The Department of Labor and Industry will temporarily close the Unemployment Compensation Service Center in White Township, Pennsylvania while officials try to determine the cause of a mysterious odor that has sickened some employees.
Employees were sent home Thursday and the building was closed Friday due to an odor, described by officials and employees as a sweet, maple syrup smell, that permeated the building at 630 Kolter Drive. The odor has been a problem at the building off and on since at least October.
The Herald's article about UFO sightings on New Year's Day continues to reach a global audience.
Last month Australian Yvonne Vincent contacted the Herald newsroom to tell us about her UFO experience on January 1.
This week Scott Podmore from Warrandyte, near Melbourne, Australia, contacted us with his alien account.
He wrote: "I live in Warrandyte, about 5km further east of Donvale (in Melbourne) and my wife and I sat out on our tennis court on Saturday night (Australian time, January 31) and witnessed what appeared to be a shooting star, very high up.
JavnoSat, 07 Feb 2009 18:25 UTC
Unlike most photographs that show unclear lights, this one shows the classic UFO shape that is reminiscent of the Thunderbird.
© Mark Wild
British UFO experts looked into orbit on Thursday in order to find a UFO that is reminiscent of the military aircraft Thunderbird that was recently photographed flying over Bournemouth in Great Britain, reports
Thaindian News.
The mysterious aircraft, orange-red in colour, is reminiscent of the military aircraft Thunderbird 3, and was photographed by the professional photographer Mark Wild whilst it was flying over Dorset.
Comment: There was another cross-shaped UFO photographed over
Mexico just recently.
© Ana Luisa Cid
Ana Luisa Cid writes: "I recorded this from my study at 5:00 p.m., Feb. 5, 2009.
Comment: This cross-shaped UFO seems to be getting around. It was also photographed over
Dorset, England.
CTV.caSat, 07 Feb 2009 05:16 UTC
Calgary - Some residents of Ranchlands say they have been hearing some strange noises in their community.
"It's almost like a giant refrigerator just getting louder and louder and louder," says Dana Negrey, a resident of the northwest neighbourhood. "Our neighbours on both sides have commented [on hearing the noise] and done their own pursuits to a degree...one neighbour, in fact, thought I was out at 4 a.m. with a leaf blower.'
Negrey says he first heard the noise last summer. He has a sound-proof recording room in his basement and recorded the sound several times since.
Hinterland properties across Guanaba and Canungra have been rocked by a mysterious explosion that has left police, fire crews and the Department of Defence scratching their heads.
Residents have told The Bulletin of a violent shockwave that hit about 8.30pm on Thursday, shattering windows and shaking houses.
The pulse was so strong a demountable building in Coomera Valley Drive shifted on the stumps it was mounted on.
But police have been unable to find any source of an explosion, a seismology expert has ruled out any earth tremor and the Defence Department is adamant there were no explosions at the nearby Canungra army base or supersonic aircraft over southeast Queensland on Thursday night.
Comment: It is very curious how out of all of these explanations, not once is there a mention that it is possible that it could be a meteorite exploding above the earth.
A police officer is one of a number of witnesses to report UFO sightings across Essex.
The unamed officer's account of what they saw has been published by the Ministry of Defence as it reveals all of the reports it received regarding "alien craft" in 2008.
The officer claims to have spotted strange lights in the sky above Brightlingsea on New Year's Eve.
It was described as a "bright orange/yellow light in the sky". It was "quite large" and about 1,500 to 2,000 ft up in the air.
British UFO experts went into orbit on Thursday in search of a Thunderbird, which was recently photographed flying high above Bournemouth.
The picture was taken by a professional photographer named Mark Wild.
The mystery craft, bright orange-red like Thunderbird 3, was caught in a head-on shot on camera hovering above the resort on the Dorset coast.
The stunning snap emerged on the day when it was revealed that a dossier made public by the Ministry of Defence showed UFO sightings doubled last year.
A couple have told they came face-to-to face with a big cat on their patio.
Heidi Robinson said her husband, Dave, had gone outside at their Whatstandwell cottage to gather some logs when he encountered the beast.
Mrs Robinson, of Blundestone Lane, said her husband had joked that it was a werewolf, as it had been a full moon when he saw the animal.
"It was about 10pm and Dave was about to go outside to get some logs and went to the back door when this big black cat appeared and ran across the patio," said the 36-year-old.
"It then climbed up on to a garden wall and jumped over the side and there is about an eight-foot drop to the bottom.
Were you watching the township skies between 8:30 and 9 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 26?
If you were, then perhaps you, like many others, saw what appeared to be three reddish lights the size of golf balls hovering in the night sky.
According to a woman who called this newspaper on Thursday, Jan. 29, the lights silently hovered "about a foot apart in a triangle" before splitting apart, then coming together and flying off.
The woman, who lives in the township's Ironia section, declined to identify herself, saying she didn't want people to think she was of unsound mind.
But, she said several people and students at the high school saw it, and heard from police that the lights had been seen elsewhere in the township.
Comment: There is always the possibility of some sightings being chinese lanterns. But it is hardly likely that they would stop, do aerial maneuvers and then fly off.
The "chinese lantern" explanation is getting as old as swamp gas and Venus.
Comment: There was another cross-shaped UFO photographed over Mexico just recently.