Via the Daily Mail…

A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.

Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour.

The unidentified flying objects lit up the otherwise clear night sky above Shakespeare’s birthplace in Warwickshire on Saturday.

…need we point out the “drinkers” line?

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German lawyer hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens.

“There’s quite obviously demand for legal advice here,” Jens Lorek told Reuters by telephone on Thursday. “The trouble is, people are afraid of making fools of themselves in court.”

Lorek, a lawyer based in the eastern city of Dresden who specializes in social and labor law, said he hoped to expand his client base by taking on the unusual work.

He has yet to win any abduction claims, but says there are plenty of potential clients, noting that extra-terrestrial watchdogs report scores of alien assaults every year.

“These people could appeal for therapies or cures,” he said.

Lorek, 41, is pinning his hopes for success on a German law which grants kidnap victims the right to state compensation.

Asked if he was worried he might look ridiculous by seeking justice for clients haunted by aliens, Lorek was unfazed.

“Nobody has laughed about it up until now.”

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — Numerous sightings of massive fireballs in the skies over Germany this week have led to an upsurge in reports of UFOs, but scientists believe the cause could be a bizarre annual meteor blitz.

According to the Web site of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), such fireballs have been reported elsewhere in the world and may also be due to the fact that the Earth is now orbiting through a swarm of space debris.

Many people in Germany have noticed the fireballs, said Werner Walter, an amateur astronomer in Mannheim who runs a Web site on unexplained astronomical phenomena and a hotline for reports on unidentified flying objects (UFO).

“The last reported sighting was yesterday at 7:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) in a corridor near the border of the Netherlands,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview. “This week we have had at least 15 emails and phone calls from people reporting these fireballs,” he said. “Some people said it looks like something out of a science fiction horror film.”

In addition to a possible meteor streak, Walter said amateur and professional astronomers were considering the possibility that the blitz was the result of a “falling satellite or UFOs.” “It is possible that they are UFOs, which are after all things which we cannot explain,” he said.

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VIDEO footage of bright balls of light forming a crop circle will be shown to Western Australians during a series of seminars on the connection between crop circle formation and contact with alien intelligence.

The seminars, to be delivered by two of world’s leading crop circle and alien contact researchers, Janet Ossebaard and Mary Rodwell, are the first of their kind in Australia.ºº

Ms Ossebaard, director for the Dutch Centre for Crop Circle Studies (DCCCS), author and producer of award winning documentaries on the subject, said crop circles remain an unexplained enigma.

“What we do know is that crop circles have been reported in many countries all over the world and found in mediums such as wheat, barley, canola, grass, corn/maize, trees, ice, rice paddies and linseed,” Ms Ossebaard said.

“We also know they are formed in just a few seconds as a result of light, sound and magnetism interacting with plants to form amazing geometric patterns.”

“What we don‚t know for certain is who is making them and why.”

Ms Ossebaard said contrary to common belief scientists have found people haven’t made the majority of circles.

Many are claimed each year, but only very few are actually man-made.

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A bright green sign along a lonely country road in southwestern Puerto Rico proudly displays a silhouette of a flying saucer and two words: “Extraterrestrial Route.”

Most Puerto Ricans laughed when a horse farmer installed the sign on his property at the request of Reynaldo Rios, a local elementary school teacher who says he’s been communicating with alien visitors to this U.S. territory since he was a child.

Rios, a 39-year-old with a goatee and a shock of dark hair, won’t be ignored. With the blessing of a local government desperate for tourist dollars, he’s dedicated himself to building the UFO landing strip.

“I can’t say exactly when they will come, but I know it will happen,” Rios said. “I want to keep believing in my dreams.”

[continue story at CNN…]

A California man who claimed he was fleeing flesh-eating aliens when he caused a fatal car crash was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison Monday after a jury rejected his mental deficiency claims in July.

Scott Krause, 39, pleaded guilty in June to second-degree murder stemming from the January 2004 death of UPS carrier Drew Reynolds, 34, who was on duty when Krause drove a stolen vehicle into Reynolds’ service truck.

