A passenger aircraft had a narrow miss with an unidentified object over Glasgow, a report has revealed.

The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it.The pilot of the aircraft said the risk of collision with the object, which did not show up on radar, had been "high".

A report by the UK Airprox Board said investigators were unable to establish what the object had been.The A320 was flying with its landing lights on, in clear conditions and at an altitude of about 4,000ft above the Baillieston area of Glasgow, when the pilot and non-flying pilot of the aircraft saw an object "loom ahead" at a range of about 100m.

A spooked family from a village in northern France were reportedly hospitalized after being hit by 'flying chairs' at their home, which they claim is haunted. Housing authorities in the area have agreed to move them elsewhere.

When it comes to paranormal activities, a freaked out French family living in a supposed haunted house in the French village of Mentque-Nortbécourt, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, claim to have seen it all.

They've witnessed oranges floating across the room, violent attacks by soap trays and earlier this month members of the spooked family were hospitalized after being hit by flying chairs, the regional Voix du Nord newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to the local newspaper the family have reported that the strange happenings have been going on since last July. To prove they were not going mad they have brought in others from the village, including the mayor, to witness the events.

"It's becoming dangerous," the mother told France 3 television. "My friend had to go to hospital this week after getting hit in the head by stones. It's serious."

'George the ghost' has been popping up on staff at Gloucester's City Museum for as long as they can remember.

The Victorian building, in Brunswick Road, is so haunted that some staff members have been left too scared to go into certain parts of the museum.

But museum assistant Nigel Taylor-James, who has worked there since 1989, says George is a friendly soul.

"From what I have seen he has a medieval appearance, with a hooded outfit made from simple cloth," said Nigel.

"I've seen him three times. Each time he looks at you and then makes a hasty exit. He doesn't stay around for long.

"Before I had seen him I was a non-believer. It is one of those things that you have got to see with your own eyes to believe.

"He is like an apparition. I have never been scared at the time. It is not a scary experience, more one of surprise."

There are a number of theories as to who George could be.

A Cleveland-area woman who found a couple of ghostly figures in a photo taken with her cell phone said she's not freaked out about it.

"To me, it was awesome," said Marcella Davis. "It's not scary to me."

David took the photo about 4 p.m. April 15 at Cleveland High School, where she was trying to get a shot of her nephew, who attends the school.

"He spun around so I couldn't take his picture, so I got the back of his head," she said. "I didn't try to take no more because he didn't let me."

Davis, the mother of two teenagers, said she doesn't understand much about the smart phone she used to take the photos, so that evening, her daughter was showing her how she could zoom in and out.

As her daughter zoomed in on the photo of her nephew, she could see more detail.

Call it the case of the elusive big foot.Authorities are trying to determine what two young boys found when they were exploring in the woods of Lakeville.On March 29, Sgt. Steven Leanues picked up what appears to be a decomposed foot that the boys found in the woods off Pantheon Road.

Police Chief Frank Alvilhiera sent it to the medical examiner, who determined it is not human, although it appears to have five toes.

But what is it?

Alvilhiera said it might be a bear paw or perhaps it belonged to a different animal, although it appears to be human.

Until the medical examiner does further testing, its identity remains uncertain.

"It will take some time before we hear any official results," Alvilhiera said.

In other words, big foot remains a mystery.

When you first catch sight of Mt. Shasta, you feel there is a great medicine centered there, as though God put it in the middle of the dark plains of Northern California just to relieve the sight of deep green forests with a crystal peak of blazing white. It stands alone, rising high above the surrounding hills, collecting clouds out of nowhere which circle around its peak like a lonley tribe dancing around a fire. All the strenuous heights of the surrounding ranges look like little ant mounds from the upper slops of this behemoth. The sight of the full moon dancing with dramatic, phantasmogoric clouds as it casts a great halo over the misty hillsides below, helps you believe that perhaps you really are standing on the axis mundi - the place where heaven and earth meet... Until you get kicked out for drinking wine in a spiritual healing circle. (But I'm Irish! How else do I heal my spirit!)

