Incredible UFOs Filmed Over Denver, Colorado USA

According to FOX 31 News channel, they first learned about these sightings when a metro area man, who does not want to be identified brought us his home video. He captured the images on his digital camera from a hilltop in Federal Heights looking south toward downtown Denver.

He said, "The flying objects appear around noon or 1:00 p.m. at least a couple of times a week." The strangest part is they are flying too fast to see with the naked eye, but when we slowed down the video, several UFOs appear.

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Mystery Sighting Spooks Soldiers

Units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) have reported Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.

An ITBP unit based in Thakung, close to the Pangong Tso Lake, reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects between August 1 and October 15 this year. In reports sent to their Delhi headquarters in September, and to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), they described sighting "Unidentified Luminous Objects" at day and by night. The yellowish spheres appear to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for three to five hours before disappearing.

These were not unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones or even low-earth orbiting satellites, say Army officials who have studied the hazy photographs taken by ITBP. Drone sightings are verified and logged separately. The Army has reported 99 sightings of Chinese drones between January and August this year: 62 sightings were reported in the western sector, the Ladakh region, and 37 in the eastern sector in Arunachal Pradesh. Three of these drones intruded into territory claimed by India along the 365-km-long border with China in Ladakh, manned by ITBP.

Such mysterious lights have been sighted before in Ladakh, a barren, 86,000 sq km heavily militarised zone wedged between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Aksai Chin. The persistent sightings by the ITBP this year, however, worried the Army's Leh-based 14 Corps. The ITBP, did not respond to a detailed India Today questionnaire.

In September, the Army moved a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyser-that picks up frequencies emitted from any object-to a mountaintop near the 160-km-long, ribbon-shaped Pangong Lake that lies between India and China.

The radar could not detect the object that was being tracked visually, indicating it was non-metallic. The spectrum analyser could not detect any signals being emitted from them. The Army also flew a reconnaissance drone in the direction of the floating object, but it proved a futile exercise. The drone reached its maximum altitude but lost sight of the floating object.

In late September this year, a team of astronomers from the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle, 150 km south of the lake, studied the airborne phenomena for three days. The team spotted the flying objects, Army officials say, but could not conclusively establish what they were. They did, however, say that the objects were "non celestial" and ruled out meteors and planets.

Scientists however say, the harsh geography and sparse demography of the great Himalayan range that separates Kashmir Valley from Ladakh, lends itself to unusual sightings. "The region is snowbound in winter, has few roads and is one of the most isolated places in India," says Sunil Dhar, a geologist at the government Post Graduate College in Dharamshala, who has studied glaciers in the region for 15 years.

Yet, none of the experts from the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)-in charge of technical intelligence-and Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), has been able to identify the objects. This has caused embarrassment rather than fear in the establishment. "Something is clearly wrong, if our combined scientific resources can't explain the phenomena," says a senior Army official in Delhi. Intelligence officials say these objects could be a crude psychological operation by China, or sophisticated probes attempting to ascertain India's defences in Ladakh.

"We can't ignore these sightings. We need to probe what new technology might have been deployed there," says former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal (retired) P.V. Naik.

In 2010, the IAF probed and dismissed Army sightings of such luminous objects as "Chinese lanterns". 'UFO' sightings have been endemic to Ladakh over the past decade. In late 2003, 14 Corps sent a detailed report on sightings of luminous objects to Army headquarters. Army troops on posts along Siachen had seen floating lights on the Chinese side. But reporting such phenomena risks inviting ridicule. When told about them at a northern command presentation in Leh, the then army chief, General N.C. Vij, had angrily dismissed the reports as hallucinations.

Scientists say the mysterious objects are not necessarily from outer space. "There is no evidence of 'ufos' being of extra-terrestrial origin," says reputed Pune-based astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar. "The implication of them being alien objects is fancy, not fact," he says.

There is still no explanation, however, for what is believed to be the clearest 'UFO' sighting yet, in the Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh less than 100 km south of Ladakh in 2004. A five-member group of geologists and glaciologists led by Dr Anil Kulkarni of the isro's Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad were on a research trip through the barren Samudra Tapu Valley. They filmed a four-foot tall 'robot-like' figure, that 'walked' along the valley, 50 m away from them. The humanoid object then rapidly became airborne and disappeared. The encounter lasted 40 minutes. It was seen by 14 persons including the six scientists. Kulkarni then interviewed each expedition member separately to verify what the team had seen. Copies of his detailed report were circulated to the PMO, ISRO, the Army and several intelligence agencies. Kulkarni established his team hadn't seen natural phenomenon. The matter, however, was buried soon after.

