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Book reveals secrets of New Zealand archives


ninemsn
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:02 UTC
New Zealand archives
Author Ray Waru sifting through the archives.
A new book has revealed rare historical gems buried in New Zealand's national archives, including a bizarre World War II plan to create a "tsunami bomb" and military files detailing supposed UFO sightings.

Author Ray Waru said he wrote Secrets and Treasures to highlight the material publicly available at Archives New Zealand in Wellington where almost 100 kilometres of shelf space is crammed with historical artefacts.

"It was totally overwhelming at the beginning," Waru told AFP.

"I knew I wanted to get in the important things - the Treaty of Waitangi (New Zealand's founding document), the Declaration of Independence, the women's suffrage petition, and a few other things.

"But once you start digging, one story leads onto another and I'd just follow my nose."

The suffrage petition Waru refers to contains 36,000 signatures and was dramatically unfurled on the floor of the New Zealand parliament in 1893 by supporters of women's right to vote.
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Man captures video of strange explosion in the sky


CBS13 Sacramento
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:35 UTC
Strange Explosion
© CBS13, SacramentoElijah Prychodzko captured this explosion in the sky with his smart phone.
A Sacramento man scanning the night sky caught a sudden burst of light through his telescope. He recorded that strange sight with his smart phone.

CBS13 shared the video with experts to see if they could solve the mystery.

This mysterious little tale begins earlier this week when Good Day Sacramento's Cody Stark got this message on Facebook: "I have something on video no one has ever seen. I had my telescope out, caught an explosion in space. Wanna see the video?"

Cody's response? Absolutely!

The video was shot with an iPhone through the eyepiece of a telescope, so CBS13 had to enlarge it to get a better look. It was shot on Dec. 20 around 5 p.m. in Sacramento by viewer Elijah Prychodzko.

"I saw something that I'd never seen before. I saw another object orbiting this - whatever it was up there, and I've never seen anything like that before," said Prychodzko.
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Mysterious lights appear over Trout Lake

Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles
The Nugget, Canada
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:55 UTC
Mystery Lights
© The Nugget, Canada
It could have been space junk, a meteor shower or something else flying across Trout Lake earlier this week that caught the attention of several people.

Dave Palangio was entertaining guests on Christmas Eve when he saw several yellowish-orange lights over top Trout Lake.

His guests at his Lakeside Drive home saw them too.

"I said 'turn off the lights', then I grabbed my camera and shot through the living room glass," Palangio said.

"It was really mysterious. The lights were travelling in a single file and then changed directions and went into a formation travelling east to west across Trout Lake," he said.

"We kept our eyes on the skies, but there was nothing else."

Palangio said it lasted about a minute and then the lights faded out.

He said the lights came from the east around Redbridge, however Palangio said he couldn't tell how high they were."

Palangio, a retired North Bay Nugget photographer, believes it was fallen space junk.

"I suspect it was orbiting decay or a satellite breakup," he said Friday.
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Question

Sighting via airplane's window - Detailed Hi Def footage

Mauricio Ruiz
YouTube
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:34 UTC
The actual footage in its original content was sent to the FAA for further review. UFOlogist and investigators please be patient. Let FAA do their review in fairness to all. Thanks.

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UFO

'UFO sightings' in Wellington and Taranaki, New Zealand


Nelson Mail
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:31 UTC
People who saw strange lights seen in the sky on Christmas evening insist the festive spirit had nothing to do with it.

Sightings of a "UFO" were reported in New Plymouth and Wellington, although a witness from Waikanae believes there is an earthly explanation.

Jennie Velvin, of New Plymouth, said everyone would think she had had one too many wines when she saw a UFO.

But she was positive she had not touched the booze and that even her husband, John - normally a sceptic - could confirm there had been something strange in the sky above Ngamotu Rd, New Plymouth.

Velvin takes her dogs out the back of the house for toileting at 10pm every evening and is familiar with the night sky.

"I always look up to the sky to see what's there. Sometimes I see a satellite, like a slow-moving star, and we get a lot of helicopters."

But she said what she saw on this night was not normal.

"This was nothing like I've seen in 30 years."

She described the object as a small, fast-moving fiery sun that was heading south towards Oakura.

"It was about the size of a circle you make with your arms.

"It was really low, it looked as though I could have reached out and touched it."

She said she yelled to her husband to come outside.

"He wouldn't believe me if I told him."

The mysterious object had already disappeared into cloud by the time he got there, but a second one the same as the first travelled past soon after, and he narrowly missed capturing it with his camera.
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Wolf

The Beast of Gevaudan terrorizes France


Altered Dimensions
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:44 UTC
Beast of Gevaudan
© Public Domain
Introduction

From 1764 to 1767, a strange beast terrorized the province of Gevaudan. Located in the modern day district of Lozere, deep within the Margeride Mountains in south-central France, the creature was a wolf-like animal that devoured the local citizens. During the period there were 210 attacks resulting in 113 deaths. Almost all of the victims were partially eaten. What the beast was has never been determined.

Witness accounts and descriptions of the beast

Described by witnesses as a wolf-like animal, the attacks occurred during France's 16th century werewolf scare. In later centuries, similar attacks were documented between 1809 and 1813 where 21 persons will killed. Another rash of killings followed between 1875 through 1879 when dozens were brutally massacred. Substantial documentation and eyewitness accounts prove that something truly phenomenal did occur.

