New Milford - What was that in the night sky last Saturday? - that's what residents in the Northville section of town and their houseguests want to know.

Angela and Robert Janonis of 514 Litchfield Road, along with relative Philip Postiglione of Long Island, N.Y., and their other guests were sitting out front in the driveway at 10 p.m. watching some fireworks go off when their air space was "invaded."

"Eight eye witnesses saw a caravan of unidentifiable flying vehicles in the Northville corridor of Litchfield County over Route 202," they wrote in an e-mail to The Litchfield County Times.

"The vessels that approached above the trees were flying in a one up one down, perfectly synchronized formation with a bright, iridescent, glowing orange ring at each angle with brown tentacles illuminating from each ring. This unidentifiable fleet of ships silently came out of the north from the Marbledale area of Route 202 (Litchfield Road) and exited going east in New Milford toward Washington. Only minutes later, another caravan of six orange lights appeared just above the trees. It was huge, there was one group of three in a triangular formation, and they hovered only momentarily tilted in flight showing off the beauty in the triangular shape, then continued to move and went as fast as they came.

"Our group of eight, spooked eye witnesses is baffled, not just sure how to explain the incident, and would like to know if anyone in the Marbledale, New Milford, New Preston or Washington area also reported the sighting," they said.

Mr. Janonis, in an interview Wednesday, said they were facing north and the objects "came from the left, the west," and then went toward the east.

"There was no noise. It was absolutely silent," he said, noting that the unidentifiable flying objects did not pass over Clamps food stand on Litchfield Road nor directly over Marbledale, "given the angle of inclination. It was a clear, starlit night, and there was no telling how high in the sky they were. The second one appeared to be bigger and closer than the rest of them."

His wife said, "When we saw them, they were just above the trees. There was really no sense of depth."

She said there was maybe a two-minute gap between the arrivals, "just long enough for us to say 'What did we just see?'"

Has the site of one of cryptozoology's most famous tales of Bigfoot-related violence finally been rediscovered? After years of expeditions, one paranormal investigation group thinks they've located the Ape Canyon Cabin, and they've provided evidence to back it up.

In July of 1924, four prospectors on Mt. St. Helens gold claim told journalists that they had endured a night from hell when numerous boulder-tossing, hairy "Mountain Devils" descended upon their cabin. The attack resulted in a one-sided gun fight, and one man, Fred Beck, claims to have shot one of the creatures, watching it tumble some 400 feet into the canyon, presumably to its demise.

The story spread like wildfire, and found itself the subject of newspaper articles, books, and several televised recreationsof the incident. The tale has remained one of the most curious tales of Sasquatch-related violence, and its prominence has even earned the gorge an official name: Ape Canyon.

The Beast of Bodmin has been spotted in Four Lanes near Redruth. Retired salesman Sid Yates said he spotted the wild animal yesterday morning at 9am.

He explained: "I came out of my house yesterday morning at 9am and as I looked up the lane about 50 yards in front me was the Beast of Bodmin. I thought to myself 'good God there's another one'.

"It looked a bit like a black Labrador but it had longer legs and tail and flat nose. It was definitely the Beast of Bodmin and not a dog.

+Jadon Billington, 10, and his sister Lucy, eight, regularly talk to dead people at their home in Cheshire, and have made friends with more than 10 spirits - including their own grandmother.

The thought of seeing a ghost may terrify most children, but for Jadon Billington and his little sister Lucy, it is part of every day life.

The siblings regularly talk to dead people at their home in Cheshire, and have made friends with more than 10 spirits - including their own grandmother - over the last year.

Jadon, aged 10, chats to a ghostly American couple called Sam and Simon Crease and an angel called Michael, while eight-year-old Lucy has befriended a young spirit girl called Rose.

Mum Pam Billington says her kids talk about their spooky pals so much it feels as if they're part of the family.

"It all started a couple of years ago when Jadon told me he had been visited by an angel in the night," she said.


"At first I dismissed it as being the product of an overactive imagination. But when Lucy started talking about it too I started to listen.

"It's a gift and you either have it or you don't. It isn't a hoax, I really believe my kids can talk to spirits."

The paranormal activity began in 2011 at the Billington's former home in Manchester, where the children said ghosts lived among the family and even in their attic.

In March this year, the family moved to a new home in Sandbach, Cheshire - but it seems the spooks have relocated too.

And full-time mum Pam, who has another daughter Emily, 14, says she's now a believer after having a spooky close encounter of her own.

