reddish/green light circle approx.3 ft circle, in the trees on my driver's side which never in past seen before. Olden Avenue is a normal route to get to my home approx. 3 blocks away from that specific location where i saw this object. I drive this road daily, it was the first time i had ever seen something like this. I have lived in the town for over 20 years. I thought it was strange seeing this light circle object, and i passed it slowly on my left side driver side.It was about 100ft away. It was inside the trees. I expressed,"What is that? Where is that comming from?" I didn't see anything projecting from it. There were a few cars infront of me in a distance on Olden Ave the same direction i was going, but they were ahead of me,by the time i saw this, no cars where infront of me.It was quiet on Olden Avenue. It was in the trees above near the side of the house I continued to go slowly passing it on my right side of car, alittle further at the next street which was less than several feet away, i saw a very large boomerang object, size 1/2 football field in length hovering over treeline of homes open space area from my driver's side window. I was on Olden Avenue and this huge object was adjacent to my view on the left side while i was in my car from the street. It was approx 300 ft away from me seeing from the distance.It hovered over several homes, and i couldn't see the other side of the object. It was silent, bobbing alittle, not in moving position.I didnot hear any noise from it. I said, Oh.My God, what is that? that is Huge UFO!! That is not a plane, helicopter,or anything i had seen before.No miltary craft would be out doing this above these houses.( Airforce base is about 35 min. by car in south direction of town.We have an airport in town too, but not anything flying object seen shape like this before.It was no stealth flyer. This thing looked like a mothership of a huge object. we are about 10 minutes from Delaware River) That thing is too close to the ground. I got to get out of here, now!!" I did not see any people walking on that specific street that night. The V shape bommerang was a solid object, silvish color,with long end pointing to direction to North. The sideof the object had with several lights which hovered above treeline of the homes.(Glendale Sect.)It was very noticable, and i wondered if other neighbors saw it. I was overwhelmed,scared and shaking.I NEVER seen anything like this before. I could only view one side of it, that how large it looked from its expansion, i saw a blub white object on the bottom of it. I have never seen a shape of a strange flying that low proximity at all near ground level.I even tried to say to myself it was a military object, but logically i said they would not be doing this kind of miltary exercise over people's homes.There is no reason for them to do this.This is wild!! It was so close to ground level over these peoples houses. I was totally overwhelmed what i viewed.I continued to drive slowly.less than 10 miles a hour.I checked if cars behind me and none around.I took the next Rt turn onto Glen Mawr to get to my house several blocks away from this location. I had no time elapse and I was not abducted. I was saying the Lord's prayer driving home to myself. It was about 4 minutes later from what i just viewed to my house. I remember still shaking in my car when i turned into my driveway. I had to calm down before entering my house, because my teen children were watching a movie at the time.I entered the house, and my oldest child saw my expression on my face. My daughter knew something was wrong. I sat with them and explained what i viewed and tried not to frighten them. I said maybe it had to do with the military. At that time, the skies were active with planes around here. My daughter admitted hearing a story years ago at the fields near Trenton State, someone expressed a craft was seen. I had no idea that this stuff was happening around here. I told them that I was not going back to see it again lets forget about it until we speak to their dad..My husband was on a trip, expect him the next day. I said no one is going to believe me if i call the police.I didn't want to call him because it was late.My son and I went to computer to see if this object had been seen before. I saw a drawing that looked so similar like the one in Hudson Valley Sightings in the l980's.I didnot sleep well that night..my adreline was up and deep down inside i was concern what i had seen a few hrs before. Next day, my Car in driveway didnot work in morning for several hours, unusual behavioral pattern of wild yellow bird and a large turtle shown up my frontlawn consectively 2 days in a row in the same location on my our property after this UFO incident the following day. The car started up before my husband returned home.When my husband came home and i told him what happened, he laughed and told me not to worry about it.I even thought i may have a wire loose with system in the car, but then i canceled so see the mechanic since the car started to work okay.if it happen again, i will bring it to the shop. Then the unusual things started to occur outside of my house on my front property..First, I saw this yellow bird little larger than a canary when i was in a car with my husband when we were talking privately in the car in our driveway. The bird flew onto the review mirror of passenger side.It was like it was trained and not frighten of humans. It stayed on the car for a while atleast 10 minutes.it went on the mirror to the car hood near the front glass of the car..My husband and I both commented what a beautiful bird and how friendly this wild bird behavior coming onto the car when we were sitting inside of it. We thought it was sweet alittle unusual, but neither of us didn't think anything about