Woonsocket, Rhode Island - Last spring, Coventry Building and Wrecking began tearing down the old French Worsted Co. building so that the site could be prepped for new construction.

The building dated back to 1906.

"What happened here is still a mystery to me. What was real too was the fear that the construction crew felt and that time, and also what was real was that the work stopped," said Sofia Kaczor, a hydrologist for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.

The work stopped because of two events that involved a crane.

The crane, which was operated by John Baccaire, went haywire every time it got close to tearing away one part of the building. Baccaire's daughter, Kim, took a picture she said shows what looks like ghosts in the window of the old mill.

"That's not something that I've experienced. So I think if somebody experienced something like that, you would believe in that," Kaczor said.

Washington - A group hoping to prove alien contact with Earth has tapped former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick to help convince the federal government to acknowledge the existence of extraterrestrials.

The Detroit Democrat and mother to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will help preside over 30 hours of congressional-style hearings April 29 to May 3 at Washington's National Press Club. She did not respond to calls for comment.

Dubbed the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, the public panel pledges to expose evidence of "extraterrestrial vehicles" and a government effort to deny sightings of such craft commonly called UFOs.

Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Bethesda, Md.-based Paradigm Research Group that is hosting the hearings, said he sought former members of Congress to interview dozens of witnesses in a style that harkens back to their work peppering witnesses in congressional hearings.

"I had invitations out to about 50 former members who I thought were likely candidates to participate, and Congresswoman Kilpatrick was the first one to respond," Bassett said.

Kilpatrick became a U.S. representative in 1997 but lost her seat to Hansen Clarke after a 2010 primary challenge.

Strange lights in the sky over Sunnynook have excited UFO fan Robert Edwards but the experience was somewhat unnerving for his wife.

"I think there is probably a logical explanation but I have not been able to find one," Mr Edwards says.

Shortly after spotting two big red-and-orange lights tracking quickly across the sky on Saturday night, he uploaded a video of the sight to Facebook.

The reaction to his clip on Facebook has added to the mystery, he says.

Mr Edwards spotted the lights about 10.30pm.

Facebook postings mention similar sightings in Melbourne about 7pm to 8pm, Te Atatu Peninsula about 8.50pm and Palmerston North later at 2am on Sunday. There were also numerous other online reports about strange lights on Saturday night at Auckland's west coast beaches, Milford and Coatesville.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has come clean on a 63 year old memo from the head of their Washington D.C. office pertaining to UFO sightings.

The memo was associated to a story relayed to four FBI from a third party reporting that an Air Force investigator had reported three "flying saucers" were recovered in New Mexico.

"They [the saucers] were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter," the memo states. "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture."

"Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots."

In an FBI release on March 24, 2013, the Bureau indicates the story is the single most popular file in their various records released under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Over the past two years, this file has been viewed nearly a million times," the release stated.The file is a single page memo from March 22, 1950 from Washington D.C. field office lead Guy Hottel.

Hottel, who died in 1990, addressed the memo to Director J. Edgar Hoover, which was protocol for all FBI memos. The memo was recorded and indexed soon after.

The informant claimed that the saucers had been found because the government's "high-powered radar" in the area had interfered with "the controlling mechanism of the saucers."

The memo ends with "[n]o further evaluation was attempted" concerning the matter by the FBI agent.

The FBI said that when their Vault released this information in April 2011, "some media outlets noticed the Hottel memo and erroneously reported that the FBI had posted proof of a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico and the recovery of wreckage and alien corpses."

The FBI says they have only occasionally been involved with any investigations of UFO and extraterrestrials sightings, and this particular memo is not new. It was first released publicly in the late 1970s.

There is no connection to the infamous events of July 1947 in Roswell, the FBI says "Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after" that.

"For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents - at the request of the Air Force - to verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it."

"Finally, the Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated," explained the FBI release. "Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau's files have no information to verify that theory."

Romanian lawyer Madalin Ciculescu, 34, is suing his local Orthodox bishop Constantin Argatu and four priests for fraud after claiming they failed to properly exercise flatulent demons that were forcing him out of his home and law practice at Pitesti in Arges County in central Romania.

He accused the five of leaving behind an unholy mess after turning up several times to exercise the demons which were responsible for the bad smells that were ruining his business - and added that after the failed exorcism the demons even started haunting him at home.

