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30 September 2009
UFO disclosure in Brazil: More top-secret files released by government
The Brazilian Government has just declassified a new set of significant previously secret UFO documents, now covering the 80s. We already had disclosures covering the 50s, 60s and 70s, all with very important documents and information. So far over 4,000 pages have been disclosed.
The recent disclosure is particularly powerful because it contains dozens of reports of UFOs on May 19, 1986, considered the “Official UFO Night in Brazil”, when 21 spherical objects, estimated 100 meters in diameter – according to military sources – were detected by radars and spotted by civilian pilots, and literally jammed air traffic over the major Brazilian Airports, such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Then, several Mirage and F5 jets were scrambled to pursue them.
As a result of that “invasion”, the Air Force minister brigadier Octavio Moreira Lima went public about it the other morning on the national TV network, declaring all facts openly. The pilots who took part in the pursue and their commanders also spoke freely about the pursuits, which occurred over several hours.
We've had several other disclosures since 2007, all as a direct result of the campaign UFOs: Freedom Of Information Now, promoted since 2004 by the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers. The latest disclosure comprises over 2,200 new pages of formerly secret UFO documents that were given to the Committee and also sent to the Brazilian National Archives.
In late July, hundreds of papers from the Brazilian Air Force's official System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI) have demonstrated how the nation's military authorities dealt with the UFO Phenomena in the 60s and 70s.
Considering that SIOANI wasn't a top secret agency and that even civilian researchers took part in its procedures, the structure and functionality of which proves that Brazil is the first country in the world to officially and publicly admit the reality of the UFO Phenomena, and the first to investigate it openly.
For instance, where have you ever seen color drawings of flying saucers reported by witnesses and investigated by military personnel, such as these ones?
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos/Caso_SIOANI_007_Croqui_Colorido.jpg
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos/Caso_SIOANI_034_Croqui_Colorido.jpg
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos/Caso_SIOANI_035_Croqui_Colorido.jpg
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos/Caso_SIOANI_063_Croqui_Colorido.jpg
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos/Caso_SIOANI_064_Croqui_Colorido.jpg
These are only a few links to recently discovered colored drawings of UFOs seen in Brazil and investigated in the 60s and 70s by the Brazilian Air Force's official System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI). Much more is about to be disclosed.
The Brazilian UFO Magazine website – www.ufo.com.br – already has thousands of pages for download, such as over 1,200 pages of documents, 200 photos of SIOANI's activities and Operation Saucer, carried out in the Amazonian region in 1977. Along with documents received by the Committee from other military sources.
Included in the recently revealed documents are the detailed research proceedings carried out in dozens of UFO-related incidents which had not been made public previously. Some of the colored sketches of UFO incidents investigated by SIOANI are here:
article found @ :http://www.allnewsweb.com/page9199491.php

WASHINGTON – The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way.
"This is not that common ancestor, but it's the closest we have ever been able to come," said Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
The lines that evolved into modern humans and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6 million to 7 million years ago, White said in a telephone interview.
WASHINGTON – The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way.
"This is not that common ancestor, but it's the closest we have ever been able to come," said Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
The lines that evolved into modern humans and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6 million to 7 million years ago, White said in a telephone interview
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Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the Roman emperor Nero's fabled rotating dining room.
The 'coenatio rotunda', which was discovered in the remains of the first century Golden Palace on Rome's Palatine Hill, is thought to be the one described by the Roman historian Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars.
He wrote: 'The chief banqueting room was circular, and revolved perpetually night and day in imitation of the motion of the celestial bodies.'
It is in these luxurious surroundings that Nero, surrounded by fawning admirers, would have indulged in sexual depravity and held banquets which lasted 'from noon till midnight'.
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In a paper in the journal Nature, they said they found the well-preserved fossil of the "Anchiornis huxleyi," which roamed the earth some 160 million years ago, in a geological formation in China's northeastern Liaoning province.
About the size of a chicken, the fossil has a total body length of less than 50cm (20 inches) and a skull about 6cm long, lead researcher Xing Xu at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing told Reuters in an email.
"This finding suggests that birds are likely to be descended from a kind of small-sized four-winged dinosaur about 160 million years ago," Xu said.
"It is a link between more typical theropods (dinosaurs which moved around with two rear limbs) and birds. It lived around a time period ... that we expected for birds' ancestor."
In a statement, the researchers said: "Long feathers cover the arms and tail, but also the feet, suggesting that a four-winged stage may have existed in the transition to birds."
The transition from dinosaurs to birds is still poorly understood because of the lack of well-preserved fossils, and many scientists say bird-like dinosaurs appear too late in the fossil record to be the true ancestors of birds.
The Chinese researchers believe the fossil is the oldest bird-like dinosaur reported so far, and older than Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird.
"The presence of such a species at this time in the fossil record effectively disputes the argument that bird-like dinosaurs appeared too late to be the ancestors of birds," they wrote.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090928/sc_nm/us_china_dinosaur_wings_1