it. We then went inside and didnot see the bird again. That afternoon, I found a 2ft size turtle on my front lawn before plans were made to mow the grass. I don't live near a forest at all and this was the first time this ever happen to see one around on my lawn. I called my son out of home and let him view it.It reminded me of my late father when i was a child would bring turtles to my home..I would take care of them and then let them go in the wild. I said that is strange, seen 2 living creatures never been around before on my property on the same day..Never seen any yellow bird before at all, but i know they are around in NJ. When time to mow my lawn, turtle was gone, and didn't see the bird except when i was in the car speaking to my husband...I even went out checking the bushes, didn't see the turtle at all. I was afraid that my dog would get it since he had a tendency to run out of my house at times..Second day, was very strange. Next day,i was in my car in my driveway in the morning about 9am, reading the paper that i just went to get before entering the house. The same yellow bird showed up again and began erratically attacking my car side window when i was in it for 15 minutes.I timed it. I said, what is wrong with this crazy, wacky bird? I am not getting out of the car until it calms down.It really acting weird. Never seen a wild bird doing this kind of reaction of behavior out of the blue. I ask my neighbors yesterday if they were missing a pet bird and they said they didn't have one. I am reading the paper and it is pecking at my window of the side of car.I felt like it wanted me out of the car. I finally decided to get out of car with my roll newpaper saying to myself if it comes near me, i will swat it like a baseball flying in the air..hahahaha..I had to laugh it was so crazy.I opened my side of drivers door and it flew off..Well, I walk onto front area to steps..the turtle that i seen the day before at another part of front lawn is now at the steps going to my front door.I said, where did this turtle come from, I checked the bushes yesterday and it was not around. I called my son and husband out of the house to see the turtle.My son even said, isn't that the turtle we saw yesterday? how did it get here? I said, Mr. Turtle is definitely not comming inside this house. I said something weird is going on..too concidential that we see these things 2 days in a row first time out of all these years on my front lawn. I was wondering if it had a connection to the UFO situation.I said i see a UFO, car not working then started up again, and then reptile and bird show up that never seen at all before on our property, let alone on our frontyard? I said something is not right. I said"I don't know where you came from since you were gone yesterday and you show up at my doorsteps?" My husband was quiet about it and said, lets just leave it alone. It will go away again." I didn't touch it at all.When we came back from store, it was gone. nothing out of the norm happened again until next early morning hrs. I was up doing my work while family was asleep.I went to bedroom about 3 am.I said my nightly routine prayers. I was sitting on my bed and turned to the window. Didn't notice anything happening at all when i entered the room. The hall light was on, but not my light in my bedroom. about 5 minutes later, I saw a very bright white light from my bedroom window with the shade partially open that faces the outside of my street. This bright light was projecting to the ground on my street going upwards the top end of the street. Didnot go near window to see what created that light from the sky. But it was very bright.I was saying please God don't let it shine on this house. I didn't turn the lights on in my house, because i was frighten it would create attention to whatever was creating it..It was so noticable, it lit up the street up. My street was completely quiet. I covered myself with my sheets with my head direction to window, and I counted it for 9 seconds. When it disappeared,I said." what was that??I said that is no lighting, and the lamp post didn't create that light." I was fully awake. At that point, I was shook up. I know what i just saw and that was not a normal occurrance. I didn't wake up my family because i felt they would have been scared.I finally feel alseep about 6 am when daily light. I woke up in the morning, I decided to go outside. I saw a marking on the street that left a residue white chalky substance at the place i saw the light first protruding to the ground on my street.I refuse to touch it.I have photos of it. That specific mark has not disappeared under any weather condition since this bright light occurred in July 2006. I never touched the marking left on the street at all. I thought it was important to write this today since someone else also admitted viewing an UFO in Glendale sect. on your website.This is not far from where i live in the same town in Ewing Twp, NJ. There have been increase sightings around this area. I have not seen any UFO's after this occurance in 2006.I don't go out looking for them at all.It was my first time ever seeing itin 2006.I have not seen one since it happened. I never believed in these things were real until i experienced it myself. I don't have hallucinations or use drugs/alcohol at all.I worked in Professional field until i retired 10 year ago. I know exactly what i saw that night, including the other strange occurances that happened a few days in a row afterwords.My family witnessed the yellow bird and turtle seen too. I have spoken to a few individuals in my town who have admitted to seeing other objects in this town and surrounding area after i have discussed my own personal experience.I would take a polygraph and pass too!! Something is going on around this area..

