A spooky set of huge footprints found at Mill Dene Garden in Blockley have baffled people in the Cotswolds.

Melanie Aston, who teaches swimming at Mill Dene and often takes her dog for a walk in Bourton Wood on Saturday mornings, found some large unshod footprints near the toilets by the car park earlier this month.

Her size seven wellies were dwarfed by the huge prints, which she said seemed fresh.

However, she could not see anyone else around.

"They went over some really rough ground but there was quite a distance between each print almost as if they where avoiding the really wet mud," she said.

The truth is out there - possibly over White Rock.

A resident of the seaside city claims she saw a series of UFOs over the area on Sunday, Aug. 26. Audrey Strong was walking along the pier with her brother-in-law between 8:30 and 9 p.m. when they saw what she described as a bright orange globes in the night sky.

"When I first spotted it, there was only one and it really caught my attention," she said. "And then, all of a sudden, boom, there's another one."

They didn't think to photograph the lights, but Strong provided a detailed description. She counted 10 lights, evenly spaced apart in a row over the city, and said a man on the pier claimed to have seen the same sequence previously over Terrace, B.C.

"They stayed at the same level in sequence, like they were on a highway," she said. "It was just too weird. How do you explain what that is?"

The National UFO Reporting Center lists only two reports of UFOs in White Rock in the last 12 years, with one earlier this month and another in December 2007. However, UFO*BC, a local group that tracks out-of-this-world activity, has at least a dozen accounts from White Rock and Surrey between 1990 and 2012.

At first, Strong and several other people on the pier thought the unexplained lights might be from helicopters or border patrol aircrafts. But Michael Milne, a public affairs officer with the Homeland Security in Seattle, said in an email that there were no border patrol aircrafts operating in the area that evening.

Flabbergasted residents around the borough watched as a strange mix of multi-coloured lights shone over Burbage Common and drained their phone batteries.

The bizarre incident last Thursday (August 23) night saw a number of people living in Burbage, Barwell and Earl Shilton call the Hinckley branch of the Leicestershire UFO Investigation Network to report what they had seen.

Many of the witnesses' phone batteries died while they were trying to film the spooky phenomena, leaving some to wonder if the lights wanted to be seen.

A spokesman for the Hinckley branch said that checks so far had failed to show there were any aircraft in the area at the time.

The bright blue light was described hovering silently above the park for more than 45 minutes before coming lower and releasing streams of various different coloured lights. It was then joined by a bright golden light, which glowed, came low in the sky and then shot away at speed.

Bengali literature and films are full of ghosts - those that live in marshlands, on tall trees, in old houses, in crematoriums, those that eat fish, eat human flesh, cruel ones and innocent ones, humourous ones and serious ones.

Now comes a flyover [highway overpass] ghost, a totally novel apparition, the fear of which has been stalking numerous residents of Nagerbazar, one of the most crowded areas of Kolkata, after a young biker was killed on a flyover in an accident that took place in May within a month of chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurating the structure.

Rumours of a ghost - actually a male figure stopping cars and bikes on the flyover at late hours of the night - have spread like wild fire over the past few days in the area with people even shutting window panes in the neighbourhood despite the sultry weather to keep the spirit away.

Sreetama Bose a government employee who stays near Mrinalini Cinema Hall at one end of the flyover said, "I have heard about the strange things happening on the flyover from my relatives and friends. I am really scared. I have started avoiding the bridge even during day time."

An incredibly spooky UFO was spotted floating over the stormy evening skies of Boston on Wednesday, which had multiple witnesses scratching their heads in amazement at the sight. What was it?

The unusual UFO sighting, which was caught on video and posted to YouTube, is notable because the shape of the craft is like no other ever seen before. There are no running lights, no wings, no rotor blades and it doesn't appear to be making a sound.

The unidentified flying object just hovers over the skyscrapers dotting the downtown area of Boston, its grayish color nearly camouflaged by the cloudy skies, making it more difficult to see against the background.

That makes for some dangerous flying if it is a blimp or other known kind of aircraft. The people standing near the witness filming the incredible sight are at a loss for what it is. Why is that?

A feature on the floor of the Baltic Sea that was discovered last summer by Swedish treasure hunters is making headlines once again. The latest media coverage draws upon an hour-long radio interview with Peter Lindberg, head of the Ocean X Team (which made the "discovery"), in which Lindberg delivers a string of cryptic and titillating statements about the "strange" and "mysterious" seafloor object his team has been exploring for a year.

Lindberg discusses various possibilities for what the object might be: "It has these very strange stair formations, and if it is constructed, it must be constructed tens of thousands of years ago before the Ice Age," he said in the radio interview. (The peak of the most recent Ice Age occurred some 20,000 years ago.)

"If this is Atlantis, that would be quite amazing," he said. Atlantis is a mythical underwater city referred to in ancient legends.

