Was it a meteor falling from space?
Officials think that might be what residents saw shooting through the Alaska sky near Tok on Monday afternoon.
A tremendous explosion, like a sonic boom, drew some people outside, where they watched irregular contrails scribe a path in a clear sky.
Something stinks at a West El Paso middle school, and the school district has spent 18 months trying to figure out what.
The odor began appearing in the boys' locker room last September, right after Brown Middle School opened. The smell then moved to other parts of the building. "It would come and go, that's what was so bad about it, it was hard to track, it was like a ghost," said principal Victoria York.
The El Paso Independent School district tried a number of ways to detect and remove the smell, from replacing toilets to hiring private contractors, but it wasn't until recently that they determined it was coming from outside.
Recent reports of UFOs spotted in Ohio's skies may remind us of past incidents over the years in that state. For example, the 35th anniversary of the so-called "Coyne incident" over Mansfield, in central-northeastern Ohio, recently passed without much notice.
In that Oct. 18, 1973, case, four members of the Army Reserve were in their military helicopter flying from Columbus to Cleveland when a UFO flew in very close proximity to their chopper. At one critical point, the pilot, fearing a collision, quickly positioned the chopper's controls for a quick descent. Interestingly, the chopper's altimeter showed that it was actually gaining altitude.
This is a very well-documented case and crew members actually completed a formal report for the Army Reserve.
While visiting a friend in hospital, a woman suddenly finds herself transported to a beautiful garden where she is surrounded by friendly people and the sound of happy laughter, in an apparent near-death experience.
A poltergeist takes up residence in a suburban home terrifying the family who move in there, while a man foresees the mortal danger facing his young son just in time to avert a terrible accident.
It all sounds like the stuff of Hollywood psychological horror films - the kind of thing most of us would probably scoff at if we were told it was happening next door. But these stories do not come from the imagination of a fiction writer, they are real cases which are being investigated at Edinburgh University.
Two couples from Deeside were left amazed after they spotted an unidentified object in the sky on Boxing Day.
Kelly Dawson had stepped outside her home on Boxing Day with friend Leanne Newby when they spotted a "flaming orange ball" hurtling towards them in the sky.
Kelly, of Sandy Way in Connah's Quay, said she had never seen anything like it before and is appealing to anyone else in the area who may have seen the "phenomenal sight", to get in touch with the Evening Leader.
Carlisle couple claim to have had a close encounter after they saw strange lights in the sky over Houghton.
Heather Rayson, 52, and her husband Adrian, 53, had been enjoying a quiet night in at their home in Tribune Drive, Houghton, on Sunday.
But at 8.10pm Heather, who works at the city's McDonald's restaurant in Kingstown, recalled how her she and her husband had been watching TV.
Orange & Rockland Utilities suspects that the strong odor permeating the downtown area this morning came from spilled diesel fuel, not natural gas, a company spokesman said. Eight O&R technicians didn't get any hits on their gas leak detectors as they roamed around the downtown area, spokesman Guy Pfeifer said.
The smell has been detected from the Sheriff's Department on New Hempstead Road to the New City Library, about a mile away on North Main Street, authorities said. The Provident Bank on North Main Street evacuated, but there were no reports of injuries, authorities said.
The source of the annoying odor remains unknown as of 10 a.m. O&R started getting calls at 9 a.m., with 10 people calling, Pfeifer said. O&R sent eight technicians to the area to join Clarkstown police and volunteer New City firefighters.
Throughout 2008 there were 35 alleged UFO (unidentified flying object) sightings in Indonesia, 15 of which were across Greater Jakarta, a UFO community reported during their 11th annual gathering in South Jakarta on the weekend.
"The latest sighting in Jakarta was in Pesanggrahan (South Jakarta) on Dec. 8, when a witness said he saw eight peculiar lights in the sky," said Nur Agustinus, the founder of the BETA-UFO community, on Sunday.
Yongzhu -- Chinese officials have ordered an inspection of all construction cranes in Yongzhou City following a collapse that killed three people and injured five others.
In the second serious construction accident in Hunan province in a matter of days, a massive crane crumpled at a construction site and landed on a hotel parking lot.