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Monkey Man 'Amomongo' Alert In La Castellana, Philippines

Police and residents of La Castellana town are on alert against a wild monkey locally known as 'amomongo' reportedly attacking residents and other animals since last week.

Inspector Teddy Velez, the town's police chief, said a lot of residents from Barangay Sag-ang have reported of being attacked by 'amomongo' since last Tuesday.

Salvador Aguilar, a resident, told police he was attacked by the wild monkey. He showed authorities the scratches on his face, back and hands. He said several of his neighbors also saw the monkey attacking domesticated animals.

Mayor Alberto Nicor said 'amomongo' is not a witch or 'aswang' but a wild animal. He theorized it is not remote for an 'amomongo' to live in Sag-ang, considering that the area is at the foot of Mt. Kanlaon.

He added the animal may have been suffering from hunger. "This is one possibility because there may be no food now in the mountain. Or it might be that 'amomongos' habitat has been disturbed by humans, thus, it runs wild."

Velez said he already alerted his policemen as well as the village watchmen and instructed them on what to do in case the animal appears again or attacks residents.

Nicor also alerted residents in nearby barangays even as he advised Sag-ang residents to be calm but to also be prepared with arrows or anything that could be used in fighting the 'amomongo'.

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Video: Scientology's Desert Bunker Vault and Space Port

Scientology's Desert Bunker Vault and Space Port
These two giant inter-locking circles encapsulating diamonds apparently signify the ’secret’ location of a huge Scientology vault which has been constructed to protect the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. The archiving project, which the church has acknowledged, includes engraving Hubbard's writings on stainless steel tablets and encasing them in titanium capsules. It is overseen by a Scientology corporation called the Church of Spiritual Technology.

According to former members of the group, future Scientology fans will be able to travel through time and space, in a spacecraft which looks a lot like a Douglas DC-8 airliner, to reach this site. The space port symbols mark a "return point" so loyal staff members know where they can find the founder's works when they travel here in the future from other places in the universe.

Nothing worse than traveling hundreds of light years through space, reach Earth and not know where to go.

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Illinois Teen To Be Featured On 'Psychic Kids'

Like they are for a lot of kids, Dalton Kropp’s middle school years weren’t his favorite.

Most people can identify with feelings of awkwardness, and all the new experiences kids face in the ‘tween years.

But Dalton, who will be a freshman at Danville High School this fall, had a lot more on his mind than first crushes, class schedules and adolescent blues.

He had ghosts following him.

Dalton will share his story with the world July 14, when his episode of the show “Psychic Kids” premieres on A&E.

The show depicts his first experience with the paranormal.

If Dalton and his family fully believed the teen’s psychic gift, he might have beat law enforcement to the resolution of one of Vermilion County’s highly publicized unsolved missing person’s cases.

Dalton believes his psychic abilities showed him what happened to Ryan Katcher, a local teenager who disappeared six years before.

A discovery

Dalton and his dad, Larry, were fishing at Kickapoo State Park in July 2006. The father and son often went on fishing trips, and this one started out like any other.

Dalton jumped into the water to cool off when suddenly, he started feeling strange.

“He was very anxious, and he wanted to leave,” Larry said. “He wouldn’t say why, but he was freaking out.”

Why his 13-year-old was suddenly afraid of the lake completely baffled Larry, but Dalton was adamant.

The two began getting the boat out of the water. Dalton put his hands in the water to pull up the anchor, and he got what he describes as a slideshow of events in his mind.

He clearly saw a truck going into the lake with a person inside.

Even though the sudden vision frightened him, Dalton told Larry what he was seeing.

He said the teen, whose body was well-preserved, was at the bottom of the lake in good condition in the vehicle.

Larry refused to believe it, and he told Dalton the park had been combed by investigators. They searched the lake and didn’t find anything.

“At first he didn’t believe me for like two weeks,” Dalton said. “He said, ‘you’re just paranoid.’”

But his dad’s opinion began to change later that month when Katcher and his truck were found with the help of new sonar equipment.

“Two weeks later, they pulled him out,” Larry said.

When the family saw the headlines, they were dumbfounded.

Larry felt terrible for denying Dalton’s experiences and apologized to him.

“He actually saw him,” Larry said. “He knew he was there.”

His family didn’t know what to think of Dalton’s gift.

“They really didn’t say that much,” he said. “My dad was pretty creeped out; my mom didn’t know what to think.”

Although it seemed a case had been solved, the haunting had just begun for Dalton.

“I was getting pretty frustrated with him,” Larry said.

Every time Dalton went into their basement, he got scared and wanted someone to go with him.

“He wanted me with him all the time,” Larry said.

“I didn’t know what to say. I had a suspicion that something was going on with him.”

Dalton’s newfound powers were a distraction at school.

As classes started that year, Dalton found it harder to concentrate. He describes his new sensitivity as an awakening.

“I could feel what other people were feeling,” Dalton said.

At South View Middle School, he would sit in class and sometimes hear other people’s thoughts as he tried to do his work. He had visions that constantly raced through his mind.

He said he would sit in class worrying about his own sanity.

“I would be thinking about ways to deal with it,” he said.

His grades were low enough that year that he had to repeat seventh grade.

Dalton’s best friend, Michael Hubbard, wasn’t sure what to believe about Dalton’s experiences at first either.

“Every once in a while, we’d talk about it,” Hubbard said.

“I didn’t believe him, but I wanted to.”

Larry feared for his son’s sanity at times, and had him evaluated by doctors.

But all tests and evaluations revealed that Dalton’s mind is normal.