Sunil Dhar, who was part of the 2004 expedition, terms the sighting of the unidentified object an unforgettable experience. Locals, he says, have reported sighting mysterious objects for many years. "These are unsolved mysteries that need more intensive study," he says. Left unexplained, the Ladakh sightings risk slipping into the crack between fact and science fiction.

By Sandeep Unnithan. India Today 

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Google Earth Finds More Strange Patterns in the Chinese Desert

Google Earth reveals an 8 km line of artificial grid-like structures in the Chinese desert. Now one researcher says she know why it's there.

Google Earth has a history of revealing strange objects in the deserts of China.
ast year, various websites reported the discovery of giant kilometre-sized concentric circles of military objects including jets in the Gobi desert. Analysts think these may be missile target zones.

Others websites reported the discovery of mysterious networks of lines in the Gobi desert. Some analysts believe these are designed to look like the networks of roads in a city and have been laid out in tehdesert so that nuclear missile guidance systems can use them for target practice.

Today, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy reveals another mysterious pattern in a remote part of China, this time the Taklamakan desert in western China.

In the last few years, Sparavigna has pioneered a form of armchair archaeology using Google Earth and open source image processing software to hunt for interesting structures in remote regions of the planet. She regularly posts her results on the arXiv and we've discussed several of them on this blog, here for example.

Today, Sparavigna highlights an 8km line of dots in the Taklamakan desert near Ruoqiang Town. When she zooms in on these dots, they turn out to be 40 metre grids of faint point-like structures, arranged in a chess-board-like style.

Google Earth's images data back to 2004 and the grids are visible in all the images. However, Sparavigna points out that the grids are not visible in older images on Bing Maps or Nokia maps. In this way, she has been able to date them.

At first sight, it's hard to work what this structure could possibly be for. But Sparavigna says she has recently discovered a clue in the form of an announcement by the Chinese government of the discovery of a 1.28 million nickel ore reserve in the region.

She says the grid is the result of a comprehensive geological survey of the region. This process begins with the identification of a geological anomaly associated with the ore, then the widespread digging of trenches and boreholes to identify the ore and map it. It is this second stage that have produced the grids.

That sounds like a reasonable explanation although the sheer number of boreholes dug over such a wide area beggars belief.

One possibility is that there was some element of training involved in which large numbers of students practiced their surveying techniques in the desert.

However, wouldn't we be able to see the results of similar exercises elsewhere in China or indeed in other places on Earth?

Sparavigna says that if she is right, this region of China is likely to become an important centre for mining in the next few years.

That means her form of armchair archaeology can be used to determine not only what the planet was like in the past but also get a sense of what regions will be like in future.

Of course, her analysis may also be wrong. Alternative suggestions in the comments section please.

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Raw: Salmon Swimming Upstream on Road

www.youtube.com, AssociatedPress: Salmon are seen swimming upstream on a road near Seattle, Washington. A dog walking along catches one of the fish in its mouth, then moseys along the watery road. (Nov. 1)

Video of extreme global weather events and other weird phenomena in October 2012

Snow in Springtime in Australia; deluge in the UK, Nigeria, southern Spain and the US; fireballs seen everywhere; tornadoes and strong winds in southern France; another zombie cannibal attack, this time in China; a hurricane in northeastern US; UFOs diving into volcanoes; large earthquakes; sudden sinkholes swallowing and killing people in China ...it's been another bizarre month here on the Big Blue Marble. 

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Hurricane Sandy UFO. October 29th 2012

On the day the superstorm was supposed to reach the east coast of the United States, lights can be seen in the dark clouds. This was shot on a lake that wasn't in the danger zone of the hurricane.

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The Influence Of Media Messages On Perceptions Of Paranormal Credibility

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The paranormal is a popular and enduring theme in the media, stretching from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula to the newest installment of Paranormal Activity, which opened last week. Television shows cover the spectrum from fiction, like the CW’s Beauty and the Beast, or CBS’s Ghost Whisperer; to quasi-factual shows like SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, which has spawned copycat shows on networks from Biography to Animal Planet.

Paul Brewer, professor of communication at the University of Delaware, was intrigued by the omnipresence of paranormal entertainment. Brewer wondered what makes viewers believe or not believe what they see on the screen.

Brewer studied the influence of media messages about paranormal investigators on how people perceive the credibility of the investigators.

Brewer asked participants in his experiment to read one of four versions of the same newspaper article. After reading it, the participants filled out a survey.

“It wasn’t just any story about paranormal investigators that made people believe in ghosts and haunted houses,” Brewer said, “it was a story about how they were scientific.”

