News of the Weird
Interesting Items From Around the World
ATS Weekly, Edition 024, December 27, 2005
MoD Cites Asbestos Fear in Rejecting
Information Pleas
Thousands of the government's most sensitive secret documents are being held back from publication under the Freedom of Information Act on the
grounds that they may be contaminated by asbestos. There are also a number of files with intriguing titles such as Operation Tiara, Operation Grape,
and Project R1, as well as some which contain details of supposed UFO sightings.
UFO Enthusiasts Gather in
Forest
More than 100 people are expected to gather in a Suffolk forest on Tuesday night to mark 25 years since a famous UFO sighting. During the nights of 26
and 27 December 1980, US servicemen at RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported mysterious lights in Rendlesham Forest.
UFO Digest Top Ten Stories of 2005
The year is almost over and although a flying saucer has not landed on the lawn in front of the White House, there have been very interesting events,
that tease us in believing that actual alien contact is only weeks or months away. 2005 also brought religion to the forefront of politics and
everyday life. The story of creation has rekindled debate among the masses: evolution versus creationism! Could there be a third cause that includes
both? Could 'intelligent design' include the fact that Man evolved to a certain stage and then had his DNA altered by Gods or extraterrestrials to
produce the Homo sapien of today
Was it UFOs? Mystery Haunts Eastern
Plains
Cattle rancher Clyde Chess never learned who — or what —killed his heifer 11 years ago, removing its lips, tongue, ears, heart and reproductive
organs with laserlike precision. But he has a theory. “I suspect, and I know it sounds far-fetched, it was government testing,” said Chess, who
has a ranch in Rush. “They’re the only ones that have that kind of technology.”
Do You Believe in MIRACLES?
Call it fate, serendipity or just dumb luck. Some choose the word "miracle." That's the only way that Vilma Vivas of Coney Island can fathom how
six members of her family walked away from a fiery plane crash in the Amazon this summer, while dozens of others died. Polls show that more than 80
percent of Americans believe in a God who performs miracles. Almost half say that they themselves have received such blessings - only slightly more
than those who believe that Satan performs "false" miracles, according to one survey by Princeton Survey Research Associates.
Mysterious "Purple Rain" Falls in
Williamsburg
"It's not the birds doing it," said Joe Billotte of the mysterious substance he found on property he owns in Williamsburg .Billotte says he found a
"pinkish-purple" liquid spattering the ground and the side of a mobile home along State Route 68 south of Exit 62. Billotte lives across the highway
from the mobile home.
17 Planets? Astronomers' Heads
Spinning
The familiar solar system that you learned about in school — nine well-behaved planets, from Mercury to Pluto, circling sedately in tidy paths
around the sun — isn't what it used to be. Astronomers recently have discovered a flock of at least eight other planet-like objects in sometimes
wildly eccentric orbits. Four new "ice dwarfs," plus two more probable moons around Pluto, were announced in the last six months.
Our Bug-Eyed Admirers
Although a majority of our guests came for the views, others came to commune with the Pleiadians, Andromedans and other ETs that loitered atop the
rugged buttes. One guest claimed he could channel Ashtar Command, the nice aliens, from one room, but he left for the Super 8 after it was clear the
house phone would not be turned over to him for channeling sessions.
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