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Canada: Tale of a Close Encounter - Man Recalls UFO Sighting

It wasn't a bird or a plane, and now an elderly Winnipeg man wants to tell people about his close encounter.

Winnipeg Man Saw UFO
©Marcel Cretain/Sun Media
Ernest Buisse said that in the summer of 1950, a UFO flew past him while at his parents' farm.

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Idaho, US: Magic Valley is shaking - no earthquakes recorded

Residents across the Magic Valley have been calling and e-mailing NewsChannel 7 this week - saying it feels like the earth is rumbling and shaking.

Seismologists say those tremors - didn't show up on their equipment.

So what could be causing the shaking?

Dispatchers in Jerome say Tuesday night dozens of calls came in from across the Magic Valley - callers were not sure what was shaking there homes.

"It was various from people thinking there was someone on top of their house, to someone breaking in, to generally just the house shaking," dispatcher Jon Frisbey, Dispatcher said.

Comment: Another sonic boom from an overhead meteorite explosion perhaps?


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US: The Searcher: Are UFOs invading Texas? Ken Cherry's looking into it

On the afternoon of January 9, Ken Cherry, the 61-year-old owner of a prosperous Tarrant County securities firm, was sitting in his home office, studying various stock market reports flitting across his computer screen, when line two rang. Line one is devoted to customers and brokers. Line two is the UFO phone.

Ken Cherry
©Texas Monthly
Tex-Files: Ken Cherry thinks the Air Force may not be telling us everything it knows about what happened in Stephenville.
Photograph by Will van Overbeek

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Texas, US: Man Wonders If He Caught UFO on Tape

A mysterious light over the central Texas skies has one man believing he may have seen something out of this world.

Jeffrey Swetz of Cedar Creek says he saw it earlier this week, and picked up his camera and started rolling. He said it looked like a star but seemed much brighter.

Image
©Jeffrey Swetz

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US: West Enders are Idaho's mysterious noise experts

You'd have a tough time convincing residents of Twin Falls County's West End that the recent late-night mystery noises aren't coming from the Air Force ... The eastern edge of the Idaho Training Range is only 40 miles from Castleford and Buhl, and a supersonic jet travels 40 miles in 3 minutes ...

So West Enders are accustomed to things that go bump - and go bump loudly - in the night ...

"Usually we hear the explosions when the air is humid and cold, thus transmitting sound easier," said Filer farmer Bill Bitzenburg ... "Many times in the summer you see flashes then hear nothing, because of the warm thin air" ...

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New Mexico, US: Police say object was blimp with lights

A supposed UFO spotted floating over Socorro on Wednesday night was a blimp with lights around it, a Socorro police dispatcher said.

At least one call was made to Socorro police, and the El Paso County Sheriff's Office reporting the flying object, which was seen as far away as Horizon City.

Sherlock

Pennsylvania, US: Derry Township hotbed for strange phenomena

The Derry area has many annual traditions--including the summer agricultural fair in the township and, recently revived, the fall Railroad Days festival in the borough.

Another yearly occurrence in that neck of the woods is several reported sightings of a fellow whose shoes would be hard to fill--that is, if he wore any.

We're talking about Bigfoot, whose exploits are among the unusual phenomena cataloged annually by Stan Gordon--a Greensburg resident who has specialized in researching unexplained happenings in Pennsylvania and beyond since 1959.

Though many of the reports Gordon has collected describe Bigfoot as a "man-like creature," as far as I know, there's no evidence that the creature doesn't also exist in a female version. If it didn't, it would be hard to account for the many decades it apparently has been roaming through the rural areas of our region--unless it's extremely long-lived.

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Strange night sightings in Belize

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.

Magic Wand

US: UFO buff explores Chandler 'crop circles'

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.

Crop circle
©Michael Polani
Crop circle formation in a field on the southeastern corner of Gilbert and Ocotillo Roads March 25, 2007

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UK: Did UFO lights herald Lincolnshire earthquake?

Strange lights spotted in Lincolnshire's skies may have been a warning of the earthquake which sent tremors across Britain.

Lincolnshire Lights
©Lincolnshire Echo
Echo readers' picture of the lights

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.