Olivia Newton-John has seen a UFO.
The 'Grease' actress claims she spotted a flying silver object which blazed across the sky at "amazing speeds" when she was a teenager.
Olivia is convinced most British people share her belief in the existence of alien life.
Describing her otherworldly encounter, the 60-year-old actress told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "I have seen one when I was very young. It was unidentified and it was flying.
"It's true that I'm intrigued by them. I have seen so many shifts in belief systems over the years.
"In England most people now think UFOs are possible. Twenty years ago, how many people would have thought that?"
Olivia is not the only celebrity to have encountered UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects).
Singer Robbie Williams is an extra-terrestrial fanatic and claims to have had no less than three encounters with alien life.
Robbie, 35, first saw a "square thing" pass 300 ft above his head as he was sunbathing in California. The second occurred as he played a song he wrote about alien contact.
Robbie also claims he saw a "big strip of black light" appear when he was in a recording studio.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/2907513/Which-celebs-have-seen-a-UFO
allnewsweb.com - Few westerners would have heard of the curious case of Mrs Zhu, of Siping City in China. In April, 2007 she was out walking at night with her son’s girlfriend, Ms Hui, after dinner. The two were planning on doing some late-night shopping. According to the account the two women later gave their shopping plans were thwarted by a UFO in attack mode.
Sometimes knowing the people I do in my line of interests brings together situations that I could never imagine. This is one of those scenarios
I have a long time friend who is a doctor in Canada. She is a bright happy full of life woman who is always interesting to talk to and fun to be around. I think highly of her and know her to be a hard working trustful person of strong character.
She is unusual as she is not only a person of science but walks a path of strong spiritual beliefs and has an open mind to all things unknown. She has had events that are unexplainable in her own life and keeps an open mind when it comes to the world of the paranormal.
Last March I called my friend. She had moved and I had not spoken to her for a while and wanted to catch up on what was going on in her life and share what was happening in mine. We were at the end of our conversation when she said “ Oh let me tell you about the ghost in my new condo.” She was so matter of fact at first I thought she was joking.
She bought a new condo during Christmas time that just so happened to be about a two-block walk from the cemetery where her mother was buried. She would often walk over and place flowers or items that reminded her of her mom on her mother’s grave.
She told me that shortly after moving into her new condo she started to see a fleeting image of a man in her home. This shadow type image of a man would appear when she was busy doing something in her kitchen or sitting reading or watching TV. She would catch a glimpse of a tall thin man dressed in black cross a doorway or standing by her kitchen window. As she told me about this I felt uneasy and nervous however my friend was calm and matter of fact about seeing this image of a man that she talked as if it were a natural everyday occurrence. I asked her if she could have someone come in and cleanse her new home as the image could have been attached to the previous owners. I knew not to dismiss her sighting, as I know her well enough to know she would not mention it unless it was happening- often. She told me she would think about it and changed the subject to other things as we ended our call.
That phone call did not sit well with me. I could not stop thinking about her in that new condo with some ‘thing’ in there with her. I waited about ten days and called her again.
I did not waste any time in small talk and got right back to the ghost in her house. She told me that he was still there and that he now comes to her bedside at night and whispers her name in her ear. She could see his image which was a young man dark haired with a heavy Irish accent. I immediately started to panic. I wanted her to have someone come stay with her and to bring in people who could remove this spirit from her home. I had an extremely uneasy feel about the entire thing and really felt pushed to get her to take action to remove this spirit from her new home and life.
She told me she thinks she may have picked him up on one of her visits to the cemetery where her mother is buried. She said she realized it started after her last visit to place flowers at her mom’s grave.
The more we discussed this the more I sensed that my friend was far more concerned about this happening then she was letting on. She promised me she would not try to have a friend stay with her until this issue of the uninvited ghost was resolved. She also was going to try to contact a professional ghost hunter.
My friend was able to get her sister to come and stay with her for a while which added credence to this story as she too saw the ghost and also described him as a young man with dark hair dressed in black. She too heard his whispers and she too reported an Irish accent.
