Monthly Archives: July 2009
The bizarre sightings began at 11pm on Saturday and the spectacular show in the sky above Muir of Ord, Ross-shire ended at 1am. Residents watched in awe as three bright orange dome-shaped objects hovered then flew at high speed in random spirals closer and closer to the village. Last night (leading expert?) Nick Pope said: “This could be one of the most significant UFO events in recent history.” — “Sightings like this are hugely significant [...]
An off-duty Ministry of Defence police dog handler has taken a video of what he claims is a panther-sized big cat. Pc Chris Swallow was helping a friend with their garden in Helensburgh, Argyll, when he spotted the black creature on a nearby railway line. The officer, who is stationed at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, said the cat was as big as a Labrador dog. Big cats have been reported in the [...]
The Negros Interior Biodiversity Expedition (NIBE) has confirmed that it had found evidence of two groups of the Visayan Spotted Deer alive and well in the North Negros Natural Park (NNNP) in the Philippines. The team of experts recently returned (July 2009) from the first scientific exploration of the park interior where they recorded the presence of many endangered and endemic species, with several new species records for the NNNP. The Visayan Spotted Deer (Cervus [...]
This is brilliant – a little old, but perfectly relevant seeing how it’s the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. Buzz Aldrin is confronted by a moon landing skeptic! The man angrily calls Aldrin a “coward” and a “liar.” Aldrin tells the man to get away from him, and when he refuses, Aldrin promptly punches him in the face. The conspiracy theorist tried to sue Aldrin but the judge threw out the case, saying he [...]
People in Asia have seen the longest total solar eclipse this century, with large areas of India and China plunged into darkness. Amateur stargazers and scientists travelled far to see the eclipse, which lasted six minutes and 39 seconds at its maximum point. The eclipse could first be seen early on Wednesday in eastern India. It then moved east across India, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Japan and the Pacific. The eclipse first became total [...]
This photo of two newborn panda cubs was taken Monday at the China Giant Panda Breading and Research Centre in Chengdu Their mother, an 8-year-old giant panda named Huamei, was born in the United States. She has now given birth to three sets of twins since she returned to China in 2004. I kind of want to say how cute they look, but I’m not sure ‘cute’ is the right work? Still it’s a fantastic [...]
The Nomura, also known as the Echizen jellyfish, would not look out of place in a Godzilla film. They can weigh up to 200kg and measure up to 2m in diameter. For the past four summers, they have mysteriously materialised in the Yellow Sea off China and the Korean peninsula before drifting across into the Sea of Japan. Experts expect large numbers to arrive this year – which could spell disaster for Japan’s fishermen. Six [...]
Is this further evidence of UFO’s patrolling the skies above Shropshire? Professional wedding photographer Helen Joynson captured these remarkable images while staying at her parents’ house at Fitz, near Shrewsbury. The 40-year-old said she had not even realised there had been anything unusual in the sky until noticing up to three UFOs when processing her digital photographs on a computer. Mrs Joynson said the snaps were taken on a pleasant summer’s evening on July 12 [...]
Joggers have been left bloodied and scarred following a spate of attacks by buzzards. It is like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with unsuspecting victims swooped on by avian attackers. Stuart Urquhart, a solicitor from Bristol, was on holiday with his wife and two children in Helford, Cornwall, when he suffered three six-inch cuts to his head in a buzzard attack. Mr Urquhart, 36, was jogging on a quiet lane near a river [...]