With the plea entered, a Nevada County jury was left to decide whether Krause, who was high on methamphetamine and in the midst of a day-long crime spree, was legally sane when the incident occurred.

The panel heard evidence from the defense that the father of three believed “man-eating subterranean beings” that he referred to as “hemadrones” were pursuing him when the crash occurred.

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A university has launched a degree course in the hunt for alien life, which it says is a UK first.

The University of Glamorgan said it has launched the UK’s first undergraduate course in astrobiology - the search for life beyond Earth.

New recruits signed up to the course, held at the University of Glamorgan in South Wales, this week.

[from Virgin.net]

Abdullah Hashem is still making movies, but this time the location is a little different and the subject much more serious.

A year ago Hashem wrapped up production on the movie “Apache Tears,” which used Mooresville and central Indiana for many of the scenes. Since then he has been working on a documentary about the Raelians, a religious group often called a cult, that believes the human race was started through genetic manipulation by extraterrestrials.

Hashem hopes to discredit the group and ultimately cause it to disband.

The Raelians first came to Hashem’s attention several years ago when they claimed to have cloned a baby named Eve. They have never produced the child for genetic testing to show if this is true, according to various news reports.

Hashem, a 2001 Mooresville High School graduate and IUPUI student, said it was then that he began following them in the news.

Many of their activities, which Hashem says include brainwashing members and using sex as coercion to gain access to its members’ finances, prompted him to take action.

“I’m not a religious nut, but according to my beliefs, when people wear shirts that say there is no God, I have to do something,” Hashem said.

[continue story]

Visit the film website at raelexposed.com.

Philip J. Klass, 85, an aviation journalist who investigated UFO sightings and wrote books debunking reports of visits from outer space, died Aug. 9 at a nursing facility in Cocoa, Fla. He had cancer.

[see Daily Herald]

EXETER - There has been a considerable response to Tuesday’s article in the News-Letter about a recent UFO sighting. Interested local residents and skeptics joined UFO enthusiasts commenting from throughout the nation, and reaction was even received from a French “Ufologist” who recalled two similar sightings in Europe.

Yann Marchandin, the French “Ufologist” who contacted the News-Letter via e-mail, said there was a similar UFO sighting in Poland in 1997 and another in 1999. In both incidents, witnesses claimed to have seen large “military ship-sized” tubes, or cigar-shaped objects in the sky.

[see Exeter News]

Michael Jackson is building an airport – for aliens.

The eccentric singer reportedly came up with the idea after dreaming he met little green men from outer space.

…

“Michael wants to welcome extra-terrestrials to earth and to film the landing.”

[see Monsters and Critics]

Scientists and astronomers are getting early indications that the advanced alien civilizations may have left the physical universe and have shifted to the parallel universe. Scientists have located a sizeable chunk of the universe that seemed to be missing since back when the stars first formed. It’s floating in super-hot rivers of gas, invisible to the naked eye, surrounding galaxies like our own. Computer models now show some possibilities that our galaxy can be devastated by these invisible matter.

[see IndiaDaily]

A group of researchers in Russia claim they have solved the mystery of crop circles, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports. According to them, plants bend as a result of microwave emissions caused by lightning strikes.

[see MosNews]

MORE people have contacted the Bracknell News UFO hotline after seeing mysterious objects in the sky above Bracknell Forest.

Myrtle Brain, of Murrellhill Lane, Binfield, saw a “flying saucer” in the sky above her home on Wednesday last week.

She said: “It was saucer shaped with lights on the bottom and a light on a dome. I was just mesmerised, absolutely mesmerised.”

She watched the object hovering above fields near her home for over 20 minutes at about 11pm.

She said: “It didn’t move at all. It just hovered there for ages and then it disappeared. It was just as if the lights went out.”

[see icBerkshire]

A self-styled “prophet” who made news recently by allegedly summoning the appearance of UFOs in the Las Vegas area is now looking to re-create the feat in all 50 states.