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Cattle Mutilations Reported In Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

As reported by a Pehuajo veterinarian. This would be the year's first case in the province of Buenos Aires. Six years after the Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA) reported that the controversial and bizarre mutilations of cattle reported at the time throughout the country were the handiwork of the "Oxymycterus Rufus" rodent, better known as the red-muzzled mouse, a new case was reported on Monday in the Buenosairean locality of Mones Cazon, district of Pehuajo.

This was the information given by Alejandro Napuri, the Pehuajo veterinarian who came into contact with a dead, mutilated yearling at the "El Martillo" farm near the aforementioned town. "The incisions were irregular but not serrated. They were similar to the ones detected a few years ago in this area. Furthermore, there wasn't a single drop of blood at the site," explained the vet, adding: "Its tongue had been ripped out and the bone was exposed. This isn't an easy thing to achieve."

The event occured on Monday, exactly six years to the date of July 1, 2002, when Bernardo Cane, the head of SENASA, tried to extinguish the animal mutilation stories by pinning the slayings on "natural causes and subsequent carrion animal action." That was the end of the story, which was repeated by the national media. An official body had ruled on the subject, a fact that left hundreds of veterinarians stunned, as in most cases, they were unable to offer a certain and unequivocal explanation. In this regard, Napuri said that "the incisions observed have nothing to do with any mouse or predator."

At the time, some of the cases described were reported by cattlemen themselves, who also claimed "seeing lights" prior to coming accross the mutilated bovine.

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Bruce Springsteen's 'Madam Marie' Passes Away

Fortune teller Madam Marie, a figure of rock 'n' roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in her mid-90s.

Sally Castello tells the Asbury Park Press that her great-grandmother, Marie Castello, died Friday. The psychic reader and adviser began telling fortunes on the Asbury Park Boardwalk in New Jersey in the 1930s.

Madam Marie became famous in 1973 when Springsteen paid homage to her in the song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)."

His lyric, "Did you hear, the cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do," cemented her fame.

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Lovesick Phantoms In Norfolk

Ever wonder why there aren’t more women in construction? After a recent stay at the National Construction College (NCC) in Norfolk, one of Building’s team has a theory. On her first night she had bad dreams and imagined a cold finger stroking her face. Relating her story to NCC regulars the next day, she was shocked to find that she may have been the victim of paranormal activity. You see, a fighter plane crash-landed at Bircham Newton during the war, killing a group of servicemen who were on their way home to see their wives. Legend has it that their ghosts roam the site, searching for their lost families. According to one old-timer, “they search night after night for sleeping women”. If she thought she had a bad night’s sleep on the first night, it was nothing compared with the effort needed to fall asleep with her lights, radio and iPod on. In Norfolk nobody can hear you scream.

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New Cougar Sighting In Iron Mountain, Michigan

Big, agile, and fast...that's how Laurie Michaud describes the cougar she says she saw in downtown Iron Mountain at about 5 a.m. on June 30.

"It looked like a cat," said Michaud, "but it was the size of a dog, and the tail was very long--the same length of the body--and it was fast, very fast."

She says she chased the animal across City Hall's parking lot in her car, but it disappeared across US-2 in two long, soaring leaps.

Iron Mountain police say they can't confirm that she did, in fact, see a cougar. However, they say they've received several reports of cougar sightings in the past few years, and the thought of a cougar in downtown Iron Mountain isn't at all that far-fetched.

"I'm sure they are just foraging and looking for easy food," said Sgt. David Irwin, "and there are dumpsters down there."

Sergeant Irwin says it's extremely difficult to track cougars, which can run as fast as 35 miles an hour and leap as high as 18 feet in the air. Still he insists there is no need for alarm.

Cougars, who almost always travel alone, rarely attack humans unless provoked.

"Cougars are native to Michigan," Sgt. Irwin explained, "but the last known cougar killing was in Newberry in 1906."

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Video: The Goblin Man of Norway

Relax folks! This is a viral video mockumentary on 'The Goblin Man of Norway'...used as an advertisement for an X-Box game. Too bad it isn't the real deal, but it is an interesting approach to selling a video game.

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Giant Crab Captured In Lyme Bay, Dorset

It lurked in the wreck of an old battleship 160ft below the surface – a true monster of the deep.

Diver Paul Worsley could hardly believe the size of the giant crab he found in Lyme Bay, off the Dorset coast.

Careful to avoid its fearsome claws, he managed to get it into a bag and raise it to the surface.

For his efforts, he can congratulate himself on capturing what experts believe is the biggest edible crab ever landed.

It weighed 17lb and had a shell width of 12in while each of its massive claws was as big as a man's hand.

The previous largest edible crab on record is in the collection of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Its carapace was 11in wide.

Mr Worsley, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, said: 'I couldn't believe it when I saw it.'

Andy Horton founder of the British Marine Life Study Society, said: 'If anyone has found a bigger one could they let us know?'

Unfortunately, Mr Worsley's crab will not be displayed in any museum. A friend has eaten it.