I wanted my friend to move out of the condo until this mans spirit could be removed from the house as his visits were becoming more frequent and his vision and words clearer as the days went by. I was terrified his energy was increasing and truly nervous for my friend’s safety. Both my friend and her sister were cautious but truly brave and stayed their ground unwilling to be chased from her new home. They were fearful of the ghost but not as much as I was. There seemed to be calmness about them concerning this haunting that I could not understand.
I know many unusual people due to the subjects I write about and decided to call one of my contacts and friends who is a strong psychic and medium. This woman was had strong beliefs about her abilities and would only use her gifts when she felt people were in trouble or when the messages were very strong. If she were unsure or uncomfortable she would refuse to use her abilities. I did not know what she would do but decided to set up a visit with her so I could tell her what my doctor friend was going through. I was hopeful she might have some advice.
I invited the psychic to lunch so we could sit and chat for a while. I took her to a favorite seafood place near my house. We no sooner sat down and ordered when my psychic friend looked at me and said “ So you are having a ghost problem huh?” I would say I was stunned but knowing this woman I knew she was picking up my strong concerns.
I told her most of what was happening to my pal in Canada when she stopped me dead sentence and said-“ She picked him up at the graveyard because she was doing something Irish in the cemetery. He was drawn to her as she represented home and followed her back to her condo.” She then went on to say that she could clearly see him and that he was a young Irishmen who died suddenly and did not want to face the fact he was dead. He wanted to return home to Ireland. She told me I was to go home immediately and tell my friend to call him by his name -Matthew, and tell him he had to go with her now and that she was to talk to him non stop as she walked him back to the graveyard. She told me to tell my friend she had to do this, as it was not safe to keep him in her home. She also instructed me to have my friend talk with him the entire way explaining to him that he needed to cross over and if he would follow the light to the other side he would then be able to find his way home to his beloved Ireland and family. The psychic told me he had been wandering that graveyard for years until he saw my friend do that “Irish thing”.
The psychic told me it was important I try to get my friend to listen to me and do this or things could become- complicated and dangerous. I had no idea if my friend would listen to any of this but decided to go home to call her and try to get her to at least listen to my psychic friends warnings and advice.
I called my friend in Canada and told her word for word what the psychic had told me. I did not know what reaction to anticipate as I was interfering and was afraid she would be angry.
My friend did not say one word while I spoke which was making me very uncomfortable and nervous I had over stepped my boundaries. I finally finished all that the psychic had told me and listened as only silence greeted me on the other end of the phone. I started to regret calling when finally my doctor friend spoke. “ I did a Irish Jig in the graveyard on St Patrick’s day for my mom.” Of course I replied with a “You did what?” She then told me that she went to the graveyard on St Patrick’s Day and brought green carnations and a big four-leaf clover that she set up around her mother’s headstone. She said she then talked to her mother as was her way and ended the visit by doing a wild Irish Jig right there in the graveyard as she had done for her mom every year on St Patties day.
She told me that the haunting started almost at once after that last visit. She also was stunned the psychic picked up that she had done that in the cemetery.
My friend agreed to do exactly as the psychic suggested. Along with her sister they immediately began to speak to the ghost using his name. They both told him over and over that he had passed over and had to cross over to the light to find his way home to the land and family he loved. The next morning the two sisters started breakfast talking to Matthew and talked non-stop about his need to cross over to find his way. They also told him he had to go with them and walked back to the graveyard talking all the way to the ghost they hoped was walking with them.
They walked him back to the middle of the cemetery where they told him one last time it was now the time for him to follow the light and cross over to where he wanted and needed to be. They talked of Ireland and his relatives who would surely be waiting for him on the other side. They told him he would be able to see his homeland and family once he walked over to where he needed to be. They talked and talked until they felt he was gone. They told Matthew he could not come home with them again and they left the cemetery and ran back to my friend’s condo.
It has been six months and so far Matthew has not returned and all the ghostly events have ended in my friend’s house. I recently talked to the psychic who told me the poor lad had found his way and was busy back in the green of his homeland. She had no doubts he would not return. The doctor is back to her normal self and her sister has long moved back to her own home.
I found the entire situation a walk into the unknown that will for me be another event that makes me shake my head in wonder how very much we just do not understand.
I have learned to listen with a open mind to those who have events I can not understand and also promised myself to never do a Irish Jig in a cemetery – ever.