[see World Net Daily]

SECRET documents released by the Northern Territory Government reveal a mass of UFO sightings across the Top End, many of them unexplained.

[see NEWS.com.au]

A Carbon County man with a history of conflict with the federal government is in custody after he allegedly referred to two federal judges as “aliens” in recent court correspondence.

[see The Times-Tribune]

SETI, (search for extraterrestrial intelligence), no more funded by government, has found a new following. Now armed with a powerful telescope, it will scan a million stars in two decades.

[see Deccan Herald]

Most of the earthquakes above 4.0 Richter are associated with a strange phenomenon called earthquake lights. It is similar to an aurora like Northern lights but the span of the same is dispersed and sometime very short in area of sky covered. The lights appear before and around the same time earthquakes start. Scientists had different opinions on these lights. Some even called these lights hoax or reflection or refracted light and so on. Now scientists are realizing these strange glowing lights are electromagnetic change in field density or flux that is resultant from the change in earth’s electromagnetic field intensity from the earthquake and massive tectonic force and momentum. What really happens is that the intense electromagnetic flux in the environment at that moment neutralizes the electromagnetic stealth of the Extraterrestrial UFOs in the vicinity. The UFOs have two levels of electromagnetic shields. The first layer provides security and an equivalent of impenetrable armor. The outer layer of electromagnetic shield provides the stealth. The earthquakes cause the neutralizing of the outer layer and thus expose the inner level of electromagnetic shield. That shield glows and the light is known as the earthquake lights.

[via India Daily]

Aurora - Two or three times a month, someone in Colorado looks into the sky and sees something he cannot identify.

Often, that’s when John Schuessler’s group gets a call.

Schuessler, a retired Boeing engineer who moved to Jefferson County, is the international director of the Mutual UFO Network, a 3,000-member nonprofit group that investigates UFO sightings and promotes research on the phenomenon.

His group runs a website on which people can report their experiences and sends investigators to interview people who spy something strange.

[via The Denver Post]

After Columbia City resident Nate Smith found what he believed to be a crop circle on Thursday, he reported the information and members of the local Mutual UFO Network were contacted to investigate the possible sighting.

Smith said he was on the property, located south of South Whitley, on Wednesday and there was nothing unusual, but when he returned to the same spot on Thursday, he noticed something peculiar.

He said he saw a circle of brown grass with grass twisted in the center, a phenomenon he said wasn’t there on Wednesday. In fact, he asked the property owner if he had moved anything that would have caused the circle. When the owner said he hadn’t, Smith observed the circle and realized it may be a crop circle.

“It’s just like you’d read about,” he said.

[via The Post & Mail]

WHEN Corinne Dainton woke in the middle of the night and saw bright lights seeping through her bedroom window she thought nothing of it.

But the next day neighbours revealed they had also spotted the mystery lights - and believe Bracknell was being visited by an alien spacecraft hovering above the nearby Coppid Beech Hotel at John Nike Way.

[via icBerkshire]

A powerful tornado swept through the Khabarovsk region of Siberia felling three square kilometers of forest and leaving dozens of birds and animals dead, a local emergency agency reported. The incident sparked fears of an extraterrestrial impact.

[via MOSNEWS.COM]

A set of crop circles has appeared in a remote Shropshire field - and baffled farm workers say they are “keeping an open mind” over where they came from. Four circles measuring about 14m wide were discovered in a wheat field at a farm near Bridgnorth last week.

[via Shropshire Star]

Editor:

I wish to let you and your readers know that MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) has designated July as “UFO Awareness Month.”

As all West Virginians know, the Mountain State has had its share of sightings. We are home of two major events: the Mothman and Braxton County incidents. Both have been written about extensively, the former being made into a movie.
…

UFOs have been seen over our state.

They continue being sighted to this day.

[via The Charleston Gazette]

Hickson and fishing partner, Calvin Parker, were near a pier at Shaupeter Shipyard in Pascagoula on the evening of Oct. 11, 1973, when they reported being abducted by robot-like aliens and taken aboard an egg-shaped, glowing spacecraft.