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The Roswell UFO Festival

Thousands of people from around the world are heading to southeastern New Mexico on Thursday for the first day of the Roswell UFO Festival.

The annual event pumps hundreds of thousands of dollars into the local economy, with hotel rooms booked solid for miles around the community.

Many people believe say a flying saucer crashed 61 years ago on a ranch near Roswell. Some accused the government of covering up the incident. Widespread interest in that event led to the creation of the UFO Festival.

Weekend events include a parade, alien costume contests and UFO-themed movie showings. The festival lasts through Sunday.

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In Search Of The Kaiwaka Lion

A giant wild cat described as possibly even a lion was seen by a firefighter and his son during an urban search and rescue exercise in a quarry at Kaiwaka, 90 minutes north of Auckland.

Kaiwaka Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer John Bowmar began an investigation after the sighting about 5pm on May 29 during the exercise, which involved more than 100 firefighters, police, ambulance and search and rescue staff.

The pair saw "something rather large and unusual" about 30 metres away on the ridge of the Parker Lime Company quarry, Bowmar told Sunday News.

"It was not a sheep, it was not a dog it was a very large cat."

Bowmar said the fireman and his teenage son were "not idiots".

His investigation led him to another local, now a minister, who made a similar sighting in the area about a decade ago.

"I made discreet inquiries and I come up with this guy (the minister) and he's no idiot," Bowmar said.

"(He) saw it years ago, he was out duck shooting. It was a huge cat, he said. It was a bloody big bastard.

"He said, `There was no point in me shooting it. I turned tail and ran."

Bowmar, in charge of the initial urban search and rescue exercise, had an open mind on the big-cat sighting.

"The way I see it, if one person saw it ... oh yeah, right. If two people see it ... well, yeah, maybe. Then a person saw it, or something, a few years ago ... you think, `Well?"'

Bowmar had been told the fireman reported the sighting to police because "if something happened, he would feel terrible" had he not acted.

Parker Lime Company quarry manager Scott Parker had been made aware of last month's sighting.

"They said it looked like a cat the size of a dog," Parker said.

He talked to staff, who thought it may be an extra-large feral cat a number of which prowled the bush around the quarry site.

"A guy that works here, his old man used to push stuff out in the bush and he said the big feral cats would come out and try to attack the bulldozer.

"This is probably 20 years ago," Parker said.

Zion Wildlife Gardens, home of TV star Craig "The Lion Man" Busch, is situated at Kamo 80km north of Kaiwaka.

But a woman Sunday News contacted there yesterday said: "We are not missing any cats at all. We've got them all here, all 42 (lions, tigers, cheetahs and a leopard)."

There have been so many sightings of a mysterious "black panther" around Mid-Canterbury, a documentary was even made about it. In 2006, a Mount Somers woman said she saw a big black cat, the size of a five to seven-month old Labrador dog, drag a lamb across a paddock.

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Video: NASA - Shuttle UFO / Anomalies

Recently released video from NASA STS-116, STS-117 and STS-120 unusual anomaly / UFO with narration by Jaime Mausson.

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Oklahoma Woman's Personal Experiences With A Bigfoot

Sightings are being reported again in Cherokee county of the tall, hairy creature with a face resembling a human and a strong stench - Bigfoot.

“I feel like Faye Ray here,” said Sheryl Mast, of the Gideon community. “Maybe he’s looking for a girlfriend.”

Bigfoot is a common reference to an uncommon and unexplained occurrence. People seeing it may assume the creature is a bear or choose to not tell anyone about what they saw. After all who would believe them?

Sightings have been reported in almost every state and many countries, of a creature known as Yeti in Asia, Yowie in Australia, Sasquatch in Canada and Chiya tanka by the Lakota Indians. Bigfoot prefers mountainous and forested regions.

This time north of Tahlequah on rural State Highway 82 at Gideon, near Peggs, experiences include the thud of heavy footsteps running and shaking the ground, large footprints in the mud and a very strong, musky odor.

Urban legends abound and can be tracked worldwide on the Internet from sworn affidavit accounts to obvious nonsense.

But in an area known as Muphy’s Hill, between two branches of 14-Mile Creek, Sheryl Mast is sure she didn’t imagine the loud bang against the side of the trailer and the terrible smell. She’s lived there about a year. The closest neighbors are about five miles away, other than a second trailer that sets besides her boyfriends’, where a friend lives.

The Bigfoot is curious, Mast said, and is getting to be a regular visitor. “It’s getting bolder, coming out in the daytime,” she said. “Sunday afternoon the wind shifted and we smelled it.”

Mast said she went up in the front part of the yard by the lane, where her dog was upset in a pen. “She was crying and moaning and squealing and I found a beer bottle in the pen,” she said. “Something broke the whole door almost in half.” A beer can was found in the area where trash is burned, “and none of us drink,” said Mast.

