From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky Sunday night. No major meteor showers were expected in the northern hemisphere on Sunday night, said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department's Space Place. But he said it was possible that a minor shower may have been what prompted calls to authorities...
(Also read: "Hail of Stones from Nowhere")
Minding the spirit
Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it's an afterlife or UFOs? The new Center for Spirituality and the Mind at the University of Pennsylvania is using brain-imaging technology to examine such questions, and to investigate how spiritual and secular beliefs affect our health and behavior...
Mexican UFO recorded on phone cam
Falling ice generates conspiracy theories
A large block of ice plummets from the Florida heavens, wrecking a Ford Mustang parked on a neighborhood street and triggering theories on its origin from across the country. Readers fascinated by the 18-inch frozen chunk that smashed into Andres Javage's car Jan. 28 have suggested investigators not overlook "the UFO angle" and check whether there might be a connection with China "blowing up" a satellite...
The extraterrestrial Bigfoot
For those who accept the existence of Bigfoot, there are dozens of reasons (though I prefer to call them ‘empty excuses’) that we have never obtained the body of one, dead or alive. For those who do not accept the existence of Bigfoot, there is, of course, only one reason for its incredibly evasive nature. Most of the reasons offered give Bigfoot extraordinary or supernatural, albeit earthly abilities to avoid detection and capture. But other reasons lean on extraterrestrial assistance, or of Bigfoot itself being extraterrestrial. For entertainment value, the reasons involving extraterrestrials are my favorites...
UFO symbols
The great Otto Binder addressed the meaning of alleged symbols seen on UFOs in a 1972 article for Saga’s UFO Special magazine...
Mysterious Wisconsin Wonder Spot soon to go
In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying. After more than half a century of wowing tourists (and causing probably more than a few cases of nausea), the Wonder Spot, a mysterious cabin where people can't stand up straight, water runs uphill and chairs balance on two legs, is no more...
Roman descendants found in China?
Residents of a remote Chinese village are hoping that DNA tests will prove one of history's most unlikely legends — that they are descended from Roman legionaries lost in antiquity...
Physicists find way to 'see' extra dimensions
Science Daily — Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe...
23: How weird is that?
I woke up today at 10:13. Ten plus 13 is 23. This article is being published on Feb. 3 -- the second month and third day of the year, or 2/3. Forty-eight years ago on this day, a plane crash killed three legends of rock and roll: Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. Other culture heroes like William Shakespeare, Johnny Carson and River Phoenix each had their birth and death on the 23rd day of a month. Kurt Cobain died in the year 1994 (1 + 9 + 9 +4 = 23!). You see where this kind of thinking takes you? Jim Carrey stars in a supernatural thriller titled The Number 23, which opens on Feb. 23. In it, his character receives a book titled, yes, The Number 23, and as a result becomes aware of a lot of occurrences of 23 in his life...
Does Dan Aykroyd have the O'Hare UFO footage?
And he has it! According to the former Saturday Night Live star, Dan Aykroyd and his group of filmmakers have come into possession of exclusive O'Hare Airport UFO photographs and video footage...
