News of the Weird

UFO Research: Findings vs. Facts
For decades now, eyes and sky have met to witness the buzzing of our world by Unidentified Flying Objects, termed UFOs or simply flying saucers. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to purportedly share the friendly skies with us. UFOs and alien visitors are part of our culture—a far-out phenomenon when judged against those "low life" wonders Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. And after all those years, as the saying goes, UFOs remain a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Why so? For one, the field is fraught with hucksterism. It's also replete with blurry photos and awful video. But then there are also well-intentioned and puzzled witnesses.

Hacker Cites Government Cover-up, UFOs
A British hacker who broke into the computer systems of the U.S. military claimed he did it in order to research UFOs. That's not some tech-related acronym that you haven't encountered; Gary McKinnon says he was researching unidentified flying objects of extraterrestrial origin.

The Wonders of St. John's Day
June 24. Unexplained events. Strange cryptid sightings. Beltane fires. Little people. Miracles. Bathing. Round dances. Collecting of glowworms. Folkloric incidents. Weird encounters. Respect the wonder and adventure of the 24th of June. What events have dotted your past crypto-inquiries from this point on the calendar? What's in the mix on this day in '06?

Dragons in the Water
The festivals, or rituals, started approximately 2500 years ago in southern China along the banks of the Yangtze River and were originally carried out to please the Asian water dragon deity. The rituals often included human sacrifices and violent battles between crew members of competing boats who hurled stones and struck opponents with bamboo sticks. It was considered to be unlucky if there wasn't at least one drowning during the course of the event.

Red rain controversy: Aliens or Hype?
When aliens visit, will they be driving flying saucers? That was the conventional wisdom of the conventional alien movies of the 1950s. But could aliens arrive in a non-cinematic downpour? That's the startling word from Kerala, India, where physicist Godfrey Louis has studied a peculiar, blood-red rain that fell in 2001.

Scientists hope to recreate the 'Big Bang'
International scientists will recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" in a bid to uncover the mysteries of the universe, a world physics summit announced on Thursday. The laboratory experiment will take place in Europe next year with the collaboration of American, Japanese and Russian scientists to increase scientific knowledge of dark energy and matter, said summit organiser Carlos Montufar, of Ecuador's San Francisco University.

Bigfoot sighting in Cass County -- fact or myth?
Remote Six Mile Lake Road in eastern Cass County (just west of Ball Club) experienced more than a normal share of traffic this week as curiosity seekers came in carloads to view the large, mysterious footprints left on the edge of the road. What made the footprints may be anyone's guess, but there are those, such as Bob Olson of Deer River, who believe the prints were made by that creature of popular lore, Sasquatch — or Bigfoot.

S Korea to search for alien life via space program
South Korea plans to launch a new space program to search for extraterrestrial life, government officials said Wednesday. The country's National Science Museum, which the government plans to open in September, is scheduled to initiate the program, dubbed SETI, by setting up a high-powered radio telescope in its exhibition hall, the officials said.



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