On previous visits the Bigfoot has left small signs of being in the area. “It tore a branch off a tree in May,” Mast said. “And I think it threw our little dog against the trailer. When I opened the door it was panting and kept coughing for two days.” The dogs usually chase people, she noticed, “but they get really quiet when this thing is around.”

Mast said the first time the Bigfoot came was around was in February. Their friend moved into the trailer in March. “He said he heard a deep, low growl and something shook his trailer,” Mast said.

One night they were outside talking and the dogs got still. Then the little dog started barking and chasing something tall and furry, which they saw running between the trailers. They went inside and locked the door. “It banged on the door,” she said. “Then we could hear and feel heavy footsteps running away.”

There were no markings or dents left on the trailer, but this is when the little dog may have been, “picked up and tossed at the trailer,” Mast said. “It would have to be really big, have big hands, to pick up that little Jack Russell and throw it.”

A lock hanging on the door was knocked or thrown and later found under the trailer. Two weeks ago she said the whole trailer shook. It only lasted five minutes, she said, “but we were scared to death.” They looked outside with a lantern but only smelled a strong musky odor.

Mast thinks the location of the two trailers between two creeks may bother the creature, that they’re in its way. There’s a path worn in the tall grass leading down the hill and to the woods, Mast said with a mashed down area where something has been laying. “We have no deer here and that’s strange for this area and by two creeks.”

She’s not so much afraid, as uncomfortable. “So many appearances make me think we’re getting closer to a confrontation,” she said. “You know the feeling something is watching you. It gives you tingles.” It makes you really wonder what’s out there, she said. “I don’t feel threatened. I think it’s curious about us.”

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, founded in 1995, has a database of comprehensive sightings and Classic sightings. It’s one of several Internet sites that list sightings by state.

Since the 1990s sightings have been documented by citizens certain what they saw was not a bear. And it always had a strong odor.

As early as the 1800s reports have been given about Sasquatch from frontiersmen and Indians.

Pioneer American missionary Elkanah Walker’s story is told in Classic Sightings, about the Spokane Indians in Washington State. Walker considered it a superstition that they believed in a race of giants that inhabited a snow covered mountain, worked at night and were men stealers, coming to lodges when people were asleep and taking them to their abodes without even waking the people up. They would also steal salmon from the Indian nets and eat it raw. And their smell was so strong it was nearly intolerable. It is generally believed Reverend Walker was referring to Mount St. Helen which has always carried Sasquatch legends.

In 1924, Fred Beck was among five miners attacked by a creature they called an abominable snowman in this same Mount St. Helen vicinity. They said very large footprints had been seen by creekbeds and springs, whistling could be heard at night for a week and a booming, thumping sound was also heard. One evening two of the miners saw a tall creature with blackish-brown hair near a spring. They shot at and it ran behind a pine tree. They shot again and it ran fast and upright until it disappeared.

Back in a sturdy cabin the men had built themselves, they decided to return home the next morning as it was too late in the afternoon to make it out of the mountain before dark. Near midnight the cabin was rocked by what seemed like boulders being thrown at it, some coming in through the fireplace, as it had no windows. Some of the mortar was knocked loose between the logs and the men could see though. They shot their guns in the air and never at one of the creatures, counting six of them,

It was daylight when the Bigfoot cousins finally stopped shaking and hitting the cabin. As soon as the men were sure they could made it to their trucks, they left $200 in equipment behind and headed to safety as fast as they could.

Another report in 1925 by a group on a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, with a Greek photographer, found and documented large footprints with photos including a large, upright human creature that showed up dark against the white background.

In 1951 in Nepal, Micha F. Lindemans writes about the origins of Bigfoot or Rakshasa in Encyclopedia Mythica. “It smells terrible and it’s strong. It likes to throw boulders as if they were pebbles. It makes a ululating or whistling sound. And it’s rumored to be strong of alcoholic drinks.”

And females have also been reported, as the one by trapper and hunter William Roe in Canada in the 1950s, that was six feet tall with brown hair tipped in silver, its face, feet and breasts were gray-brown, and it weighed about 300 pounds. He observed it didn’t seem to be afraid of him once it made eye contact with him, but walked quickly away looking back over its shoulder at first.

Chinese call it Yoren, the Chinese Wildmen, Man Monkey, Man Bear. But wherever it’s seen, and by whatever name, Bigfoot remains an unidentified mysterious animal whose existence has been reported but not proven - a cryptid.

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MUFON Investigating Lower Bucks County, Pa. UFO Sightings

The Mutual UFO Network said it will dispatch “field investigators” to Lower Bucks after four reports of strange craft hovering over the county between January and June.

The latest incident was reported Wednesday, when someone saw a craft “with six lights in the shape of a boomerang” over the Oxford Valley Mall in Middletown.