The photographed object does not fit standard UFO descriptions of disc and triangle-shaped objects, but appeared to "morph" in shape, according to Shishis.
He said the object was 100 yards away and between 300 and 500 feet in altitude, when it appeared to "open up," and then "looked like a long sheet of some material - that was approximately 10 to 15 feet in length."
Following is the unedited statement Shishis released September 25, 2009 as a letter to "John Bro."
Hi John, I'm in shock once again man. I 'm real busy at work //-home -bummer - considering all that is happening !
Now here we go again! 3 sightings today. I can tell you - something is definately happening around me and yesterday - there were more military-looking helicopters - apparently following me as I drove home .
This morning - I was up earlier than usual - 5:20AM. I made some tea -was half asleep - and at 5:30am, I went outside to my deck . Here's the scary part, John. I thought in my mind-"show me a sign -if you're watching me."
Photo: Witness image was reduced in size for this page. Paul Shishis photo.
Within seconds - above where I was looking - I witnessed- one white flash - then paused for 2-3 seconds, more rapid white flashes. Then paused another 2-3 seconds - and witnessed another single white flash.
I was in shock - I silently made a request - and then it happened, eh?? I watched in amazement - hoping for any other flashes - or signs of running lights.
Later I was at work in Scarborough - and I stepped outside - just before 1:00pm. I looked up - and saw a strange large, black object - heading directly towards me. I then pulled my camera from my pocket and start filming.
Photo: Witness image was reduced in size for this page. Paul Shishis photo.
Immediately, I was able to record the apparently morphing object - as it was approaching from the east. It was only about 100 yards away - at a height of between 300-500 ft. I was hoping for a witness - and then 3 miraculously just showed up!
Then the object appeared to 'open-up' - and it looked like a long sheet of some material - that was approximately 10 to 15 feet in length. I will send all of the photos of this bizarre thing - and you can decide for yourself. I then got into my car and went driving off in the direction that it was traveling; -north / northeast. I proceeded to drive through a maze of industrial streets - and saw nothing.
After a few minutes - I decided to head back for lunch. Immediately, I was startled to see that - approximately 500 yds away - there it was again. I then saw a brilliant, white object - hovering to the north of me. This one appeared to be about a quater- mile away - and maybe a half mile in altitude. I then took some more pictures and a video clip.
I have tried to photograph the white stationary ones in the past - but they never seem to show up in my photos. I have seen what looks like a red light or "aura" around others - and haven't been able to image them. But today I was able to. Maybe it was due to the closeness / proximity - but I got much better detail in the pictures-you be the judge.
this article was found @ http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m9d25-Ontario-morphing-UFO-photographed-at-close-range

Published: 11:32AM BST 24 Sep 2009
Lee Betts, 29, spotted the glowing red shape hovering 1,000ft up in the night sky from his bedroom window.
The object moved across the sky for more than an hour on Monday evening before shooting off into the distance.
Mr Betts, of Newton St Cyres near Exeter, said he watched the unidentified object through a telescope before taking the pictures at 9pm.
He said: ''I couldn't believe it at first. The shape was about 100ft long and there were four lights coming from it initially.
''The shape moved slowly and it seemed to pivot on a central axis. Then, without warning, a sudden flash of light like a shooting star went across the sky.
''It was very strange. I have been an amateur astronomer for the past three years and I've never seen anything like it before. It's unexplained.''
A police spokesman said they had not received any reports of a UFO sighting in Devon.
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A satellite image of Iran's Khark and Khargou Islands in Persian Gulf were the bright objects were reportedly sighted by the IRGC |
Image credit: Denis Finnin, American Museum of Natural History
Our ancient human relatives had jaws like nutcrackers that allowed the hominids to chomp down on hard nuts and seeds and adapt to changes in food sources in their environment, a new computer simulation reveals.
Today's humans have comparatively small faces and teeth, making us ill-equipped to bite down forcefully on hard objects. Apparently that wasn't the case for Australopithecus africanus, which lived 3.3 million to 2.5 million years ago.
An international team of researchers used computed tomography scanning to digitally recreate an A. africanus skull to see how the jaw operated and what forces it could produce. Then, they added measurements of how the facial muscles work in chimpanzees, which share common features with Australopithecus.



