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Unknown object falls through the roof of a Woburn business
Is it a mysterious meteorite? That's the big question, after some sort of object flew through the roof at a local business in Woburn. Oddly enough, that store sells stones...

Fringe science yields 'gay bombs' and psychic teleportation
Pentagon Spends $78 Billion a Year on Weapons and Space Research, Some of it Whacky…

Paranormal's £1m afterlife gamble
A paranormal investigator claimed today he is in line to win £1 million after betting he could prove the existence of an afterlife...

Was it a U.F.O. flying over Vassalboro that night?
Regarding a possible U.F.O. in the sky on Saturday night (June 16) at 9:45 -- I saw a very bright light overhead moving slowly west to east over Vassalboro. The light lit up the sky enough to catch our eyes and then, as we followed it moving slowly, it suddenly took off at an amazing rate of speed, faster then anything we've ever seen...

New museum highlights Shag Harbour UFO incident

College: it's not just for skeptics anymore
A poll of college students from last January shows that the more educated you are, the more likely it is that you believe in paranormal phenomena...

What is the moving light in Saturn's rings?

'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot
One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands. An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine. Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light"...

The ghost woman of the Cannock Chase
This particular incident apparently occurred last November; however, it was the recent publicity afforded the unusual and ever-present activity on the Chase that prompted the witness to come forward. Whatever is afoot, it seems to me that the Cannock Chase is rapidly becoming one of those classic "window areas" that seem to attract such a high-level of extreme strangeness...

Mysterious Brown Mountain Lights respond to bad moods and murders
Occult tales often come into being to explain mysterious phenomena. But it sometimes works in reverse, with storytellers attaching vital pieces of lore to marvels in order to give their assertions permanence. The ancient Greeks did it with constellations. Locals do it with the Brown Mountain lights, the colored orbs that on rare occasions bob and pulse in midair eight miles east of Linville Gorge...
(Also read: "Spooklights: Where to Find Them")

Jellyfish-shaped 'UFO' spotted in Shanghai
Several people reported seeing a jellyfish-shaped unidentified flying object about 8pm in Shanghai on Monday. A man surnamed Zhu told Shanghai Morning Post yesterday that he saw the UFO in the sky at the crossroads of Jiujiang Road and Xizang Road M. in Huangpu District that night...

Monroe County thrown for loop by crop circles
The experts have weighed in, but there are still plenty of theories about the origin of the mysterious crop circles found in a Monroe County wheat field last month. Local theories range from ancient Cherokee Indian curses to natural electrical or atmospheric disturbances, extraterrestrials and even high school kids with too much time on their hands...

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