The first sighting was reported Jan. 27, and Falls police officer Jeffrey Omlor was dispatched to Don Pablo's on Route 1 across from the mall. Someone called 911 to report a craft “hovering like an octopus” over the Mexican restaurant. Omlor said he saw nothing strange over the restaurant that night.

But that same day, MUFON said it received a third report from a pizza deliveryman who said he saw an object “over the tree line of Vermillion Hills” that “appeared to be blinking red, white and green lights.”

The fourth report was from Newtown on April 25. Someone claimed to see “an orange fire ball that seemed to be crashing out of the sky.”

Each report filed with MUFON was anonymous. The caller to Falls police also didn't give a name. But that has hardly deterred MUFON.

Field investigator Elise Simon said the group probably would issue a finding in a couple of weeks. She wasn't sure when the investigators would arrive.

“We'll be talking to the local police, the FAA and the local media and any witnesses,” said John Ventre, state director for MUFON, who estimated about 93 percent of UFO reports turn out to be conventional aircraft. “That 7 percent, though, that's the great part, because it really defies explanation,” Ventre said.

MUFON has chapters throughout the world. It's considered one the largest UFO organizations, and claims about 3,000 members.

MUFON was featured in the Fox series “The X-Files.” Members helped FBI special agent Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, locate a microchip planted in her neck.

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New 'Welsh Roswell' Witness Emerges After 34 Years

ONE of Britain’s greatest UFO mysteries deepened last night after a new witness emerged after 34 years.

The Government allegedly covered up the “Welsh Roswell” incident, in the Berwyn mountain range in 1974, after scores of residents reported a massive tremor, strange lights in the sky and “Men in Black” scouring the area.

Claims that aliens crash-landed and their bodies were then transported by the Ministry of Defence to the top-secret research base Porton Down in Wiltshire were dismissed by Whitehall officials.

But suspicions about what really happened were re-ignited in May this year when hundreds of MoD documents about UFO sightings were released, with none containing any details about the Berwyn incident, reviving rumours of a cover-up.

Now, fresh evidence by retired gamekeeper Geraint Edwards, of Llandderfel, Denbighshire, has reopened the debate.

He told the makers of a new Channel Five documentary, which is being broadcast tonight, how he stood in amazement as a flying saucer hovered for 10 minutes above the mountains before it disappeared into space at impossible speed.

He said: “It was definitely a flying saucer. It was a pity I didn’t have a camera because it was there for at least 10 minutes, just hovering.

“We were on the way down to play darts when something caught our eye in the south-east, so we stopped.

“It looked like a rugger ball, but the ends of it were more pointy.

“When it took off, it just went like lightning on the same line as it hovered.

“It hovered back to the mountain, and (then it was) gone.

“I wrote it down in my diary. It was 6.45pm on the Friday night.

“If we were coming back from the pub, people would be saying, ‘they’ve had one or two (drinks)’ but we were going to the pub.”

His former neighbour, Pat Evans, a district nurse who gave a detailed eye-witness account of the phenomenon at the time, moved abroad to escape the mass attention she attracted from the media, UFO investigators and scientists.

But Mr Edwards has decided to speak out for the first time about his close encounter on February 15, 1974, for tonight’s television programme re-examining the evidence.

Three weeks earlier, on January 23, the villages of Llandrillo and Llandderfel, near Corwen, were rocked by a tremor measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale.

Reports of unexplained strange coloured lights and objects in the sky immediately afterwards and unusual military activity in the following weeks fuelled speculation that a UFO had crash-landed.

Sceptics maintain the explanation was an unlikely combination of an earthquake which struck Wales at the same time that a meteor shower passed overhead, and that “Men in Black” who residents reported seeing were actually seismologists researching the quake.

They also insist Pat Evans, who saw a “bright orb, the size of the Moon” with twinkling around the edges, was actually looking at a lamp carried by poachers on a nearby mountainside.

The absence of any material on the incident from the newly released MoD documents in May has roused suspicions from other eye-witnesses.

But the Daily Post has gained access to documents on the Berwyn Mountains mystery which we have published on our website at www.dailypost.co.uk.

Farmer Huw Lloyd, 48, who was a teenager at the time, said: “Whatever it was, it was kept quiet. And things that have happened have been covered up.”

Retired North Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Elfed Roberts, who was a sergeant at the time of UFO incident, was rushing to Llandrillo moments after the tremor with his superior when they saw the mysterious lights.

He said: “As we were driving, all of a sudden we saw this green light in the sky ahead of us and it seemed to be an arcing light, but it was very sudden, totally unexpected, different to anything ever seen before.”

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Sheriff's Staff Say Bristol Town Hall Is Haunted

Bristol Town Hall is haunted-- at least according to some sheriff's deputies. In 16 years, deputy Paul Hagan has never seen a ghost, but he's heard all about them, like the time when a fellow deputy used the satellite office on his midnight shift.

"He was using the bathroom and heard something--and pretty much packed up all his stuff and walked out pretty promptly," said Deputy Paul Hagen.

