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Jul 12 2008

New BC Sasquatch sighting
A seven-foot Sasquatch has been spotted near Chilliwack, a witness says. And two local Sasquatch hunters are convinced the sighting, reported last month [June 2008] on Mount Cheam, is the real deal...

Man claims to know source of 'Phoenix Lights' UFO sighting
An astrophysicist claims to know the true source of a strange grouping of lights that appeared in the Arizona night sky 11 years ago. Dr. James R. Bartzen said he has indisputable proof that the so-called "Phoenix Lights" were a product of secret man-made technology being shielded from the public...

Chemtrails and some of our worst nightmares

Monster experts tell all
Dragon-inspired lecture series features handful of big names...

Adam Davies on the Almasty
Nick Redfern: A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to interview Adam Davies, author of the excellent new book, Extreme Expeditions, and a member of the team that just a few weeks ago headed off to Russia in search of the Bigfoot-like Almasty...

Bigfoot sightings not uncommon to some
Since the 1990s, he has become an avid researcher and expert on the legend and the creature. And a believer. “Once you see one, you want to see another one,” Lee said. “Hearing their vocalizations and movement around you is incredible. “It gives you pause to think about what goes on in a woods at night.”..

How secret was Mogul?
Let’s talk a moment about this ridiculous notion that the officers and soldiers at the Roswell Army Air Field couldn’t recognize a balloon, or balloon array when they saw it. Let’s also talk about this notion that Project Mogul was top secret so that those soldiers wouldn’t know about it and therefore couldn’t identify it. This is something that we all have talked about before, but it seems that the skeptics and debunkers are having some trouble with the concept...

Alien abductions: An ontological hall of mirrors
Mac Tonnies: In 2005, author and self-styled UFO abduction researcher served up a stinging critique of a study conducted, in part, by Harvard's Dr. Susan Clancy. The study -- designed to gauge correlations between false memories and post-traumatic stress disorder -- seemed oddly incurious as to the actual nature of the abduction phenomenon, so it came as no real surprise when the results indicated (at least to Clancy's satisfaction) that the phenomenon was inherently subjective and of little or no interest outside the sphere of psychology...

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