Is this further evidence of UFO’s patrolling the skies above Shropshire?
Is this a UFO over Shrewsbury?
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 at about 10.30pm.
She said: “My mother and I had just been reviewing the pictures which I had taken over our family weekend away before going to bed, as we did so we noticed a huge cloud in the sky at the end of the garden.
“It was vast and reflected the town lights of Shrewsbury on its base. As I had the camera in my hand, I stepped into the garden and took a few shots.
The UFOs were not seen by either of us at the time. It was only on looking at the pictures on my computer that I first noticed them.”
Mrs Joynson, who lives in Chester, said she had no explanation for what the UFOs could be.
Joggers have been left bloodied and scarred following a spate of attacks by buzzards.
Attacked 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 at around 9am, when he felt a searing pain in the back of his head before turning around to see a buzzard flying away.
He said: “I thought somebody had thrown some heavy sacking or carpet at me but I couldn’t see anyone. I carried on a few paces and then saw blood running down me and noticed a buzzard flying off into the trees.
“I have brown hair and I wasn’t sure if the buzzard had mistaken me for a big, slow rabbit, so I decided not to take any chances, and invested in a hat.”
Mr Urquhart, who was given a tetanus injection after the attack earlier this month, spotted the buzzard two days later on a telegraph pole. It swooped down with its talons out but Mr Urquhart managed to dive out of the way.
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Last week, Paul Powell, a plasterer from Shurdington, Glos, was also attacked by a buzzard while out jogging.
Mr Powell, 38, suffered four puncture wounds to his scalp after a bird sunk its talons into his head.
He said: “I felt an almighty thud at the back of my head. At first I thought someone had hit me… and then I saw this big bird flying just above me. Then I felt a burning sensation and noticed there was blood dripping on to the ground.”
Mr Powell ran for cover, but the buzzard attacked him a second time. He was taken to hospital and also given a tetanus injection.
Ciaran Nelson of the RSPB said that it was very rare to see a spate of buzzard attacks.
“These are the only incidents of buzzards attacking humans we have heard of in the last year, so to have two in such a short period is exceptionally unusual,” he said.
“It is most likely that the birds are feeling territorial and are being extra defensive, as July and August is the period when their young will be starting to leave the nests.
Strange multicoloured UFO filmed over Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province in China. The object looks triangular in shape, but could perhaps be just a reflection?
There has been numerous sightings of UFOs over Changsha. Earlier this year in April, a UFO was seen above the city twice in two days, and the event received extensive media coverage within China. Since then there have been at least half a dozen UFO sightings by residents of the city. This most recent footage (above) appears to have been filmed out of someone’s living room window.
Video of the Basking Shark that washed up on a Long Island beach on the 14th July 2009.
The now 20-foot-long (orginaly thought to be 24-foot) basking shark that washed ashore on a beach on New York’s Long Island on Tuesday appears to have died from some kind of illness.
New York State Parks official George Gorman said researchers will examine the basking shark to determine a cause of death. After that, it will be buried in nearby sand dunes on the beach.
After examining the basking shark, Tracy Marcus of Cornell University’s Long Island-based Sport Fishing Education Center said the shark weighs about a ton. She said it is unusual for an ailing basking shark to come ashore. Usually they die in the ocean.
The cause of the Long Island shark’s beaching may remain a mystery—as is where the giant creatures come from.
David Icke is a tough cookie to summarise, I like some of his theories, but struggle with others.
Personally I feel the (Swine) Flu Vaccine is a bit suspect, and think we have a right to ask questions and ultimately make up our own minds as to whether we should or shouldn’t take such a vaccine.
A quick internet search will bring up thousands and thousands of conspiracy theories about swine flu – be very careful what you believe, but make sure you do read some of it!
Residents near a San Diego beach awoke on Saturday (11th July 2009) to find dozens of jumbo squid (Humboldt squid) flapping helplessly on the shore — about an hour after an earthquake had struck off the California city at 7:34 a.m.
The mysterious jumbo squid stranding and the earthquake, are probably linked only by coincidence say experts.
For one thing, scientists began finding beached squid at least three days before the Saturday earthquake, said squid expert William Gilly of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station.
“So unless the squid were predicting the earthquake, I don’t think there’s any link,” he added.
Crop Circle at Silbury Hill, copyright: Steve Alexander
A Police Sergeant has come forward claiming to have seen three exceptionally tall beings inspecting a crop circle near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire.
The incident happened around 5am on the 7th July 2009 as the Sergeant was driving his private car towards Marlborough, along the A4 past the ancient monument.
The Sergeant stopped and watched them for a few minutes, while they appeared to be examining the crop. He then shouted at them from a distance, but they appeared to ignore him.
He then entered the field and they suddenly became aware of him and started to run at an amazing speed to the south, away from the formation and Silbury Hill.
He said that he then glanced away for just a few seconds, and when he looked back, they had completely vanished! He also said he was aware of a static crackling sound in and around him in the field, which seemed to change level and possibly effect the movement of the plants.
He also claimed to experience a headache in the field, which became worse as the day progressed.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.
The monkey is related to saddleback tamarins, which include several species of monkeys known for their distinctively marked backs. The newly described distinct subspecies was first seen by scientists on a 2007 expedition into the state of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil.
Researchers have dubbed the monkey Mura’s saddleback tamarin (saguinus fuscicollis mura) named after the Mura Indians, the ethnic group of Amerindians of the Purus and Madeira river basins where the monkey occurs. Historically this tribe was spread through the largest territory of any of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples, extending from the Peruvian frontier today (Rio Yavari) east to the Rio Trombetas.
The monkey is mostly gray and dark brown in color, with a distinctly mottled “saddle.” It weighs 213 grams and is 240 millimeters (9 inches tall) with a 320 millimeter (12.6 inch) tail.
“The Wildlife Conservation Society is extremely proud to be part of this exciting discovery in the Amazon,” said Dr. Avecita Chicchon, Director of WCS’s Latin America Programs. “We hope that the discovery will draw attention to conservation in this very fragile but biodiverse region.”
According to the study’s authors, the monkey is threatened by several planned development projects in the region, particularly a major highway cutting through the Amazon that is currently being paved. Conservationists fear the highway could fuel wider deforestation in the Amazon over the next two decades. Other threats to the region include a proposed gas pipeline and two hydroelectric dams currently in the beginning stages of construction.
“This newly described monkey shows that even today there are still major wildlife discoveries to be made,” said the study’s lead author, Fabio Röhe of the Wildlife Conservation Society. “This discovery should serve as a wake-up call that there is still so much to learn from the world’s wild places, yet humans continue to threaten these areas with destruction.”
Researchers have dubbed the monkey Mura’s saddleback tamarin (saguinus fuscicollis mura) named after the Mura Indians, the ethnic group of Amerindians of the Purus and Madeira river basins where the monkey occurs. Historically this tribe was spread through the largest territory of any of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples, extending from the Peruvian frontier today (Rio Yavari) east to the Rio Trombetas.
