Reports are still trickling in about the massive meteor shower seen over the Kootenays May 12.

The shower is believed to be part of the annual eta Aquarids display that occurs every May and is made up of particles of ice and dust from the tale of Halley's Comet which last passed close to earth in 1986 and is not due back for an encore until 2061.

Cranbrook resident Alida Lockhart said she'd just came outside after watching a performance of Footloose the night of May 12 and was walking through the Safeway parking lot when she saw the celestial display.

"I just about missed it but I looked up and it looked like some fireworks that went sideways instead of straight up . . . It seemed to me really close and not too far away."

Lockhart, a deli manager at Safeway, said the meteor emitted a white light that gradually turned red before the space body disappeared in the sky. Some teenagers behind her also saw the extra-terrestrial display. "I heard a young girl say 'oh, did you see that.' But I didn't think too much about it because I thought it might have been fireworks or a flare."

It is perhaps little known that the beautiful county of Wiltshire, famed for Stonehenge and the white horses carved into its hills, is the most active area for crop circles in the world, with nearly 70 appearing in its fields in 2009.

It is unsurprising then, that the appearance of a phenomenally complex 300ft design carved into an expanse of rape seed on a Wiltshire hillside has caused excitement. But it's not just the eye-pleasing shape which has drawn attention to it. The intersected concentric pattern has been decoded by experts as a "tantalising approximation" of a mathematical formula called Euler's Identity (a?(n)=1), widely thought be the most beautiful and profound mathematical equation in the world.

The design (pictured above) appeared beside Wilton Windmill late on Friday night. Lucy Pringle, a founder of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies, was one of the first on the scene. She says: "What has happened in this particular crop circle is that there are 12 segments and within each segment there are 8 partly concentric rings. Each of these segments indicates a binary code based on 0 and 1. If you use an Ascii Table [computer calculation system], the pattern transposes itself into a tantalising approximation of Euler's equation."

The average person finds such complex mathematical talk utterly confounding, so The Independent Online asked Dr John Talbot, a maths research fellow at University College London, for his take on the matter. He said: "Looking at the crop circle, the link with Euler's most famous theory seems to make perfect sense. However, the way the formula has been executed is partially incorrect. One of the discrepancies is that one part of the formula translates as 'hi' rather than 'i', which could be somebody's idea of a joke."

Hunting for the elusive Sasquatch is difficult enough, but rain makes it even harder.

Billy Willard, 41, the director of the Manassas-based Sasquatch Watch of Virginia, said the din of rain makes it impossible to hear anything else.

And the rain keeps animals--even Bigfoots--under shelter.

On Saturday, Willard and four other Sasquatch researchers were on 96 acres in the Lake Anna area, connected to 3,000 acres of mostly forests. Willard said there have been a lot of sightings in this region, especially in Culpeper County.

Ever since Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin released the famous film of a Sasquatch in Bluff Creek, Calif., on Oct. 20, 1962, people have argued its validity and that of thousands of other sightings across the country.

Posted: May 24, 2010

Location of Sighting: Chellaston, Derby
Date of Sighting: 22 may 2010
Time: 9:30 - 9:45

Witness Statement: We witnessed a strange ball of red and orange light which seemed to come out of nowhere. At first we thought it was a plane or even a chinese lantern, but it couldn't have been by the way it moved. We observed this object get closer to us and then it went higher and away from us. At this point I got my camera phone out, when I did, the lights seemed to go out, when it did, we could still see the outline of it moving around the sky, it seemed to go back and forth. We waited about 5 minutes and then we saw the same object again appear in a different part of the sky. Just the same as before, bright orange and red lights, no sound at all, again the lights went out followed by the outline hovering around.

Posted: May 24, 2010

Location of Sighting: Mawsley, Kettering
Date of Sighting: 23rd May
Time: 10pm

Witness Statement: Went out to look at Venus in the western dusk at around 10pm. Saw an orange light which we immediately took to be an aircraft approaching from the south. As it got closer we saw a green flashing light which further suggested an aircraft (maybe tail light). However, as it came over the green flashing light appeared to be rotating around the object so was not a fixed tail or wing light. At its closest you could see a dark amorphous shape which appeared to change as it moved along; very unusual. The first object was followed by 3 more taking the same trajectory. The objects took about 2 minutes to make the transit across the south west to north west sky at about 30 degrees elevation.

Posted: May 24, 2010

Location of Sighting: Alexandria, Dunbartonshire
Date of Sighting: 16 5 10
Time: 2400

Witness Statement: Saw two rectangular amber lights each about 30 ft x20ft, hovering about 300ft. There was no noise. I estimate the object was about 250 ft. As it moved upwards, the lights, which looked like its power supply, slowly faded but you could still see the rectangular engine cowling for a few seconds until it entered the clouds, then it was gone.

Posted: May 24, 2010

Location of Sighting: Radcliffe, Lancashire, England
Date of Sighting: 22nd May 2010
Time: 10:45

Witness Statement: We were in the back garden (east facing) at around 10.40-10.50pm and saw a really bright orange light zig-zagging very tightly in the clouds coming from the east.

It then slowed down and came out of the clouds, turned towards the south in a smooth arc and then slowed down after the turn. As it slowed, the light dimmed and we could make out a dark circular shape, then the light brightened again and it shot off south at an amazing speed!

There was no noise, no fuel trail and made it's turn far too quickly to be an aeroplane or even a helicopter, and we are not in a flight-path. It's movement seemed strange but definitely co-ordinated.

Several residents of Virginia Beach reported seeing a strange object in the sky late Tuesday morning.

One reported the sound similar to a "sonic boom" or the sound of the space shuttle as it lifts into the sky. The object was seen rapidly falling toward the Atlantic Ocean just before noon.

While it's unclear exactly what the object was, WAVY News 10 Meteorologist Jon Cash believes it could have been a "rather large meteor".

"The rainbow colors could have been due to the different temperatures and gases associated with the falling object," said Cash. "We really are not sure at this point."

Posted: May 24, 2010

Location of Sighting: East Sussex, Shoreham
Date of Sighting: 23rd May 2010
Time: 9:30pm

Witness Statement: I was standing in the back garden on this date and heard a low rumbling coming from the East. At first I thought it was thunder as I heard dogs barking in the distance and a number of car alarms going off but the rumblings continued for too long, without any breaks as thunder does and it was a very clear sky. The rumblings continued and so I went to my upstairs window to see if I could see any lightning, What I did see however was 3 very bright orange lights traveling single file in formation at a consistent speed up into the sky. As they continued their flight path the rumblings became louder, it was the strangest thing I have ever seen. There were no white navigation lights so I knew they weren't planes,they weren't traveling like a helicopter either.

Posted: May 24, 2010

Witness Statement: At 21:47 I went into the kitchen to get a drink. I looked out of the window and saw a red/orange ball of flames over to the west of the town, past the A41/A49 bypass near to the welsh border. I observed the object slowly descend for about one minute. By this time my partner and her sister had come to the kitchen and were watching the object too. The ball of flames stopped its descent and came to a hover. A few seconds later the 'flame' appearance flickered out and a black object became visible. The object was quite large and angular in shape. This black object hovered for a few moments before it started to move again. It moved off to the west where we lost visibility due to it descending behind the tree line.