Their account of that night is the type stuff movies should be made of.

They spoke of floating creatures and being examined by an electronic eye, within an approximate 20-minute time frame. Hickson remained conscious but could only move his eyes. Parker fainted.

[via The Mississippi Press]

God only knows if there is life on other planets.

“War of the Worlds,” which opened in movie theaters last week, is sure to stir meta-planetary curiosities among more than just UFO spotters and “X-Files” fanatics.

Many Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders say the revelation of extraterrestrial beings would not contradict their theological beliefs. Rooted in the dogma of Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists is the existence of aliens.

And one group believes the God of Genesis was a group of space-traveling scientists.

But is the truth really out there?

[via Whittier Daily News]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Tom Cruise not only battles creatures from outer space in his latest film “War of the Worlds,” he also believes aliens really exist, he told a German newspaper Wednesday.

Asked in an interview with the tabloid daily Bild if he believed in aliens, Cruise said: “Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?”

[via Reuters]

THE usual cry among UFO experts is ‘look to the skies’, but you may actually help Mid Cheshire researchers more by looking at the ground.

Ufologist Eric Morris is asking the public and farmers to report any un-usual crop circles in fields.

Eric, 51, is carrying out an investigation on the phenomena with other members of the British UFO Studies Centre - the organisation he founded in Northwich 20 years ago.

Eric believes they may be close to finding the true cause of crop circles.

‘I wouldn’t say they’re caused by alien intelligence. What we’ve been researching over the years is to do with the weather,’ he explained.

The likely cause, according to Eric, is a phenomenon known as ‘fair-weather whirlwinds’.

[via icCheshireOnline]

A collection of 10 stories about Luton is being launched in an attempt to improve its image after it was voted “crap town” of the year last year.

[via BBC News]

God only knows if there’s life on other planets.

“War of the Worlds,’ which opens in theaters today, is sure to stir meta-planetary curiosities among more than just UFO spotters and “X-Files’ fanatics.

Many Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders say the revelation of extraterrestrial beings would not contradict their theological beliefs. Rooted in the dogma of Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists is the existence of aliens.

And one group believes the God of Genesis was a group of space-traveling scientists.

But is the truth really out there?

[via San Gabriel Valley Tribune]

Think of the sighting like a crime. Though the only crime being committed is the one our government commits by its unwillingness to openly investigate such sightings, I say think of it as a crime because you never know what is going to happen, and you need to remember exact details of the event for recall at a later time. The information that follows is designed to help you help investigators.

[via The San Francisco Chronicle]

Trevor, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

What could have used such force to push the stalks over in such a delicate and elaborate manner? Was this a man-made design? Or is this crop circle part of some extraterrestrial activity here in Wisconsin?

[via The Journal Times Online]

“We’re being communicated to by a higher intelligence — no doubt — and we’re basically ignoring it,” said Robert Nichol. “So that’s my motive for doing the film. … I’m really pleased to spread the good news that we’re not alone in the universe.”

[via The Santa Fe New Mexican]

“Everything had to do with his escape from the hemadrones,” said Nevada County District Attorney Michael Ferguson. “According to the defendant, he wasFkF afraid they were going to put him in cargo and ship him to China to be eaten.”

[via CourtTV.com]

Sutherland believes the crop circles are some sort of landmark, left by beings in UFOs. They may be signs that spacecraft landed, flattening the crops with some kind of electromagnetic energy. She also believes that the crop circles are a sign that a race of beings that spent time on Earth thousands of years ago are returning. She connects the crop circles to Stonehenge, the pyramids and burial mounds.

[via The Journal Times On-line]

Some UFO history

[via The Triangle]

Political aliens in Mexico?

[via azcentral.com]

Create your own alien photo and win prizes.

[via Webuser]

2005 Roswell UFO Festival

[via Yahoo!]

Crop circles in Indiana.

[via the Chicago Sun-Times]