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© Photo by Dave MaskoImage source of a local Florence, Oregon, couple who examine one of many strange metal boxes that literally popped up along West Coast beaches last week.
Florence, Oregon: There are many theories about strange metal boxes that started appearing along Oregon and West Coast beaches last week; while Feb. 15 brings new but vague answers.
In a world where people see lots of strange things on the Internet every day, something as interesting and unusual as these strange metal boxes has produced both suspicion and an unruly feeling of disorientation in people who can't figure out what the boxes are, or where they came from. In turn, those who both viewed and touched a grouping of the boxes at a Florence beach Feb. 15 gave the boxes a sort of suspicious sideways squint. The boxes first surfaced as a story on Huliq last week after local UFO fans relating recent sightings at nearby Stonefield Beach. These UFO fans then pointed to "strange metal boxes" that "were revealed" after a recent UFO sightings. They said the boxes appeared "out of the blue," while other locals simply said the boxes have the makings for yet more UFO lore; with people either believing or not believing. However, the metal boxes by themselves are something that is very real. So real, in fact, that William Hanshumaker, a Ph.D in marine education, and a member of the "Oregon Sea Grant Faculty" at the nearby Hatfield Marine Science Center, in Newport, has been investigating the "boxes" for the past week.
© Galway Independent/Jonathan Curran
The image, published in the Galway Independent, reveals a shrouded figure, staring straight at the camera.
Snapper Jonathan Curran had taken a series of 13 photographs to capture a panoramic view of the Long Walk, Galway area, when he came across the eerie figure.
He said: "The image was not visible either before or after the photograph was taken and was not captured in any of the other photographs, either going of coming. She just seemed to appear for a moment and then disappear.
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The officials in charge of Belize's Department of Civil Aviation and the Belize Defence Force have both told our newspaper that they know of no authorized flyovers in that part of the country for the reported date and time, and because the country's radar does not operate outside Civil Aviation's working hours, there is no such record to confirm a flight over Belizean airspace.
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Kirsty Garratt said she and her children were shocked by the appearance of a triangular shape in the dark above the town on Friday at about 9pm.
The 28-year-old stay at home mother, said: "I want to find out if there were any other sightings over Rhyl, as otherwise it sounds a bit mad.
Theories flew Saturday about the ghostly lights seen prowling the slopes of Brown Mountain since antiquity.
At a symposium on the so-called Brown Mountain Lights, the suspects ranged from the scientific to the fanciful - radon gas, campfires, ball lightning, even UFOs.
Whatever is up there, it's real to Steve Woody. He had a rare close encounter with the lights in the autumn of 1961. He was 12 and on the mountain with his father, waiting for dawn to go deer hunting.
About 4:30 a.m., with heavy sleet falling, they both saw two lights silently wandering through the trees toward their truck.
"It was a peaceful experience," recalled Woody, now 62. "They were soft, pleasing orange lights, perfectly round, about four feet in diameter."
A memorable experience, he said, for a day when they bagged no deer.
Brown Mountain, a lump in the wrinkles of the Blue Ridge, has attracted attention for centuries because of the phenomenon.
Numerous reports of explosions heard around Salem Township and Leetonia are still a mystery.
Salem Township Police Chief Dan Valentine says reports of loud explosions started more than a month ago.
"The first ones came in about five weeks ago then they were coming in about every two to two and a half weeks," Valentine said.
Valentine says all of the reports have been similar in description.
Salem Township Police Chief Dan Valentine says reports of loud explosions started more than a month ago.
"The first ones came in about five weeks ago then they were coming in about every two to two and a half weeks," Valentine said.
Valentine says all of the reports have been similar in description.
Iceland's equivalent to the Loch Ness monster has apparently been pictured on footage taken by an amateur cameraman.
The video, taken by Hjörtur Kjerúlf at the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, east Iceland, appears to show the serpent-like monster known as Lagarfljótsormurinn, or Lagarfljót's Worm.
Belief in the existence of the worm, which is said to reside in the lake Lagarfljót, can be sourced back to at least 1345. Sightings of the beast are considered a bad omen.
Legends say the monster began life as a tiny worm which a girl placed on a ring of gold to make the it grow, according to Iceland Review Online.
But when the owner of the ring returned she found that instead of making the gold grow, the worm had grown into a giant snake.
In her terror, she flung both into lake Lagarfljót, where the worm continued to grow and eventually became a fearsome dragon.
The video, taken by Hjörtur Kjerúlf at the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, east Iceland, appears to show the serpent-like monster known as Lagarfljótsormurinn, or Lagarfljót's Worm.
Belief in the existence of the worm, which is said to reside in the lake Lagarfljót, can be sourced back to at least 1345. Sightings of the beast are considered a bad omen.
© The Daily Mail, UKDoes this footage prove the existence of Lagarfljót's Worm? Amateur cameraman Hjörtur Kjerúlf captured the scene at the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, east Iceland.
But when the owner of the ring returned she found that instead of making the gold grow, the worm had grown into a giant snake.
In her terror, she flung both into lake Lagarfljót, where the worm continued to grow and eventually became a fearsome dragon.
Residents in the remote village of Chelyabinsk, Russia, were interviewed on national TV about a UFO they'd witnessed recently. The footage does show a circular, unidentified flying object ringed by flashing lights which doesn't look like any known aircraft.
The remoteness of the area makes the possibility of some kind of private advertising service, or sky writing, unlikely. What is the object which has the citizens of the village too scared to sleep at night?
In the TV news piece, naturally in Russian, it's clear what the witnesses are saying to the reporter, even without translation. A news crew films the area in which the UFO was flying at night and shows that, in the daylight, it's obviously a frozen wilderness and not any kind of an airfield.
The witnesses (an elderly farmer and a worried husband and wife with several children) appear to be remarking how the object was circular and that they feel a bit spooked by the incident. In the description written by the YouTube poster, there is the comment that the villagers are losing sleep over the encounter.
The remoteness of the area makes the possibility of some kind of private advertising service, or sky writing, unlikely. What is the object which has the citizens of the village too scared to sleep at night?
In the TV news piece, naturally in Russian, it's clear what the witnesses are saying to the reporter, even without translation. A news crew films the area in which the UFO was flying at night and shows that, in the daylight, it's obviously a frozen wilderness and not any kind of an airfield.
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The source of a strange booming noise heard in the Milford Haven area last night (Thursday) remains a mystery.
The noise started at around 10.30pm and lasted for two minutes.
"It was unlike anything I have ever heard," said one resident.
Pembrokeshire County Council confirmed that it received three complaints about the booming noise.
Environment Agency Wales said that they had investigated the incident and had not discovered anything untoward.
The noise started at around 10.30pm and lasted for two minutes.
"It was unlike anything I have ever heard," said one resident.
Pembrokeshire County Council confirmed that it received three complaints about the booming noise.
Environment Agency Wales said that they had investigated the incident and had not discovered anything untoward.
Comment: The video appears to have been uploaded Feb 12, 2012 and mentions that the 'mystery boxes' could not be moved.
This article claims some have been removed by a number of 'white trucks' and heavy chains.