In one version of the article, a paranormal investigator’s “scientific” approach to his work, including his instruments, were described. Brewer describes these instruments as “trappings of science.”

One instrument specifically mentioned is an electromagnetic field detector (EMF), used to locate sources of electricity. Participants who read this article were more likely to call the investigators scientific and credible. They also reported a belief in the paranormal. These findings could trouble paranormal skeptics, Brewer said.

“They might look at this and say, well, all it takes is to sprinkle some acronyms in there and wave around cool looking things that beep and suddenly people believe in ghosts and haunted houses.”

Another version of the article was identical in almost every way, until the end. An added paragraph quoted a professor debunking the investigators’ expertise. The group that read this article was swayed by the opposing viewpoint and rated the investigators’ credibility far below the “scientific” group.

“What the media can do, the media can take away,” Brewer said.

The findings of this study were published in Science Communication (scx.sagepub.com)


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The ancient Bulgarian town where they sliced their dead in half and buried them from the pelvis up

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Strange rituals: Some of the corpses found in the necropolis attached to what is thought to be Europe's oldest town were sliced in half and buried from the pelvis up

Residents of what is thought to be Europe's oldest town cut their dead in half and buried them from the pelvis up, according to archaeologists.

The newly discovered ancient settlement, thought to date back to 4700BC, is near the Bulgarian town of Provadia, about 25 miles from the country's Black Sea coast.

Archaeology professor Vassil Nikolov led the dig which focused on the town itself and its necropolis, where the strange and complex burial rituals were discovered.

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Ancient: Researchers believe the town, located 25 miles from Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, is Europe's oldest urban settlement and was home to between 300 to 350 people

© CNN. A whole corpse: Researchers have as yet advanced no theories as to why some corpses were mutilated before burial and others were interred in their entirety

'Now we can say that the Provadia salt pans location is the oldest town in Europe, [dating from] roughly 4700 to 4200BC,' he told CNN.

There is as yet no clue as to why some corpses have been sliced in half and buried from the pelvis up, but researchers found evidence to show some residents of the salt-producing area were wealthy people.

Professor Nikolov told the Sofia Globe the town's 300 to 350 residents lived in two-storey homes and earned their living mining the surrounding area for salt, which was as important to the ancient world as oil is today.

'The salt water was evaporated by different techniques in ceramic bowls,' Professor Nikolov told CNN. 'Salt produced was used as money because salt was essential for both humans and animals.'

© CNN. Wealthy: The town's residents lived in two-storey homes and mined the surrounding area for salt, an important resource in ancient times

© CNN. Security: To protect their wealth, their town was surrounded by stone walls three metres high and a phenomenal two metres thick

The nearby town of Provadia remains an important salt centre to this day, with much foreign investment in the area devoted to extracting the stuff.

But in ancient times Provadia-Solnitsata would have needed little in the way of outside money since, as the only place in the Balkans where salt was produced at the time, it was the 'mint' of the region.

To protect their wealth, their town was surrounded by stone walls three metres high and a phenomenal two metres thick, which researchers believe are the earliest and most massive fortifications of Europe's pre-history.

© CNN.'Bun-shaped hairstyles': Discoveries of spiral-shaped copper needles have even given archaeologists clues as to the hairstyles of the town's ancient residents

© CNN. Skeletons: British, Japanese and German scientists have so far confirmed the Bulgarian team's findings, which were made during a two-month dig over the summer

© Unknown. This map shows the town's location near Provadia, just 25 miles inland from the major coastal city of Provadia

Other findings suggested that even 7,000 years ago the residents of the town had already developed a class system.

Archaeologist Margarita Lyuncheva, a member of Professor Nikolov's team, told CNN that finds of spiral copper needles for hairdressing in some graves showed 'there are two grades of people, [one] probably with higher social status'.

She added: 'We think that women had a sort of bun-shaped hairstyle.'

British, Japanese and German scientists have so far confirmed the Bulgarian team's findings, which were made during a two-month dig over the summer.

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Instant UFO near the Moon - October 28, 2012

As can be seen from the video, there are two UFOs. On the right side of the moon and at the top right next to the moon. They come and go for about 1 second. This is not a reflection of the lens, it is not satellite, not planes, a UFO! In a video made ​​slow image, zoom and image filters. Place of observation - Snezhinsk, Russia. Shooting on webcam "Creative HD."

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The 'Apeman of the Amazon': 75-year-old picture sweeps internet but does it show man's missing link . . . or the work of a very good make-up artist?

Could these pictures dated from the 1930s of a supposed apeman found in the jungles of Brazil be proof for the much sought after missing link?

