Could UFO's (Unidentified Flying Objects) be visiting Belize? That's what some residents of Belmopan and the surrounding areas are wondering after a strange sighting of a mass of bright, circular lights south of the capital city and over the uninhabited mountains, exactly a week ago.
The lights, we were told, repeatedly appeared and disappeared between 8:15 p.m. and 10:50 p.m., and there was no strange noise, as an aircraft would make, accompanying the event.
The objects were approximately 150 feet off the ground, and about 14 feet in diameter, appearing to be consistent in shape and size, said Cadet Henderson, chief executive officer in the Ministry of Works. Henderson, who first reported the sightings to us today, told us that the lights were either stationary or moving eastward, contrary to the prevailing nighttime winds. In one instance, he said, he saw a trail of smoke associated with one of the lights.
A year after he stumbled on what he said were mysterious "crop circles" in a south Chandler field, resident Michael Polani said he's still trying to call attention to them.
Eleven people showed up at the Basha Library Tuesday night to hear what Polani had to say about the damaged sorghum stalks and odd patterns he photographed at Gilbert and Ocotillo roads last March 25.
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Strange lights spotted in Lincolnshire's skies may have been a warning of the earthquake which sent tremors across Britain.
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Several sightings of lights appearing in the sky were reported in the days leading up to the quake, which had its epicentre near Market Rasen when it struck early on February 27.
And some believe that these could be "earthquake lights" - caused by changes in the electrical properties of the ground before a quake occurs.
A
Louth Leader story about mysterious lightning seen during February's earthquake has sparked national and international interest.
The
Times newspaper quoted the story on Saturday in its Weather Eye section.
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It reports how people told the
Leader they saw flashes of light at the time of the earthquake at 12.56am on February 27.
There is also a mention of the sighting of ball lightning in the Westgate home of Elvira Witney.
Danielle Nuttall
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It might sound like the stuff of science fiction movies.
But according to a top UFO expert, people living in Suffolk are more likely to experience a close encounter of the extra terrestrial kind than in most other parts of the UK.
The county has been placed sixth in a list of Britain's top 10 UFO hotspots, with 19 unexplained UFO sightings since 1961.
This includes a sighting made by a number of Bury St Edmunds residents in April last year who reported seeing five black flying spheres in the sky to police.
The research, compiled by the former head of the Government's UFO project, Nick Pope, looks at data since 1961 and has been conducted by Virgin Media to mark a month-long sci-fi extravaganza on its TV On Demand Service.
Here's a familiar story. Two young girls are in bed one night when they hear a curious tapping noise coming from somewhere in the room. This happens on several consecutive nights. It seems to emanate from the wall, and they think at first it must be coming from the house next door. But then, weirdly, they realize that the noise is responding to them, even when they are whispering so quietly that no one outside the room could possibly hear. They find they can communicate with it, by asking questions and getting it to knock once for yes, two for no, and three for don't know. For more complex queries it will rap out the letter of the alphabet (five knocks for E, 13 for M, etc). The whole family soon gets involved, and gather nightly to ask the unseen entity about itself and get it to answer questions about themselves, which it often does correctly. The house is soon filled with neighbours, local clergy, police, mediums and investigators, all coming to wonder at the phenomenon and try to figure out what's causing it.
Capitola, California -- Private eye T.K. Davis has worked his share of oddball cases. Once he tracked down a one-armed woman wanted for child endangerment. He staked out a backyard to catch a guy throwing dirt clods into a pool. When you make your living answering life's mysterious questions at $100 an hour, you take a few calls out of the blue.
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| SLEUTHS: Private eyes Frankie Dixon, left, and T.K. Davis at a park in Capitola, Calif., where they're investigating reports that a UFO was photographed by a man with the Internet name of Raji, who later vanished into cyberspace.
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A mysterious fire which started when there were no male members of a village has razed down most houses in Saifawa Unguwar Jajaye in Dawakin-Kudu local government area of Kano state. Pyramid Trust reports.
It is a popular saying among women in recent times that what a man can do a woman can do even better. Much as this saying remain an issue of debate, the women of Saifawa Unguwar Jajaye village in Dawakin Kudu local government area of Kano state have with their action proved the saying wrong. At a time when they were suppose to do something however small to curtail the spread of mysterious fire that started when every male member of the village was away to a nearby village for the Friday prayers, they fled their village paving way for the fire to ravage the village.
A strange looking cloud that appeared to the west of Cobar last Wednesday evening and then vanished in an instant, has been explained by the Bureau of Meteorology as a rare lens shaped formation or in technical terms an 'Altocumulus Lenticucaris'.
Green Street resident Denise Kosef said she and her mother were watching the unusual cloud at about 7.45pm when it disappeared in a flash.
"We couldn't believe what happened," she said.
"One moment the cloud was reflecting the last rays of the sun, then whoosh, it was gone. We had never seen anything like it before and were amazed.
It;s official - Birmingham is the weirdest place to live in the UK.
With freakish weather, including a tornado and a shower of frogs and tales of alien visits, the Second City comes first place in a spotters' guide to the country's real twilight zones.
Almost two-thirds of Brummies believe in the supernatural after reports of giant hailstones hitting city streets and Martians dropping in for mince pies at the Rowley Regis home of Jean Hingley in 1979.