Soon, stories like that spread throughout the department.

"They would think that it was haunted and they didn't want to go in there," Hagen said.

But who protects and serves those sworn to protect and serve?

Turns out, the town historian Helen Fox does. "I mean, these are six foot tall men with guns that are telling me this!" she chuckled. "I told one of them, if you hear something, call me and I'll go upstairs."

Fox spends most of her day in the place deputies run from. "Genealogy is my thing," she explained. Surrounded by records of the dead, she set out to prove they hadn't come back as ghosts. "I really thought it'd be worth our while to have the paranormal group come and do a sweep."

Paranormal investigators set up cameras in every corner, noise recorders, heat detectors and other instruments to find out if there's any sort of ghostly activity.

"Maybe they'll find something,” Fox said, “but I doubt it."

She says the building sways and creaks because it's old.

Books fall because it's drafty.

Noises are probably just mice.

But then again, Fox has an explanation for most everything--she dismisses presence of a carved devil's head, the same way she dismisses the deputies' stories -- with a joke.

"Perhaps if I do see a ghost, I might recognize them as someone I used to know!"

The New York Paranormal Investigators Group says it should take another week or so to get the results of its overnight stakeout.

The group says it gets calls from all around the nation.

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Talking 'Human Head' Shocks Crowds In South Africa

A human head that laughs and talks is making the crowds gasp at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

While most stalls lament the lack of business, there has been no shortage of people prepared to fork out R6 to see the head, which is connected to a nearby corpse by tubes. “I cannot believe it ... it must be magic,” a dumfounded Olwethu Gqoboma said yesterday.

Operating from a caravan set up in an alleyway near the Village Green, the promise to see “A head without a body” is proving as irresistible to the public nowadays as the travelling freak circuses of the 1800s.

After 10 years of travelling around southern Africa in a caravan with the head of “a Soweto street child called Sipho” and his wife and two kids, Louis Marais has had to come up with other ways to make ends meet. “It used to be a very good business, but things have gone backwards in recent years. Most people only want to see the head once.”

With their father now working as a part-time auctioneer in Gauteng – between road trips with his family and Sipho the head – the Marais children still remember the thrill of a permanent life on the road. “I was only 10 years old when my dad packed the caravan and hit the road. We used to travel all over southern Africa doing magic and charging people to see Sipho,” 20- year-old Louis junior explained.

Explaining how they acquired the ghoulish exhibit, mother Leanne said the family came across the dread- locked head of “Sipho van der Merwe” after he was attacked by a jealous love rival with a panga. “Sipho had his head chopped off and it was ... connected back to his body with tubes which keep him alive. When he is not on the road with us, his head is stored at (Chris Hani) Baragwanath Hospital.”

Unable to fathom out how the unique optical illusion works, a frowning Mandisa Sentile, 34, said: “I can’t believe it ... I must go home and tell my friends and family about this magic.”

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Photo: UFO Near Worcester, West Midlands

A further report of strange lights in the sky has been made, this time in Worcester just a few miles north of the UFO sighting in Weston-super-Mare.

Worcester News reader Andy Ball took this photograph of strange glowing balls in the sky above his home in the early hours of Monday morning (30 June 2008).

“I thought at first that they were spotlights; the sort you get at fairs, but there was no cloud at all, not even a haze present to reflect the light, therefore they must have been lights coming from the sky,” said Andy.

“I’m very interested as to what this was,” said Mr Ball, “partly because I can discount most, if not all of the obvious. What with all the sightings of lights lately it does make me wonder.”

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Photo: UFOs Reported Over Valparaiso, Chile

On Wednesday, June 25, young Pedro Rivera Sepulveda took a photo of a strange object at 22:13 hours with his digital camera from a sector of Cerro Cordillera.

The "La Estrella" de Valparaiso newspaper published nearly two full pages regarding this photo. The daily also requested the cooperation of ufologist Marcelo Moya, asking him to render a preliminary opinion on the photograph.

Marcelo Moya said: "Every so often we get this sort of UFO photograph, and I use the acronym "UFO" because some people are obviously facing certain photographic anomalies that tend to be uncommon. With regard to the photo taken in Valparaiso, it is customary to see "orbs" appearing when photos are taken during moments of darkness. A mystical or paranomal connotation is usually given to this sort of event, but to my understanding, they could be explained through conventional terms. The explanation involves the actuation of the camera's flash [when a photo is taken]: it lights up small, suspended dust particles that are near the camera..."

Researchers of the IIEE in Santiago de Chile traveled to see the analyses performed by this ufologist. He repeated that the photograph merited detailed study and that there are still a few missing details before a verdict can be emitted.

Marcelo Moya has become known for a detailed and highly elaborate study in Valparaiso and its environs, achiving thrhough his investigations the necessary equilibrium between working alone and cooperating with various research organizations.

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