The Beast of Gevaudan was as large as a cow, reddish in color with a large tail, short spike like ears, very broad chest and shoulders, and an unbearable odor. It had enormous claws, shaped like a man's hand, and large canine teeth protruding from its jaws. It moved swiftly on four legs with leaps as long as 30 feet in distance. In other instances, the creature walked on two legs. Eyewitness accounts note that the beast sometimes appeared to be bipedal, a facet that lead many to believe the creature was indeed a werewolf. In one instance, the beast was seen to wade across a river on his back legs. In another instance, a Sheppard noted that the beast rose on two legs and picked up a sheep with his arms.

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Sightings increase of Zimbabwe's own 'Loch Ness monster'

Jane Fields
Scotsman.com
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:31 UTC
River God
© Scotsman.comA statue over the River God paying tribute to Nyaminyami.
A mythical serpent-like creature who lives in the murky depths of a lake and is the subject of countless childrens' stories. Sound familiar? Meet Nyaminyami, Zimbabwe's very own Loch Ness monster.

He has the head of a fish and a snake's body. He lives in Lake Kariba, a magnificent man-made dam in the northwest of the country, studded with hippos and the eerie skeletal tops of long-dead trees. And for the first time in more than a decade, Zimbabweans living on the shores of Kariba are reporting a mysterious sighting on the River God.

State media is reporting that fishermen and residents of Mahombekombe, a suburb of Kariba town, saw Nyaminyami earlier this month.

"We were anchoring our boat near the District Development Fund harbour when we saw a large group of people rushing to the harbour. We quickly roped in our boat and rushed to where the group had gathered.

"I saw, with my own eyes, a monster snake that was almost two hundred metres long," said fisherman Tapera Siyungungura. "Ask anyone who lives around this area and you will get confirmations of the story."

"The truth of the matter is that Nyaminyami revealed itself to the people recently," a second fisherman, Masenzi Dube Zimbabwe newspaper the Sunday Mail.

After the claims, the Mail sent a news crew on the long five-hour drive to Kariba to investigate the claims. The paper reported the beast took 45 minutes to 'snake' across the harbour in broad daylight - giving ample time to villagers to watch him and marvel. Eyewitnesses claimed Nyaminyami was so big that a truck would not have killed him if it had run him over.
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Grey Alien

'Spaceman rock painting' found in the Kimberly region of Australia


Disclose.TV
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:08 UTC
Image
The Bradshaw rock paintings, Bradshaw rock art, Bradshaw figures or The Bradshaws, are terms used to describe one of the two major regional traditions of rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia, first discovered and recorded by pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw in 1891 after whom they were named.

It isn't just this one extraordinary painting, it's all the evidence thats all over the world piling on to support this unreal claim that ancient astronauts visited our planet in our infancy. When you study Easter Island, the Pyramids of Giza, the Gazda Strip, the Sun Temple, or Tiahuanaco, youll come to the same conclusion. Tiahuanaco is especially convincing being that it is the oldest city in the world and drills were used to build it when the mainstream theory is that the native indians (that could barely communicate with each other) built this intricate city. All over the world at the very same time man was compelled to put this story on their walls. A story of beings coming down from the skies in machines and engaging in commerce with mankind.

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'UFO' sighting baffles New Zealand couple


Fairfax
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:59 UTC
UFO
© TVNZ
Jennie Velvin said everyone would think she had had one too many wines when she reported a UFO sighting on Christmas night.

But she was positive she had not touched the booze and that even her husband, John - normally a sceptic - could confirm there had been something strange in the sky above Ngamotu Road, New Plymouth.

Velvin takes her dogs out the back of the house for toileting at 10pm every evening and says she always look up at the sky.

"Sometimes I see a satellite, like a slow-moving star, and we get a lot of helicopters."

But what she saw on this night was no earthly craft.

"This was nothing like I've seen in 30 years."

She described the object as a small, fast-moving fiery sun that was heading south towards Oakura.

"It was about the size of a circle you make with your arms.

"It was really low, it looked as though I could have reached out and touched it."

She said she yelled to her husband to come outside.

"He wouldn't believe me if I told him."
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St. Francis woodsman finds mysterious metal objects in woods on Maine-Quebec border

Julia Bayly
Aroostook
Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:45 UTC
Local lore has long held that monsters are gliding in the depths of Lac Pohenegamook near the Maine-Quebec border.

Now it appears strange things may be in the skies, as well.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian military are investigating two metal objects discovered earlier this month by a St. Francis woodsman about 20 miles from the border crossing between Estcourt Station, Maine and Pohenegamook, Quebec.

"I was cutting wood with a tree harvester when I saw something that looked like a white GPS bubble," Mitch Pelletier, who cuts for Allagash Enterprises, said Sunday morning. "I got out to look because we are always finding stuff out there in the woods along the Quebec border and I saw a metal frame sticking out."

The metal frame, Pelletier said, was covered by a synthetic camouflage "moss" he described as four inches thick. He said he was cutting timber on Landry Road around Mile 6 at the time.

"I pulled that 'moss' off and saw there were numbers on the side and it said 'Property of the Canadian government. Do not touch,' and there was a phone number to call."
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