The case alleging 'religious malpractice' is reportedly the first time there has been such an allegation made in a Romanian court. The four priests had all tried and failed to exorcise the demons, according to the legal papers that named bishop Argatu, even though he had not been to the property, as he was in charge of the priests who had been there.

The case has already been rejected by a lower court in Romania and was rejected again this week by the Romanian High Court, but now the businessmen says he plans to go to the European Court of Human Rights.

A French man is convinced he's captured a spirit on camera after the phantom woke him from a nightmare.

Just before 6:00AM on Thursday, Georges Lurk was awoken from a nightmare to the sounds of Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist playing on the television. After waking from his dream while violently shaking, Lurk had a feeling that something was wrong, and left his friend's home to shake off the fear and grab a breath of fresh air. That's when he saw a poltergeist that didn't belong to Spielberg.

"I was frightened and I recorded the sound of the animals to keep a souvenir from that night," he wrote on YouTube. "When I recorded, I saw movement on the screen, so I looked at it. The light was almost vanished. I waited, eyes lock on the screen, craving to see more activity. I thought nothing more happened, so I stop recording. But when I saw the video again I noticed a second luminous spectre."

A fisherman from the Shandong Province caught something a little out of the ordinary last week, namely, the huge skeletal remains of a "translucent dragon".

The bizarre skeleton was found in the water on March 28^th by a Chinese fisherman who wasted no time calling the local news crews, and reporters rushed to photograph creature, all 153 joints of it.

According to Japanese news outfit Byoukan Sunday, the find has prompted some to wonder if the color and shape aren't just a little too perfect, inciting the thought that the bones might have been hand carved. Researchers, on the hand, have disputed this claim, saying that they believe the skeleton is mammalian in nature, and not a large fish as others have speculated.

A former weather observer for the US military has come forward with information that he was involved with a "technology transfer" program between the government and a space faring race of extraterrestrials in the 60s.

Dr. Charles Hall appeared on an Australian morning show last week to discuss with the hosts his dealings with a race of alien beings he calls "the tall whites", interactions that he says took place during a top secret program hosted at a Nevada research base.

"I'm a Vietnam veteran and I enlisted in the Airforce in July in 1964, and I was trained as a weather observer and I was sent to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, outside of Las Vegas, and for two and a half years I was sent up to the gunnery ranges up at Indian Springs and I was given a clearance to allow me to go anywhere in Dreamland as long as I was alone," he told the hosts.

"I discovered that up there at the north end of Indian Springs Valley, which you can see on the map, in the state of Nevada here in America, that there was a base which the US Airforce maintained for a group of extraterrestrials who were tall and white. I, as the duty weather observer, was allowed to go up there or they were allowed to come down where I was. The interaction took place over 2 years."

The mysteries behind many UFO sightings may never be explained, but what happened over Puget Sound on June 21, 1947 is a mystery that's getting new life in a film.

It's a complex story with many facets, but it that can be summarized like this: At 2 p.m., Harold Dahl was on a fishing boat salvaging logs with his young son when he said he saw six flying discs appear above him over the water.

One of the donut-shaped discs appeared to be in trouble and dropped what appeared to be tons of a hot molten substance in the water and the beach. As the story goes, the heat and debris killed his dog and burned his son.

Days later he was visited by a mysterious "man in black," who told him not to talk about what he saw. He was then visited by two Air Force investigators who were on a classified mission to see him and gather evidence. On the investigators' return to a California airbase, the B-25 they were piloting crashed, killing both of them and destroying whatever evidence they were carrying. The FBI closed the case without any resolution.

It's known as the Maury Island Incident.

I received the following information and image from Ken Pfeifer. It was forwarded to Ken by one of his readers...then sent to me so it could be published:

Nov. 2012 - I was working the night shift on an x-ray crew at a material gas plant. This was around 3 am and there was only four of us in the plant at the time. I took this picture after seeing something swaying side to side out of the corner of my eye. I was in the basket of a man lift coming down when I took the picture.

By the time I unhooked my harness to get out of the basket the creature was gone. The police were called and walked premises. The officer told me there were 26 UFO sighting calls throughout that night. If you zoom in you can see the silhouettes of eyes and elongated mouth. I have no doubt of what I believed I seen that night. The other person that saw it with me took off running for the truck.