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On February 24, Annie Jacobsen posted this Backstory report for the Los Angeles Times Magazine: Sixty-nine years ago tonight, with World War II in its third, nerve-wracking month, air-raid sirens sounded across Los Angeles as the U.S. Army responded to what it believed was an aerial assault on the city by the Japanese. Seems an undetermined number of flying craft had been spotted over Santa Monica Bay.
Yes! says NASA scientist Richard B. Hoover, in a paper published in the online Journal of Cosmology. But don’t pop that champaign cork yet. “Richard Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils,” according to the journal “in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites.”
Stories of Supernatural occurrences have been a part of our published history for centuries. We present here in its entirety one of the most famous, the 1705 pamphlet “A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal” by the journalist Daniel Defoe.
What dates are marked on your 2012 calendar? Maybe you've penciled in Friday, July 27, the date the Olympic games begin in London. Or Tuesday, November 6, the day Americans go to the polls to choose their president. Well, you might want to include one more: Friday, December 21, the date time ends. Yes, time -- and by extension the world -- as we know it.
When science and faith collide, the truth can be stranger than fiction. Reports of UFO sightings have been with us a very long time. Evidence of ancient UFO activity appears in the earliest biblical texts.
When the UFOs arrive, FEMA has a plan for disaster control — it’s all right there in the firefighter’s manual. Seriously. It’s all in chapter 13 of the second edition of FEMA’s “Fire Officer’s Guide to Disaster Control” titled “Enemy Attack and UFO Potential.”
When the cosmic Ebert & Roeper review the “Twilight Zones” of the galaxies, how many of ours will make their top ten? “What you are about to see is a matter of human record. Explain it: we cannot. Disprove it: we cannot. We simply invite you to explore with us the amazing world of the Unknown… to take that One Step… Beyond.”
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