Half of those who believe the mountain is holy are making a dollar at it, exploiting its global reputation as a spiritual retreat with outrageously priced "vortex tours" and "spiritual attunement workshops." The other half are poor as pigeons, living in the forests in little tents or shrub huts even through the snow-heavy winter and the sun-blasted summer, striving for the upper branches of human consciousness in the place where "earth ends and heaven begins."

Who dwells here but bearded yokels, skinny-dipping hippies, and crystal-gazing con artists?

Legends dwell here. And plenty of them!

Woonsocket, Rhode Island - Last spring, Coventry Building and Wrecking began tearing down the old French Worsted Co. building so that the site could be prepped for new construction.

The building dated back to 1906.

"What happened here is still a mystery to me. What was real too was the fear that the construction crew felt and that time, and also what was real was that the work stopped," said Sofia Kaczor, a hydrologist for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.

The work stopped because of two events that involved a crane.

The crane, which was operated by John Baccaire, went haywire every time it got close to tearing away one part of the building. Baccaire's daughter, Kim, took a picture she said shows what looks like ghosts in the window of the old mill.

"That's not something that I've experienced. So I think if somebody experienced something like that, you would believe in that," Kaczor said.

Washington - A group hoping to prove alien contact with Earth has tapped former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick to help convince the federal government to acknowledge the existence of extraterrestrials.

The Detroit Democrat and mother to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will help preside over 30 hours of congressional-style hearings April 29 to May 3 at Washington's National Press Club. She did not respond to calls for comment.

Dubbed the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, the public panel pledges to expose evidence of "extraterrestrial vehicles" and a government effort to deny sightings of such craft commonly called UFOs.

Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Bethesda, Md.-based Paradigm Research Group that is hosting the hearings, said he sought former members of Congress to interview dozens of witnesses in a style that harkens back to their work peppering witnesses in congressional hearings.

"I had invitations out to about 50 former members who I thought were likely candidates to participate, and Congresswoman Kilpatrick was the first one to respond," Bassett said.

Kilpatrick became a U.S. representative in 1997 but lost her seat to Hansen Clarke after a 2010 primary challenge.

Strange lights in the sky over Sunnynook have excited UFO fan Robert Edwards but the experience was somewhat unnerving for his wife.

"I think there is probably a logical explanation but I have not been able to find one," Mr Edwards says.

Shortly after spotting two big red-and-orange lights tracking quickly across the sky on Saturday night, he uploaded a video of the sight to Facebook.

The reaction to his clip on Facebook has added to the mystery, he says.

Mr Edwards spotted the lights about 10.30pm.

Facebook postings mention similar sightings in Melbourne about 7pm to 8pm, Te Atatu Peninsula about 8.50pm and Palmerston North later at 2am on Sunday. There were also numerous other online reports about strange lights on Saturday night at Auckland's west coast beaches, Milford and Coatesville.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has come clean on a 63 year old memo from the head of their Washington D.C. office pertaining to UFO sightings.

The memo was associated to a story relayed to four FBI from a third party reporting that an Air Force investigator had reported three "flying saucers" were recovered in New Mexico.

"They [the saucers] were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter," the memo states. "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture."

"Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots."

In an FBI release on March 24, 2013, the Bureau indicates the story is the single most popular file in their various records released under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Over the past two years, this file has been viewed nearly a million times," the release stated.The file is a single page memo from March 22, 1950 from Washington D.C. field office lead Guy Hottel.

Hottel, who died in 1990, addressed the memo to Director J. Edgar Hoover, which was protocol for all FBI memos. The memo was recorded and indexed soon after.

The informant claimed that the saucers had been found because the government's "high-powered radar" in the area had interfered with "the controlling mechanism of the saucers."

The memo ends with "[n]o further evaluation was attempted" concerning the matter by the FBI agent.

The FBI said that when their Vault released this information in April 2011, "some media outlets noticed the Hottel memo and erroneously reported that the FBI had posted proof of a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico and the recovery of wreckage and alien corpses."

The FBI says they have only occasionally been involved with any investigations of UFO and extraterrestrials sightings, and this particular memo is not new. It was first released publicly in the late 1970s.

There is no connection to the infamous events of July 1947 in Roswell, the FBI says "Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after" that.

"For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents - at the request of the Air Force - to verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it."

"Finally, the Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated," explained the FBI release. "Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau's files have no information to verify that theory."