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Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Italy 02-May-2003 On the Farshores website, Marco V. of Varese, Italy writes, "You may be interested in a discovery which has been recently made: three pyramids were discovered thanks to satellite and aerial imagery in northern Italy, in the town of Montevecchia… They are the first pyramids ever discovered in Italy and the dimensions are quite impressive; the highest pyramid is [500 feet] tall. They are stone buildings, as recent excavations have proved. However, they are now completely covered by ground and vegetation, so that they now look like hills. "The inclination degree of all the...

Strange Memphis UFO Case Still Unsolved 04/30/03 By: Dennis Turner Prospect Park - Lamar Todd always thought UFO's were the stuff of science fiction. "As far as UFO sightings and all that, I normally wasn't a believer, no." he said. That is, until he had two 'close encounters of his own in Memphis during the 1970's. Lamar Todd isn't just any UFO observer either, he's a Memphis police Captain, who served in the elite TACT squad. His first encounter came in about 1973, in South Memphis. He saw a strange light in the sky. "I stopped, stepped out of my...

Whitley`s journal Planet X Sunday April 27th, 2003 There is no Planet X--not at least, in the apocalypse- producing form that has been claimed for the past few years. Nancy Leider, the voice of Zeta-Talk, has been saying for some time that this mythical monster was going to make a close pass on May 15, and wreak holy hell on earth. From her remarks on Coast to Coast AM on Friday, April 25, 2003, my impression is that she's apparently putting back the date of its arrival and saying that it won’t be as big a deal as she had...

The world lost the creators of two of its most celebrated bio-hoaxes recently: Douglas Herrick, father of the risibly ridiculous jackalope (half jackrabbit, half antelope), and Ray L. Wallace, paternal guardian of the less absurd Bigfoot. The jackalope enjoins laughter in response to such peripheral hokum as hunting licenses sold only to those whose IQs range between 50 and 72, bottles of the rare but rich jackalope milk, and additional evolutionary hybrids such as the jackapanda. Bigfoot, on the other hand, while occasionally eliciting an acerbic snicker, enjoys greater plausibility for a simple evolutionary reason: large hirsute apes currently roam...

'UFO' captured on camera Apr 24 2003 Runcorn Weekly News INVESTIGATIONS into a UFO sighting in Runcorn have led to a possible space craft being captured on video. Eric Morris, from the UFO Studies Centre, was carrying out routine research into a report of a black, cigar-shaped object hovering, then descending into woodland near Dutton service station. He visited the spot where the UFO had been seen by workers at O2, Preston Brook, at about the same time the next week as they reported spotting the spooky shape in the sky. After taking film footage of the area, Eric returned...

Hominid fossils show their age By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Australopithecus fossils from caves in South Africa may have been buried about 4 million years ago, as much as 1 million years earlier than previously thought. Australopithecus is an important hominid - human ancestor - that demonstrates the transition from ape-like features to human ones. Its kind were first discovered in East Africa and lived about four million years ago. Researchers used a technique that measured the decay of radioactive isotopes formed when the fossil was on the surface, but which declined when it was buried....

Helena man a true believer in UFOs By MARTIN J. KIDSTON, IR Staff Writer - 04/25/03 Leo Dworshak was a boy in 1932, doing what boys do when growing up in Killdeer, N.D. But unlike most boys, Dworshak stood witness to a peculiar event that would change his life forever. Dworshak, now 83, spends his days peering from the big bay window on his mobile home in Helena, watching the spring rains turn his green yard greener. The bumper stickers adorning his blue Chrysler are a telling lot, "Freedom n Vote Republican," and "65 percent of people in America believe...

Possible Media Blackout on Russian UFO Sighting? Written By: James L. Choron Posted: 4/21/2003 From: James L. Choron [mailto:kommissar@mtu-net.ru] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 11:25 AM To: Milo Subject: URGENT... URGENT... URGENT... POST TO ALL POSSIBLE POINTS Milo, Read this thoroughly, every word is true. Pass this along to any and all points possible. This story is going to be seriously covered up in the States... I repeat... read this thoroughly. I do not have the slightest idea what this was, my assumption is that it is NOT extraplanetary in origin... This is the copy-ready story on the initial, very...

Whale-sized interest in giant mammal on beach 23 April 2003 By RENEE KIRIONA A whale of mystery found dead on a Taranaki beach has the world of marine science excited. The rare ginkgo-toothed whale was found at an Onaero beach and is one of the most important mammal marine finds in recent history, according to Department of Conservation (DOC) programme manager Bryan Williams. The almost-two-tonne whale is the first of its species to wash up on New Zealand shores, the third in the Southern Hemisphere and just the 20th in the world. The discovery was made by Pam and John...

Do aliens really exist? Just ask France's official UFO hunters By Adam Sage Flying saucers and alien spacecraft have long been favourites of film and TV producers, but Jean-Jacques Velasco believes that not all UFO sightings can be dismissed as products of over-active imaginations ON a cold Monday morning 22 years ago, Jean-Jacques Velasco was sitting in his office when a gendarme rang to tell him about a strange incident. Renato Nicolai, a retired technician, had been working in his garden in Trans-en-Provence, near Nice, when he saw a dark, round object come down from the sky, settle on the...

<p>KECKSBURG, Pa. -- Dec. 9, 1965. A day that will live in incongruity.</p> <p>That was the late afternoon when something -- or nothing -- shot from the heavens over this south edge of Westmoreland County and landed -- or didn't -- in a gully a mile outside of town.</p>

Making a case for UFOs By: John Andrews April 17, 2003 Lecturer says evidence shows we're not alone Audience members listen as lecturer Robert Hastings discusses "UFOs: The Hidden History" Tuesday evening at South Dakota State University. Area UFO buffs and those with just mild curiosity got an opportunity Tuesday to judge for themselves the legitimacy of unidentified flying objects. Robert Hastings, an independent researcher and lecturer, presented "UFOs: The Hidden History" to a packed Volstorff Ballroom at South Dakota State University. "I am not a missionary," Hastings told the audience. "I am not seeking to convert skeptics into so-called...

Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a...

Elusive African Apes: Giant Chimps or New Species? John Roach for National Geographic News April 14, 2003 A mysterious group of apes found in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa has scientists and conservationist scratching their heads. The apes nest on the ground like gorillas but have a diet and features characteristic of chimpanzees. The apes are most likely a group of giant chimpanzees that display gorilla-like behavior. A far more remote possibility is that they represent a new subspecies of great ape. Researchers plan to return to the region later this month to collect more clues...

NASA Posts New Mars Images Fri April 4, 2003 11:01 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sand dunes that look like the scales of a giant fish and rare, wispy clouds are among more than 11,000 new images of Mars posted on the Internet, NASA said on Friday. The photographs, which scientists will examine to glean new clues about how much water there is on Mars and where, are posted atgallery msss. They were taken by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor. "The new batch, taken between February and July 2002, brings the total number of images in the online gallery to...

Deep-sea monster caught on tape WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — A ghostly, 23-foot-long creature glides through the deep sea, its gossamer fins billowing against the black water. Its arms, more than half its total length, trail behind like delicate threads. The squid doesn’t react right away to the submarine’s approach, but it shoots away into the dark once the sub gets too close. Researchers have captured scenes like this on videotape eight times, in four different oceans, within recent years. That’s quite a lot of exposure for an animal that no one has reported seeing before. USING THIS FOOTAGE, an international...

Decoding Bible's 'cryptogram' Will Saddam Hussein be overthrown? Where is Osama bin Laden hiding? For answers, see the Good Book Ron Csillag National Post Monday, March 31, 2003 Among the hundreds of meetings and briefings that took place in the Pentagons bowels in the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, one earned the fleeting disdain of The New York Times, whose columnist, Bill Keller, sniffed that "several man-hours of valuable intelligence-crunching time" had been "consumed [by a writer] who claims -- I am not making this up -- that messages encoded in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament...

Shock and Awe Begins--We Explain its Occult Meaning 21-Mar-2003 introduction by Whitley Strieber As bombers began taking off from aircraft carriers, from bases in Kuwait and elsewhere, and B-52s that started from England hours ago began to arrive over Iraq, the Pentagon announced that 'Shock and Awe' had begun. But did you know that this phrase has potent occult meaning? According to leading mythologist William Henry, Shock and Awe relates to the ancient Hebrew phrase Shak-In-Ah, meaning glory. SHOCK ‘n AWE (SHAK-IN-AH): WE WILL ROCK YOU by William Henry march-21-2003 A battle between the ancient forces of light (TARA) and...

- We're too late! It's already been here. - Mulder, I hope you know what you're doing. - Look, Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir, truncated, mounted, transformed into a shrine; halls decked with boughs of holly; stockings hung by the chimney, with care. - You really think someone's been here? - Someone or some THING. - Mulder, over here - it's a fruitcake. - Don't touch it! Those things can be lethal. - It's O.K. There's a note attached: "Gonna find out who's naughty and nice." - It's judging them, Scully. It's making a list. - ...

<p>LONDON, England --It could have been an "X-Files" episode: More than 20 years ago, U.S. airmen reported seeing a "strange glowing object" near a British air base.</p> <p>The bizarre sighting, which occurred near RAF Woodbridge in eastern England in the early hours of December 27, 1980, is detailed in the government's restricted "Rendlesham File."</p>