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The Orthodox Church negates UFO-people - a Theology professor

Moscow - The Orthodoxy excludes a possibility of existing extraterrestrial intelligence, the famous theologian and professor of the Moscow Theological Academy Alexey Osipov said.

"From the point of Orthodox theology, there're no grounds for talking about extraterrestrial civilizations that have reason and can create something," Osipov said to Interfax-Religion.

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Oahu North Shore Hawaii Mystery Jolt

KGMB9 has made multiple calls, but so far what caused a jolt on Oahu's North Shore Tuesday night, is a mystery.

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Animal psychic 'finds' missing dog

A pet owner claimed she rescued her missing dog by using an animal psychic to locate it.

Nikki Newcombe, 35, spent a week digging and using thermal imaging cameras to find her missing Jack Russell Marmite but failed.

In desperation, she rang animal psychic Pea Horsley, 35, who claims to be able to telepathically communicate with any species.

The clairvoyant claimed to see pictures of Marmite's location and the route he had taken, despite being 100 miles away.

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Dear MoD: where is ET?

For decades the Ministry of Defence (MoD) kept what it knew about UFOs locked away in its archives. Now, the contents of what have been called Britain's X-Files are finally being revealed. One of the UK's leading UFO experts told Radio 4's Today programme about his hunt.

MoD UFO file
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The MoD UFO files have sparked numerous conspiracy theories

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On the road to nowhere: The legend of Akakor

In 1973, Erich von Däniken, at the height of his fame, claimed in his book The Gold of the Gods that he had found a gigantic subterranean tunnel system in Southern America. It was a major claim - and one that seriously would tarnish his profile, for his source would soon deny he had said no such thing. For many, the incident proved that von Däniken was a fabricator of lies.

The story that brought von Däniken to South America partly began in the Brazilian town of Manaus. There, on March 3, 1972, a German journalist Karl Brugger met a local Amazonian Indian, Tatunca Nara, in the backstreet tavern Gracas a Deus. The meeting would result in Brugger's book The Chronicle of Akakor, published in 1976, which saw a number of foreign editions and created the legend of Akakor, a mythical town somewhere deep within the Amazonian jungle, still left to be discovered.

Mythical cities in Amazonia
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Britain releases batch of files on UFO sightings

LONDON - The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official report.

No one, they knew, would believe their claim an unidentified flying object landed at the airport they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed. Yet that's what they reported happened at 4 p.m. on April 19, 1984.

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Believing in aliens not opposed to Christianity, Vatican's top astronomer says

The Director of the Vatican's Observatory, Fr. José Gabriel Funes, said in an interview with the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, that believing in the possible existence of extraterrestrial life is not opposed to Catholic doctrine.

Comment: Just what we needed: Catholic 'space brothers' huggers.


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Phoenix PD release 911 tapes from 'mystery lights' sighting



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Police have released dozens of 9-1-1 calls tied to an April sighting when hundreds of Valley residents spotted 'mystery lights' in the night sky over Phoenix.

The two CDs released Thursday have 40 to 50 minutes worth of audio from callers who saw the strange lights on April 21 and expressed everything from fear to disbelief.

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Shuttle astronauts believe aliens are out there

Haven't personally seen any - it's more of a feeling

Space shuttle astronauts, recently returned from a visit to the International Space Station, have told reporters in Japan they believe that extraterrestrial life exists. However, the space explorers added that none of them had actually seen any.

"I'm sure eventually we'll find something out there," said mission specialist Mike Foreman at a Tokyo news conference earlier today.

Comment: They haven't seen any themselves, yet it still interesting that the idea is slowly becoming part of our 'conventional wisdom'. Even among astronauts.


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Do Right Wingers Hate Bigfoot?

Let's try to follow the logic on this one. If you happen to produce a documentary about Jesus Christ that holds a thesis that right wingers don't like, you can be almost labeled a near-nutcase because you have also produced the documentary Bigfootville, according to two conservative bloggers.

Your ability to be a critical thinker is called into question if you produce documentaries on Bigfoot and Roswell, but if you raise questions about the story of Jesus Christ (demonstrating your critical thinking?) you are merely called "bogus" because of faults in your "background"?

Bruce Burgess on Bloodline
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