His giant lips and furrowed brow and awkward monkey-like gait appear to be simian and the Dutch magazine Het Leven which published them in 1937 certainly seemed convinced, describing the pictures as those of a mystery apeman.

The internet has been awash with speculation following the appearance of the pictures on the imgur picture-sharing website two days ago. Since then, millions have seen them on reddit, Facebook and such like.

But what is the real story behind the online excitement? Many observers claim to have spotted tell-tale signs of prosthetic make-up on his face, yet many more seem keen to believe this is historic evidence of an anthropological marvel.

The apeman is pictured here in 1937 in Brazil in a photograph published in the magazine Het Leven

The apeman is remarkably clean shaven for a wild creature caught in the jungle as he sits on his haunches with his knuckles closed

Rather than changing the perceptions of scientists across the world, it appears that the apeman's mouth and brow are stuck into place using rudimentary make-up.

Visible in one picture is the line of the prosthetic mouth which covers the chin up to the bridge of the nose.

And other observers have pointed out that the forehead will always be covered with hair in any make-up situation to blend in the prosthesis.

One shrewd Reddit user pointed out that for a man recently found wild in the jungles of Brazil, he is remarkably well shaven and has a particularly neat, if unfashionable haircut.

Others online have made the sad claim that this apeman is most likely an unfortunate individual born with birth defects and exploited to wear the make-up and prosthetics to pose and pretend to be a newly discovered apeman.

One particularly dismissive Reddit poster wrote: 'It's probably formed and painted rubber. I doubt this lasted long as it is easy to see in action that the mouth does not move much and when it does it is unnatural. Also, the guy has to keep his brow furrowed the whole time which is hard to keep up.'

But there are many who may choose to believe in the existence of apemen. Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, reports of wild and mythic ape-like beasts living in remote and far-flung locations have fascinated readers across the world.

Starting at the bridge of the nose it is possible to trace a line which online observers have pointed out could possibly be the joining lines of a prosthesis or make-up

One such story occurred in the jungles of South America, when Francois De Loys, a Swiss oil prospector led an expedition along the border between Colombia and Venezuela from 1917 to 1920.

While camped in 1920 near the Tarra River, two large monkey-like creatures standing 1.57 metres tall approached the expedition and began howling and gesturing loudly.

Fearing for the safety of the group, the male was shot dead and De Loys and his team realised that they had encountered an unsusual animal.

Despite resembling a spider monkey, the beast had no tail and 32 teeth compared to most North and South American monkeys which have 36 teeth.

Propping the creature up with a stick under its chin, De Loys took a photograph and then skinned the creature intending to keep its hide and skull.

The 1920 picture that shows De Loy's Ape - reportedly of an unusual monkey that stood upright and became aggressive to Swiss geologist Francois De Loys

However, both these items were lost after the expedition encountered serious difficulties leaving the dense jungle.

Upon returning to Europe, De Loys did not relate the incident to anyone until 1929, when his friend, the anthropologist George Montandon discovered the photograph while going through the geologists records.

Critics immediately pounced claiming that one picture was not enough proof, pointing out that the claim the creature did not have a tail could not be confirmed from the angle of the photograph.

Others said that the monkey's size could not be properly ascertained and that at most the crate it is sitting on is 15 inches tall and that would make the monkey under 4-feet tall, smaller than De Loy's claimed.

Wilderness explorer C. Thomas Biscardi, 32, of San Jose, California, who searched for the legendary 'Big Foot' for nearly a decade took this picture (left) on May 10th 1980 of the mysterious sasquatch and Sir Edmund Hillary, (right) conqueror of Mount Everest, shows newsmen here a 1/27 scale of an Abominable Snowman or Yeti, which he hoped to capture on the next expedition to the Himalayas. He did not

On the other side of the argument, cryptozoologists who study hidden or lost animals, see that De Loys Ape has a different chest and hands to other spider monkeys and that it has a much higher forehead.

The yowie - the Australian version of a mythic ape-like creature that inhabits remote woods

Most ancient cultures across the world have a mythology of an ape-like creature that is neither man nor ape and inhabits wild forests to be seldom seen.

The two most famous examples are the Bigfoots or sasquatch of North America and the Yeti of the Himalayas.

It almost seems that the expeditions to find either one have match the number of sighting's and both legends persist to this day.

Even in far flung Australia, the Aboriginal people there have their Outback apeman or Yowie, who legend has it stands only five-feet tall to the bigfoot and yeti's eight.

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Spheres UFO making chem trail. Over Sydney Australia. 27.10.2012

When we filmed the strange cloud formations Strange chem trail and writings appeared on the sky.