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.

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“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]