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UFO spotted over Kings Dominion Amusement Park, Virginia

// June 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // UFO's

A strange dark ring UFO was spotted over the Kings Dominion Amusement Park near Richmond Virginia.

Kings Dominion Officials said the ring was from a ride called ‘The Volcano’ but several witnesses are not so sure. “We were like what is that, we were all stopped and we were astonished,” said witness Denna Smith, “Smoke usually looks smokey and cloudy. This ring of smoke was a perfect circle. It was lined up so tight like it was a cut in the middle of the sky.”

But then this gets a little odder. In seems that in 1957, some rather famous UFO pictures were taken at Fort Belvoir Virginia, about 70 miles north that show an amazingly similar object.

With recent jellyfish crop cirlces and jellyfish UFOs or Atmospheric Beasts floating around, could that have been what was seen at the amusement park?

Edgar Mitchell

// April 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Alarming News, Disclosure, Transparency in Government, U.S. Military, UFO's

(CNN) – Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere.

Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, shown in 1998, says “there really is no doubt we are being visited.”

Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments.

He delivered his remarks during an appearance at the National Press Club following the conclusion of the fifth annual X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the possibility of alien life forms.

Mankind has long wondered if we’re “alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we’re not alone,” Mitchell said.

“Our destiny, in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. … We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.”

Mitchell grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, which some UFO believers maintain was the site of a UFO crash in 1947. He said residents of his hometown “had been hushed and told not to talk about their experience by military authorities.” They had been warned of “dire consequences” if they did so.

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Ancient microbes discovered alive beneath Antarctic glacier

// April 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming

(CNN) — Beneath an Antarctic glacier in a cold, airless pool that never sees the sun seems like an unusual place to search for life.

Scientists find surprising evidence of bacterial life beneath the Antarctic ice near Blood Falls, seen here.

But under the Taylor Glacier on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near a place called Blood Falls, scientists have discovered a time capsule of bacterial activity.

At chilling temperatures, with no oxygen or sunlight, these newly found microbes have survived for the past 1.5 million years using an “iron-breathing” technique, which may show how life could exist on other planets.

For years the reddish waterfall-like feature on the side of Taylor Glacier captured the attention of explorers and scientists. Earlier research indicates the color of Blood Falls is due to oxidized iron, but how the iron got to the surface of the glacier remained a mystery.

“When I saw iron, I thought, ‘Wow — that’s an energy source for microbes. There has got to be microbes associated with that,’ ” said Jill Mikucki, lead author of a study about the strange bacteria, published this week in the journal Science. (more…)