Lindberg acknowledges that the object could instead be a natural formation, such as a meteorite that penetrated the ice during the Ice Age, or an underwater volcano; however, he gives the impression that scientists are baffled by it. Geologists, for example, have supposedly told him the object "cannot be a volcano."

Also adding titillation, Lindberg says a documentary is being made about the seafloor anomaly - the location of which he has not disclosed - and he's saving some juicy details for the footage. "We're not telling everything," he said. "We will reveal some quite interesting things in the documentary."

The divers recently gave samples of stone from the object to Volker Brüchert, an associate professor of geology at Stockholm University. Swedish tabloids quote Brüchert as saying: "I was surprised when I researched the material I found a great black stone that could be a volcanic rock. My hypothesis is that this object, this structure was formed during the Ice Age many thousands of years ago."

A research team set off for northern Sweden on Thursday to get to the bottom a "Ghost Rocket" sighting from 1980 that has been labelled as "the biggest UFO mystery in the world" and which the Swedish military kept classified for years.

The expedition leader and head of UFO-Sweden, Clas Svahn, set off on the trip to Jokkmokk, far northern Sweden on Thursday together with a support team, divers, a film crew, and the original witness who watched the craft land in the water.

"I expect to be surprised," Svahn told The Local, explaining that while he is not a "believer", he hopes that the trip can provide answers.

"People mistake UFOs with flying saucers. There are many, many reports of strange things in the air, but what we're interested in is explaining what they are. Every answer is a good answer."

The craft the team is looking for was seen crash-landing in the south end of a lake in Muddus, back on July 31st, 1980.

The witnesses, Bo and Liz Berg, watched as the "elongated, cigar shaped object with two protrusions on its sides" came whizzing by them, turned 180 degrees, and performed a controlled landing in the water, disappearing in a spray of bubbles.

The description of the object led the research team to conclude it was a so-called Ghost Rocket - a spacecraft that has long held captured the attention of both UFO investigators and the military alike.

Since 1946, witnesses have reported nearly 20,000 unidentified objects in the skies over Sweden, with 1,000 alone in 1946.

The orange flashing lights of a UFO were reportedly spotted over Hadlow, near Tonbridge, earlier this month.

Writing on uk-ufo.co.uk, the poster (known only as A), said she saw two lights 'moving around and phasing in and out' at 4.30am on August 20.

She said: "My husband was in the garden having a cigarette (at 9.30pm the previous evening) and said he saw what looked like a comet or star traveling along in the sky, thought no more of it.

"I was watching a movie in the front room, I see a flash what appeared to be a lightning through the window, but it was orange not white as normal,this was approx 3,30am.

"I continued to watch the movie thinking maybe there be a storm on way, when the film ended at 4,30am I went into the garden to let the dog out, I see two orange lights thinking it was odd.

"They were moving in different patterns, I watched them moving around and phasing in and out, but it was cloudy for about 10-15mins, as were under a flight path.

U.F.O. photo & video footage, all captured in the same place in central Italy July & August 2012

Also, a larger version of this video, can be seen on Lisa Boccanera's official Facebook page (Just make sure to click "on" the "HQ" button to view it in better quality if you see it on there)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=351559291590415

In 1920, when Karel Capek wrote the three-act play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) he probably didn't realize he would be changing humanity's conception of what it is to be alive for generations to come, much less had the word "robot" to the world's collective glossary. Derived from the Slavic term "robota", meaning the work done by an indentured servant, robots have gone on to become a staple of science-fiction. We take their functions and existence for granted, with our own efforts at robotics ranging from industrial mechanical arms to the new wave of lovely Japanese automata. According to our age group, we look back fondly at either Robbie the Robot or Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio. Perhaps some even remember seeing the graceful "María" making her appearance for the first time in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Only a year after "R.U.R." appeared on the stage, French director André Deed created one of the first science-fiction movies involving robots: L'uomo Meccanico (The Mechanical Man), depicting a giant humanoid robot created for criminal purposes, but who is checked by another equally sizeable machine, settling their differences inside an Italian opera house. These original "rock'em-sock'em robots" showed audiences that the mechanical men, while emotionless, could serve the cause of good as well as evil.

Rampaging Robots

In an article for SAGA UFO Report (UFO Annual, 1975), Otto Binder wrote: "[Robots represent] a rather rare category of UFOnauts, but one that cannot be ignored. Witnesses often describe these creatures as having stiff movements and also having angular lines quite unlike living human beings. These strange entities range from the uncanny to the eerie." He goes on to add: "We can logically assume that some worlds do not send their living explorers to Earth, but use robots somewhat like the Russian mobile vehicle on the Moon. But apparently the aliens have perfected observation vehicles in the form of living creatures." Binder refers to the automated Lunakhod probe, but a more updated example would be our own Curiosity rover on Mars, about to engage on a study of the red planet in 2012.