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September 21, 2009 01:34am
A scientist has warned an eruption is "well overdue" and says there are hundreds of volcanoes that could cause trouble, from South Australia and Victoria through to Queensland.
But it doesn't seem too urgent - an eruption is already 3000 years overdue.
Melbourne geologist Bernie Joyce wants "eruption response plans" drawn up. He says there are 400 volcanoes in Victoria and South Australia, and almost as many in Queensland.
"A significant eruption seems well overdue," said Prof Joyce, who has been associated with the University of Melbourne.
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"These geo-hazards are real and they must be given much more focus by emergency management authorities.
"We can't say with 100 per cent certainty that a significant volcano will strike tomorrow, next week, next year, or even 100 years down the track."
Prof Joyce takes a long-term view, as geologists tend to do. He says there has been a volcanic eruption about every 2000 years in Australia, but the last one was 5000 years ago.
Prof Joyce will on Thursday be awarded the Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division)'s Selwyn Medal.


Mt. Vernon, NY - Sept. 13/09 time: 12:50 PM
(Editor's Note: We have had about 25 emails from readers telling us this object is an H-shaped mylar balloon.)
I shot about 60 frames of a craft in Mount Vernon, NY, between 30 & 60,000 feet up. It was a clear blue sky. Object appeared to be spinning and changing positions.
When I enlarged the pictures, you could clearly see the object, two tubes connected together by a tube in the middle forming a letter 'H' so I decided to look for similar sighting on the Internet, and I found it quite an amazing object so here it is.
The so-called "X Files" show that there have been 394 claims reported to the MoD's UFO desk from January until the end of last month, making it by far the "busiest" year on record.
Last year, there were only 118 sightings over the same period. The previous highest number was in 1997 – the first for which figures are available – when there were 331 reports over the same period.
Experts say Britain is experiencing a "flap" – the term Ufologists use to describe a concentrated period of sightings.
Many of the reports are of UFOs spotted at nighttime and describe seeing strange lights in the sky. However, some are seen in daylight.
One report was from a pilot in an aircraft flying at about 4,500ft over Otmoor, in Oxfordshire, who saw a shiny, black, flying cylinder, 20-30ft long, flying about 200ft higher. According to the documents, the report was forwarded on to the UFO Desk by air traffic controllers.
Read entire article @ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/6209733/UFO-sightings-over-Britain-more-than-triple-this-year.html
Scientific expedition into underground alien UFO base in Siberia
Michael Cohen @allnewsweb.com
The massive Yakutia territory in Siberia, Russia covers an area of 3,000,000 km² and has a population of only around 1 million people making it one of the most sparsely settled areas on the planet. It should come as no surprise that it holds many secrets and is a paradise for those researching anomalous phenomena. Both Ufologists and Cryptozoologists are attracted to its vast tundras and seemingly endless wilderness.
Numerous sightings of the Yeti have occurred in this area and some even believe a few live dwarf mammoths still hide here. UFO sightings are commonplace. We reported on one such UFO event just last week
Recently a series of domed underground bases have been discovered on the banks of the Vilyuy River. These are believed by researchers to be UFO bases used by visiting extraterrestrials. There are said to be vast structures and many rooms beneath these domes. The domes are believed to have been used by UFO travellers for thousands of years. Underwater crop circles are said to act as markers helping aliens locate the bases
Now an expedition of 15 researchers and scientists is going to enter one of these domes to finally uncover its secrets.
The leader of this scientific expedition will be Nikolai Subbotin of Perm City, a UFO researcher. He noted that 'Ancient Tibetan scrolls, says that once these domes were part of a defence system for an ancient ET colony. Sounds like complete fantasy and most unbelievable however, that is what is written in these old Tibetan scrolls'.
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WASHINGTON – Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It's on our moon, right nearby.
NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.
"It's sort of like a faint glow and that's your only source of heat," said David Paige, a University of California, Los Angeles, scientist who is part of the NASA team. "Right here in our own backyard are definitely the coldest things we've seen in real measurements."
Temperatures there were measured at 397 degrees below zero. That's just 62 degrees higher than the lowest temperature possible.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_sc/us_sci_cold_moon_7
An eastern Washington family claim they have been seeing UFOs in the skies over their town, with unusual helicopter traffic, then a "grey shape" running through their backyard, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
The reporting witness first describes unusual air traffic in a town where they "never have flight traffic." The helicopters seem like they are searching for something.
During the time the helicopters are in the air, the witness claims hearing an odd sound - described as a "very low decibel hum, which made a kind of whum, whum, sound (higher to lower range and back again)."
The family witnessed pulsing lights in the sky, a stench in the air, and a bright object in the sky that moved 25 miles toward them in seconds, stopping just three blocks from their location and hovering just 200 feet off of the ground.
The object was "shaped like an orb with spikes coming out and seemed to have a companion light under it to one side." The family watched the light for about two hours from inside their home. Then at 3 a.m., their daughter looked out a kitchen window and some a grey shape, "about 4fty tall, grey colored from top to bottom, in an approximate human form moving rapidly across the yard from south to north."
http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Washington-family-witness-multiple-UFOs-then-spot-a-grey-in-backyardSome say the halls of Buddhist temples and museums across Japan are home to many unwanted guests; namely, monster mummies whose preserved remains defy explanation as they stand brazenly on display for all who dare to look.
These mummified demons include incredible monsters, mermaids and even human monks. Some are definitely bogus, but others may well keep you up at night. Take a look but…. don’t forget to check that moving dark spot over your shoulder.
In the Japanese city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa prefecture, the Zengy temple is home to the mummified head of a three-faced demon. As the legend goes, a resident priest discovered the mummy in a temple storage chamber in the early 18th century.