An eerie photograph of a baby-stalking ghost is sending chills down Redditors' spines, and even the most seasoned armchair detectives are having a hard time explaining the image.

The strange image, which was posted early yesterday evening by a user with the screen name "RickieOnRadio", was posted to Reddit with title, "My auntie has just taken a picture of her son after his bath. They were the only two people in the house at the time."

Rickie added that "a strange figure with a weird shaped hand has appeared in the background" baffling his family and scaring his Aunt.

The photograph doesn't appear very weird on first glance, showing what appears to be the oddly proportioned arms of a person standing in the background of the photo. Honestly, it just looks like there's a person reaching for the child in a poorly-timed photograph.. nothing very spooky. However, there isn't enough space in the room for anyone to be standing there in the first place.

According to Ricky, there was absolutely no one else in the room when the photo was snapped, and he ruled out reflections as well, telling readers that there's no mirror in the room.

July 2 marks World UFO Day, and for those of you who grew up with Earth Versus the Flying Saucers, Close Encounters Of the Third Kind, and even The X-Files, it is time to go down memory lane and celebrate those unrealistic special effects and their apropos approach to extra-terrestrial life. You almost believed that that UFO's were real. Whoever didn't shed a tear for a small, harrowing creature who wanted to "phone home" should throw the first stone.

Whether you're a proud proponent or slandering skeptic, please see below nine of the most famous and controversial UFO and alien-related sightings in history.

It appears that the Vampire Beast of North Carolina, a monster blamed for dozens of blood-drained animal corpses, is back on the prowl and hungrier than ever.

In 1953 the Bladenboro Newspaper covered a story about a strange creature that had blamed for the deaths of numerous dogs, draining them of their blood. Local eyewitnesses who spotted the beast claimed it possessed the body of a bear, the head of a cat, and that when it opened its mouth to growl it made the sound of a woman screaming.

The original newspaper article stirred up quite a bit of controversy, so much, in fact, that groups of farmers from neighboring towns came to Bladenboro to hunt and kill the creature. They never did track the beast down, and fortunately for them, the killings eventually stopped on their own.

The bizarre animal exsanguination began again in 2003, only this time it seemed the creature had broadened his horizons and was now killing in a 150-miles radius beyond Bladenboro. During its second blood-run, the Vampire Beast of North Carolina was managing to slay even the bulkiest of Pit Bulls with ease and many Bladenboro residents claimed to have found strange tracks around their dead pets that even wildlife biologists couldn't explain.

And then, much like in 1953, the killings stopped just as quickly as they began. Until last month, that is..

July 2, 2013 is World UFO Day, where like-minded people would celebrate the unidentified flying object (UFO) phenomenon. Whether you are a believer or a naysayer, it is undeniable how much impact these "flying saucers" have on shaping post-Cold War culture.

The study of UFOs, for the most part, is concomitant with the alleged presence of intelligent alien life visiting planet Earth. Ever since the late 1940s, when strange and highly-advanced aircraft began to appear that was unrecognizable to a majority of our military institutions in countries around the world, members of the scientific community and intelligence agencies that were bold enough to embrace the serious study of such as-yet unexplained phenomena were forced, partially for lack of any justifiable proof to the contrary, to consider whether some of the UFOs being witnessed might actually represent alien intelligence from other worlds.

Probability, on the other hand, would likely favor a terrestrial origin for the majority of our unexplained aerial phenomenon that remains unaccounted for in any official capacity. After all, while the possibility of alien life does exist, the lack of any physical evidence for this forces those of us bound to the often harsh scrutiny of scientific methodology to accept that in the lack of any such evidence, this may not be the likeliest solution to the UFO problem.

In the 1970s, when we first became fascinated by the UFO phenomenon, opinion among researchers was divided between two views: the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) - UFOs are spacecraft from other worlds; and the 'Magonian Hypothesis' (after the 1970 book by the intelligent Ufologists' hero Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia). Pro-Magonians believe something from Earth is behind UFOs, a race of tricksters that surface from time to time as alleged angels, visions of the Virgin, demons, fairies - and now, space-travelling aliens? They've just updated their image.

The theory acknowledges the close parallels between alien encounters and experiences with non-human entities that litter the annals of folklore. But it also recognises the often-reported absurdity and pointlessness - the 'high strangeness' - which challenge the simplistic notion of UFOs as technological craft crewed by biological entities. It was this Monty Pythonesque quality that led investigator John A. Keel to develop his 'ultraterrestrial' hypothesis - the aliens are visitors from another plane of existence - outlined in the 1973 classic UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse.