It's a bird. It's a plane. It's ... a UFO?
That suspicion crossed David Kent's mind when he spotted a bright turquoise ball in the sky Wednesday night from his Hockinson, Washington home. Kent saw the object travel across the sky before disappearing a few seconds later. He quickly dismissed the UFO idea, though.
"I don't believe in that stuff," Kent said.
Experts don't believe what Kent saw was a UFO either, but said it's likely space debris or a fireball, otherwise known as a brighter-than-normal meteor. The National Weather Service didn't have reports of anyone else seeing the object.
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Dubrovnik-based cameraman Nino Ogresta was taking images of snow in Dubrovnik when he immortalised something he did not expect. According to the Dubrovacki list newspaper, strange lights appeared above Srdj in two photographs.
Manitoba-based UFO trackers say 2008 was a record year for the number of sightings in Canada.
Researchers with the independent, non-profit Ufology Research noted 1,004 UFO reports across Canada in 2008, an increase of 26 per cent over 2007.
"We were amazed to discover this many UFO sightings had been reported in 2008," Chris Rutkowski, co-author of the study, said in a news release. "This is unprecedented."
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Whether you were outside watering the lemon tree or having a smoke on the sly you weren't seeing things when you spotted strange lights over Launceston on Thursday night.
The Examiner set out to perform its own X-Files alien investigation.
The Northern Tasmania representative of the TasUFO Centre, Phillip Polden was planning to interview people who saw the lights.
The centre was established in 1965 after the local priest, school teacher and some farmers at Cressy saw a UFO.
Mr Polden has investigated about 20 sightings in two years.
Saratoga Springs, New York - A brilliant flash lit up the sky three times here last evening, according to witnesses, then it happened again four hours later. Following is the unedited witness report from friends Jonah and Josh.
Last night at around midnight, our power dimmed, and a brilliant orange flash lit up the whole sky. This happened about 3 times within the next 2 minutes, during which the color shifted to a greener color. Then 4 hours later it happened again, only this time appeared to be moving down our street. The light, as described from a fellow New Yorker in Rochester, seemed to connect the sky to the ground. About 6 other people on my street have seen it, and two other people i know of about a half mile away saw it.
Witnesses from six states are reporting UFOs shaped as diamonds, rods, discs and triangles - and a new witness to the Dec. 9, 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania UFO crash comes forward for the first time. Witness reports follow from around the country.
Ohio- Feb. 17, 2009 - A woman spotted a diamond-shaped UFO for the second time flying slowly over a nearby school. The airborne vehicle was apparently controlled - able to remain stationary, and then move slowly - and altered its lighting as it accelerated, and sported a series of red, green and white blinking lights.
The following is an unedited account from the Mutual UFO Network database. The illustration on this page, cropped, was submitted by the witness.
A UFO snapped at a popular tourist day-trip destination in Taiwan has been declared the real thing by that country's foremost UFO expert.
A Mr Cai and his family were out at the Tatachai Pass scenic area in the Nantou region this new year (Jan 1 2009) when they and some other people noticed what appeared to them to be flying saucer in the sky near a small mountain. Mr Cai's 5 year old son took a photo of the object.
Mr Jiang Huang Rong, Chairman of the UFO association of Taiwan, who openly concedes that the majority of UFO photos are hoaxes or incorrectly identified objects, thinks this photo is genuine based on analysis he has done comparing the object in question to other photos snapped by unconnected people in the same area, in Taiwan, and throughout the world.
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According to legend, the Nabau was a terrifying snake more than 100ft in length and with a dragon's head and seven nostrils.
But now local villagers living along the Baleh river in Borneo believe the mythical creature has returned after this photo of a gigantic snake swimming along the remote waterways has emerged.
The picture, taken by a member of a disaster team monitoring flood regions by helicopter, has sparked a huge debate about whether the photos are genuine or merely the work of photo-editing software.
Denbigh Castle is not the only haunted hotspot in Denbighshire.
The Free Press decided to delve into the mystery of hauntings of Denbighshire's 10 most haunted places , and found things do go bump in the night...
Over the years, a variety of public figures have stayed at the Hand Hotel in Llangollen.
But, the most famous guests seem to be the spirits.
According to ghost hunters, many of the rooms are haunted, one of which, they say, is visited by the spirit of a lady who died in childbirth.
Indiana, Pennsylvania - The Unemployment Compensation Call Center in White Township may be moving to a new location if the building's landlord doesn't get to the bottom of a mysterious odor in the building by early March.
Troy Thompson, a spokesman for the Department of Labor and Industry, said officials sent a letter Feb. 6 to the building's landlord, Capital Venture Properties Inc. in Hollidaysburg, stating that the company had 30 days to correct the problem or the department would default on its 10-year lease set to expire Aug. 31, 2011, for untenable conditions. Labor and Industry entered the lease agreement on Sept. 1, 2001, for the building at 630 Kolter Drive.
Inspectors have been working since October to determine the origin of a smell that has permeated the building on and off, causing eye, nose and throat irritations, headaches, nausea and other symptoms for employees.