Nobody knows where the demon head came from or how or why it ended up there. The mummified head has two overlapping faces in front, with another one (resembling that of a kappa, which is a water spirit found in Japanese folklore) situated in back. The temple displays the head each year around the spring equinox.
In the town of Usa (Oita prefecture) another demon mummy is on display at the local temple. Once the treasured heirloom of a noble family, this mummy changed owners several times before ending up in the hands of a parishioner in 1925.

When he fell ill (the owner, not the mummy), a legend was born that the mummy was cursed, a belief that was reinforced by the fact that he quickly recovered from his illness after donating the mummy to the temple where it remains to this day on display as a sacred object.
During the 18th and 19th centuries known as the Edo period in Japan, mermaid mummies often appeared at misemono (side show carnivals). A bizarre art form, these mummies were created by fishermen who perfected techniques for stitching the heads and upper bodies of monkeys and other animals onto the bodies of fish.

The very disturbing mummy depicted below was found in a wooden box that contained passages from a Buddhist sutra written in Sanskrit.

Kappa mummies were also constructed by using odd animal parts ranging from monkeys and owls to stingrays. One notable kappa is located in the town of Imari (Saga prefecture) at the Matsuura sake brewery of all places.
As the story goes, the mummy depicted below was discovered hidden in a box by carpenters replacing the roof more than 50 years ago. The owners of the brewery built a small altar and enshrined it as a river god.

A supernatural sky creature known as a tengu is often depicted as part human and part bird. Japan’s ruling samurai families of the Shogunate period maintained collections of these weird mummies, and one is on display at the Hachinohe Museum (Aomori prefecture) in northern Japan.
Topping the list of mummies are the self-mummified monks of northern Japan who willingly tortured themselves in a three-step process to achieve heavenly nirvana. The Japanese government outlawed this practice in the late 19th century, but the image below tells its own horrible tale.

A view of these creatures raises more questions than answers, which always creates a tinge of discomfort.
Who’s to say what’s real and what isn’t?
Are such things truly in the eye of the beholder?
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/16/demons-lurk-halls-japans-buddhist-temples/



The history of UFO and extraterrestrial sightings and encounters includes numerous accounts of people in cars seeing what they believe are aliens crossing roads. In many cases such incidents come close to causing road tragedies and on rare occasions they do indeed end in disaster.
MUFON, North America's largest UFO investigation operation, recently received this account from Florida of an event that took place in 1985:
'We had gone to Miami for a meeting and took our children. On the way home, I was driving into the night and everyone in the car was asleep. We were coming to a overpass-and I saw something in the road and I kept trying to figure out what it was and I was driving about 70 miles per hour and I started slowing down because I could not see what it was-then all of a sudden I slammed on the brakes because I saw 4 alien beings- they were moving in a straight line from one side of the highway going to the other side. (There was 2 tall ones and 2 much shorter ones) It looked like they had on a one-piece skintight outfit that even went over their heads. When I slammed on my brakes they all turned their heads toward the car and vanished. They all had oval heads with large eyes. I saw something out of the corner of my eye on the other side of the road and it was gone. Maybe like a flash. My family picked themselves up off the floor and asked what was going on and I told them. They made fun of me and I had tried to dismiss it, but I know what I saw.'
In China too, UFO and extraterrestrial events involving roads and drivers occasionally occur.
In the city of Xuanwei last month a 28-year-old man was killed in an accident that involved no witnesses or other drivers. Shortly after the accident very unusual footprints (above) were found leading from the scene. Rumours were spread on Internet forums that the driver, who died shortly after being admitted to hospital, mentioned to medics that he saw a strange creature or alien crossing the road.
The story spread like wildfire and hundreds of locals turned up daily at the scene of the accident to view the footprints. Oddly, the marks were imprinted permanently on hard cement. Some have suggested the footprints might be that of a dog while others have noted that they are completely irregular.
It is unlikely the truth will ever be known.
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